More Runaway Cow... Now With Humpies In Your Lunchbox!!

Another week of Runaway Cow online!
Last week I had one hell of a time sharing the "Humpies" track from Soundcloud.  This week, “I Wanna Make Humpies In Your Lunchbox” is currently on the Runaway Cow fan page for all to listen to and/or download.  You have to admit its a fun song.  A fan of the band, Grant Teichert, says that this jaunty tune is a “wonderfully surreal love song.”  Where "Humpies" is playful and silly, it's not a children's song... it's about shrinking down to two inches tall and climbing into a lunchbox to have sex.  A “wonderfully surreal love song?”  I guess so.
So download "I Wanna Make Humpies In Your Lunchbox" and don't forget "Astro Woman."  She's still in the Music World Radio Top20 Chart, but just barely.  You can go to the website right now and vote for her.  Push her up from #20 and give that fiesty little super heroine some more time on the charts.  Last time, I posted the lyric sheet for "Astro Woman."  That was the real deal, right out of the inside of Long Live The Dork Revolution.  I'll be posting lyrics from Dork Revolution because I have them but the rest will take a little longer.  I want you to know however, that someone is in the process of making lyric sheets for me and the rest will go up as I get them.


"I Wanna Make Humpies In Your Lunchbox"

It's metal
It's yellow
It's kind of small
and that's just what I like
It's got pictures of monster fighting demons
and that's just what I like
I got the magic
to make us get small
Only two inches tall
So we can crawl in and ball.
I wanna make humpies in your lunchbox
I wanna make fat juicy humpies in your lunchbox
“Do you wanna make humpies in my Astro Woman lunchbox?”
“Astro Woman lunchbox?  Golly yes!”
“What about a Brady Bunch lunchbox?”
“A Superchicken lunchbox!”
“I got it.  A Wonder Bra lunchbox”
“Now that's a good idea.”
“Uh, that's a little too big, I think.”
“I wonder, can we get small enough to get in the thermos?”
“Ask the big creator.”
“I would only do it if that's what I could do.”
“I got it.  A Jim Rote and Sacred Moments in Sound lunchbox.”
“Wow!”

“How about a Patsy Cline lunchbox?”
“Or Ella Fitzgerald.”
“Uh huh.”
“Uh huh?  What do you mean uh huh?”
“How about a Virginia Wolf lunchbox?”
“She [Ella Fitzgerald] was a good singer.”
“Yeah.”
“We're having a party.”


There you go... enjoy!



I Want To Make Humpies In Your Lunchbox by Runaway Cow

Help Astro Woman Fly All The Way To #1

In this week's bulletin, I want to bring your attention to Music World Radio's Alternative Top 20 Charts. It's a weekly chart show that gets aired every Friday and features 20 of the most popular songs played world wide on Music World Radio. The chart is entirely listener chosen and listener maintained which means as long as you, the listener, nominate and vote for your favorite song... that song will get on the chart and stay there. Well this week, Runaway Cow makes it's way to the MWR's AT20 with Astro Woman.

Being fans of the Runaway Cow, I know you're just itching to run to the polls and place your vote, but don't worry. It can be done all from your computer. Go to MWR's AT20 and you'll see this week's Top 20. Scroll down to see what Music World Radio calls “The Bubbly Upcomers” and you'll see all the songs that have been nominated. If any of these songs get enough votes, they'll bump something off the Top20 and be up there with the big boys. Find the vote button and click next to your choice. It's all that easy.

I'd like to see Astro Woman on the charts. Every week, people from all over the globe tune in to find out what the next #1 song is going to be and that means more exposure and more potential fans for Runaway Cow. So give it a shot and make Astro Woman the next #1 song.

The Runaway Cow facebook page has been great for posting downloads. Last week's download was posted specially for Shelly. Check it out... MONKEYhum. Melodic and entrancing, it's a pretty special treat. Also this week, since she's already gracing the the airwaves from MWR's Top20, I'm posting the free Astro Woman download. Along with the download, I have included the lyric sheet here, as found in the inset of Long Live The Dork Revolution. Now you have no reason not to sing along while it's being played on Music World Radio.com.

And don't worry, more of those re-mastered classic tracks are on the way.

  Astro Woman by Runaway Cow

Chasing The Cow... and I do mean chasing it.

There is a lot going on in my secret campaign to revive this band.  Well, it's official now that it's no secret.  The face book page is up and doing very well.  We're seeing a handful of new fans every day and the classic tracks that were posted are definitely being listened to  I'm letting you know right now that those tracks are the tip of the iceberg.  As you can see, Joseph has just passed me a bunch of new re-masters which I will put up at a rate of one per week.  I don't want to feed you so much you'll choke, so we'll take it slow and give you something to look forward to.


