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George Brown - Music & Lyrics, Guitars
Brett Picknell - Bass, Keys, Drum Programming
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it is a short experiment in automatic music creation. a choice is made to use a major pentatonic scale. this happy creature is born. he is young, and small. however he has big feet. it is comical music? it makes you smile?
it is bigger version…
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Started recording this with no idea what to do with the sound. Wound up with three different vocal takes to choose from, didn't like any of them, used all of them.
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This song was recorded illegally. Please don't rat us out.
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Original working title was something like, "And after six years I finally understood why they sing in the streets here, and could go home." It's sort of about anonymity in the modern city. If that sounds pretentious, that's because it is.
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I am concerned with the values of my generation.
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I'd be lying if I said this entire track wasn't sparked by the opening audio clip. It really made me think about the ways some people create their own enjoyment. Cool.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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A fantastical farcical Irish story-song. Broadway Irish.
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i saw the curtains changing color
i watched the sun room come alive
i have been sitting in this rocker
wondering when you might arrive
i am hoping for redemption
cant stand the way i feel
i know it is only passing through me
rivers flood…
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start here at the airport
feels like im going blind
middle of the day in a dark bar
1000 miles away from peace of mind
im tring to remember
when i was a kid
did the sun set in my back yard
i think it did
what comes before and goes on…
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everyone thinks a lullaby is a soft song for children. Not anymore.
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1.Afsluitdijk
...is a Dutch word and it's the name of the dam/road going from the province Friesland to North-Holland (and Amsterdam) The lyrics are about a 15-year old boy who feels so trapped in the boring Frisian town he's living in that he…
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Lyrics:
I don't know what you want
when you treat me that way
I can't help being turned on
Is that what you want
Just to see what I would do
To see if I'm in love with you
I'm trying so hard
to sit here and ignore
the way that you…
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A lazy hound lying on the couch
sleeping the day away
The sunlight comes pushing through the curtains
warming the old dog's face
The savory smell from a wood burning stove
holds you while you awake
Brew some tea while others emerge…
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Lyrics:
Slow days start to shape my mind
into a feedback of
negative thoughts that undermine
my efforts to get rid of
impatience wasting all my time
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The title is a reference to the rain in "Pain" and how once the pain is gone you feel like it's a new day.
My first foray into multi-tracking vocals, with mixed results. I like the effect, but I just had realized I can sing about half way…
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A well of thoughts continues, but who is it dreaming in the white room? Midnight has drifted away, and we're headed towards the dawn of the next day.
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The final version of this track:
When escaping events that are falling apart, be leery of strangers offering gifts - particularly when they look like something out of Children Of The Corn and they offer to lob you into orbit with a giant catapult…
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"In a reformatted world with deleted people, there are still enough dead links that some individuals might indirectly be aware of the existence of those deleted. To everybody else, they'd seem either spiritual and/or mentally imbalanced…
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somewhere around 3 minutes you should here the sound of people chopping down a tree in the Peruvian Amazon turn into the beat of the song. This song was somewhat influenced by Kim Hiorthøy.
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The cosmic equivalent of standing on a ledge and jumping off, except, like Mr. Hawking established, black holes sometimes regurgitate their meals - the original matter is usually corrupted in the process.
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From the RPM 2009 album: "Like A…
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From your parents you will learn everything and nothing without even realizing
lyrics:
Don't look in the mirror, your skin will never seem as soft
Don't wait in the middle when your mind is already made up
Just make it home, please…
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Fun little tune about the evils of strong drink.
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Guitar and vocals. Kind of the opposite of last years 'Honey, Why You Stay With Me'.
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So many people today want to be the musician they idolize; be somebody that they will never be. This song is for them.
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You never let me smile
You never let me out of sight
You never let me live
You never learned you had to give
I'm taking it away x 2
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Let me introduce to you
Every woman child and man
The place I did my growing up
Raised by grandma's hand
I think you'll find
That folks are kind
They're sure to ask you in
Enter the warmth
Close the door
And my story will begin…
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Tell me can you teach me bout your finely written poetry
Dont care about the content I just want to make em notice me
Such a fine hand they'd say wooo, study it closely
Been practicing all day I think I'm ready least I aughta be.
Caligraphy…
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It aint like no ones done this before
But how can you tire of beautiful chords
In the fifties
In Tenessee
Where my love
was born
Two young men upped and
crossed the yard
both cold cos it was rainin hard.
