"Rachel Don't Surf" genre: Pop
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	Musical irony is created by overproducing an underwritten punk tune.
	CD: Cullerton Archer Clark (forthcoming) Credits: Matt Zanon: vocals, trombone, auxiliary percussion; Jim Gill: trumpet; Ben Kulp: bass; Sarah Schneider: Tibetan Singing Bowl
	Story Behind the Song In the winter of 1999, I was sitting in on an early This Many Boyfriends Club rehearsal. Ben Kulp had come into the studio that day with a new song. He plucked it out on the bass for me, and I found it irresistably catchy. Countering Ben's anti-rational tendancies, I decided to flesh out the texture of the piece by writing harmonies for which Ben's bass line wasn't the root -- a radical practice by This Many Boyfriends Club's standards. This Many Boyfriend's Club never really worked with the song after that, so Eric Pietras (producer) and I decided to make it ours. We invited Ben to play the bass for us, but then overdubbed everything we could think of over it -- an old General Electric chord organ, a Tibetan Singing bowl, and me banging on a metal cup with a rollerball pen. Eric deliberated forever on the final mix; it took five months from the beginning to the end of our time working on "Rachel Don't Surf". Lyrics Rachel Don't Surf © 1999 Kulp/Newcomb Rachel, don't surf; there's a shark in the water. Rachel, don't surf; it has eaten your father. Rachel, don't surf; there's a shark in the water. Rachel, don't surf; it has eaten your father. She went to beach and was looking for fun. The water looked cool 'cause it's hot in the sun. Her sister was with her; she had the day off. They went to get ice cream, then went for a walk. RachelÉ They looked for their father, but could not find him. Was he gone surfing? Did he go for a swim? They looked behind them to the left and the right, But their dear father was nowhere in sight. RachelÉ Oops! We are sorry, he's not really dead. This song was just written to mess with your head. RachelÉ

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