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RPM 2k15
vocal by Colin Garvey
extra guitars Brent Nolan
he’s hiding in plain sight
sends a message, don’t bother
drive away, refuse to fight
and try to be the father
left alone with the radio
and wipe away my tears
weakness reveals…
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Cover of the late great Warren Zevon and his song from Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School Play It All Night Long. I stumbled on to the song on YouTube this evening with a performance by the wonderful Dave Lindley along with GE Smith doing this…
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the actual title of this tune is
"the truth is something everybody lies about"
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Song #1 for the 2014 National Solo Album Month.
It's November again, so it's time for another NaSoAlMo. This year I am thinking of trying to write longish songs, and I would like to find a way to get my 12-string into every song somehow…
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This is the 45th song posted for 50/90, but it is really the 50th song to be worked on. Somehow it seems fitting to close off the festivities with a sappy love song that swings a bit.
Of all the crap I've written this summer, this is the…
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gig rehearsal recording. overdubbed bass and gtr.
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Another simple arrangement that uses dynamics to differentiate between verse/chorus/ect. I really like that gimmick, but I have to force myself not to do it, or I'd do it 100% of the time.
The lyrics are about depression and were written the…
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Silence in the air further cold
Breathing again.
Nobody can see into my old feeling.
No, no one can take this moment
No, no one can change what I think now
I want see
I want open my eyes again
Silence in the rain further cold
bBreathing…
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FAWM's 50/90 starts on July 4th, Independence Day in the USA, and wouldn't you know it New England got hit by the remnants of a hurricane that night. Hurricane Arthur was pretty much just a rain storm by the time it hit us, but it was still song…
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With Mr Sandbags (beats and reichatron), as band "Elusive Gene".
Played on BBC Radio Introducing. :)
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One of my personal favorite recordings from the 52 song MYTHOPOETICA demo collection, even though there’s a sound quality issue (the bass had a bit of a buzz). This was my first time using a wammy bar – I liked it!
PLASTIC GIRL
You can’t…
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This is "Blue Sun (Rise)" played backwards. Logically, it should have come after "Blue Sun" itself, but it flowed better here.
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Song from our upcoming mix-tape ARCADIUM, main artist Damien Reeder Aka Doc, and Fame D. Eloheem Aka Fame... Please share, and help spread our music to the world if you like it
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This is a dark intro theme for my new EP called 'The Wait'
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The Chenille Sisters recorded and I believe wrote this song.
Recorded live while I was learning it.
Thanks for listening, *Connie*
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23 - Hell's Embrace
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i don't need to love you
all you touch is all you break
(succubi always seem to love my face)
i don't need your approval
all you f--k is all you rape
(how can i crave such a cold embrace…
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Baby can you here the thunder tonite?
Baby can you here the rain coming down, down?
Lately Ive been dreaming of you lying next to me and I realise your gone
And I cant seem to find
A way to stop these tears, from bleeding out this heart of…
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We've always adored this song, there is another version but decided to re-record it. Now I think the Good Wife sounds quite good, when I think of the crap health problems she endured over the last 4 years. I am bias of course !!!! Lastly apologies…
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!!! Please use the utube link !!!!
as this is my piano moment #5 set to video that i made this past weekend Oct 6th 2013. Take Note of the sea lion at about 2:20 into this.. it has survived a meeting with a great white shark!! and is still…
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THE TWO (or the witnesses)
You are the town and we are the clock.
We are the guardians of the gate in the rock.
The Two.
On your left and on your right
In the day and in the night,
We are watching you.
Wiser not to ask just…
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Rerecorded with wah wah on the rythm guitar and new vox!
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Weaver of seams
Sew me a dream
Stitch me a shirt
Of anger and hurt
Pull out my hair
For all that was fair
Then make me a comfortable
Jacket to wear
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Thanks to Colin Garvey for giving his energy to this little duet... And to Genevieve for making good on a promise.
BORN AT THE RIGHT TIME
Born at the right time
Underneath the summer sky
Always walked a fine line
Making good and barely…
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Red string of fate... Go look it up!
ONE RED STRING
One red string
Forever tied
Through everything
I’ve ever tried
You can always bring be back to life
Just by coming ‘round
There’s something magic in your eyes
Or maybe something…
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All's well in Reg's world at the moment .......he woke this morning after meeting his new love last night down at the Dog & Bone it was Kareoke night....in she walked and Reg was hooked it only took one look........
