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One of my darker tracks. This tracks epitomises how RPM felt for me; A progressive struggle where I just got my head down and got stuck in with the thing. In a phrase, this track says to me "Just fucking get on with it."
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There are too many amazing quotes from this film to not sample them SOMEWHERE in my album. Time after time, the 'yo-yo master' line got me laughing, so I thought I'd pay homage to it.
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The scene setter. This was the first track on the album and I've still got mixed feelings about it. Audibly, I like it. Cohesively, it doesn't REALLY fit in... My girlfriend told me "like it needs to represent the rest of the album. It grabs your…
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Why this represents 1993 is really quite a mystery to myself. I was 2 years old, so I've no idea why it strikes me as such a dark and mysterious year. I think I managed to get down exactly what I was thinking with this track.
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This is the end of the journey. It's time to maybe think and reflect about some of the things we heard and then forget we ever heard them.
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Easily my favourite track on the album. This was a real forced number at the start of it's life; I was well behind my song quota (5 finished on the 23rd... time to worry) and I needed to knock something out at least. Something clicked about an…
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this is based on the soundtrack of a film called september clues very interesting dunno if its true but fun all the same for conspiracy nuts....
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Side 2 of my virtual record. It's a long, mostly instrumental suite (a 'Lounge Suite' - I know that's corny but I just cant resist:)
The different sections run as follows:
Opposite Attractions
Sloppy Jo
Too Many Martinis
Prefix/Suffix
A Cup of…
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Powerlounge - Electric Cheer
An album created for the 2009 RPM Challenge, conceived to be eventually cut into vinyl, and arranged as such, in two halves.
The track listing for side 1:
Welcome to my Weird
Bye Bye Baby
Genius / Madness
Negative…
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This is basically an accordion jam with a nice bass line!
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A deceptively forceful song dealing with the death of my sister.
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An older song from a previous band that was never quite captured to my satisfaction. I was going for very laid-back "Pale Blue Eyes" vibe.
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An exercise in configuring sonic spaces - it was only later that I realized the scathing lyrics were self-directed.
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An attempt to evoke images that weren't in the first-person. I tend to write in abstract fragments and this piece is no exception.
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A song that ended up in an entirely different place than from where it began. It was meant to have a dark 'David Gray' kind of feel, but ended up being the love child of 'Love and Rockets' and 'Stars on 45.'
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A song that really crept out of nowhere and one that I don't entirely understand its meaning. Some things in the song I can pinpoint the origin, but some I haven't a clue. I'm really happy with the way it turned out - semi-ok vocal and all.
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Another song held over from my band days. Again, an attempted homage to the Velvets, but perhaps a little too shiny. I still plan to replace the cheesy 'solo' synth with glockenspiel somewhere down the line.
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A song I wrote and recorded in one day (the day before the RPM Challenge ended, actually). I really stretched my abilities as a picker here (duff notes and all), but I shamefully admit I really like this song. A reminder to me of the strength…
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A blatant attempt at exploiting the deep well of The Jesus and Mary Chain/Pixies/Raveonettes/House of Love. A lovingly loud, shiny and guitar-laden paean to those great bands.
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A song I've had stored in my head for quite awhile, though never committed to tape (erm... binary code) - probably because I thought it was a bit simple and even trite. Having to come up with an album's worth of material in a month cured me of…
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This song has been hobbling around half-written in my psyche for eons, and it took the RPM Challenge to finally finish it!
Like many of my generation, my first peek into the world of women (and what they looked like under their clothes) was National…
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The Aliens are landing and a doomsaying prophet is declaring it the end of the world!
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Human finds Alien Spacecraft drifting in space, this is he inner dialog of our fearless (fearful) hero.
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Music for a computer trying to find the answer to the ultimate question.
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Instrumental love song for a groovy space chick!
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*Memories, memories before the end.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian_** *and* **_Fennesz._**
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
I remember sunshine
I remember you
I remember laughing
Do you remember
I do
I remember driving
I remember the…
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*The boat left without me.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian, Fennesz, The Cure_**.
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
Stayed under too long
I guess
I lost track of time
Why didn’t you think to check
If I was alright?
