When you walk away, don't talk that way
Imagine the words you say
May be your last.
And if you're angry please don't leave
Just think how near may be the end.
Why must you hold your silly grudges
and revel in your woe
You always had a talent…
Congratulations!!! Looks like we are to experience the same things this year....i may be missing too.... we are expecting our 4th anytime..... literally....so it looks like i'll be in the thick of the baby mayhem..as the RPM starts...ah well there's always next year..
Are you in touch with your past?
Do you remember before?
Are you scared of this world?
Are there locks on your door?
Is there anyone here,
who can prove that they are?
Are we anywhere near
To having too far x2
Are we anywhere near?
Are you…
Features Gary Essex on slide guitar and is but an instrumental of the full song that is Blues Blues - please check it out and love it as though it were your own...
Please note that this particular version is dedicated to the wonderfully talented…
First one for RPM 2011. This track has existed in my head to a greater or lesser extent for years but never got round to recording it. Now I have. :)
It would never have ended if it had been down to me
It would have blossomed, would have grown…
3rd one for RPM2011. This is an 'oh you'll never get to heaven' type affair inspired by a beer my mate introduced me too. The song is basically about drinking yourself to death and having one up on the healthy brigade having made a rather spectacular…
My take on Gumbo's Keep Your Eye On The Spot, one of many excellent tracks from his RPM2011 album 'Cat's Moustache'. It's something of a departure from the original, though I was trying to retain an element of the gospel so hopefully its soul…
I'm meeting an old Uni friend Saturday and I wrote this for her. My university years were quite possibly the darkest years of my life. Her, and the little comments she'd write in the margins of my lecture notes, were more important than she'll…
Still Excellent....have a mutual appreciation moment listening to Mr.Moody Radio while trying to sort my chrimbo Prezzies of the perfect jazz collection 25 albums and Miles Davies collection another 25 and Patti Smith 5 i'll be a hundred by the time i've listened to them all but i thought i'd spend today getting them ready with pretty pics of the covers for the ipod on itunes and your helping me do it so thanks haven't heard anything i dont like yet a great collection of work alex keep them coming....cheers Trevor
There are things I cannot do without x2
And if I ever run out of the things I cannot do without
I'll run to the nearest 'things I cannot do without' store
And I'll run in and I'll buy some x2
And if someday their running out
Of the things…
No im not happy and no im not sad, no im not good but i know im not bad. No i wont go there, but no i wont stay, no im not straight but no im not gay, no need to tell me i know im not right, no happy endings and no end in sight. I got no way of…
Are you in touch with your past?
Do you remember before?
Are you scared of this world?
Are there locks on your door?
Is there anyone here,
who can prove that they are?
Are we anywhere near
To having too far x2
Are we anywhere near?
Are you…
I agree. Kept trying to listen to your songs, then would get interrupted. The holidays can be like that. Finally got a chance to hear them all and I liked what I heard. Well done.
ER
There are things I cannot do without x2
And if I ever run out of the things I cannot do without
I'll run to the nearest 'things I cannot do without' store
And I'll run in and I'll buy some x2
And if someday their running out
Of the things…
Were you not there
I'd have fallen through I swear but hey
You were unaware
That I'd built up a dependence on you
Well alright
Never mind, I'll find salvation in a needle
or a bottle of somekind.
you were to me
somewhere between a saint and…
When you walk away, don't talk that way
Imagine the words you say
May be your last.
And if you're angry please don't leave
Just think how near may be the end.
Why must you hold your silly grudges
and revel in your woe
You always had a talent…
Are you in touch with your past?
Do you remember before?
Are you scared of this world?
Are there locks on your door?
Is there anyone here,
who can prove that they are?
Are we anywhere near
To having too far x2
Are we anywhere near?
Are you…
Were you not there
I'd have fallen through I swear but hey
You were unaware
That I'd built up a dependence on you
Well alright
Never mind, I'll find salvation in a needle
or a bottle of somekind.
you were to me
somewhere between a saint and…
Ain't there always one
Ain't it always me
I could tell in her eyes
She wanted to lie
Aint there always one
Ain't it always been me
I could tell in her eyes
She wanted to lie
But wasn't about to
She said you know the truth
as well as I do.
And…
When you walk away, don't talk that way
Imagine the words you say
May be your last.
And if you're angry please don't leave
Just think how near may be the end.
Why must you hold your silly grudges
and revel in your woe
You always had a talent…
In response to a suggestion of Dr. Ozan Yarman I tried a tuning he created for a different project. I realized the composition using Garritan Personal Orchestra Baroque organs, Garritan World sample set Oud and Santoor samples performed on an…
A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
I just whipped this up in Garage Band using a loop called 'Exotic Sarod' for the main melodic theme (hence the title). The Sarod is an Indian stringed instrument. 'Sarod' means 'beautiful sound' in…
This RPM Challenge album had a bit of a ying-yang vibe to it. Compare "Marbles" to "Constellations" and "Fisher In The Sky" to "Tied By The Lies".
This wasn't planned - it just sort of happened.