Sweet Love (Lyrics)
you…
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Written and performed by Rob Kent
Recorded and mixed by Ciaran Thurlow
Here we all are on the same boat
All heading the same direction
All intending to get far
Always further than we are
Each voyage is plentiful
If not for your pockets your…
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A little late for Halloween for this ghost story of lost love..............
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Our history was held in objects and places. We didn't realize as children that we were standing amongst the ashes of the loves of our ancestors. Still, we knew back then that love was possible and that we'd all move mountains for it.
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This is one of those I made it up as I went along songs. Started with some chords to a click track and well it just had a life of it's own. Loosely based on some personal musical memories and a fantastic musician I had the pleasure of playing…
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Carnagie creepers jeep flipchart geranium. Evil streaking beakers leak bacon on a cranium. Lay low bilbo, said bag it mr. super, i shoe horn my corn fed friends with sally hooper. My time is 5 later, my eyes are radiators, my fingers are side…
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Had written this one many years ago. I had it recorded originally in a different key and with different instrumentation but it I just was not happy with it. I deleted the original lyrics for the chorus and added a bridge section and lyrics. I…
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With My Sister Kathy Bores
Last Waltz Of The Evening
The last waltz of the evening
Last dance of the night
I’m making the most of each beat of my heart
Music plays and I’m holding you so tight
Hard to see it come to an end
But it’s going to…
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So, I'll drink up, beautiful,
I'll leave bottles, up and down the coast,
When I get to that light house,
I'll burn it down, and laugh.
Skeletons rise up to meet me,
In a place where the waves touch the beach,
And hollowed bones, broken…
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Once upon a life
By OsCKilO
Once
Upon a life
Do we find
A happy ending
More
Are the times
That we try
To race from the line
Slow down Laddy
Wont you go a little bit Slow
So Daddy can
catch up
Hey there Laddy
I could run fast in my day
And…
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A new original from me. Another one-voice, one-guitar, "live" performance in my broom-cupboard. This time it's the good ole tin guitar.
I wrote this one in 2002 during the "dark years" lol. I've ummed and aahed over the years on whether to…
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I detest groups. It removes individualism from thoughts, and adds a false sense of comfort and ultimately dependence. They might be essential, for efficiency, for communication, but they should not be celebrated as much. Or maybe it’s just misanthropy…
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#4 for the RPM Challenge.
Have you heard this melody before? This is one of those where I wonder if I've unconsciously "borrowed" something from someone. Translation: the Fly Boat, like the tourist boats that ply the river Seine and their bright…
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a little piece of whats left of the other Reg.......
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New AR track, really keen to get a great mix, so I'd be very grateful if you could let me know how it sounds on your speakers. I'm a bit unsure about the bottom end.
Any mastering tips?
Thank you!
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Music and lyrics by Brian Vaughn.
Lyrics ---
Long time love always hit the road running.
Got a hairpin trigger and a problem with drinking.
You brought your mouth to a gun fight darling.
Automatic mind got the last word coming around…
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...with light emerging among the old branches, and staring at the nought.
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I did this weeks ago & then found it again last night as I was archiving old files. This is one of those one-off improv sessions... I recorded the rhythm guitar in one pass, then one "lead" pass and then one vocal pass, and done. Even the…
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I'm really thinking of renaming the upcoming "Burning Wood... The Bonfire Sessions" album "Stealing Genius." I write something simple, put down some picking at the beginning, some acoustic guitar and some vocals, and send it off to people with…
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Another Bowie cover. This time stripped down and played live.
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One of my early collaborations with Norm.
Down by the riverside
Where all of the fish had died
I threw my faith right in
When I saw it, it was sinking
Oh don’t you go
Don’t you even dare
Don’t run away until you’ve heard…
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This song was a challenge to write . . .
LYRICS:
Order for your protection
under threat of a gun
You might be confined here
till the damage is done
Lock him up and toss the key
It's for your own good
Straightjacket
Done
Tie me…
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here is my cover of a boy named bri's "some may say" from his 2011 RPM album. the original is here.
http://alonetone.com/boynamedbri/tracks/some-may-say
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Draft (in kitchen sink mode, still) of a track from "Figgle Your Winger" eta 2012... a sprawling tone-art-poem sometimes in 5/8 meter. Some synth parts created on iPhone with Synthpond.
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written on a Bad day with Chicken pox....
But Spent a Great Day with my Son who also had it.
Jim Called later that day.
