And I followed Reg......and man am I glad I did.....I love this....this is what i love...and I love this.....how do you create a song like this, I dont quite understand....damn brilliant, thats real drums isn't it.......you guys are as real as it comes........and Reg likes it......and Gumbo likes it......and I like it......it has an old early prog-rock feel here, like very, very early Genesis....what a damn vibe you have cooked up.
I love that laugh - i love how real this album is. Lovely vocal Jess. I will try to more coherent later but Funeral has just started and I'm a wee bit distracted1
Brilliant so please i've found you on here or rather i followed Gumbo here...i'm a fan...i must of timeslipped was it those mushrooms i had for tea wow!! excellent stuff
Wow! this is going to be epic. I'm straight into Haight Ashbury, that piano is superb. It's loose to the point of being shambolic but it has such a strange momentum that it never fails. Faved. And those twin flutes. wonderful.
i like this song as a song but i have NO DAMNED IDEA how to arrange, perform, or record it. acoustic it's missing intensity. i can't make it work with drums and bass. this version with electric gtr and kbds is barely listenable. if there's one…
This is a cover of a song by Sister Savage, from her kickin' 2010 RPM Challenge album, Juped 2k10. It also introduces the genre of acoustic crossdressed spacecheese (these damn kids today with their flying cars and their hyperspecialized genres…
This is a cover of a song by Sister Savage, from her kickin' 2010 RPM Challenge album, Juped 2k10. It also introduces the genre of acoustic crossdressed spacecheese (these damn kids today with their flying cars and their hyperspecialized genres…
This is a cover of a song by Sister Savage, from her kickin' 2010 RPM Challenge album, Juped 2k10. It also introduces the genre of acoustic crossdressed spacecheese (these damn kids today with their flying cars and their hyperspecialized genres…
(they were armed cars -- though it's a post-peak oil world somehow i still have everyone driving cars everywhere. so much for concept album, geez al. also, the lyric was intended to be "two armed cars", but it's funny to picture "two-armed cars". they might also be, as xkcd would have it, "sweet ass-cars").
rpm 2011
Taking taking all her money
Taking taking all her sweat
Taking taking all her money
Taking taking all her tears
What do you give back? (shark attack)
Taking taking all her love
Taking taking all her life
Taking taking all her love
Taking…
You know, son, when you turn up the amplifier that high it creates a harsh and unpleasant sound. If you turn it down a little it lets the natural beauty of the guitar tone show through! And then maybe you wouldn't have to strain your voice so much to sing over it!
rpm 2011
Making music everyday alone in my dark hole
Pumping out my silliness for not a single soul
Stinking up the internets with links to stupid songs
Oblivious that no one clicks and no one sings along
There’s a word for people like me…
rpm 2011
If I scream louder
Could you understand
If I scream louder
Will I be a man
If I scream louder
Would it become more clear
If I scream louder
Would it ease your fears
Screaming at the top of my lungs
If I scream louder
Will my point get…
i've decided to be an infectious disease.
i've decided to be the answer,
the reconstructor.
reanimating that which is dead inside of you.
and if i pretended that i must have a holistic cleansing,
i have proven that it cannot be,
change must spread…
Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
One of my favorite things about finishing the RPM Challenge is that I know you'll have an album finished, too, that I can hear.
Day of rest is exactly right. I'm just loafin' this weekend!
Also, I definitely recommend checking out the Gormenghast novels if you have some time on your hands. They could be described as "fantasy novels", set in a medieval castle lost to time... but they have a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd and a sort of social commentary perhaps informed by the search for meaning after the horrors of World War II.
That part at the beginning reminds me of my friend who is an excellent saxophonist. In our college bands he had a few parts that were wild like that and really threw himself into them.
I'm really enjoying the album. You make great sounds, and melodies out of them! Congrats on another RPM finished!
Starting out as a simple and awe inspiring invention, progressing to a more chaotic and demanding machine driven future. - people becoming enslaved to these devices. Feeding the machine.
