It's
here at last. The Tricky Number Two is now available!
Following
some teething troubles with the submission it is at the time of
writing available to stream on Google Play Music and Spotify and will
be available to stream and even download from other purveyors of
music soon.
Anyway,
as part of my relentless promotion of The Tricky Number Two
I thought I'd tell you about it in a review of sorts.
The
title of the album is pretty self-explanatory and as puerile as you'd
expect from me. The original artwork included the poo emoji which is
a registered trademark, so the artwork wasn't really original at all.
Balancing my ukulele on the toilet, a toilet which had been cleaned
the same day, I nervously took a new photo while almost
hyperventilating at the thought of having to fish it out of the bowl.
On
to the songs.
12
of them. In under 14 minutes. There's only one that gets even close
to the two minute mark and I certainly can't be accused of dragging
the songs out. I've never seen any point in trying to overdo it.
Back
with a Vengeance.
I don't know why I insist on having an intro track, because that's
all this is. I know people just want to hear daft songs about
shitting and wanking, but I have to get all full of myself and act
like I'm a real musician sometimes. This song originally had lyrics,
but they were abandoned at the 11th
hour and I went for this 30 second instrumental instead.
Phil.
This is a re-recording of a song I recorded for an EP I did way back
in 2014. Anyone who knows me knows I strongly dislike Phil Collins
and there are even rumours that I am behind the popular Twitter
account that updates users on whether or not he's dead yet, but I
will neither confirm or deny this. Not quite sure why I made this a
reggae song though.
Meatball
Farts.
IKEA had to be dropped from the title for legal reasons. Quite simply
I came up with this after doing quite a rancid fart after I'd been
eating meatballs.
Working
from Home.
An homage to anyone who's their own boss and doesn't need to leave
the house.
Theresa.
This was released as a single just a couple of weeks before the
General Election. If I redid it to include everything this woman has
done wrong since then the song would be at least 5 hours long. And that's if I
played it really fast.
Wanking
in Memphis.
People's love of Elvis has always baffled me and this focuses on
those who love him a bit too
much, if you know what I mean.
Assistance.
Another re-recording of an old song. I hope that Dignitas might want
to adopt this as a song for adverts at some point.
Trump.
This came out as a single a few months ago, but the album version is
different due to the Westlife-style key change it has towards the
end. Seminal.
The
Tricky Instrumental Number Two.
This was originally Instrumental #2, but RouteNote said the title was
“too generic”. Strange that Instrumental #1 from the previous
album didn't pose the same problem. So it unwittingly became the
title track. I wanted to do something cartoon-like and I had the
theme tune from Tiny Toons in mind. This sounds nothing like it in
any way so it's a complete failure.
Nigel.
Having had a swipe at other political figures, I couldn't leave this
arsehole out of it. It's quite a challenge to mock someone who
themselves is already a parody.
Your
Favourite Bakery.
Originally called Greggs is Shit, but that's not allowed apparently.
A potential legal minefield even though it is entirely factual –
the son of one of the current owners has been done for possessing child
pornography, even though he might not like it being mentioned in a
song.
This
Won't Be a Hit.
Classic self-defecation. Err, self-deprecation. I thought it would be
fun to do a song that has nothing rude in it and it proved to be the
biggest challenge of the whole album. Ever since hearing Ukulele Hiro
do a cover of Iron Maiden's The Trooper I've wanted to have a go at
it myself. I didn't listen to the song at all before playing my
version of what I thought it sounded like as an outro. It probably
can't fade out fast enough for some people.
I
think this album is actually way better than Uke
Hunts Is a Fictional Character
despite the fact that I put much less effort into it.
Go and listen and if you accidentally put it on repeat and stream it forever I certainly won't complain.
It's
on Spotify and
Google Play Music and it'll
be on all the other streaming sites soon and you'll even be able to
download it from Amazon or iTunes if for some bizarre reason you want
to actually spend money on it. More on this as it happens.
Stay
tuned, uke hunters.
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