Around the World in 80 Seconds
"Around the World in 80 Seconds" | |||||
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Song by Ozma | |||||
Album | Boomtown | ||||
Released | 2014 | ||||
Length | 2:20 | ||||
Label | Self-released | ||||
Writer(s) | Daniel Brummel | ||||
Producer(s) | Ozma | ||||
Status | Officially released | ||||
Boomtown track listing | |||||
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This song is part of the "Around the World in 80 Seconds" lineage of songs
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"Around the World in 80 Seconds" is the first track from Boomtown.
Appearances
Overview
"Around the World" is an instrumental derived from the Daniel Brummel and the Contraband song "If I Only Had Some Courage". The spoken audio at the beginning of the song is from a foreign-language radio station that one of the band member's amps picked up during the recording of the album.[1] Brummel said of the song's title:
The sequential chord progression in the B section proceeds around the diatonic harmony by bass motion in fifths — a “circle of fifths” type progression. When I first showed it to Ryen, when we hit that section, he said “around the world!” which I connected via wordplay to the Jules Verne novel, in the same playful sense of “one-upmanship” that gave us “Rock and Roll Part Three.”
- —Daniel Brummel, e-mail correspondence[2]
- —Daniel Brummel, e-mail correspondence[2]
Audio
See also
References
- ↑ Email correspondence with Daniel Brummel, 2020. https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:DBNEWSSTATIC.png
- ↑ Email correspondence with Daniel Brummel, 2021. https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Daniel_Brummel_Around_the_World.PNG