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Is there something to be said for an ironic context? Do you think the execution is any different if you frame the music ironically? With writing for the show, we’re obviously under a much more constrained time limit and it’s not quite as important that the songs just sound as good, and sometimes, it’s way more important that they don’t sound good at all - that they sound amateurish and homemade.Īt the moment, smooth rock seems to be everywhere, from the new Destroyer album to the Air Supply-soundtracked Animal Kingdom trailer. So once we got through a few songs and were writing songs the thought was, we have to make these sound as good as we possibly can, because if it sounds half done or half baked, then it’s not going to be as funny or as interesting. That era of songs are really well crafted and are really well recorded and produced. We were really going for a certain sound which apparently is of high production value. It wasn’t something that needed to be delivered at a certain point for a while. It was something that we really didn’t have a time limit on. Initially this project was meant as a hobby or recording experiment project with Davin and me, where we would do it as a fun thing to do, not as a job, not as a work project. How did this process compare to writing and recording music for Awesome Show? How do you cherish your own love?” Some of that stuff is - I don’t know how conscious or deliberate it was - but that’s just part of what I do in writing. Another example from the record is, “I cherish the love that I gave you last night.” A friend of mine was like, “What the hell? What does that mean? That doesn’t mean anything. They kind of worked with the music, and if you weren’t paying too close attention you would dismiss it as, “Okay, that sounds right.” But if you really listen close enough, then you’ll find that a lot of times they’re absurd or meaningless or things that you would never say. Yeah, I think writing the lyrics was … they were written to sound like the right words. Is that a conscious part of your approach to song writing/comedy writing?

I find a lot of humor in the literalness of lyrics - lines such as “Children come from me and you” come to mind. As far as its relationship to my other comedy, I think a lot of the Tim and Eric stuff is very musical and we’ve always found that it’s not just important to be funny but the songs should be good on their own and should be catchy and sing-able. We tried to make them as listenable as possible so it’s not just jokes. The production value is good and the songs are - musically, a lot of them are good. I do classify it as a comedy record, but it can also be enjoyed on other, non-comedic levels. Do you classify it as a comedy album, and if so, what is its relationship to your other humor-based work? I know there are a lot of ways to consider this album, but I personally found it very funny. I spoke with Heidecker about the process of developing and recording these smooth songs and his expectations for how they will be received. Whereas Awesome Show often takes overstated measures to upend perceptions of media, Starting from Nowhere is the result of a much more subtle degree of variation. Starting from Nowhere is a hilarious and totally authentic sounding collection of songs that could have been beamed in from the 1970s or 1980s AM dial.

Heidecker and Wood have now turned their form-rattling attention to a strictly musical genre: soft rock.

Lyrics say yes tim heidecker tv#

Awesome Show taints our perception of local TV news, instructional videos, educational children’s programming, telethons and dozens of other forms. The show’s disquieting power comes from dissonance created by warping the recognizable into the unimaginable. Like a possessed cable access channel, Awesome Show cycles through characters, sketches, and songs that extract parts of “legitimate” media and exaggerate or twist them to absurd degrees. As collaborators on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, show co-creator Tim Heidecker and composer Davin Wood provide the Adult Swim set with sights and sounds that amuse and disturb in equal measure.