{"id":232,"date":"2008-08-27T19:14:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T18:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2008-08-27T19:50:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T18:50:23","slug":"the-first-monkey-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"The First Monkey on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is another song about the moon. I decided to not submit it for the Song Fu #2 competition (see previous post), because at the end of the day it is merely a weak imitation of Jonathan Coulton<\/a>. I really like the intro melody (originally from a tune called “Last Night I Was the Happiest Man on Earth”) and the story starts out in a nice way. But I was stuck for a couple of days and abandoned this song, eventually. I recorded it, anyway, together with the other song, “The Moon Is Made of Cheese”. First came the rhythm track and a whole bunch of keyboards. On the next day, I recorded some acoustic guitars and the vocals. I lacked the middle-eight lyrics, so I had to make them up on the spot. And I still don’t know how to spell the protagonist’s name properly.<\/p>\n

Download the song: mp3<\/a> ogg<\/a> (more music<\/a>)<\/p>\n

His name was Nicolaew
\nHis friends just called him Nick
\nHis boss said, boy, you’re gonna get far<\/p>\n

And he put him into a space ship
\nAnd when the countdown began
\nEverybody had tears in their eyes<\/p>\n

His mission was important
\nHis body bent like a spoon
\nHis destination was the moon<\/p>\n

And the earth outside his window looks to small
\nAnd the stars, they shine like silver in the night<\/strong>
\nAnd he knows his journey will be over soon<\/strong>
\nThen Nicolaew’s gonna be the first monkey on the moon<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

His vessel hit the surface
\nHis engine died for good
\nHis crew on earth did what they could<\/p>\n

And the earth outside his window looks to small
\nAnd the stars, they shine like silver in the night<\/strong>
\nAnd he knows his mission will be over soon<\/strong>
\nAnd late at night he’s dreaming of the first monkey on the moon<\/strong><\/p>\n

And on the seventh day he ran out of food
\nAnd a little later it got colder in his room
\nNicolaew looked around
\nBut there were no bananas
\nNo bananas on the moon<\/p>\n

And as he ran out of water
\nHe heard a knock on the door
\nThe rescue mission from the planet of apes had come to take him back home<\/p>\n

(words and music by Johannes Schult)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is another song about the moon. I decided to not submit it for the Song Fu #2 competition (see previous post), because at the end of the day it is merely a weak imitation of Jonathan Coulton. I really like the intro melody (originally from a tune called “Last Night I Was the Happiest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}