Rebecca Pittenger's Podcast of Weird Songs

This song has some truth in it. The mix might be a little rough.

Okay, I decided to flesh out that dog bark song I did the other night cuz I took a liking to it and thought it could be a nice little longer song. There we go.

Okay, here's some music; a wee li'l explanation for the long dog loop that I just posted. Is the word, "suck" an explicit lyric? I don't know, so I pushed the "explicit lyrics" button just to be safe.

This is not music!!!! It's noise for drowning out bad neighbors' stereo sounds. My neighbors that have screaming kids and annoying barking dogs also play their dumb stereo with thumping bass. This works good on a speaker for music in the distance; sadly, with something as close up as my dumb neighbors requires the use of noise cancelling headphone to drown out the bad neighbor sounds,

This is not music!! It's a bunch of dogs barking on a loop...the neighbors I have that have screaming kids? They also have stupid dogs that bark at night, and they have the most horrible sounding barks in the world. So here are a bunch of dogs barking to drown out the sound of dogs barking.

My dude friend spent the night last night; and we listened to lots of tunes. I woke up with this melody in my head, and I'm not sure if the melody is from one of the tunes we listened to last night or if it's something that my brain made up. So...this song is either a song that I consider to be kind of cool, or else it's a bad cover. 

This is a bunch of cats meowing with rumbly noises underneath them that you can play if you wanna drown out your neighbors' booming stereos and screaming kids.

Sorry this is a repeat...I couldn't live with the bad vocal performance from last week of the last part of the song, so I redid that part. I think it sucks less. 

The first part of this song is something I came up with many, many, many years ago when me, my college boyfriend, and another person I'm close to (but won't name for confidentiality reasons) were stoned and jamming together. I'm gonna have a friend play the parts with really high voices on her phone, outside my windows that I'm putting blackout curtains on to see how loud I need my noise machines to be to block out the new neighbors' screaming kids sounds. Neighbors suck. Sigh.

I lost count...this is either song 18 or 19 or 20 of Gloomy Gus and the Forest That's About to Die. It is really dark. But then it isn't dark at the end. If you get to the end, you'll see it's not as dark as it at first appeared.

It's my annual I'm-not-celebrating-the-4th-of-July-themed song, which I've been doing since 2022 cuz America is on the fucked up side. My good friend suggested doing a song called, "Make America Fucked Up Again," so that's what I did.

I miss living in a place that has actual friends in it. I have the coolest friends in the world! But they don't live around here. The one friend I had who lived around here died, and that makes me sad. 

There's an expression: "Hell is other people." That is true. This is a song about my new neighbors; they've only been there 3 days and my head is ready to explode. This isn't a very good song, though, and my singing voice is ass this week.

It's still gettin' a little dark in Gloomy Gus Land. The owl in the picture doesn't have anything to do with the song. Or does he??????

My friend and I were at a winery yesterday. It was a winery that had peacocks walking around. They were yelling a lot, and it dawned on me that this could be part of the concept album I've been cooking up in my head - Music for Blocking Out the Sound of Screaming Kids. I hate the sound of screaming kids - it is the worst sound in the world. Would a song with a bunch of peacocks yelling block out the sound of screaming kids if I played it nice and loud on my li'l speaker? We'll see. Anyway, I might make a concept album of songs with annoying, high-pitched sounds engineered to block out the annoying high-pitched sounds of horrible kids. 

I actually recorded this little ditty a few months ago, and I was saving it for a rainy day (i.e., a day where I didn't have time to record a new little ditty). Such a day has come to pass, so here it is. My phone told me I had "lots and lots of cats" in my camera roll, so that inspired this here little number. 

This is another depresso song; it's this whole metaphor thing, where, like a bad TV show is a metaphor for life as we know it right now.

Here's a bonus track for this week...I'm not sure how this song'll age, but here it is. A person thinks of herself as all soaring and majestic, like an eagle, but she's actually a fox. 

I guess this album is getting a wee little bit dark...don't worry, it gets lighter in time, but not that much lighter. 

Have I ever mentioned that kids suck? They wouldn't suck so much if their parents weren't moronic asswipes that let them scream like banshees and irritate everyone within a 5 mile radius. 

I got some old-people-who-wear-sunglasses-over-their-glasses sunglasses. That's a true story!!

Last week's song was about depression, and this week's song is about anxiety. It's becoming the Mental Health Clinic Musical Hour.

I was trying to think of a good metaphor for depression. This is what popped into my mind: Being stuck in eternal Mondays. The person in the song likes it, though; I mean, she likes being stuck in eternal Mondays. I'm not sure why.