He added a vocal/Lyric the day after as my voice is shot...
This is a song about good times with your wee ones..
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This one started as a the title line while driving in my car. All I had was the line and it's melody. I built the song around that about 6 months later. The lyrics are self explanatory.
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Written & Recorded: Feb 26, 2011
GADGAD Capo III, DADGAD Capo III
This is probably my last track for this year's RPM Challenge (leaving it incomplete for 2011). I'm kind of worn out and not feeling super inspired this year and I sort of…
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The music is a repeat - but the video is new. Press "more"
Sister Savage had the original idea for the "holy haunted aquariums"
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I watched a few episodes of Metalocalypse and Dethklok inspired me to make this jam. I don't think it turned out "metal" enough though. The harmonized sweep arpeggios were the hardest to play. Hope you like it.
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I remember weekends thinking we could last forever
I remember everything that you said was so clever
I remember our hearts fading like a burning ember
I remember wishing that our ties would soon be severed
I remember why I left you
This…
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1/1/11; took bits from two of Mark's tracks from Pleasure Listening (2002) and improvised in Max with them, then mixed in DP. a mellow vibe for the new year.
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Some guy called me back in college when I had a particularly odd outgoing message on my answering machine. He left me a message in return and I kept it all these years, finally putting it to some use.
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from the album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals & samples from Barney of Vivian Circle
I’m just singing for the war, inside me
Four thousand soldiers dead, maybe more, maybe more
It’s hard to read between the lines, so blurry now…
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the first done song from "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals from Keith Martin.
If you're waiting for the fall
If you’re pushing on the wall
If you’re listening for the call
It’s not coming
If you’re pushing on the wall
If you’re listening…
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When all else fails................play some harmonica.
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a grove ready to inspire. Let me know if it has inspired you.
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Guitars/Mandolin/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2006
Nothing special, the last track I wrote and recorded for this unfinished CD.
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The first recorded version of this song, this little folk song was originally written fifteen or so years ago with just the four chord rhythm guitar and single vocal. The song became what it is today when I needed to write additional verses for…
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Year: 2008
Album:
Singles
Artist's description:
Many years ago a brave soul uploaded several recordings of his sister's recital to a newsgroup I created for amateur musicians. I asked for, and he gave, permission to use the recordings. Well…
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Sorry I think I've uploaded this before but got deleted...promise to have something new in a few days.
Darrin Kobetich-left gtr
Kavin.-right gtr
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Wanna go for a ride? Hop on in! (Many thanks to JQScutt for his excellent guitar work!)
Lyrics: Charlie Ryan & W. S. Stevenson
Guitar: jqscutt
Percussion & Vocals: Norm
Lyrics:
Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod Race…
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Little country ditty with a "hook" :) recorded a few years ago at Boyd's in Wylie. I am singing lead and harmonies. That keyboard player is my talented cousin, Robert Nichols, who turned me onto this site. You can search for him here on Alonetone…
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This is our summer fun jam. We wrote it in February, but that's just testament to our amazing imagination.
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Sometimes the most profound statements come out of the mouths of babes.
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A happy kind of electro pot-pourri.
The process:
- find a sound, noodle in Ab
- find another sound, develop a compatible noodle
- repeat a couple of times
- program a beat
- add replicant
- find other sounds for a B section
- find more sounds…
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A cover of The Missed Connections off her 2010 RPM CD.
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The first track recorded for RPM2010 for the album Integer
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This is the title track from our three song EP. The other two songs, "Still," and "Pretend I'm Dead" ended up on the LP, "Novella Minor," but we left this one out, not being happy with the overall recording, and feeling that there were songs that…
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J.V. Andres - guitar, vocals
Veejay Andres - piano, vocals
Played as the final song and recessional during a church Advent service. A Sufjan arrangement using traditional lyrics by Reginald Heber.
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Another electronica styled piece for Ocarina of Time's Lost Woods. I think I made the melody too low, what do you think. Other then that I think I captured the ecentricity of the song through this mix. Also the choi adds a bit of fidelity I think.
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Ok ya I know the song itself isn't Truly Final Fantasy VII, but this remix was intended to be hard and grungy like Midgar so... put 2 and 2 together and you get fishsticks.
Enjoy
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This is a remix of my earlier track [Metaphysical Beat 2](http://alonetone.com/sandbags/tracks/metaphysical-beat-2). In fact it's the 4th remix but the first one I'm really happy with. I even found myself trying to dance along to this when I…
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