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900lbs, the new song from PACKAGE (listen, dammit!)

post #1 of 12
1/28/02 at 4:04am
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900 lbs
(lyrics: Nunziata - music: Nunziata, Robinson)

Feeling up, feeling down, feeling blue
feeling everything just to keep from feeling you
think we stayed on a blade, so much more to life than getting laid
I just wish that I knew what it was

Facing opposition, try a new position
could it be I'm losing touch with reality
I think it's you, it sure as hell ain't me

900 pounds has been lifted from me, 900
dead weight, can't wait
shedding you is therapeutic
900 pounds, goodbye dead weight, 900

Breaking up and breaking down
look Ma what I found
what comes around goes around and wraps around
save the affection, save the dough, clean the palate
and have another go and reap what you sow

Carnal relations, carnival nations
could it be I'm losing touch with reality
I think it's you, it sure as hell ain't me

900 pounds has been lifted from me, 900
dead weight, can't wait
shedding you is therapeutic
900 pounds, goodbye dead weight, 900

Heal the wound, drop kick the gloom
rearrange the living room
we live just once, it ends too soon
don't be afraid to howl at the moon
it's easy to stray from the path, no need to multiply
just do the math, don't be afraid to face the wrath

A woman scorned, grab it by the horns
could it be I'm losing touch with reality
I think it's you, it sure as hell ain't me

900 pounds has been lifted from me, 900
dead weight, can't wait
shedding you is therapeutic
900 pounds, goodbye dead weight, 900

Vocals & Keys: Nunziata
Drums, Guitar, electronic flute & Bass: Robinson

http://www.chud.com/demo/900.mp3

I can't describe this song, really. It should appeal to a wider group than the barn burners but I've given up figuring folks out.

For those who care, it's the ultimate break-up song. About a guy who shed all 7 of the gals he was seeing. I wish it was autobiographical!

[This message has been edited by Nick Nunziata (edited 01-28-2002).]
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post #2 of 12
1/28/02 at 4:51am
Usually we put this sort of stuff up on the Package site, but I'm going to go ahead and tell the story of this SUPERB creation here and now.

Nick and I were just fiddling around aimlessly this Saturday when he cut on his keyboard. So, I'm making noise on the guitar, and he starts making these interesting tinkly noises. Pretty soon, a basic chord progression gets eeked out in E-minor. We come up with a chorus progression, and I switch to drums to jam on it for a bit.

After getting the structure down, we take a stab at a drum track. Get it. Then come the guitar parts, which I kind of made up as I went along, but they fit perfectly. One handy bassline later, we had a skeleton with a little flesh.

Then Nick, who is now our resident keyboard magician, works his magic and ROCKS the orchestral bits that intro the song and repeat slightly in the middle of the song.

He takes that and gets supremely inspired for some vocal ideas. Some producing magic added, and...shazam!

All BS aside...this is one of the best things Package has ever done, if not the best.

For those here who avoid Package because we've been stigmatized as making "metalhead" music or "joke" songs, it's time to come aboard, because this is NEITHER.

Emotional, real, and mellow, it's something absolutely beautiful.

It sounds a little like "Album of the Year"-era Faith No More combined with mid-period R.E.M. with a side of Package.

And I absolutely love it. I hope you do too.





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post #3 of 12
1/28/02 at 4:57am
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Nice words, Mitch. The 5 people that care about this board will hopefully feel likewise.

I was worried about this one. After finishing it, I thought it sounded too radio friendly. Then I remembered radio friendly wasn't always tantamount to shit.
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post #4 of 12
1/29/02 at 5:44pm
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The silence is deafening. Guys, we're not Radiohead, but it doesn't mean you'll DEFINITELY hate it.

[This message has been edited by Nick Nunziata (edited 01-29-2002).]
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post #5 of 12
1/31/02 at 8:48pm
How the frig you guys make this kind of music AND have the time to keep the boards up, I'll never understand.
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post #6 of 12
1/31/02 at 11:23pm
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So you like it!
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post #7 of 12
2/1/02 at 1:57am
Cool stuff fellas... a nice, mellow sound to it. Almost better than 'One More Time'! Any word on a re-release of that guys?

[This message has been edited by Adam McAllister (edited 02-01-2002).]
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post #8 of 12
5/4/02 at 10:20am
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Time to re-visit this one. Many listening options right here:

<a href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2256/2256410.html" target="_blank">http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2256/2256410.html</a>
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post #9 of 12
5/5/02 at 3:47am
Good stuff. I like the chorus progression the best. The solo is also very good, but odd. I mean that in a good way. It sounds so out of place when considering the lyrics, but it's really not. I like that a lot, when music is or any art form takes seemingly incongruous things and fuses them together beautifully. I think that's what this song is. The lyrics are great, and sung very well. The music fits it perfectly, in its own special way. I know that's probably confusing, but it's a full on compliment. Nice song guys.
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post #10 of 12
7/2/02 at 6:16pm
Listened to this on the recommendation of Micah.

Oooh, I likes a lot. A track that I could fall asleep to and could still wake me up in the morning. One of my litmus tests for great music.
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post #11 of 12
2/5/05 at 12:37am
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From the grave, it rises.

http://www.chud.com/demo/music/900.mp3
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post #12 of 12
2/19/05 at 11:40am
Yeah, this is a good one to bring back. The beginning sounded like latter day Annie Lennox circa Medusa. Then it gets Beatlesesque. I like it a lot. Like Micah said three years ago, this is a departure from your metal sound and that's a selling point for me. I'd really like for this to be your direction.
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