I was thinking about how everybody's scared of their consciousness passing out of existence when they die; but when you think about it, that's what happens when you go under anesthesia. No time passes. There's nothing awful or painful about going into non-existence on a consciousness level. And, who knows? Maybe there's some way we come back again, even if we do get blotted out.  (I'm not sure how that would happen, but maybe, just maybe). And if centuries pass between one fading outta existence and fading back in, it will seem like no time had passed.

This is Gloomy Gus Song 15. I'm not sure yet if I like it. It's about how when people are depressed, sometimes they feel nothing, and why is nothing not neutral, since it's nothing?

This song is another end-of-the-world-ish piece o' music. I'm doing a lot of those lately. Maybe that's because it's sorta kinda the end of the world, maybe-ish.

Whelp, that was a foot-in-mouth moment. But, then I got feedback from someone else that the person who got mad at me overreacted. So, there. Still, there are days I wish I never opened my mouth (or my email mouth).

This is the next Gloomy Gus song. It's a little existential ditty.

Here's another drunk church song. It probably sucks.

This is the polished version of that little ditty I did a few Sundays ago with the dandelion picture and stuff. I think it's about a depressed gal who has gods and goddesses she knew in a past life come visit her in her sleep.

Here's a song about I-don't-know-exactly-what. I was finally gonna say, hey there're no curse words in this song! I don't have to put a little "E" next to it. But, then, I realized it's a little innuendo-ish. Not that I meant it to be - it just came out that way.

Just a quick little post of a song i recorded last week. It's kinda whatever-ish.

This is a song that was derived from the Green Sunday song I did on Sunday. I fleshed it out and made it into a drinking song.

Here's a little ditty that just came out of my noggin.

It's a green Sunday. Greeeeeen.

The lyrics of the first part of this song came from a dream, so as usually, I cobbled it together in a way that would make it maybe make sense. 

Damn, I'm running into tech issues; this thing is not publishing. I'll try again; this is Gloomy Gus Song #12; it's a song about how he has a tendency to drink himself into oblivion. 

The repeating part of this song came from a dream this morning, where 2 girls came to me, alarmed about some music they were listening to. It was instrumental, but there were overtones or something that made it sound like there was a human voice singing. It sounded like my voice, but turned around backwards. And it was singing "I don't know what happened to me." It was eerie, so I made a song about it.

This is a song about why Gloomy Gus likes to drink whiskey.

Y'know how, in late summer, the sunlight is all goldy-orange later in the day? That's always been a depressing shade of sunlight for me. It reminds me of being bored as a kid, at my brother's soccer practice at the end of summer, knowing my days of freedom were numbered because school would be starting soon.

Gloomy Gus went over into some country music sensibilities. Oldy, oldy, moldy, old time country music. But with other sensibilities, too. 

This song came out of the blue, and I realized it could mean two things: "I miss midnight" sounds identical to "I'm Miss Midnight." It's a little double entendre magic fun.

I'm doing my birthday song a day early cuz I might be out and about tomorrow, and stuff. Here it is. Old. Old, old, old. It's kind of a crappy song.

This is song 9 in the Gloomy Gus series, a song about what it's like to grow up to be a pencil-pusher, instead of doing God's work, as he had originally intended way back in the day.

Gloomy Gus continues to ponder the music he heard coming to him last night, as it fades from his memory and he gets ready for work.

It's morning, and the memory of the music that came to Gloomy Gus in the night is fading fast. What was it, now? What was it that woke him up in the middle of the night. Crikey! His short term memory ain't what it used to be.

When people say, "Thank God this year is over - it's ring in the new year," I feel like they're tempting fate...like, remember when people were all, "Thank God 2019 is over - yay, 2020"? Then there was Covid. Let's not tempt fate this time around.

I recorded this song on Christmas, and as of last night didn't really think it went with the rest o' them; but it fits nicely, nestled between song 4 and song 5. The song 6 one I'm a little ambivalent about; either I'll figure out how to use pitch correction or have another go at it. 

Here's a li'l restatement of that new theme in the last Gloomy Gus song. Actually, if you follow this, I did an initial version of a song with this melody a while back but didn't know what it was supposed to be about, and stuff. This song seems to belong here in this here album. Yeah, man. Yeah. Although I kinda like the old version of it, too. 

Gloomy Gus wakes up to...what the heck? Music comin' from he does not know where.

I wanted to do a 4th Christmas song this year, so that I'd have 4 Christmas songs. Then it makes a nice, well-rounded, square-shaped Christmas song cycle. Enjoy!