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the great Luke Ski, featuring the Nick Atoms - the great Luke Ski vs. The Nick Atoms

from unCONVENTIONal by the great Luke Ski

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With my albums, I'm very obsessive compulsive when it comes to filling the CD up to as close to 80 minutes of material as possible. I want my fans to feel their getting their money's worth. When finishing up my 2005 CD "Unconventional" in the basement of Jared Ringold's house in the Twin Cities, I calculated we still had an extra 3:06 of available space on the CD. I convinced Jared, John, and Earl, a.k.a. Dr. Ted Nelson, Coburn, and Wyngarde of the Nick Atoms, to man their instruments so we could record a freestyle hip-hop track to fill that time. We went for it, and created this song which clocks in at 3:06. So, if you're somehow reading this page without having heard the track first, I hope you'll understand the context of this song, that we literally were making it up as we went along, hence these lyrics are rough as hell, and often don't rhyme, don't make sense, or are not very good. Still, I like this track and think it has a certain amount of charm. However I really need to work on my freestyle skills if I ever end up in a situation where it is needed. - Luke

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Luke:
We got three minutes, go, go!
Yeah! Huh! What? Uh! Yeah!
The great Luke Ski, y'all.
Up here, lettin' you all know.
In the basement, Minneapolis.
A really big metropolis.
Gotta finish up this CD,
By who? Me. Yeah, the great Luke Ski.
Huh! Gotta go to this place,
Gotta get a robot on a funky bass
Named Wyngarde. He's gonna rule.
He's gonna make you watch "Rock And Rule".
Gonna take you to school, all you sees,
All in his place are DVDs.
But then, at his side, got Coburn,
And you know you're gonna learn
how to, Gonna get on the lead guitar.
Gonna take you really really far.
Can't go far, until you meet,
Dr. Ted Nelson with a funky beat.
We got the Nick Atoms in the place to be.
Chillin' here with the great Luke Ski.
Unconventional's the CDs name.
Ha. Does Gilbert think it's lame?

Gilbert:
No, not at all! Not a bit!
This album is certainly not a piece of shit.
Except for one thing, you fool!
You think, I'll take you to school!
Gonna put a bonus track on here? Sure!
What do you think, I'm just gonna say, "Well,
It's not anything good",
it's just another remix. You're gonna hood-
-wink all your fans with a "What's Up Spock" remix?
You think, you're just really sick.
In the head you need to knock it off.
And now I'm going to go cough.
And die. Yes…
Take it Wyngarde!...
I said take it, Wyngarde!...

Wyngarde:
I'm going as fast as I can! Leave me alone for God's sake!...

Gilbert:
What the, what do you think you're doing? You're ruining it! Oh, God! Coburn!

Wyngarde:
…You stay out of this!

Gilbert:
Coburn, can you do something useful and help him out?...
Oh yes! Ah! Yes! Oh!...
Take it, take it, yeah!

Luke:
Heh! Peace out to Worm Quartet.
He's a good friend, the best yet.
Uh! Carrie Dahlby on the vocals.
A Minneapolis local.
Peace out to my sister Amy, and to Rachel,
And everyone in the nayshel.
That didn't rhyme, but I don’t care.
Peace out to Skrabble and the Crest. Oh my goodness.
Everybody! Huh! Almost gotta get to the end.
Thank you for buying my new CD.
I'm the G-R-8 to the Luke to the S-K-E.
Oops, I meant to say "I"
It spells, S-K-I spells "Ski".
In the place to be with the Nick Atoms.
You know, we're gonna go ba-dum-ba-dum-baddum,
Yeah. Uh. Yeah. This is how you freestyle it.
And we're just about out of time, right about now.
Wyngarde, what do you think?

Wyngarde:
Not bad. I got 3 seconds of music here for you though!

Luke Ski:
Okay, go!

Coburn:
Somebody cut him off!

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from unCONVENTIONal, released August 18, 2005
Lyrics by the great Luke Ski & the Nick Atoms
Music by the Nick Atoms

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"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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