The Flvxxvm Florvm Cross-Reference

• Big Categories
• Recurring Themes in Lyrics
• Vocal Stylings
• Musical Considerations
• Recording Techniques
• Instrumentation and Playing Technique

Songs deliberately written to be "So bad it's good"

• Kill the Children
• I Want to Fuck You
• Florgasm
• Ain't Got a Woman
• Knock Me Flat
• The City is Dead
• You Used to Be Mine
• At Your Mercy
• Gimme What You Got
• No Use For Girls
• Take it Off, Suzie!
• Flame Thrower of Love
• Children of the Atom
• Florence
• Crush All You Insects
• I Might be a Nerd, but I've got the Girl

Serious (or at least not intentionally funny) songs

• Can't Beleive
• Sacred
• Canonical Girl
• Get the Hell Out of My Way
• String
• They Way You Play Guitar
• Will He Love You When You Fall?
• Just Keep on Dreaming (Andrea)
• It Won't be Love This Time
• Trail of Fears
• Down the Line
• Grooviest Girl in the U.S.A.
• Broken Man
• Unclean
• So Beautiful I Cried
• It Was Right There

Instrumentals (may include a few words, but must be mostly music)

• The Gerrk Saga (in six parts)
• Fanfare
• Headache
• Itch
• Dance of the Phat
• Miracles of Modern Medicine
• Emerald Coast
• Iron Man
• Junker's Rebellion
• What'd I Do?
• The Coming of the Cubes
• O Jasmine
• Ode to Joyce
• Tinkle
• Somnambulence

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Rock and Roll Aliens
• Renegade Robots
• Down in the Dungeon
• Children of the Atom (title is an X-Men reference)
• Friendly Martians, Julie
• Invasion Earth

Marijuana

• Everybody Calls Me Flapjack
• Are the Fish High Yet
• The Vacant Lot
• You're So High Now

War

• Children of the Atom
• Trail of Fears
• Invasion Earth

Music

• Rock and Roll Aliens
• Florence
• Extravaganza
• It Was Right There

Unrequited Love

• Sacred
• It Won't Be Love This Time
• Broken Man

Requited Love

• Can't Beleive
• Just Keep on Dreaming
• Grooviest Girl in the U.S.A.
• I am a Sexual Being
• The Label
• I Might Be a Nerd, but I Got the Girl

General-purpose "Love Songs"

• I'm Not a Scumbag
• Your Name Goes Here
• String

Problems in relationships

• Powercow
• Get the Hell Out of My Way
• Will He Love You When You Fall?
• Fuckin' All The Time
• You're Gonna Hurt Somebody
• So Beaten Down
• I'm Not Gonna Do a God Damn Thing

Longing for a Lost Love

• You Used to Be Mine
• The Way I See It
• Down the Line
• So Beautiful That I Cried

Bitterness about terminated relationship

• Ain't Got a Woman
• Another Man's Treasure
• This is How it Feels
• Unclean

Self-loathing

• Sacred
• Evil Girl
• Broken Man
• I'm Just an Idiot

Lust

• I Want to Fuck You
• Gimme What You Got
• No Use For Girls
• Take It Off, Suzie
• Peggy, You Make Me Horny
• Flamethrower of Love

Perversion

• At Your Mercy
• Peggy You Make Me Horny
• Evil Girl
• Blear
• And I Hit Her
• the unnamed 13th track of Flvxxvm Florvm Ate My Balls
• Kind of a Bedroom Thing

Testicles

• not a song, but the title of the album Flvxxvm Florvm Ate My Balls.
• Rocky Mountain Oyster Pizza
• Pickle My Pubes

Distorted Vocals

• Rock and Roll Aliens
• Knock Me Flat
• Canonical Girl
• Take It Off Suzie
• Renegade Robots
• I Opened My Eyes
• Everybody Calls Me Flapjack
• Friendly Martians, Julie
• The Grooviest Girl in the U.S.A.
• Powercow
• Fuckin All The Time
• You're So High Now
• Crush All You Insects

Spoken Word Pieces with Music

• Sounds of Selene
• A Ship Defines the Ocean
• Florgasm
• Are the Fish High Yet?

Spoken Word with No Music at All

• Rocky Mountain Oyster Pizza
• Kind of a Bedroom thing

Pulsebeat

• Headache
• Can't Beleive
• Blood and Guts
• This is How It Feels
• Down in the Dungoen ("breakdown" section only)

3/4 Time

• The Way You Play Guitar
• Unclean (chorus only)

Unusual scales

• Junker's Rebellion (whole tone)
• Unclean (octatonic)

Free Improvization, with no discernable key

• Florgasm (flutophone)
• Sounds of Selene
• Dissonance Rex (guitar)
• Are the Fish High Yet (thumb piano)
• You're gonna hurt somebody (lead guitar)

Bouncing, to get more than 4 tracks

• Your Name Goes Here (3 guitars, bass, percussion, and vocals)
• This is How It Feels (two guitars, bass, drums, vocals)
• Broken Man (3 guitars, keyboard, drums, vocals)

