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Well I did try and get an RPM challenge done after last years fail, but I'm still lacking enthusiasm or creativity.
Hence the uninspiring title of 'The Fifth', as this was the 5th track I was working on and the only one that came close to completion…
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Not quite a rap "battle," but definitely inspired by Brennan's interest in such things.
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This would be cool with piano, right? And maybe Bruno Mars singing it instead or something?
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Gilronan made this up to sing this to his girls as they played dress-up with cold weather accessories.
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Jessie kindly contributed her voice to this recording
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Brennan proposed the title of the song while looking at a bottle of Dust Off by the computer.
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Garys tune and lyrics, vocals guitars, Tom Bass, Johnny Keys
YOU GO IN CIRCLES TO GET WHAT YOU NEED
YOU LIKE TO CUT THEM DEEP THEN WATCH THEM BLEED
A MEAN MISTREATER
ALWAYS A ACE UP YOUR SLEEVE
YOU NEVER LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY
YOU…
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Chris’s tune lyrics, vocals drums, bass and acoustic guitar, Toms electric guitar, Johnnys Keys
Vibe
Fix me baby, give me a fix
Open up your bag of tricks
Build it up now, lay the bricks
Sugar on top, then stir the mix
All that rhythm…
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Toms tune, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass
Chris Drums
Johnny Keys
I’m Not Saying
An old expression goes
“The more you learn the less that you know”
Now i’m not preaching but perhaps we’ve been teaching it wrong
And it grows old in…
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Garys tune, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass
Chris Drums
Johnny Keys
Why’d You Have To Go
BEEN AROUND FOR MANY YEARS
WASHED AWAY SOME PAINFUL TEARS
MET SOME FRIENDS ALONG THE WAY
SOME STUCK AROUND SOME WENT AWAY
BUT I STILL THINK…
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Chris’s tune, lyrics, vocals, acoustic guitar, bass
Toms Mandolin
Johnnys keys
Grey Matters
Pale grey.. my blanket of birth... For what it’s worth
No one can say
Frozen hue.. bequeathed to me..
The powers that be
But what colors…
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Garys tune, lyrics, vocals, guitar
Toms bass Chris drums
Johnny Keys
WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT GIRL I USED TO KNOW
AS SPARKLING FRESH AS NEWLY FALLEN SNOW
A HEART TURNED TO STONE
SO SYNICLE AND ALL ALONE
TIME WONT HEAL THE PAIN
ONLY EMPTYNESS…
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Tom and Chris’s tune, Toms lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass, mando, banjo, harp and some keys
Chris drums - Johnny Keys
Poor Mans Paradise
I was born in a thunderstorm
Rolling down highway one
With the poor mans tax upon my back
Before…
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Toms tune, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass, mando,
Chris drum / back vocal
John Otto - Penny Whistle / great keys/ Spirit
Ummmerica....
Well my girl n me got a front row seat
To the next world war
We stood in line for quite some time
Its…
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Toms tune, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass
Chris drums Johnny Keys
You Were There
You were there
With yellow flowers in your hair
And the summer air seemed to get us high
The county fair
Was lit up like a caution flare
And it was there…
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This is the band mix of this song:
https://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/playlists/rpm2020---finished-mixes,-so-far/good-people-(coffee-shoppe-mix)
The only note worth making is that unlike almost every other song I worked on this year, the…
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Sweet Christmas, this puppy is a mess....
....and I LOVE it!
There is actually two mixes going on at once here. I set everything for the beginning and end sections without even listening to the middle. Once I had the two mixed where I could…
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This is a last minute bit of guitar goofiness. I own three Gibson guitars and have been wanting to write a silly instrumental that includes all of them. This is it. The rhythm guitar is my '79 ES 335 Pro, the lead on the left is my '18 SG Standard…
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So it has been a while since my last RPM. I felt this song was the best was to reintroduce myself with the insane process that is the RPM Challenge....
