Midnight Brown Song Genesis

Midnight Brown. Speaking on behave of my own personal tastes here, I really like this group. Yeah it's probably influenced by the fact that I am a big Gerstmann fan in general, but my enjoyment of his music didn't come so easy. When I first hear of Midnight Brown, it was right after they "released" their third album Dope/Revenge. I listened to that album and thought it was shit. Sorry Jeff, but it just didn't do a thing for me. Years went by and I never had the desire to go back to it. However, during the [tragically] short run of the NdX, he played a song from his last album "Cop Knife". Having never listened to that album, I wondered where it was from. I went back and listened to that Deadly Electric, as well as the prior releases, and found myself enjoying their... odd style of music.

One could say that I was sufficiently hooked on Midnight Brown at this point. The more I listened to all the albums, the more I began to try and wrap my head around the origins of their songs. Strange titles like the aforementioned "Cop Knife" and "2084" made me wonder how you would even begin to write a song like this. Thus the existence of this blog. Having no knowledge of why or how Jeff and Chris come up with these songs, I will attempt to divine my own bat-shit crazy reasoning behind the title as well as some of the lyrics. I suspect that none of them are correct, but I don't care, it's just fun for me to try. Really I would just like to know their infatuation with "razors".

17 Brown Lines