The I QUIT CD: a rock opera of resignation

Submitted by k3vin on Sat, 10/16/2004 - 07:46
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  1. First & Last / Tragedy
  2. The Montague Boys
  3. The Ladder
  4. Boys Keep Swinging
  5. Man of Constant Sorrow
  6. Po' Lazarus
  7. Stayin' Alive
  8. Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
  9. Nature Boy
  10. What a Man
  11. Mini Skirt
  12. Drive of Death
  13. Nature Boy
  14. Tybalt Arrives
  15. Ascension / Nature Boy
  16. Big Rock Candy Mountain
  17. Sexy Boy
  18. Mercutio's Death
  19. I'm Going Home
  20. Superstar
  21. Super Heroes
  22. Epilogue
Author Comments: 

I can be dramatic. When I quit the restaurant I worked at for 4 years, I presented my official resignation in the form of the above tracks. Some of these are obscure, and the bulk of them came from 3 or 4 albums. Romeo + Juliet (part 2), Moulin Rouge, O'Brother. Others are familar songs but in unfamilar arrangements. Such as Superstar by Bette Midler instead of the Carpenters, Such that I'm Goin Home and Super Heroes are from the Broadway revival of the Rocky Horror Show. First & Last / Tragedy and Staying Alive are from the Saturday Night Fever Broadway Cast album.

This Cd keeps getting played at the place. I got a call today asking for a particular song title from. Oddly, it was a song not on the "I quit CD", but on the Bonus extra CD. But I wonder what is more odd, that, or that there was a Bonus extra CD? Oh, I just remember the CD cover was a collage with all the shapes cut out in the form of a stop sign. and it was in a DVDcase

Regarding an Opera, I listened to this again, and it played out in my head again, just as I envisioned it. The Song order is very specific. When it seems chaotic and full of dischord, the intent was to illustrate how the frustrations can come out of seemingly nowhere. I am seriously considering writing a libretto for it. No not a libretto, I mean the synopsis or book.

Future editions of this list, will include a complete discography, artists and cd sources. I would also like to explain why song was included, and others I had to cull.

Someone approached me about pitching this as a movie. I am having trouble getting my head around how it would work. I'd prefer to get it down to key parts of the songs, forming a dialog for the libretto. Now that I have a working copy of Audacity, I should be able to do it. I have the skill, I have the technology. I even burned the cd to dvd. very dull to watch, but will make it easier to work with, since I have long lost the original MP3s I used. and may have to re-burn from the originals.