No overdubs

• Satan and the Single Girl
• Sunny Beaches (echo effect was added later)
• Down in the Dungeon - Original Version
• Kill the Children
• I Want to Fuck You
• Coming of the Cubes
• O Jasmine
• Norfolk Southern Blues
• Somnambulence (echo effect was added later)
• Kind of a Bedroom Thing
• Rocky Mountain Oyster Pizza
• Pickle My Pubes

Overdubs without a 4-track (by bouncing between normal cassette recorders)

• Rock and Roll Aliens - Nintendo Version
• Rock and Roll Aliens - Guitar shred version

Altered Recording Speeds

• Knee Deep in the Ed (everything double-speed)
• Sunny Beaches (everything sped up slightly)
• A Ship Defines the Ocean (organ is double-speed)
• Rock and Roll Aliens - Nintendo Version (drums are double-speed)

Backwards Recording

• Sounds of Selene (voices)
• A Ship Defines the Ocean (organ)
• Kill the Children (hidden satanic messages!)
• The City is Dead (guitar solo)
• Are the Fish High Yet ? (thumb piano)
• Somnambulence (reverse echo)
• Crush All You Insects (guitar solo)

Randomness

• Dissonance Rex (radio static)
• Miracles of Modern Medicine (random channel-changing on cable TV)
• Are the Fish High Yet ? (police scanner)

Recycled sounds

• Windy Wendy (guitar solo was a different song; wah-wah was added when I re-used it!)
• A Ship Defines the Ocean (organ was my cousin Lacy playing Bach's 'Tocatta and Fugue')
• Sounds of Selene (the computer sounds were recorded much earlier as a separate project)
• Itch (part of it was the music from a game I wrote in BASIC on the Commodore 64)

Clean Electric Guitar

1. Satan and the Single Girl
2. Headache
3. Sounds of Selene
4. Florgasm
5. You Used to Be Mine
6. Down in the Dungeon (rythm guitar)
7. String
8. Will He Love You When You Fall?
9. It Won't Be Love This Time
10. The Grooviest Girl in the U.S.A.
11. Peggy, You Make Me Horny (solo)
12. Blear
13. You're Gonna Hurt Somebody (rythm guitar)
14. The Coming of the Cubes
15. O Jasmine (rythm guitar, played by Will Richardson)
16. I'm Just an Idiot

Electric Guitar, intentionally distorted by the recording equipment

• Rock and Roll Aliens - Nintendo Version
• Kill the Children
• Ain't Got a Woman
• The City is Dead
• At Your Mercy
• Emerald Coast
• Everybody Calls Me Flapjack
• Friendly Martians, Julie
• Powercow
• And I Hit Her

Electic Guitar, w/ distortion from amplifier

• Windy Wendy
• Dissonance Rex
• Dance of the Phat
• I Want to Fuck You
• Rock and Roll Aliens
• Can't Believe
• Blood and Guts
• Neighbors' Kid
• Sacred
• Junker's Rebellion
• (I'm not a) Scumbag
• Gimme Whatcha Got
• The Way I See It
• Take it Off, Suzie!
• Canonical Girl
• This is How it Feels
• Renegade Robots
• Down in the Dungeon (lead guitar)
• Get the Hell Out of My Way
• I Opened My Eyes
• They Way You Play Guitar
• Children of the Atom
• Will He Love You When You Fall?
• Just Keep on Dreaming
• Trail of Fears
• Down the Line (lead guitar)
• Florence
• Evil Girl
• Broken Man
• Invasion: Earth!
• I am A Sexual Being
• Fuckin' all the Time
• Unclean
• I'm not White
• You're Gonna Hurt Somebody (lead guitar)
• Falling Apart
• O Jasmine (lead guitar)
• Extravaganza
• Right There
• Crush All You Insects
• I Might be a Nerd, but I've got the Girl (rythm guitar only)
• I'm not gonna do a Goddamn Thing
• Pickle My Pubes (played by Nathan Davidson)

Electric Guitar w/ some kind of fuzz pedal

• Rock and Roll Aliens - Guitar Shred Version
• Sunny Beaches
• Flame Thrower of Love
• Peggy, You Make Me Horny (rythm guitar)
• I Might be a Nerd, but I've got the Girl (lead guitar)

Acoustic Guitar

• Knee Deep in the Ed
• Emerald Coast
• Knock Me Flat
• At Your Mercy
• Your Names Goes Here
• Another Man's Treasure
• The Way You Play Guitar
• Trail of Fears (solo)
• Friendly Martians, Julie
• The Vacant Lot
• And I Hit Her
• I am a Sexual Being (final solo)
• The Label
• So Beautiful I Cried
• Nofolk Southern Blues
• So Beat Down
• It Was Right There
• Pickle My Pubes

