More Neon

More Neon


Why call a droning, steady state instrumental More Neon?

Well, one of my favorite neon signs, a big one out on MA Rt. 9 reading "TERMITE CONTROL", has been taken down.

Maybe for repairs, maybe for good.

In either case, and esp. the latter, I say More Neon, not less.

Second Plateau

Second Plateau

Safety First

Safety First


About the same vintage as It Shouldn't Be This Way, this song has similar lyrical ambitions (but fewer lyrics).

Musically, it's the mutant offspring of XTC's This Is Pop and pretty much any single put out by Postcard Records.

It Shouldn't Be This Way

In a pink caddy of Mary Kay's
Dame Fortune drove by to say
EconoLodge
is Love's cheapest refuge

Running out all you could say
"the Garden State's no place to stray"
How could such pretty lips
spill so much refuse

from "It Shouldn't Be This Way"
©1985 Kevin R. Seward

Somewhere between wanting to be Bryan Ferry and wanting to be Elvis Costello, with some carry over from the works of Carl Jung and the Cavalier poets, I had a lyricless noisy thing I'd recorded with a very loosely tuned guitar.

Lyrics just sort of came along as I was walking in a barnyard of long ago. Then more lyrics came and finally way too many.

But for better or worse, the now more conventional music fashioned from the flubbery guitar thing could hold them all.

So below, the early demo or whatever version. Then a later demo or whatever version.

It Shouldn't Be This Way


It Shouldn't Be This Way (1990 recording)

They'll Hardly Say

They'll Hardly Say

4 Sept 2008 Squirrels

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Before During and After

Before During and After


Again with the feedback. Mostly a phone pickup interacting with various (by now forgotten) mini-amp/speaker combinations.

Bright Drive Away

Bright Drive Away