The Compleat Spendrick Hogsbottom

DON'T STOP BELIEVIN', HOLD ON TO THE FEELING

By "compleat", of course, I mean the two songs that I've already posted, and a brand new song that was recorded over six months ago! Yes, that's right, kiddies: Spendrick has now recorded enough songs to have an A- and B-side on a vinyl single (he's old school, he still clings to vinyl), as well as an unreleased track! My cousin and I are working through, trying to accumulate enough songs to make a full album. The full album, of course, will be a greatest hits album. That way we can justify all the covers of 80's songs that we're planning on doing.

First we have the classics:

The Spendrick Hogsbottom Experience: Night and Day.mp3

and

The Spendrick Hogsbottom Experience: Borderline.mp3

To read what I said about recording those songs at the time, go here and here, respectively. Nuff said.

The last song is the one that we recorded when I was back in New York in April, that I never got around to posting. It's not my favorite: it doesn't have that willfully amateurish spirit of experimentation that we had with the Porter tune, and it doesn't have the sort of pop sheen (and, if I may be so bold, the more confident double-tracked vocals) of our version of the Madonna song. Both of those songs I was extremely familiar with, and had no trouble singing.

Ryan suggested Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" largely because of its cheese-factor. When he suggested it, I was up for it: I remember the song very clearly as haunting my childhood. (One day Jennifer Cecelon was babysitting us, and her little brother Joey told us a ghost story that really freaked me out. This song and The Cars' "Just What I Needed" were playing on the stereo, and as a result, I tend to get goose-bumps whenever I hear the songs.) I also knew that the song references "South Detroit", which doesn't actually exist. South Detroit would be Windsor, Ontario: it's the only place along the U.S./Canada border where Canada is south of the U.S. Ignoring Alaska, of course.

So anyways, I agreed to it. Unfortunately, my delivery was spotty, due to my inability to imitate Steve Perry. You can tell each time as I approach the chorus that I was pretty much lost. But, that said, the only reason I haven't posted it thus far was because of my lack o' internet: as far as I'm concerned, the more Spendrick Hogsbottom there is in the world, the better. So here it is, the world premier of:

The Spendrick Hogsbottom Experience: Don't Stop Believin'.mp3

Enjoy!