miso

June 1, 1990 - 12:00am — tw
  • Artist: timothy john weber
  • Title: miso
  • Album: counting the moon
  • Track: 5
  • Genre: Folk
  • Year: 1992
  • Length: 2:05 minutes (1.91 MB)
  • Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

A happy a cappella song featuring heavy breathing, chest pounding, and lyrics from the back of a condiment package.

And a true story. Occurred and written down in spring of 1990, recorded by Andrew Rappaport in the “counting the moon” sessions in June 1992 in a few takes, while grinning madly. I never found out what “shinshu honzukuri miso shiro” means, and I hope I never will.

Lyrics: 

shinshu honzukuri miso shiro

i was eating a miso-mustard sandwich (my favorite),
and reading the box it came in (the miso).
it was written in japanese (phonetic),
which i can’t read (pathetic),
so all i know are the words

my pronunciation may be awful,
and i expect it is,
’cause all i know of Japanese
i learned from menus and cookbooks.

Credits: 

tjw: vocals, chest pounding, hand claps.

Comments

February 25, 2009 - 10:12pm — tw

Postscript

This is one of the most popular songs I’ve done, and it probably took the least amount of time. There’s a lesson there of some kind.