User:AOI band/Boss
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Boss is the founder and main songwriter of Area of Improvement. Writer of ABC, Young Earth, Sandwich to eBay, Ash Nazg, and many other famous AOI songs, he enjoys writing parody. He mainly plays drums and guitar, although he admits, "I don't know how to play the damn things." He is distinguised by his French film director's beret. He has been involved in a few romantic relationships before.
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[edit] Songs
Boss has contributed greatly to AOI's first album, Young Earth, and is currently working on their second album, DMN 17. He mainly writes rock and roll songs, especially ones that are either psycheledic or heavy in nature. He his not afraid to use profanity or write about unorthodox subjects in his songs.
[edit] Young Earth
| Song | Lyrics by | Melody By | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | N/A (see notes) | Boss & JB | A parody of the abc song (Public Domain) and T.N.T. (AC/DC) |
| Julianna | Boss | Boss | Written as an ode to Boss's "godsista" and his dog. |
| Where the Hell is Taco Bell? | Boss | JB | Idea came when Boss was waiting for a Taco Bell
delivery man who was running late |
| Go Back to Texas | Boss | Bowling for Soup | Written as a parody of Come Back to Texas by Bowling for Soup, and a satire of President George W. Bush |
| Young Earth | Boss | Boss & Pink Floyd | The refrain was written by Boss while he was singing Us and Them in the shower and forgot the words. |
| Sweet Home St. Jews | Mainly Boss and JB, although Wolfstein contributed to the lines also | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Written as a parody of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" |
| The Bells | Edgar Allan Poe | Pink Floyd | Boss thought of singing Poe's Poem "The Bells" to Pink Floyd's Time one night |
| Dark Side of the Rainbow | Boss | Boss and Pink Floyd | Boss is obsessed with the Dark Side of the Rainbow Effect, and he wrote a song that combined the melodies from Dark Side of the Moon songs and alternative lyrics that make reference to Wizard of Oz and Star Wars |
| Sandwich from eBay | Boss | Led Zeppelin | Boss wrote this song as parody of "Stairway to Heaven," to comment on how we fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way by letting the internet control our lives, and to make fun of how people buy sandwiches with a "Jesus face" toasted on them from eBay. |
[edit] DMN 17
| Song | Lyrics by | Melody by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia Song | Boss | Black Sabbath | A protest song meant to be sung to Iron Man, complaining about how "[the singer] just got blocked today/...for copyright shit/ something 'bout the pix on [his] userpage/ guess they weren't fair use/ what the fuck does fair mean?". |
| Ash Nazg | J.R.R. Tolkien | JB and Boss | Boss decided to do a song that would be sung in the Black Speech of Mordor after reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The song consists of a spoken part of the elvish rhyme in English at the beginning, followed by a heavy rock sequence, then a verse made up of the Black Speech inscription on the ring, another heavy rock sequence, then the same verse in English, and ending with an outro. |
[edit] Influences
Boss is mainly interested in Rock and Roll music, especially psychedelic rock. His favorite band is the Beatles, although he says that Pink Floyd and Queen come in at "a close second." He is also interested in Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and Rammstein.
He has stated that he has no favorite song, but he considers Bohemian Rhapsody to be the greatest song ever made.
[edit] Interests
Boss enjoys swimming, writing, photography, surfing the web, and writing poetry in his spare time. He is currently working on a high fantasy novel, which he has yet to reveal details on.
He is an avid fan of the Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean film trilogies, calling At World's End "the greatest movie ever made."
[edit] Quotes
- "Masta-B does it alone."
- Response to Masta-B leaving AOI
- "I hate it when songwriters are given so much shit for the lyrics or subjects of their songs. Good writers don't think about why they write something. They just write it because they can. And if their writing just happens to talk about sex, or violence, or drop an f-bomb, they're given all this shit by people who think they're better than they are."
- Response to outrage over Boss's single, Wikipedia Song.