One of them turned said…
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This is a serious idea. Gives a good feeling of what this can become.
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‘Cut Up’ was a very challenging song for writing bass parts. The guitars in that song are rhythmically dominating. The pay off was a dense piece of music.
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We've scrapped many songs but 'Murray' is the oldest song that has survived the test of time.
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This track is an idea that stands out among the sea of bad ideas that come out of my head. This is one idea, this isn't a clip of a whole song. Let me know what you think!
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This track is an idea that stands out among the sea of bad ideas that come out of my head. This is one idea, this isn't a clip of a whole song. Let me know what you think!
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This track is an idea that stands out among the sea of bad ideas that come out of my head. This is one idea, this isn't a clip of a whole song. Let me know what you think!
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I don't want to leave you
I don't want to turn and walk the other way
i don't want to leave you
even though you've never heard my name
and i rise from my grave
as if the world was mine to save
you were so cold and lonely
your offer…
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the cold collides, outside, oh woe
this hopless day, the warm resides, inside, makes me want to cry
the emotions, that i hide, oh woe
this hopless way, confide with the sky, don't ask me why
and the branches swining, and the animals play…
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you used to be a person in your shell
now you're just a shell
so big inside your home
the turrets face the lowly masses
so big inside your home
obvlious to the world as it cries out
and the sun begins to shine upon our tiny world
and…
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A laid-back funk instrumental. My habitual place-holder while I work out what else to put up.
Music, Guitars & Baritone Guitar - Me!
Percussion - DrumsOnDemand
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My big hit, I guess. Everyone seems to love this track. I do too. It's inspired by The Mars Volta's track "L'Via L'Viaquez," but I took things in more of a Pink Floyd direction with the extended synth solo that is evocative of the instrumental…
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Cover of original track by Beaus of Beethoven.
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Cover of original track by The All-Night Workers (early song co-written by Lou Reed and JJ Cale).
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It's another war song. The lyrics pretty much tell the feeling behind this one.
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You will be asked to take a small survey regarding your feelings at the exit.
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Self-esteem to the xtreme.
An instrumental track I've redone from scratch from a 2006 version, but still want to completely redo someday.
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Recorded: Feb 20, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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Major noodles.
Notes to self:
Sonically, this is challenged. Try feeding the midi to a completely different synth patches.
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So, I'm picking up the pace now! Hope the quality is not too ropey...
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This is the first of 3 dramatic pieces I wrote for piano
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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…
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This is a quirky piece. I'm not really sure if the sounds go together but I kind of like it. I made this piece with Reason 4.
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One in a series of trip hop beats that I am making from samples that I recorded with an ensemble in January, of Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire". Although we never got to play our "Pierrot Redux" in live performance, let nothing go to waste. I dedicate…
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Growing up is hard.
For everyone.
I once had a Facebook Friend named Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick. A poet, from Midland, Texas, doing advanced studies at Sarah Lawrence. She was so good she could write a hundred pages about how she couldn…
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Quick and Dirty memo to self.
Crunchy lofi guitar + voice.
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first demo song with my albuquerque band Seasons Legion, on guitar is David Rael, on drums is James Burton
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lyrics:
i got a hot date
and you know i don't wanna be late
i need a ride
to the bowling alley
get ready cuz here i come
put my new skirt on
chewing peppermint gum
did my eyebrows fresh
white musk on my neck
part my hair to the right
cuz its…
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first song "completed" for rpm 2009, needs a whole heap of work but would be happy if had to include as is. at least it's a start!!
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Recorded: Feb 14, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGBE), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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This song is a theme song (sung by Liz and accompanied by a simple ukulele tune) for an imaginary tv show about a guy who was kind of a dick and died at work and now haunts the new guy's cubicle, generally fucking his shit up, knocking stuff over…
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too many woman have been abused, mostly by people they know.
This song is for them.
Eyes and ears have been shut for to long now.
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This is pretty much God's message to me as the result of a pretty angry prayer. I hope my bandmate will add some harmoica to this. This is a rough cut.
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That didn't stop her.
Main vocals/bleeps by Shreya, keys and backing vocals by me. Actually, my baby daughter was in my arms while I was doing those vocals and she started crying. Even though I cropped that part, I didn't use any noise reduction…
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