This is How Many Times Can A Boy Say No and it features Havana Davidson on lead vocals.  During the show we did on MWR, I was saying that I'm a big fan of Havana.  I met her in Mendocino and I always thought she had a cool speaking voice.  You'll listen to this and agree she was the perfect choice for the vocals on this track.


How Many Times Can A Boy Say No by Runaway Cow


Joseph told me that the song was supposed to be How Many Times Can A Girl Say No, but the vocals just didn't work out with either him or Jason singing it, so they called Havana and the rest is history.


Now something else you might be interested in... 
Working on this blog and the fan page, I was introduced to Eric Bose who actually recorded with Runaway Cow and later Ed & Ralph, which I played some of during that September 2010 feature I did with Joseph on Music World Radio.  Eric was cool enough to pass on some unused promotional photos of Runaway Cow.  Check out this one of the band actually chasing a cow.  Doesn't it look like someone could put an eye out?  I'm just floored that this may very well be the only photo of the band's living breathing mascot.  When I commented about the danger of the situation, Bose said this: "the cow was alot quicker than one would think, but ya... we were young and stupid."


I keep mentioning the show on MWR.  As you might know, I like to feature interesting and talented artists on my show on www.musicworldradio.com.  I'd bugged Joseph forever about doing one and when he was working on funsheepfun he agreed to let me interview him and play all of his music during my set.  It took that promise a while to go anywhere, but one night at 12am, Joseph said, "I'm coming over in the morning to do that show.  Be ready."  Well, it might to have been that blunt... but it made me freak out enough to have no idea what we were going to do until he arrived.  Keep in mind that my feature shows are usually 2 hours long and that this is the very first time I interviewed anyone for MWR, in person.  Here's the podcast of that show.  Eblison's Sunday Special Feature w/Joseph Ayres of Runaway Cow.


Well, that's it for this week.  I hope you like the goodies I've given you (cow patties as Joseph likes to call them), and I hope you keep a close look at this blog and the face book page.  There's stuff going on all the time.


... see ya'
Eblison Grun

Everyone watch where you're going... there's a Runaway Cow on the loose

It seems the “Cow” is making a big splash lately.  Everyone's talking and listening to the tunes and the new facebook page is busy busy.  Not bad for a band that started over 20 years ago and disbanded before the 90's were over.  Here we are in 2011 and the fans of Runaway Cow are making some noise.  I'm an internet DJ for musicworldradio.com and I've had Joseph on my show.  The spirit of the cow is still out there and I see no reason why this band has to be quiet.


When I began listening to Runaway Cow, they'd already been apart about a year or so.  I really dug what I heard on the two albums Long Live The Dork Revolution and Getting Lost On The Way Out of The Womb, and I wanted to hear more.  The Psycho Monkey On Planet Earth soundtrack and Upsongs were my next taste and all I could think was that I'd been stuck like an ostrich with my head in a hole until I made this awesome musical discovery.  I forced the music on all of my friends.  Most even liked it.  And every once in a while, Joseph would introduce me to someone and say something like, “she's a Cow fan from way back.”  I always felt like I'd found a kindred spirit.  


That was before the end of the 1990's though, and indie music over the internet wasn't like it is now.  It wasn't as available to fans and it wasn't as easy for the bands to put out there.  Thankfully times have changed and here in 2011, we can share music in a heartbeat.  We can blog about it, tweet about it, even skype about it face to face with fans hundreds of miles away.  So now, I'm finally getting to do what I've always wanted to do, and that is to share this timeless band with people all over the world.


If you're new to the music and you dig it, friend us on facebook... follow this blog... download the music and do me a favor.  When you hear these songs, let us know what you think.  Give me one sentence that explains what you like about the band or the music.  You can post it here in the comments or on facebook, but please do.  Someone's gotta keep the cow running.

Classic Runaway Cow Remixes

Proof that a band that was ahead of it's time when they were together, is still very much in the present...  Joseph Ayres who is currently working on his first cd with the band funsheepfun, has released the first four of many classic Runaway Cow tracks, newly remastered... newly remixed... and free for download. Runaway Cow has been broken up well over a decade, but there's so much going on that keeps them with us.  Besides the classic tracks, there's a Runaway Cow fan page on face book in the works and some of these classics being played on internet radio station Music World Radio.  Keep your eyes here for more music and more news from Runaway Cow and be one step ahead of the rest.

Classic Runaway Cow Remixes by Runaway Cow