F-Girls

Written and Recorded in 1996

This was the second or third composition I wrote for my self-dubbed solo recording scheme called The Soft Core Project. Because of the nature of this scheme, initially, it had no title and simply called Untitled #2 or #3. Then the  project developed to feature some guest musicians and singers and in due course, it was suspended for launching a new band called School, by the end of 1996.

This untitled tune was picked up for the new band's repertoire and the female singer there wrote a lyric titled Girl Friends or Girls Move Forward. The song was performed by School for countless times and its synthesizer solo section was replaced with my guitar soloing.

After playing a set of same songs including Girl Friends repeatedly, my initial motivation for playing this thing has been gradually faded and when I was finally fired from the band, my feeling was more about for swearing towards the 'Girls' with using the F word. For this reason, I renamed the tune in this manner.

In addition, when I first wrote this tune, I thought this might be a good tribute for one of my favourite The Who songs, Substitute, which I played in various bands when I was young.