Phone samples were recorded from the output jack of my…
from the album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals from Dana Detrick-Clark
I can't see your sorrow, innocent and blind
Better luck tomorrow, leave this all behind
I think I'm feeling something, but I'm not sure what it is
Maybe you could…
Well, I had this crazy idea that *maybe* Buddy Guy was using some microtonal inflections in his cover of Tramp (which are what the "blue notes" are and thought it would be cool to cover it with my fretless guitar. As it turned out it was my ear…
Lyrics:
Love is a mild catatonia
When you suspend your disbelief.
It can beat you down, it’s like pneumonia.
It’s something you catch and don’t release.
It’s a debt without restitution,
A series of rules that you must break.
I might…
Comments on Al's left hand's stuff
what kind of cars? faved this as well.
Amen.
I don't remember the books being this good!
And I followed Reg......and man am I glad I did.....I love this....this is what i love...and I love this.....how do you create a song like this, I dont quite understand....damn brilliant, thats real drums isn't it.......you guys are as real as it comes........and Reg likes it......and Gumbo likes it......and I like it......it has an old early prog-rock feel here, like very, very early Genesis....what a damn vibe you have cooked up.
I love that laugh - i love how real this album is. Lovely vocal Jess. I will try to more coherent later but Funeral has just started and I'm a wee bit distracted1
Brilliant so please i've found you on here or rather i followed Gumbo here...i'm a fan...i must of timeslipped was it those mushrooms i had for tea wow!! excellent stuff
faved again. Will you play at my wedding? I'll see if i can organise one.
Love the vocal performance in fact love the performance full stop .....
Fluid vocal excellent
Agree with Gumbo totally,that piano is excellent along with flutes drums and an excellent vocal wonderful stuff
Love it!
I was watching out and it still surprised me! brill
Wow! this is going to be epic. I'm straight into Haight Ashbury, that piano is superb. It's loose to the point of being shambolic but it has such a strange momentum that it never fails. Faved. And those twin flutes. wonderful.
Okay.. It sounds like the vocalist from Drivin' N Cryin' singing with Phideaux backing up on the instruments..
This has been intriguing so far - now I want to go read the original books. Vocally, it's reminding me a bit of Phideaux.
Cool vocals...(did i hear laugh at the mid part?) almost laughed myself...
Ha, a had to smile at your comment on phone slave./ I wondered if anyone had heard that !!
The Harmonica was sweet! ....satellite thoughts are initiated:)
pleasing vocal placement, nice version.
love it
Comments made by Al's left hand
Cool contrast with the last track. You have lots of sounds up your sleeves!
This is such a cool sound.
(they were armed cars -- though it's a post-peak oil world somehow i still have everyone driving cars everywhere. so much for concept album, geez al. also, the lyric was intended to be "two armed cars", but it's funny to picture "two-armed cars". they might also be, as xkcd would have it, "sweet ass-cars").
You know, son, when you turn up the amplifier that high it creates a harsh and unpleasant sound. If you turn it down a little it lets the natural beauty of the guitar tone show through! And then maybe you wouldn't have to strain your voice so much to sing over it!
I love the "epic fail", that's hilarious. This album rocks it.
if i scream louder will i lose my voice?
It happens that Jess (other half of my band/marriage) was reading a Rumi book this February. We like your album!
Everything has a programmer and everybody needs a hacker. Hell yes.
One of my favorite things about finishing the RPM Challenge is that I know you'll have an album finished, too, that I can hear. Day of rest is exactly right. I'm just loafin' this weekend!
(this one too)
This track, to me, just epitomizes the RPM challenge.
Also, I definitely recommend checking out the Gormenghast novels if you have some time on your hands. They could be described as "fantasy novels", set in a medieval castle lost to time... but they have a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd and a sort of social commentary perhaps informed by the search for meaning after the horrors of World War II.
That part at the beginning reminds me of my friend who is an excellent saxophonist. In our college bands he had a few parts that were wild like that and really threw himself into them. I'm really enjoying the album. You make great sounds, and melodies out of them! Congrats on another RPM finished!
Nice vocal styles!
I picture carving an ice sculpture while listening to this. Totally cool!
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Great vox! And other stuff too!
There's certainly a kernel of something really good here. I'll stay tuned!
Listening to this album tonight I'm struck by its pace. The songs unfold just right.
Love the instrumentation.