The Song: Cognitive Dissonance Blues

New song on deck! That’s right, Chief, I finished Cognitive Dissonance Blues. I don’t wanna go on and on I just want to tell you how the song works for me-- with a minimum of recording process details. Sounds good, right? Right? Okay, let’s go.

Here’s my early thoughts about the song, while I was still writing it
 

This song is a mashup of two ideas, each derived from distractionary musings on my morning work commute. The first is a paraphrase of a Henry Rollins bit about well adjusted people going into a crisis center & requesting a life crisis. It had something to do with physically harming the client as a new customer service offering. Hilarious! And perhaps the Circle Jerks did it better (Song: Operation). Sorry, I can’t find a reference recording of the Rollins routine anymore. Ten minutes on YouTube, and I found nothing. Dig it up if you wanna.

The second idea is the chorus/title, Cognitive Dissonance Blues. This came first. For some time now I wanted to work in the trope of adding ‘blues’ to a title (or lyrics) in a song. This is meant in the Bob Dylan Talking World War III Blues sense. It’s corny and I should really learn to process my aggression towards the Boomers... 

Great! So there’s two kind of half-baked notions which form the whole... 

A video for the song is planned. Here’s the evidence.
 

Cognitive Dissonance Blues is the second-to-last song for completion of the Lustre of Denim album. The final song is called Hex. 23, and is about David Lee Roth and the volatile nature of the fabric of reality. The Bandcamp sequence of songs on Lustre of Denim is updated as each track is created. Once Hex. 23 is added, this will represent the intended play order for the album.

The planned title for the new album is Sharkskin Music. There are about three song ideas in development for it...