The Yum Yum Tree – Turn Down the Noise
The clubs are filled with people excitedly cheering and dancing to the sound produced by all of those loud bands taking the stage. The book shops are also filled with people, and the majority of young, modern readers gravitate toward fantasy novels where heroes fight monsters and win out. And, everyone who isn’t doing that is probably carrying a backpack up a mountain just for the view.
Don’t believe me? Just check! They’re out there every day of the week. And, I’m sure that it’s one detail that’s troubling the analysts. How does this fit in with all the negative predictions? How does it all make sense when the global economy, imperial wars and AI are supposed to scare us into submission? Well, some people just won’t listen, and The Yum Yum Tree has written a song for all these heroes.
“Turn Down the Noise” is, first of all, the kind of song that, if you hear it in one of those aforementioned clubs on a Friday night, is bound to put a smile on your face and spring in your step. It’s also a song encouraging you to do something about your sanity. It’s a punk song telling you that life can be pretty great when you forget about the people telling you that it isn’t.
Tarantula Bill – Norm
I like people who don’t worry about things when they can help it! I’m sure that you do as well because there’s plenty to admire about these kinds of folks and because this is a mighty rare quality to have in this day and age.
Frankly, I suspect it’s one of the reasons why deeply psychedelic-rock bands are making such a comeback. They look and sound like their late 1960s counterparts, people who insisted on soaking up “good vibrations” no matter what.
And, before you start saying that those were entirely different times, I’d like to point you in the direction of a television showing the news. Tarantula Bill is one of those psych-rock groups.
Still, the musicians who make up Tarantula Bill are still on the fence about the whole “live without worries” routine. “Norm,” really is a song that finds the group at the intersection between life’s problems and the conscious effort to decide that it’s all going to be alright. Musically, “Norm” has a similar effect, moving from a straight rock sound to the soundtrack of a Czech new-wave cartoon.