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A simple little tune that got stuck in my head. I hope to revisit this one soon and add a couple more layers.
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Waste not want not....finished the final lead take at about 3:45am this morning...almost killed me...
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Laying on your back losing yourself to the stars...
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1980 called...it wants it's synth back. Keepin' those drums in the pocket...
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Haven't felt like this in a while...it's good to be back.
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Whatever "it" is.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
I Got It
Well I woke up this mornin
Water all around
If I hadn’t raised my head good god I woulda drowned
Now I got it
I got it
Yeah I got it and I just can’t give it away…
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You peer out from the diner and see nothing. The further out you gaze, the more dilated the light becomes, leading to an infinite band of seamless white nothing.
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What kind of twisted infinity loop have you managed to get yourself stuck in? Time seems to weave in and out like some kind of Gordian knot.
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The CB Radio in the corner echoes with an idle static, but something sounds peculiar - it's no noise you've ever heard before. There's something intelligent about it, like it's peering out of the speaker and looking right at you.
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I'm not a trick of the shadows. You're the trick of light.
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Well, it tasted like Creamsicle. Perhaps the giant radioactive insignia on the outside of the flask was meant to be a warning or something. After your sixth beer, you tend to ignore stuff like that.
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You're hitchhiking, with no recollection of how you came to be here. A route with an irregular number has never been a positive sign.
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Yeah - don't even think Houdini could get himself out of this mess. Ever tried picking the quantum lock on a wormhole?
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The waking dream ends before it began. Trailing off to quantum uncertainty.
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On an elevator, we exist in a perpetual uncertain state between different floors.
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They try and find a way to reach you, but it's like concrete.
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Or is this some sort of dream? "Sleep come soon, and white away the room."
Perhaps this is a dream you shouldn't be having. Some doors are best left unopened.
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Although they would probably not admit it, writing credits to Carl Barnhardt and Kevin Martin.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
The Vaseline Queen of Abilene
There’s a little town out west of Sabine
Where the wind spins the turbine…
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A Valentine's Day song for my sweetie. Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
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We've all been there. Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
Borborygmas Blues
I was hangin with my honey
Late last night
We heard a sound
And got a terrible fright
It sounded like a tremor
Or a far off beast
But I felt something down…
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Yes I saw a chupacabra.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
Hello Little One
Hello little one
Glad I ran into you
Are you some kinda freak
Or did you escape from a zoo?
Ears like a fox, look like a dog
About as much hair as you'd…
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based on the science fiction story "Ballad of Lost C'Mell" by Cordwainer Smith.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
Lyrics:
Lord Jestocost
She’s a cat and she’s a girl
But she’s not equal in this world
I am lord of all I see
This…
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When I made my demo of this song, Nancy said she really liked the melody of the chorus and that overall it was her favorite tune of mine to date, hence the title.
I thought the first section of the song would be ideal for a sitar, however I…
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The story behind this one is almost the same as "Swamp Thing," only this one spawned lyrics to boot.
Major props to Erika for her fabulous vocal!
Jon and I played the leads. I bookended the track and Jon did everything in between.
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This one is pretty much your basic bad day. I mean hectic, frantic, crazy, pull-your-hair-out, everything's going wrong, Junior puked in class and I crashed the car on the way to get him days. Really bad but survivable.
Make yourself the main…
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Is it surf music? Exotica? Both? Neither? Did Jacques Cousteau have anything to do with this?
Percussion on this one by Cyclops Cow and Sum Gai.
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Conceived in the shower in mid February with the backing track fully recorded less than an hour later. Who doesn't like the Ramones?! Just a fun track to celebrate RPM's 15th anniversary. The lyrics lean toward being tongue-in-cheek. I don't hole…
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I wrote the backing track a couple years ago after watching the documentary "It Might Get Loud." It somehow evolved into a li'l tribute to Bob Dylan (Bob really deserves so much better). The words allude to a number of Dylan's songs: "Like a Rolling…
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