Category: Tunes

The song titles are a nod to Back to the Future.  Great Scott!

Another TMATW epic!  If you listen closely, you can hear some studio chatter captured by the drum mics at the end of the take.  Good shit, Ron!

Governess is the only TMATW recording to drop an F-bomb.  Can you find it?

In Brant’s basement, 2001, Darwinian Love Song evolved from concept to final form.  It was the first TMATW song to include vocal interplay.  In the studio, a third acoustic guitar was added to the track.

A TMATW fan favorite!  Written and recorded as a one-sitting wonder, Rich is the sole vocalist/instrumentalist heard on the track.

The drums were sampled from other tracks on The Mourning After.  And that volume-swelled guitar in the intro; that is actually the outro guitar with its playback reversed!

The Grundel of Green was originally a synth-driven tune.  This was convenient at the time because, due to a broken hand, Matt was playing one-handed keyboard at practices.  The bouncy descending melody, heard at the end of the each verse, was eventually converted from synth to guitar.

 

A new recording of Grundel of Green will be available on TMATW III.  Get yourself a FREE COPY at our CD Release Show!

The spoken-word vocal during the bridge is an excerpt from the Lord of the Rings.  You said it, Gandalf!

 

They looked at him, and for a while he was silent. At last he spoke. ‘My friends,’ he said, ‘and all you people of this city and of the Western lands! Things of great sorrow and renown have come to pass. Shall we weep or be glad? Beyond hope the Captain of our foes has been destroyed, and you have heard the echo of his last despair.

—Lord of the Rings, Return of the King

 

To date, the only Tommy Magik song with a key change.  The drum machine at the end of the song was a last minute change in the studio, replacing a spoken word vocal: “But you took me away!”

 

This tune, and others, now streaming from Science in the Hands of an Angry God!