Adventure Thing #2.2 - "The Taste For Glory" & The Goldbergs Tracks (Patreon)

Well now we are well and truly rolling! It was very fun to see people's reactions to last week's post, both the kind words about Killscreen and the fun reminiscing about the overtures. That's exactly the feels we were going for, and I'm having a blast looking at the next 6 months of b-side adventures with fresh eyes and ears. You can look with ears right? Eargazing? Totally a thing. Go go gadget week 2!

Unreleased Track - "The Taste For Glory" (Demo)

This track just turned 10 years old, dating from fall 2010. It's one of a handful of tracks that will come out in this adventure that were written during the time between Cool Is Just A Number and KABOOM! You might be forgiven for thinking that it's crazy that there are still more songs from this era, given that both Welcome To The Breakdown and DEMOlition primarily consist of songs that didn't make KABOOM!, but it's reflective of the fact that we had signed to a label and their main task given to us was to write a "no brainer smash hit song". Apparently I never quite figured out how to do that, but I learned a ridiculous amount along the way and wrote a LOT of music, both by myself and with other cowriters. Also I used this song as the underscoring for the Album Adventure intro video, so it might already sound a bit familiar!

Semi-Released Tracks - Fun Things We've Done For The Goldbergs

One of the most fun things that came out of our Project Atma Kickstarter was that the day after we launched it, I got a message from Adam Goldberg saying he was a big fan of the band, that he had a new show coming out on ABC, and he wanted us to do the theme song. It's somewhat unbelievable that we are now in Season 8 (season premiere this Wednesday night!), and we've gotten to do some super fun things with Adam and his team over the years. Here's a few:

• "Rewind" full theme song. We did a full version of the show's theme song (which was originally only 30 seconds long, and was cut down to 12 seconds for the current theme) for The Goldbergs Mixtape.
• Perfect Strangers Theme Song. We've gotten to do a couple of super fun 80s covers for various episodes where they wanted a different vibe than the original for the ending montage, we had WAY too much fun with this one.
• "Rewind" a la beastie boys. For the Season 3 episode The Tasty Boys, the team wanted us to do a version of the theme song that sounded like Licensed To Ill-era Beastie Boys. Bill and I started working on this, but ultimately they decided not to use it because the Beastie Boys are notoriously litigious and they didn't want to imply that they had actually covered the song. This remains one of the more ridiculous things I have done, but it still makes me smile.
• "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?". This was another fun 80s cover, for a Goldbergs episode where the original track didn't quite fit the emotional tone of the ending montage. Because this was fit directly to the episode, it is a bit weird form-wise, but it was still a blast to make.