8. Helicopter Gunship by Tin (@jamestinman)
Sometimes you get such an emotional battering it’s like being ploughed into by an Apocalypse Now-style Apache… 
My emotions are civiliansInnocent collateralMy emotions are innocent collateral(The women and the children)But you keep on firing..!
You’re a Helicopter Gunship, a helicopter gunshipYou’re a helicopter gunship…With a mini-gun

8. Helicopter Gunship by Tin (@jamestinman)

Sometimes you get such an emotional battering it’s like being ploughed into by an Apocalypse Now-style Apache…
 

My emotions are civilians
Innocent collateral
My emotions are innocent collateral
(The women and the children)
But you keep on firing..!

You’re a Helicopter Gunship, a helicopter gunship
You’re a helicopter gunship…
With a mini-gun

 8. Helicopter Gunship by Tin (@jamestinman)
Sometimes you get such an emotional battering it’s like being ploughed into by an Apocalypse Now-style Apache… 
My emotions are civiliansInnocent collateralMy emotions are innocent collateral(The women and the children)But you keep on firing..!
You’re a Helicopter Gunship, a helicopter gunshipYou’re a helicopter gunship…With a mini-gun

8. Helicopter Gunship by Tin (@jamestinman)

Sometimes you get such an emotional battering it’s like being ploughed into by an Apocalypse Now-style Apache…
 

My emotions are civilians
Innocent collateral
My emotions are innocent collateral
(The women and the children)
But you keep on firing..!

You’re a Helicopter Gunship, a helicopter gunship
You’re a helicopter gunship…
With a mini-gun

Posted 7 months ago & Filed under Bridled Creativity, One Minute Wonder, 2011,

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2011 WINNERS ARE IN:

Valvetronix : The Beelips
Killing Time : Dan Foden
Sticky Bongo : sonofsamsounds
At Sea : Lowery
The Ballad Of Peach : Mark Thorby
Quadrahick : Mike Jackson
The Dell : Red Cassette
Helicopter Gunship : James Leeds
I Dreamt About Dying: PhilCivilian
The Travelling Knife : Emily Sargasso
Standard, as standard : danieljharvey
A hinge : Transept
When's the right time to stop : davidpye
Sticky Situation : Girl in a Thunderbolt

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My sub-standard web-connection led to a Ramona Falls song cutting off at 1 minute... and you know what? It was a GOOD song, but I knew what the rest of it would be like almost exactly... I'd already been exposed to most all the creativity, and the rest of a 3.50 modern pop-song was inevitably going to be just repeats. Yeah, repeats are good when you love something - but that's what the back button is for, surely...

This got me thinking - maybe the accepted wisdom on song length is simply wrong in the modern world when time is what we're most short of...

So here's a bit of fun - I initially asked my song-writer friends (@jamestinman, @jameselliottwit, @Iain Lowery, @redcassette) to write a 1-min song - the theme simply "the most dramatic you can be in 1 min" - but YOU'RE welcome to join in if you fancy a bit of unbridled creativity...

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