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Geoff Rickly Reveals His Childhood Obsession with Commercial Jingles

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Melody Bot, Oct 6, 2017.

  1. Melody Bot

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    This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply.

    Geoff Rickly of Thursday performed at Kops Records early this week and talked about how “This Song Brought to You by a Falling Bomb” came to be:


    … and I thought, god, I wish I could write a commercial for a bomb because it’s like the perfect product; people need it, they always want to blow each other up, but you can’t reuse it, so you’ve got to buy a new one every time, and the market doesn’t even set the price; it’s federally funded. Man, this is like the perfect product, and I started writing jingles for bombs and this is the song that came out of it.

    He also performed four acoustic songs, which you can watch below.

     
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  2. red8ge

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    hasn't he been telling this story for a while?
     
  3. flask

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    He told it when I saw him play acoustic like 3 or 4 years ago but I don't think he's mentioned it in any interviews or anything. Now that I think about it he told a ton of great stories between songs. That was probably my favorite part of the show.
     
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  4. red8ge

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    oh yeah, that's definitely a part of the appeal
     
  5. dubey

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    This was actually earlier this summer - June 24th before Thursday's headlining show in Toronto. Just got posted now though I guess.