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The Pineapple (fdm144)

by Chris Anderson

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1.
Marmalade 01:05
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2.
Penelope 03:20
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3.
Somewhere South Of Graceland 05:24
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4.
Tides 02:44
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5.
Blue Choux 02:46
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6.
Pick Up The Slack 04:41
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about

So back in 2020, the whole world was shut down as covid ran rampant and no one had yet figured out how to cope with it. While that was going on, we all stayed home and, with all this free time on our hands, got busy with a variety of projects.

So was the case in the land of FDM and many projects came into being that year. One such project involved a massive stash of vintage FDM lyrics, most of which had never been used and were instead lost for decades in the margins of notebooks and the back of napkins. Taking those lyrics, as well as a great many that have simply stared me in the face for decades, I proceeded to set as many of them to music as possible. Recording the demos on the voice memo app on my iPhone, this came to be known as The Memo Project and, by the time it wrapped up, over 200 songs had been revived. Some of them were one and done and probably gone forever while others worked out so naturally that it seems odd that it took so long to get to those conclusions. The album, The Thirteenth Step, as well as most of Who Said It Had To Be Fun?, were made up of songs that came from that project, and there are many more to come.

Once that project was done, it came time to move into recording mode, and the autumn's work resulted in a deluge of over 100 recorded songs. Some of them were older songs, recorded for specific projects, some were songs from The Memo Project, and some were just randomly pulled from various corners of the FDM vault. The recordings that make up this EP fall into all of those categories.

"Marmalade" is just a little scrap of a song that was written in 1996 and always sort of bubbled in the back of my mind. Recorded mostly for the sake of posterity.

"Penelope" was a sketch of a song, drummed up during the 2006 writing sessions for The Gravity Tree. The music was there but really nothing in the way of lyrics. Every so often it would rear its head, I would try to make sense of it, and not. But this time it worked, and I love this bouncy little song so much.

"Somewhere South Of Graceland" was a lyric written in 1999 that got lost among the digital clutter and not found (or even really thought about) until it was unearthed during The Memo Project. This is one of my favorite tracks from this entire project.

"Tides" was another one that was written during 2006 sessions for The Gravity Tree but was left behind for reasons that are no longer clear. It's a fun little song that alludes to Krissy and my first trip to New Brunswick. Dig the change in feel between the verse and chorus.

"Blue Choux" is a lyric that was written in early 1995, during sessions for 4:20pm. The title is an allusion to two different inside jokes that would make no sense to anyone reading this, and I could never figure out what to do with it until the lightbulb of 2020 went off.

Lastly, "Pick Up The Slack" was a lyric from 2000 that was found in an old notebook, dusted off, added to, and made into this cool little ditty. This turned out to be the last song recorded during this big deluge, after which the 8-track ran out of space and I had to start sorting the release of this material (and the recording of other projects as well).

There is still a great deal of material left from this project, most of which will have future projects built around them, and then there is a virtually unlimited number of songs still waiting. This never ends....until I do.

-CA, 1/12/23

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released January 12, 2023

"produced" by Chris Anderson
Recorded and mixed in The Room, Fall 2020

CA: acoustic and electric guitars, bass, drum programming, percussion, vocals, other shit.

All songs written by Chris Anderson
(c) CA / Flying Dachshund Music (bmi)

Special thanks to the Social Distance Tour

(p)(c) 2023 Chris Anderson / Flying Dachshund Music. All rights reserved. Violators will be swept out with the tide.

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Chris Anderson Alexandria, Virginia

Chris is a wildly prolific songwriter who has hovered among the outskirts of the music world for over 30 years. On his own label, Flying Dachshund Music, Chris has released 154 CDs, 96 of them being full-length albums. That's just the tip of the iceberg and there are no signs of stopping. Ever.

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