Pop Starting with the idea of a beat  somewhere between Philadelphia’s own Toni Basil’s “Mickey” & Peter Gabriel’s “Intruder” – I set out to play this morning. Maybe I could get Phil Collins to produce this one and do something like he did for ABBA’s Frida:

I managed to get one iteration of the drum beat down (using the computer keyboard). I then recorded two vocal tracks. I think some of the vocal phrasing sounds a little in the Depeche “Mode,” but I thought of all sorts of songs while recording this: Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up”, The Go-Gos’ “We Got the Beat”, The Knack’s “My Sharona” are the ones that come to mind. I meandered through various bass ideas and put them to disk as well.

Below is my sketch – slightly over the 3-minute mark.

As I near the completion of my raw material, I thought that when I start working on these tracks “for real,” I may work on more than one track at once. I feel if that may lead to a more consistent sound for the tracks as opposed to working on one at a time.

-Ed Start