My Lost Love (I Want Your Socks)

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Ingus–

Tomorrow has arrived!

My apologies for the late update.  Super crazy work weeks got the better of me.

Now….

Here it is – the first demo of the song known to most as “My Lost Sock”.  Back in the day, Louis had a philosophy that our recordings should sound pretty much identical to our live set.  This is, I’d say, pretty much a perfect example.  This song sounds live live live.  Even the extra reverb at the end isn’t that different than a lot of the early 432 shows with JimTankerous running sound.

This song is, if you can believe it, about a girl.  Who broke my heart.  Twice.  Louis threatened to break my arm if we ever got back together.  We didn’t.  Which is good.  I like my arm.  It’s where I keep most of my tattoos!

Louis -

Not back on.  Still on.

I hate when you hear an album that you know is pretty good, but the production destroys it.  Des Moines, Iowa…wait, I mean 21st Century Breakdown…perfect example.

Anyway, somewhere around ‘94/’95 Ingus loaned me Ramones Mania and I lost all sense of perspective.  Anastasia, My Lost Love and Crystal Pools were songs I tried to strong-arm into Ramones territory.

This is one of my favs to play live, and I still sing it to myself every time I do laundry.  ”I even checked the lint screen, so it wouldn’t catch fire“.

Thermos:
Yeah, sorry about the reverb-alicious mix.  Again, it was the ’90s.  I may as well apologize about my wardrobe, too, while I’m at it.  Seriously, how could I ever think that I should wear XL shirts?

Today’s photo - socks!! Note that these socks are gray at the heel and the toe.  Alert listeners may note that mid through the song, our lost sock changes from being gray-toed to blue-toed.  I have no idea why this is.  I’m sure at the time, I owned both blue toed and gray toed socks, but you’d think in writing the song, I’d have stuck with one… anyway — enjoy!