Electric Guitar, intentionally distorted by the recording equipment

• Louie Louie
• I Opened My Eyes

Real Bass Guitar

• Miracles of Modern Medicine
• Can't Beleive
• The Neighbor's Kid
• Blood and Guts
• What'd I Do?
• No Use For Girls
• Flamethrower of Love
• This is How it Feels
• Get the Hell out of My Way
• Trail of Fears
• Grooviest Girl in the U.S.A.
• Power Cow
• The Label (played by Will Richardson)
• Coming of the Cubes (played by Will Richardson)
• O Jasmine (played by Tim Mannat, although you can barely hear it)

Guitar pretending to be bass

• Florgasm
• Junker's Rebellion
• Your Names Goes Here
• The Way I See It
• Take it Off, Suzie
• String
• Will He Love You When You Fall
• The Way You Play Guitar
• Children of the Atom
• Just Keep on Dreaming
• Down the Line
• Everybody Calls Me Flapjack
• Evil Girl
• Blear

"Big B" guitar tuning

• O Jasmine (played by Will Richardson)
• Everybody Calls Me Flapjack
• Blear

"Drop D" guitar tuning (D A D G B E)

• Renegade Robots
• Unclean
• Crush All You Insects

Other guitar tunings

• Satan and the Single Girl
• Headache
• Somnambulence (D A D F# A D)

Wah-wah

• Windy Wendy
• The Neighbor's Kid (on keyboard)
• Renegade Robots
• Invasion Earth
• Unclean
• You're Gonna Hurt Somebody
• Extravaganza

Tapping (right-hand on the guitar neck)

• Blood and Guts
• Canonical Girl
• Friendly Martians, Julie
• Invasion Earth
• You're Gonna Hurt Somebody

Keyboard Solos

• Dance of the Phat
• Rock and Roll Aliens
• The Neighbor's Kid
• Ain't Got a Woman
• At Your Mercy
• What'd I Do?
• Peggy, You Make Me Horny
• Evil Girl
• Just Keep on Dreaming
• Fuckin' All The Time (MIDI programmed)

Drummers with real drum sets

• Knee Deep in the Ed (Denny Robertson)
• O Jasmine (Kevin Craig)
• Get the Hell out of My Way (Denny Robertson)
• Coming of the Cubes (Cliff Miller from Down Loa)

"Drums" are actually pounding on guitar

• Knock Me Flat
• The Way I See It
• Children of the Atom
• Friendly Martians, Julie
• The Vacant Lot

Hand claps (real, not drum-machine)

• The Way You Play Guitar
• Everybody Calls Me Flapjack
• the unnamed 13th track of Flvxxvm Florvm Ate My Balls

Big popcorn tin full of Wargames guns

• Are the Fish High Yet
• And I Hit Her

A bunch of people pounding on bongos

• Norfolk Southern Blues
• Pickle My Pubes

Hand-played (not pre-programmed) electronic drums

• Louie Louie
• Can't Beleive (hand-played one verse, looped for the rest)
• Blood and Guts (hand-played one verse, looped for the rest)
• You Used to Be Mine
• Gimme What You Got
• Take it Off, Suzie
• This is How it Feels (hand-played one verse, looped for the rest)
• Renegade Robots
• Down in the Dungeon ("breakdown" section only)
• String
• Evil Girl
• Broken Man

Other "drums" (anything except a drum machine)

• Headache (mason jars and coffee cans)
• Florgasm (washing machine)
• Your Name Goes Here (soda can)
• Down the Line (tupperware)
• Blear (spoons)

No percussion at all

• Satan and the Single Girl
• A Ship Defines the Ocean
• Sounds of Selene
• I Want to Fuck You
• Rocky Mountain Oyster Pizza
• Kind of a Bedroom Thing

Harmonica

• Louie Louie
• Another Man's Treasure
• Just Keep on Dreaming
• The Label
• Norfolk Southern Blues
• Ode to Joyce

Trombone (real, not keyboard)

• A Ship Defines the Ocean
• Headache

Slide Whistle

• You Used to Be Mine
• Ode to Joyce

Squeeze Toy

• The Neighbor's Kid
• Knock Me Flat

Other Acoustic Instruments

• A Ship Defines the Ocean (homemade instrument made out of PVC pipe and wax paper)
• Florgasm ("flutophone"; also one of those rotating whistles )
• Norfolk Southern Blues (violin, played by Josh Black)
• Ode to Joyce (chinese relaxation balls being rolled around on piano strings)
• Pickle My Pubes (tenor banjo, played by Will Richardson)

MIDI programming

• Florence
• Invasion: Earth!
• I am A Sexual Being
• Fuckin' all the Time
• Unclean
• The Label
• So Beautiful I Cried
• You're SO High Now
• I'm not White
• You're Gonna Hurt Somebody
• Falling Apart
• Extravaganza
• So Beat Down
• Right There
• Crush All You Insects
• I'm Just an Idiot
• I Might be a Nerd, but I've got the Girl
• I'm not gonna do a Goddamn Thing

Electronic sounds (not including MIDI or pre-set keyboard sounds)

• Itch (Commodore 64)
• Sounds of Selene (Commodore 64)
• the unnamed 13th track of Flvxxvm Florvm Ate My Balls (ARP 2600 analog synth)
• Tinkle (C-Sound)