For 2011 RPM Challenge album John the Resonator
A Sword and Sorcery parody. With Elvis.
Daughter Brit sang the vocal in the middle part.
Elvis was the mountain king
Who ruled the land of El-Karyaang
His wife Priscilla lady fair
Was taken…
It's kind of funny how you can intend to create electronica, and then end up blindly wandering into a different sub-genre. The end result almost sounds like it wanted to be stoner rock.
For more on the song title, look up "Ganzfeld Effect…
Lyrics:
Skip ahead to her in pants,
watch her dance in the living room
in front of all the other dinner guests.
She thumbs her nose at simulacra,
but someone must play Cleopatra
in the PTA's yearly drama fest.
Her husband broke his body…
This song was inspired by a melody my then 2 year old daughter was playing on the harmonica one day back in 2004. I picked up my guitar and strummed along....I kept playing around with it and "Caught in the Rain" was born.
This was one of several songs I recorded in a session on the night of my 29th birthday. I had decided to just start playing and see how many tunes I could write straight through without stopping. My only rule was that these tunes had to be totally…
Final version
I wanted to have a banjo fiddle tune but i still haven't learnt to play either instrument, so this is my famous 1 string banjo technique, with mandolin and guitar. It's style is inspired by meeting Morgan O'Kane and Ferd 4 last…
Final version
I wanted to have a banjo fiddle tune but i still haven't learnt to play either instrument, so this is my famous 1 string banjo technique, with mandolin and guitar. It's style is inspired by meeting Morgan O'Kane and Ferd 4 last…
A playful tune made up on the spot as a studio demonstration. Really quite silly! If you listen closely you can hear my wife questioning the use of the small diaphragm mic on the vocal track.
Final version
RPM 2011 - my first track recorded and the opening track for the CD
A kind of Old Time gospel number, which, if you listen to those pre-war guitar playing preachers, are virtually indistinguishable from blues. Except for the lyrics…
you're just a genius that's all there is to it. a mad professor who keeps forgetting to put his trousers on before leaving the house type of genius, but a genius all the same. love the vocal, and the sentiment of said vocal n all. the switching back and fore with the spoken part is perfect, story's told excellently, great jackanory voice. easily a favourite
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Congratulations!!! Looks like we are to experience the same things this year....i may be missing too.... we are expecting our 4th anytime..... literally....so it looks like i'll be in the thick of the baby mayhem..as the RPM starts...ah well there's always next year..
an excellent job lot.....
Loving these blues instrumentals....
That's one hell of an RPM album........
...i also intend to go in an interesting way but not just yet...
The RPM's coming are you in this year?
Class..... you did a great job on this..... old Gumbo can sure write a song
Still Excellent....have a mutual appreciation moment listening to Mr.Moody Radio while trying to sort my chrimbo Prezzies of the perfect jazz collection 25 albums and Miles Davies collection another 25 and Patti Smith 5 i'll be a hundred by the time i've listened to them all but i thought i'd spend today getting them ready with pretty pics of the covers for the ipod on itunes and your helping me do it so thanks haven't heard anything i dont like yet a great collection of work alex keep them coming....cheers Trevor
Very Beatle beginning...
No.....er, I mean, Yes, great song!
Great song....really like the guitar
I agree. Kept trying to listen to your songs, then would get interrupted. The holidays can be like that. Finally got a chance to hear them all and I liked what I heard. Well done. ER
Nice song about commercialism. I see the same thing in people, and in me. ER
very smooth and very,very cool. vocal is so sweet.
you can sing dude. so much soul and feel. blown away.
Very cool vibe! Love the hand claps and the little harp lines
Terrifically good song! Love the backing too.
This is vocally demanding Alex. Well done!
A selection of the most wonderful songs indeed. Thanks!
Lovely stuff!
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powerful stuff
instant this one is
excellently crafted, i've no idea how you people do this stuff. suitably impressed..
love the vocal, love the melody, love the story. seriously, genuinely. triumph
mega lush
s'a bloody journey n a half this.. loving the sounds around the daddy bit. great drums too
fascinating to listen to. took me off somewhere that
wowza.. nurned my hand on that guitar. scorching
love the sounds ur getting..
placebo tastic. nice scream too :)
yes oh yes!
yes. great..funny where inspiration comes from sometimes isn't it. great track..
words are failing me.. digging it though. muchly
beautiful
oh and an extra nod from the wife. you are honoured, she never likes anything. ever.
yeah i wouldnt bother with those other strings fella they're clearly surplus to requirements.. :)
brilliant that, lovely. thoroughly enjoyed it.. ta :)
there's such a treasure trove of goodies on your playlist page. i may get lost in ere and never return. Funk it out, Dr. Feel Well
three cheers for The Cat's Mustache!
you're just a genius that's all there is to it. a mad professor who keeps forgetting to put his trousers on before leaving the house type of genius, but a genius all the same. love the vocal, and the sentiment of said vocal n all. the switching back and fore with the spoken part is perfect, story's told excellently, great jackanory voice. easily a favourite