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Grandaddy on 'Sumday'
Grandaddy's Jason Lytle and Jim Fairchild from Grandaddy talk John Kennedy through their fourth album, 'Sumday'.
From drunken nights out through ex-girlfriends to a bassist who just doesn't know the lyrics to his own songs, Jason Lytle and Jim Fairchild from Grandaddy talk John Kennedy through their latest album 'Sumday' one track at a time. To find out exactly what lies beneath each song, read and listen to the X-posure track-by-track album playback right here.
Read interview highlights below, then hit [listen] to hear the whole run-down on that track.
'Now It's On'
"I had this song called 'I am 180' and I was always commenting on how it was my attempt of making this optimistic 'go-get-'em' sort of song and this is the current version with me attempting that same thing." [listen]
'I'm On Standby'
"I think it was towards the end of that last bit of touring and you're in situations and there's just so much talking and there's so much going on. It's like a phone that's on, but it's just on standby rather than being super-on. You're barely on and that's kind of what the song is about." [listen]
'The Go In The Go-For-It'
"I swore one day I wouldn't write songs about being perturbed with the music business and the industry. It's kind of about that but I would say that it's just about 'You better back off and get off my back or I'm just gonna get out of this game altogether'." [listen]
'The Group Who Couldn't Say'
"It's actually about a little day trip that a group of corporate people take and they start rediscovering all these things which are kind of normal things, that a lot of regular people tend to forget about. You know the nice, natural things out there that we're slowly losing our ability to appreciate." [listen]
'Lost On Yer Merry Way'
"This song is just flat out about being on a bender and dealing with it. Or maybe it's about the bender being over and then kind of contemplating when the next bender is gonna happen, because you know it's gonna happen, and you're just sort of asking yourself 'Why?'." [listen]
'El Camino's In The West '
"It's kind of one of those phonetic things where there's a lot that just works because of the sounds of the words and I just kind of let the rest go but I ended up just being intrigued with the outcome. I wanna hear what Bo Derek has to say about it." [listen]
'Yeah' Is What We Had'
I wrote all the lyrics hungover in a parking lot in a skateboard park somewhere in the vicinity of Sacramento, California. But it's an ex-girlfriend song. There's a lot of those. And that's one of them." [listen]
'Saddest Vacant Lot In All The World'
"I had this girlfriend for a long time and it just seemed like I just kept getting myself in the same stupid scenario which was basically that she was just tired of all my shenanigans and I just couldn't get it together and it just repeated itself over and over and over and over again." [listen]
'Stray Dog And The Chocolate Shake'
"I just kind of took on this exercise of making a song where each of the lines had no relevance to the next or to the one prior. And it was fun 'cause I'm always trying to knock myself out, trying to keep this cohesion of fluidity in the beginning of the song and then the crescendo and the end." [listen]
'OK With My Decay'
"I'm actually still confused by this one myself. I'm not really sure what it's about. And it kind of turned into this whole other thing. That's the one that really mutated, pretty much in a big way, from the demo." [listen]
'The Warming Sun'
"Kevin our bass player sings the backup vocals. I've actually heard him a million times just singing completely different lyrics. But nobody ever calls him on it as it's kind of entertaining for us and people probably aren't going to notice it." [listen]
'The Final Push To The Sum'
"I think it's pretty evident, lyricwise, what it's about. It was just a pretty, pretty piece that I'd been playing for a few years on the piano and I finally found some words that I thought were pretty fitting to go along with it. As a matter of fact, it was going to be the title of the album before I settled on 'Sumday'. [listen]
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