Get on your Bike!

by @wacha

Challenge: Idiom
Get on your Bike!
wacha
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Liner Notes

I googled idioms about bikes and "Get on your bike" came up. It's usage is "Mike you ate all my chips, get on your bike" So I took that and ran, I thought a grungy punk type song would work and was influenced by surf music.

This also felt like the perfect idiom to use in a song about jerks who park in bike lanes and people who rail against bike infrastructure.

Music nerd stuff:
-I'm playing my Tanglewood hollow bodied guitar (I need to change the strings on my Strat Squire)
-The bass is the Tanglewood tuned down an octave and effects added
-The synth it Decent Sample Red Clay guitar with some effects layered on
-I used programmed drums and messed with the patterns a bit
-I added some distortion to my main vocals
-The vocal double is a the original scratch track when I was figuring out lyrics with more effects on them then the lead

I'm pretty happy with this one and will revisit it later.

#punk #rock #bicycles

Lyrics

Chorus:
Get on your bike
Why don't you get on your bike?
Get on your bike
Why don't you get on your bike?

Verse:
Things always
Feel the same
Feel the same

I Can't go through this
Every day
Every Day

Chorus:
Get on your bike
Why don't you get on your bike?
Get on your bike
Why don't you get on your bike?

Verse:
Self entitled
Losing your grip
Losing grip

Nothing left to grab
So you slip
So you slip

Chorus:
Get on your bike
Why don't you get on your bike?
Get on your bike
Why don't you get on your bike?

Chorus:
Get on your bike
Why don't you get on your bike?
Get on your bike
Why don't you get on your bike?

Instrumental

Chorus:
Get on your bike
Why don't you get on your bike?
Get on your bike
Why don't you get on your bike?

Comments

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@chrismyth02
Grungy and punky. I dig it. Great alternative to "go fly a kite" or other choice phrases haha. You dig in on the choruses and it works well. I love the synth stabs.
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@odilongreen
Terrific late-70s punky feel, and that chiming, simple synth line adds the perfect color to really evoke the era. I can feel the disaffected youth at the underground club grooving along to this (and I'll be right there along with them)!
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@coolparadiso Mod
Oh I like this - very early Blondie or even the runaways like when they had that tinge of punk. Really cool song good in a live set! Good idiom challenge
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@val
This has so much cool riot grrrl punk attitude. I love stuff like this. Great song! Those guitars, the half singing/half talking vocal with the doubling. It's just perfect. I would listen to an entire album of this over and over again. Love it!
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@jerrypettit
Wow! This seems like quite a departure for you--I really enjoyed it! Do more!! ❤️
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@charlie_leemburg
I really like the groove on the chorus and that distorted synth is really cool sounding
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@cts
Nice take on the idiom challenge. Surprisingly I've found Punk to be quite versatile. I've not familiar with the "ride your bike" phrasing, but it's definitely packed with humor with a hint of serious insight. I dig this big time.
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