(MP3)
Lyrics: Matt Mc Irvin
Arrangement: Casey B
Nose flute: Jeremy Impson
Album: Needs More Wanger
(comments from ZIP: "Chalice of Fire was the first of Matt Mc Irvin's lyrics to be set to music (by Casey B). Matt describes how this song came to be:
SUPER AMAZING JULY 2003 NEWS FLASH: A.r.k's own Casey B. recorded "Chalice of Fire"!
Note: The day before my wedding in July 2000, there appeared the eagerly awaited fourth Harry Potter book, which was something about a goblet of fire. They can't fool me; obviously it was actually a chalice. Apparently the nostalgic exercise reproduced below was actually a prescient glimpse of fin-de-siècle mania. I am better at forecasting trends than Trend Forecaster Barbie!
Either that or I was just accidentally pretending to be Unitarian.
I should also mention that I was definitely imagining the instrumental bridge of my song as having been lifted from the Steve Miller Band's "Abracadabra." But since it was all in my head, they can't sue me! The true Napster is in your mind!
By the way, Karlo Takki's quoted power ballad was the brilliant result of a challenge to write a song from vocabulary taken entirely from the headers of some post.
Subject: Re: WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH QQ? From: Matt McIrvin <mmcirvin@world.std.com> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 01:30:47 GMT Karlo Takki <ktakki@artcrime.com> wrote: [slow metal Guns 'n' Roses-like power ballad in E min.] [singer MUST have shirt unbuttoned to waist -- THIS IS IMPORTANT] Any subject, any date, I can do this for you. Any lines, any path, I can do this for you. Jan, if I can, if I may, I can be, With you. With you.
Aw, man, I hate how now these days all songs have to be about love or something. I miss the Eighties. In the Eighties you could have that kind of song, but you could also sing a song that was about absolutely nothing at all and made no sense, and nobody would even think that you were cerebral or quirky or David Byrne, provided that every individual word in the song was a sufficiently rad-i-kool word.
As evidence I offer the following unrecorded song, which I wrote on the tour bus while I was the lead singer of "The Fixx," shortly before I quit and joined "Loverboy" because they had a better dental plan and more POW-WUH. I now consider this to be the anthem of a generation. Maestro?
An unrelated group of people had an entertaining and horrified discussion about the song which I recommend reading as well.")
[synthetic throbbing and percussion]
Not to be confused with Lee "Scratch" Perry's 1982 reggae song, Chalice a Fire.