Too Little Too Late-Cool Beyond Zero

[canuk62]

Hello fellow MCS'ers!
We blew the cobbwebs off this one and decided to let it out of the CBZ barn and bring it to the slaughter house here...put a fork in it, as Tricia would say!
This was written just as the lid was blowing off the sub-prime fiasco as thousands of Americans were being tossed out in the street in default of their mortgages. As Steve correctly predicted in his usually clever and sharp lyrics, seems the greedy rich bankers and wall street specualtors all have since been bailed-out by the same working class people who got the shaft in the first place (and didn't get any help)..the taxpayer (didn't take a psychic to predict that would happen either! )
Great job gang!
Marc

Steve McAndrew (Pleasuredome)-Vocals/Guitars/Lyrics
Jay Schankman (J)-Keyboards
Todd Vierra (Thunder)-Drums/Percussion
Marc Traynor (Canuk62)-Bass/Music/Mix
Mark Morgan Shaw (CosmicDolphin)-Master
Andy Gupta (AndyG6508, Bumpy Buttons and other aliases we'll never know of!)-Production Advisor

Too Little, Too Late (McAndrew-Lyrics/Traynor-Music/Copyright 2009)

Sharpen the knives, we deal in lives
Low tens now were once high fives
Nowhere left to run today,
Meltdown's surely heading our way

International banks on their knees
Sectors, once safe, begging please, screaming please
Fuelled by the funds that we fed
Drowned by greed, now they're dead

Investors, now they bite back
Decide to take back their slack
The effect, their huge wall of black
Their leaders have to change tack

Institutions that once raked it in
Now exposed by their greed and sin
Drawn under by overdrafts
Now trying to take to their rafts

We can't afford to let it all die
Now united they try, how they try
Is it too little too late
Outwith the repayment date

The backyard's now the world stage
Sub Prime the words of the age, induce rage
Escape the meltdown on fire
Financial guns now for hire

[canuk62]

BTW, for those with "bass challenged" speakers, this is a mix I ran off with ridiculously exaggerated bottom end!
Marc

[Billy]

Wow! A masterclass in how to put a rock track together. 

Marvelous and cleverly done from top to bottom and the lyrics are so relevant.

We've just had news here that the metal works 'Corus' in Teeside is to close. 150 years it's been there and now gone in a puff of smoke. A whole community devestated and of course.....no taxpayer bail out for them.

Cool Beyond Zero indeed! 

[snowdoguk]

Very cool song guys.... couldn't buy anything better in the shops... great playing / production all round.. superb

Mike

[Pleasuredome]

Thanks Marc and my fellow CBZ colleagues, it certainly did turn out well.

Thanks too Billy and Mike for your kind comments, glad you like it

The news is now talking about the banking chiefs who are threatening to resign if not allowed to issue huge bonus payouts!!! Corruption everywhere, everywhere corruption!!

[CosmicDolphin]

Great tune & clever lyrics Steve...everything you wrote is coming true 

CD

[CosmicDolphin]

BTW, for those with "bass challenged" speakers, this is a mix I ran off with ridiculously exaggerated bottom end!
Marc

Note:  if you have neighbours use the other version...unless you hate them   

CD

[Paulo]

Love it... Nice fat synth sound, j... Nice overall balance.

[Tricia41]

  "Stick" a fork in it, actually. 

Sounds really cool!  Love it!

[McLovin]

Great rocker guys!

[j]

agreed with all the above comments.. it is a great song.. very relevant to the times. There should be more coming soon, I hear.. very exciting to see the CBZ train rolling..   

[canuk62]

Thanks alot gang for the kind comments, yeah Billy, actually recording it was the easy part on this one...it was 'class 101" on how to slap together a loud rock song and still try to come out hearing everything in there...proof why those guys like Bob Rock are in demand and probably all these hard rock acts only use 2 or 3 producers (my mixing idol being legendary Canadian producer Bob Ezrin who mixed all the early Alice Cooper albums...his first stint at production, was a studio tech in Toronto for the Guess Who (who's early recordings rival what Martin did for the Beatles IMO) before that).
It's quite tragic how that whole fiasco turned out...my brother-in-law purchased a home in Long Island NY in December during that time (power of sale from the bank,was in default as over 60% of the homes there at that time..the issue being when the rates were artificially lowered, the prices there doubled overnight..people had no choice but to pay outrageous prices, $500,000 for a 2 bedroom townhouse for example)...500,000 jobs were permanently lost after 911 alone (which didn't help either)...when he moved in, the Christmas tree, ornaments and the kids Christmas drawing from school were still up, the bank walked-in and kicked the family out at 6am so the bank could close the deal in time...he had a really good deal (half what the family paid a year earlier) but certainly leaves an unsettling feeling in your stomach walking into something like that...knowing all these crooks got bailed-out is the icing on the cake...same story ever since the first gold coin was struck millenia back in time
Marc

[NickT]

Cool track gang! 

[AndyG6508]

Hi CBZ gang,

A massive riff based tune!!

Works on all levels imaginable - Sabbath-esque with great singing and playing from everyone, and a great lyric (very relevant) to match.

A favourite - right up there with "Walking Timebomb" as a social theme based rocker!!

Cheers
Andy

[Benny]

Rock the house! Good job guys.