The Flvxxvm Florvm Cross-Reference
Big Categories
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
Recurring Themes in Lyrics
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
Vocal Stylings
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
Musical Considerations
Pulsebeat
(a musical "style" invented by me, where all
instruments pound on a monolithic rythm,
without the familiar downbeat pattern
of rock and roll)
- 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)
Recording Techniques
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)
Instrumentation and Playing Technique
Clean Electric Guitar
(some distortion may have been accidentally introduced by the recoding process)
- Satan and the Single Girl
- Headache
- Sounds of Selene
- Florgasm
- You Used to Be Mine
- Down in the Dungeon (rythm guitar)
- String
- Will He Love You When You Fall?
- It Won't Be Love This Time
- The Grooviest Girl in the U.S.A.
- Peggy, You Make Me Horny (solo)
- Blear
- You're Gonna Hurt Somebody (rythm guitar)
- The Coming of the Cubes
- O Jasmine (rythm guitar, played by Will Richardson)
- 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
(Invented by Will Richardson. Makes for
really slack, bendy strings. Low to high:
B E A D F# B)
- 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)