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Wrong Ones

by Marmalade Mountain

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The hardest feeling is loving another person so deeply that you forget to love yourself. “Wrong Ones” is a song about habitually losing yourself in this kind of love, and it’s out today.

There’s a very special story behind this particular recording of “Wrong Ones”. The song poured out of me in a matter of minutes one day, and I sat down at my kitchen table to capture it as a video to share on Instagram. After sharing the video, it quickly became one of my most requested songs to perform live, and I spent a couple years trying to record it in the studio with different collaborators. Nothing worked. It always came out uninspired and overworked. I moved on to other projects, and “Wrong Ones” hung around my repertoire like a ghost I couldn’t shake.

Just a couple months ago, I took a production and recording class through the always excellent School of Song with one of my favorite producers / engineers, Philip Weinrobe. In the very first class, he shared his favorite recording of all time with us — a dressing room rehearsal of “Wild Heart” by Fleetwood Mac. It’s a shaky recording captured on an early eighties camcorder of an off-the-cuff performance; Stevie is literally having her make-up done while singing and there’s all kinds of background noise. He then shared the studio version. It’s undeniable which performance is better, and most importantly, more emotive. This, Phil said, is what recording is all about. I’ve always felt this way about music, but I suppose I needed a reminder, and it couldn’t have come from a better person at a better time.

After struggling with one more studio version, my partner suggested I revisit the very first recording of “Wrong Ones” — the video I made when I first wrote the song. Like “Wild Heart”, I knew this was the Right One (💀). The audio from that iPhone video of my very first full performance of the song is what you hear today. I hope you enjoy “Wrong Ones”, and I can’t thank you enough for your support and kindness. It means the world to me.

✌️🙏🧡
-MM

lyrics

Why do I fall for the wrong ones?
Why do I always sing a sad song?
Why is it in the mornin’
When the sun just starts to shinin’
My head’s already spinnin’
And my eye’s already cryin’?
Why do I fall for the wrong, wrong ones?

Why don’t I listen to the birds sing?
Why can’t I feel joy? My heart stings
Why is it in the evenin’
When the stars are barely shinin’
I can feel the entire universe spinnin’ deep inside my abdomen?
Why do I fall for the wrong, wrong ones?

I guess it’s time that I should move on
Appreciate the good ones I can count on
Somewhere in this city
There is someone kind and pretty
And she loves me, and she’s beautiful
But I’ll choose someone shitty
Why do I fall for the wrong, wrong ones?

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released July 25, 2023
Written, Performed, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Zack Fischmann

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Marmalade Mountain Los Angeles, California

Marmalade Mountain, aka Zack Fischmann, has tumbled through America’s punk-folk-psych-rock scenes, creating songs that blend the homespun aesthetic of K Records with a playful vulnerability akin to folk hero Michael Hurley.

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