Too Short was the second track on my The Girls and Boy EP. Like most of the other tracks on the EP, it was written at a time in my life when I mistakenly thought that having a bit of a crush on someone meant I was in love. You'll get a lot of that on these songs. Apologies in advance.

Musically, Too Short is unashamedly a bit of old-school disco. It's also more than a little bit inspired by my love of the Pet Shop Boys (specifically, the chord sequence of Always on my mind forms part of the backbone of the song).

As ever, I hope you enjoy it.

Too Short

I wrote this song in 1991, and first recorded it the following year - the line "a couple of years ago" was originally "about a year ago," as it related to events that had taken place in 1990. But I've kept the "a couple of years ago" line since then.

I've recorded it at least four times now, and never quite managed to get it sounding quite as I wanted until now - when you're dealing with a two-part vocal harmony, drums, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, string pad section, and a piano section split into two parts (partly to make it easier to play, and partly so I could pan the left hand and right hand parts slightly left and right), the limitations of a 4-track recorder soon become painfully apparent! Re-recording it using Garageband meant that I was able to take the time to get each part just right. (It also meant I could make the piano part entirely programmed anyway...)

I sometimes included the bracketed portion of the title, and sometimes decided it was too damn' pretentious. Right now, I've decided it stays as part of the title.

Take a look (at me now)