The 12th full length comedy music album by 'the great Luke Ski' features his Logan Award winning parody about struggling to lose weight, "Candybars". He also pays tribute to "The Mandalorian", the women of "Star Wars", "The Twilight Zone", "Supergirl", "The Flash", "Adventure Time", and greatest animated series in the history of Cartoon Network, "Mighty Magiswords" (on which Luke was a storyboard artist, writer, voice actor, and songwriter for 3 years).
As the title implies, many of the tracks on this album are very specifically about what has been going on in Luke's life during the 8-and-a-half years that have passed since his last album. The best of times (living the animation life, and making songs for the FuMP dot com and running the MarsCon Comedy Music Track) and the worst of times (trying to make a living in the gig economy, navigating being single again in the 2020s, and the skin-melting heat of southern California).
And as a continuation from his previous album "4th Grade Talent Show" there are 7 new "Dumb Parody Ideas" tracks for you to enjoy / be reviled by. In any case, as Paul Sabourin put it during the "Paul & Storm" concert at FuMPFeST 2016, it's all "Needlessly Meta".
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Verse 1:
The audio is working. Cool, good.
Hopefully the video is playing like it should.
That's my band. Is there a music stand?
Uh, the lyrics?... they're here in my hand.
Printed at a Kinko's, or possibly at home,
Unless I got my tablet, or I'm reading off my phone.
...Is the microphone working right?
Adjust the mic stand to my 5'7" height.
Did I put bottled water on the stage?
Oh good. Man, I'm really showing my age.
All frantic, let me catch my breath, okay?
*inhale-hmm*, *exhale-ahh*, ...Heyyyyy
MarsCon! Or is it FuMPFeST?
Or some other gig? Look, I'm trying my best.
But when it's show time, before I sing,
I always end up saying the same old thing:
Chorus 1:
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!"
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!"
I had too much to do! Before this show is through,
You're gonna wish I stopped at "Mic check-a, one two"!
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!"
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!"
Every time it's the same, and I feel so lame,
From my blonde hair to my Con-verse-es!
Kyle: Converses? Are you talking to someone in this song?
Luke: No, no, my tennis shoes, see?
Kyle: It's pronounced "CON-verse".
Luke: It is? Is that a regional dialect?
Kyle: It, it is not.
Verse 2:
Long ago, I had to drive for miles
Just to sing geeky things for nerdy smiles
And laughs. And man, those shows were a breeze
In the days when people actually still bought CDs.
Hour after hour, driving through the grind,
I'd repeat all the lyrics 'til they fused with my mind.
So during "What's Up Spock?", while I'm pumpin' my fist,
I'm in my head, writing out my shopping list.
But these days, it's just not the same.
I don't think Southwest would let me sit on their plane
And shout [me as Gollum:] "You better rule them all for THE PRECIOUS!!!
Aaaaahhhh!…" [SFX: Gollum/me being thrown off the plane] They'd toss me out over Texas.
"Practice, Practice, Practice!" I can't practice at all!
So I guess I'll never get a show at Carnegie Hall.
And I really wanna feel this act of mine is legit.
But they say write what you know, and, um,... this is it.
Chorus 2:
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
I hope you'll smile, and aren't stone like tile,
Just tolerating this, waiting for TV's Kyle.
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
I'm cheesier than feta, and this song is too meta,
And the rhymes I make are getting worse-es. - "WORSE-ES!"
Luke: Accordion solo!
Kyle: ...I- ep- I'm sorry, what?
Luke: Accordion solo! C'mon!
Kyle: At NO point did you mention an accordion solo.
Luke: Well, just, just grab it, go! Go!
Kyle: I, zizz, ut, ut, okay...
[Kyle plays something on the accordion, not well because he wasn't prepared]
Luke: Yeah! Yeah! That's close enough for jazz!
[Kyle still playing]
Kyle: Okay, you should have TOLD me you wanted an accordian so-
Luke: (interrupting) Awesome, that's perfect! Time for me to rap again.
Kyle: Fuss.
[final accordion chord]
Verse 3:
Continuing my lyrical abuses,
Allow me to give you all my list of excuses
To why I didn't have the time to properly prepare,
And subject you to this syncopated half-assed nightmare.
I had a deadline at my storyboarding gig,
'Bout this funny cartoon lady with a sword shaped like a pig.
I was ride-share-driving for a really long trip,
Anaheim to Calabasas, and they didn't even tip!
My cat curled up and fell asleep on my lap.
I couldn't leave?! That might wake him from his nap!
I read the Wikipedia on Bronson Pinchot.
Why? (Kyle: Yeah, why?) How the Hell should I know?
I threw a birthday party for my nephew Alex!
I flew to Gallifrey and I fought the Daleks!
I had to plan this whole event, which took me really long,
So who has time to memorize this stupid frickin' song?!
Chorus 3:
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
You're all agog this made my catalog.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog!
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
I'm sorry fans, I just have too many plans,
And *I'm* surprised that I wrote three verses! "VERSES!"
Chorus 4:
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
Please don't give me flack, and say I'm a hack,
It's at least a half-way decent album filler track!
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
"I didn't have time to rehearse this!" - "REHEARSE THIS!"
And given my schedule it's kinda amazing
That this song even happened at all, really...
Kyle: ...rehearse this...
credits
from Needlessly Meta,
track released January 15, 2019
Music, Mixing, and impromptu instrumentation by TV's Kyle
Back-up vocals by Erika Haynes, TV's Kyle, & Lindzilla
"the great Luke Ski" is The Dr. Demento Show's most requested artist of the 21st Century. His parodies and original songs
about pop-culture have made him a favorite performer at fandom conventions all across the country. Founding member of The Funny Music Project, aka 'the FuMP' .com .
Luke Ski is an animation Storyboarder, Writer, & Voice-Over Actor.
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