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South Park Themes
Les Claypool, Primus, Trey Parker, Matt Stone
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So I was a freshman in college in 1989
And I-and somebody took-
A friend from the Bay Area took me to, um
A band playing on Alferd Packer Day
About 80 people
And it's these guys from the Bay Area
Three guys making such a fucking racket
And the weirdest music I've ever heard
And I just thought, "This is fucking great
I love this band, I gotta listen to this shit forever"
And they quickly became my favorite band, they still are
Their name's Primus if you haven't figured it out
And
Ha ha ha
So a few years later, me and Trey make it to Hollywood
And, uh, we, uh, get a TV show pilot
So we looked up Primus' management company
In the phone book and sent them a letter
And sent them a copy of "The Spirit of Christmas"
And it worked
And here we are
I'm standing here
With a felt fish on my head
So anyway, we got this letter at the office that said
"Hey, these guys fresh out of college have made this cartoon
They're big Primus fans, but they really want you to do this thing
Uh, they have $74 to spend"
And, uh, uh, they said, you know "Hey, do you want to do this thing?"
And we thought, "Uh, well, you know"
And we watched the car-"The Spirit of Christmas"
We thought, "That's fucking amazing
That's unbelievable, that's incredible
We're gonna do it"
We didn't do it for the money
We did it because we thought it was an amazing thing
So, a few-about a month later, we get
We get something in the mail
And here it is
This is what we got from these guys
First shot
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So the first thing we thought was
"Wow, that's fucking amazing
We got our own Primus song"
And the second thing we thought was
"That's a minute and 40 seconds
That's not a intro theme song
That's way too fucking long"
Yeah, so what they did is
They said, you know, "Comedy Central-"
They passed the buck right onto their bosses
Say "Comedy Central says it's too slow
It needs to be a little zippa-dee-doo, a little peppier
Can you guys re-record it?"
And, you know, we're out there traveling the world
Doing our thing, you know, making that magic
And we're like "You know, come on, dude you gave us $74
We're not gonna go back in and re-record this thing
How about you just take it and you speed it up?"
Yeah, so we sped it up in Pro Tools
We crammed it down really fast
But when you do that with digital Pro Tools
The voice kind of breaks
So we had to go back and ask Les
"Please, can you re-record your voice?"
He was psyched about that
He was super psyched
Which we did, uh-uh-uh, backstage
One of you sent one of your friends
We recorded backstage at Fiddler's Green
And, uh
True
In Colorado, on tour
And then it turned into this
Turned into this
Going down to South Park
Gonna have myself a time
Friendly faces everywhere
Humble folks without temptation
Going down to South Park
Gonna leave my woes behind
Ample parking day or night
People spouting, "Howdy, neighbor!"
Headin' up to South Park
Gonna see if I can't unwind
(Muffled) I love girls with big fat titties
I love girls with deep vaginas
So come on down to South Park
And meet some friends of mine
And then, the kids went into fourth grade
And we wanted something special
So we called Les again and said
"Could you do-, we think it's been a-
Could you send us something else
Send us something new?"
So I said, "Matt
Ain't nothing better than a little bit of whamola
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I'm going down to South Park
Gonna have myself a time
Friendly faces everywhere
Humble folks without temptation
Going down to South Park
Gonna leave my woes behind
Ample parking day or night
People spouting, "Howdy, neighbor!"
I'm going down to South Park
Gonna see if I can't unwind
(Muffled) I love girls with big fat titties
I love girls with deep vaginas
So come on down to South Park
And meet some friends of mine
There you go, there's all the theme songs
There's a history of it
So you can see, we have a couple mics set up here
That's because one of 'em has a pitch shift in it
You know, when we do the boys' voices
We gotta pitch 'em up
So, uh, we thought of a few things we could do
Like this
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