so let me think for a second…
we have a new watson album coming. i have several ideas but need to write them out to draw them together into a coherent way. (well eventually hopefully eventually coherent.) here i will lay out some of my ideas.
double album. tall tales. starts with INTRO TO TALL TALES aka Gwendolyn as it's called now. But it sets up the stage so the songs can be viewed as vignettes. fairy tales or memories or just imagination wandering. then we go into I LEFT HOME WHEN I WAS YOUNG. cuz that's where the story really starts. watson moon leaving the house. he's wandering the city. then we go into SADIE. he meets the girl. i think this is a good sequence. honestly There's Something Wrong in the Neighborhood could be earlier but I have it here. Maybe I want to push it out further as it seems like a strange backtrack. This character is exploring the city with Sadie and then… how to keep it neon?
Options 4 Track 4:
-Watson Moon (the song). This is interesting as it keeps the mysterious neon city vibe. The problem is it's a bit WEIRD. i guess i shouldn't really worry about that but I want to keep the listener hooked. but i think its a good idea to keep the energy up.
-Concrete and Cobblestone. Another childhood song. Interesting there are a lot of childhood songs in this batch. Maybe that could be a detour/hallucination midway thru the album.
(Childhood songs:
concrete, there's something wrong in the neighborhood, 1999??, kids they never stick together (teens, ending the dream))
-Dinner With The Family. nah i don't like it there.
-1999
-O Vegas. continues city theme HARD
-Miracle Drug (too similar to Sadie)
I lean towards the song Watson Moon.
In that narrative Watson is out on the town and he is getting burned by this woman in a shithole country. and he's mad and cynical by the end of this song. “im learning something new” . here i feel we can calm it down and get more reflective. so “u were my only friend?” no not that one. what about heaven. or when it started. heaven is cool cuz it pitches up at start while the previous song pitches down. but its a pretty dramatic vibe shift. what about sick joke? o yeah i love that change to sick joke. so now he's reminiscing and hes bummed. maybe this should be two albums. that might make more sense. gheez i just can't decide between sick joke or Heaven after watson moon. i had a previous tracklist i wonder if heaven was important for that 1. yeah it had i left home > sadie so this is just a variation of that. it had heaven after sadie. so that is energy fading and this 1 is energy maintained. idk heaven is nice cuz it actually has more energy in the second half than sick joke.
so after heaven… “there's something wrong in the neighborhood?” yeah it works pretty good. so this is now the childhood reflection arch. bring back my other choices from before. concrete and cobblestones?? or heaven into miracle drug? how about heaven into cowards way out? we want this to be a wacky psychedelic album. but i don't think this works. nah nah. we can go from neighborhood to what i had before which was cowards way out. ah i don't know. maybe it should just be two albums. then i gotta format the second one. but yea this album gonna come out. i was thinking TALL TALES for the titles or a new title PARADISE LOST. what u think?