There’s not too much sun…
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*My take on something like a* **_Neil Young_** *song ("After The Goldrush" meets "Revolution Blues"?)*
*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
Well I woke in a cold sweat from a dreamless sleep
The winds were blowing papers through the empty…
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*Ever had problems falling asleep? This is a sort of goth track influenced by* **_Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy,_** _and Faith-era_ **_Cure_**. Dark modern electronic guitar rock.*
Down the steps and into the dark
Leave the kingdom above…
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**_Underworld_** *with guitars instead of synthesizers. A sequel of sorts. Electronic rock.*
A million drops of rain
One sun behind the clouds
A million stars in the milky way
One moon is shining down
A million notes I’ve scribbled
One…
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*What would I be thinking about if life had gone in a different direction? A dubstep/new wave hybrid.* **_Burial_** _meets_ **_Chameleons_.**
You would have thought by now
I’d be more concerned about
More important things
Like the cash in…
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*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
You can hear it just below the blowing wind
Feel it in the nerves beneath your skin
Catch a glimpse as you drift away at night
But you can’t decode the meaning inside
Distant shrieking sets your teeth…
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*"We all live in a little Village...your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners." -* **_Patrick McGoohan_**
Modern electronic guitar rock.
One day you awaken in a different place
Where the names…
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reloaded this in 44.1
a pedal steel gtr improv
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The implications of the doctrine of the Trinity. An interview of Tim Chester by Andrew Cook for the radio programme, Serving Today. www.gbm.org.uk/radio.
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The Trinity and Humanity. An interview of Tim Chester by Andrew Cook for the radio programme, Serving Today. www.gbm.org.uk/radio.
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electronic nutsiness made in reason and then imported into cubase, one of my favorites, incidentally
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this one goes way ambient in the 2nd half, brian eno-ish, i wanted to experiment with doing a track with no drums
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another one i always play on the guitar, inspired by Nick Drake's stuff; half way through this song goes into unknown guitar improvisational territory, where i just played over my own stuff after looping it
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that is not a sample you hear in the background, it is the dryer going. leave it in? okay, sure i'll leave it in. it's these artistic decisions we're all forced to make.
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A Bonus track for "Summer Twilight on Triton;" more of the same, but shorter.
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didn't know what to call this track, but once i came up with a title, it wrote itself! i heard on npr about how all this junk of ours is making outerspace around Earth a very dangerous place to be. this track is trying to reflect that danger.
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this was one of the hardest to do, the 2nd half was great, but i hated the first half and was stressing with getting it to gel. so i scrapped it completely and started over. i think it was a wise decision.
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I literally pulled this out of my ass in a few minutes. The lyrics just poured out of me once i decided to sing about myself. Very autobiographical, also inspired by polka music. i love polka music!
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this is about a couple who are at odds with each other because of their goals, could also be viewed as a guy who wants his partner to commit suicide with him?
i usually play this on guitar, but for the RPM Challenge, i wanted to do it electronically…
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Derivative folky song (don't tell Paul I said that). He writes a lot about the inadequacy of words. But, if he thinks words are so damned inadequate, why does he keep writing them?
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You really want to get there, but you just can't find it, but the ride is entertaining.
I'm rewriting the lyrics. It's not quite oblique enough, or so I'm told.
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I read Carla Zilbersmith's blog, carlamuses.blogspot.com, which inspired the song. She's rather inspiring herself.
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It's based on a drawing a little girl drew (see also album cover).
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A totally sheltered and unable to cope middle-class white kid screws up really badly and is on the run. I don't think he'll make it. Do you?
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This fulfills a stupid promise I made years ago to write a song that was part Dave Frishberg, part Richard Thompson.
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from the RPM 2009 album, "Spilt Hony"
This was an experiment to write a song using one sentence. I ended up with 3 small ones.
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A fantastical farcical Irish story-song. Broadway Irish.
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I was just imagining a morning at the Waits household.
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i am thinking about words tonight
they can be hard as nails
they-can be as shapeless as water
they can break your heart
they can hang like a chain
hold you up for years
cause you to think twice
take away your fears
you are falling in love…
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you tell me what you want
you tell what you need
i cant give you nothing honey
but this pretty little seed
where has the sun gone
and is it gone forever
will it come back someday
should we just give it some time
i ask you what…
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