For those of you who want the genuine article. This is the same CD that was available on CD Baby and at Marc's shows. It's now here at Bandcamp. (1) disc in Digipack. Booklet includes photos, credits, and lyrics. You receive automatically receive a digital download with purchase.
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Written in Los Angeles, California in June of 2006, and first demoed at home in Venice. Recorded at subSpot in Venice except for acoustic guitars and vocals done at Record Plant in Hollywood. Justin Siegel on drums and Frogs on bass. The string quartet was made up of Reed Berin on the cello/bowed bass parts and Nita Mickley on violins. Kelli sang backups and I played the acoustic, sang lead, and hit the tambourine.
David Bazan, who performed as Pedro the Lion until 2006, was a big influence on my music as I went solo. The slow plod of this song, as well as a sense of dark, but deadpan self-deprecation are both echoes of his work. It’s not a song that really begs for “interpretation” per se – though the sentiment may not be 100% clear. For whatever reason, it’s a representation of complicated feelings surrounding what was a very complicated friendship/relationship I was in the midst of at the time. In this way, it’s retained a sense of biographical importance despite not being as clear and accurate a “story-telling” song as other songs I wrote about the relationship, such as “Chiaroscuro” and “Incurable Blues.”
As well as being a live mainstay with the Dead Messengers, “Foreign Movie” has become my unofficial opener for nearly every one of my solo acoustic shows from 2009 – on.
lyrics
Come over baby. Come sit on the couch and crack your knuckles with me. We don’t have to kiss, we’ll just watch a foreign movie where everyone’s in love but there’s no happy ending. I haven’t disappointed you yet, but give me time. ‘Cause you’ve still got some hope left, and I’d hate to change your mind, and let you know I’m not all right. Then you’d know I’m not all right. All right.
Come over baby. And play that brand new song you wanted to show me about how nothing’s worse than feeling lonely, but somehow it’s the only way we know how to be. I haven’t disappointed you yet, but give me time. ‘Cause we both get secrets kept; sometimes I’m dying to tell you mine, but then you’d know I’m not all right. Then you’d know I’m not all right. Yeah, soon you’ll know I’m not all right. I haven’t disappointed you yet, but give me time. Give me time.
credits
from Welcome to the Danger Show,
released March 27, 2007
Marc M Cogman - acoustic guitar, lead vocals, percussion
Kellianne Noftle - backing vocals
Justin Siegel - drums
Frogs - electric bass
Nita Mickley - violin
Reed Berin - cello
Produced by Marc M Cogman
Recorded at subSpot (Venice, CA) and Record Plant (Los Angeles, CA)
Mixed by J.D. Andrew at YeRusto! (Santa Monica, CA)
Mastered by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at Bernie Grundman Sound
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