Adventure Thing #2.10 - "Give The Kid A Chance" & Email List Covers Part 2 (Patreon)

Ho ho ho, Merry Everyone! 

Whatever your celebration persuasion, we hope you're getting a chance to power down a bit and recharge your batteries as this crazy year draws to a close. In the meanwhile, the Side Quests keep coming!

Unreleased Track - "Give The Kid A Chance"

This is one of the many co-writes I did during the writing sessions for KABOOM! back in 2010. I wrote it over the course of one day with a couple of British guys who were stand-up chaps, and while ultimately it didn't make the album, I still think it's a pretty fun song. I learned so much over the course of that year or two writing with all of these different people, it's crazy to listen back and hear the ways in which some of those lessons ended up influencing later IFD work.

Semi-Released Tracks - Email List Covers Part 2

I called an audible and shifted the planned release schedule since it seemed like this is the perfect week to post our cover of Fountains of Wayne's "Alien for Christmas". It comes along with another collection of covers released to our email list back in 2009/2010

• "Alien for Christmas" - I know for a fact that Chris Collingwood thinks this is a dumb song, because he told me so after I yelled it out as a request from the front row of a Fountains of Wayne show many many years ago. That said, I still think it's a super fun song, maybe even my favorite Christmas song?? Regardless, we had a lot of fun with this cover.
• "Heart of Life" - This one was a bit spur of the moment, but as I was first learning Little Sound DJ, we thought it would be fun to do a gameboy-and-vocals only cover, and this song had been my absolute favorite track off of John Mayer's Continuum, so I did a quick arrangement and we did it as a one-take video. Also of note, there is one gameboy pre-programmed with LSDJ, but there are two Gameboy Advances that Mike and I were playing live using PixelH8 cartridges, which are pretty challenging to actually use well, so they only really showed up on this track and a little bit on "Move".
• "Helplessly Hoping" - In a very similar vein, this one is another take on the same idea, but this time covering a classic Crosby, Stills, and Nash song. Better LSDJ programming, but no Gameboy Advances. Also a one-take video.