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a state of denial/hope
lyrics:
I don't care what bad boys say
with their little white lies to keep themselves safe
drown themselves in fermentations
all good girls go to heaven
I don't care what bad boys say
with their little white…
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An ambulance ride through the poor side of town; a delivery of self and social status
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The outside was a barren wasteland;
dilapidated houses
garbage on the ground
And the buildings' aging faces
echoed the sirens
and her pain across…
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Turning point #2. The storm clears and though there is an endless blue above, clouds will forever be a part of the sky.
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Another description of my relationship with my beloved.
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Written while awaiting a CD from one of the artists who participated in the 08 version of RPM.
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Bass-range phasing experiments with a distorted waltz fading in and then out over top. Probably best to listen to this with some pretty good speakers, otherwise you'll miss out on all the interesting parts and just get a couple minutes of boring…
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Just what it says - a series of emails I wrote once, read aloud and with piano backing.
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Just under the wire (it's Feb 28, 23:47 in my timezone)... last track for RPM09
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rpmchallenge is exhausting. even when you don't have kids, or aren't taking classes, or don't have lots of vocational responsibilities. so, I didn't give up. I finished. but I thought about calling it quits. this song was a thought along the way…
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An instrumental song about happiness and puppies and vampires and possibly vampire puppies.
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Even the cosmos needs system maintenance. When its IT department decides to delete something, sometimes that something doesn't want to go without a fight. Even computer viruses will do what they can to avoid the reaping hand of a virus checker…
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Spoiler here: This song ends on a down note, but not to despair. The sequel to this disk starts right where this one fades off and will be titled "...Not Forgotten". This song was done in a way that implies a live show, like a few of the other…
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Another synth driven track, exploring the new found instrument. My usual style of singing behind the beat doesn't work as well here as I would have liked, but it may get redone soon. We shall see.
More positive lyrics over fairly dark music…
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Originally, this was not to be the title track, but as the album evolved it became more and more obvious that this was the overall tone of the collection - to not forsake one's dreams, faith or music due to the world intervening. My first attempt…
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A strange blend of slide guitar and synth, both new techniques for me this year. This was originally just a way to learn how the synths worked, and was never really intended to be used on the album, but the low synth line ended up catchy enough…
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A very raw take, inclusive of mistakes and the dog wagging his tail to play some extra parts for me. He seemed puzzled that I was singing to no one, so he assumed it must mean I was singing to him!
One of the strange harmonics is due to a…
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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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Pain is inspired by my bout with severe nerve damage in my lower back. As anyone who has ever had a good hurt can tell you, it gives you an internal feeling of chaos that often comes and goes in waves and spikes. The music follows this pattern…
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I was walking through the square when I heard the towers fell
from a stranger passing by
and they caught it live
couldn't believe my eyes
And we talked a lot about what it meant to be
a free society
and our resiliency
but we…
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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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"Choices" by Nikki Giovanni
If I can't do
what I want to do
then my job is to not
do what I don't want
to do
It's not the same thing
but it's the best I can
do
If I can't have
what I want... then
my job is to want
what I've got…
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The most ambitious tune; about a singer that starts out in the late sixties and ends up in the oldies-circuit doing his last big hit from 1982 three times a night.The vocal is a bit low in the mix. I might upload a special mp3-mix for Alonetone…
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I started this one at the end of januari in preperation for RPM. I added lyrics and vocals in february. So it's kind of a bonustrack. Just another throwaway popsong with the awesome stylophone in full effect.
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song about my favorite things, my guitar and my girlfriend.
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Song about a guy who is the other man in a woman's affair.
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Imagine the whole world was like the movies of the 1930's, Black and White.
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three striped gum
falls out of an old dresser drawer
fills my head with memories from before
causes me to close the door
i feel rotten to the core
three striped gum
falls out of my pocket in the rain
what would have happened if i played…
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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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A Bonus track for "Summer Twilight on Triton;" more of the same, but shorter.
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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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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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**_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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Music for a computer trying to find the answer to the ultimate question.
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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 Aliens are landing and a doomsaying prophet is declaring it the end of the world!
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This is basically an accordion jam with a nice bass line!
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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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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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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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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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Sundays have always been a disappointment for me. If you've never spent the entire day just moving about, drinking beer, enjoying the weather and putting off the upcoming week, you should. Maybe not every week.
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Corporate boardroom buzzwords are meaningless and worse than useless.
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A song about someone I know, or at least used to, who is almost as much a mess as the metaphors I threw at this effort.
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instrumental. no relation to westley and buttercup, just the title that stuck.
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neglected children are coming back home to roost
kind of goes with 'fret.'
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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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Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming, Arranging
George Brown - Guitar, Lyrics&Melodies
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Jim Tyrrell - Keyboards, Writing, Arranging
Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming, Arranging
George Brown - Guitar, Lyrics&Melodies
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Brett Picknell - Music
George Brown - Lyrics & Vocals
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Was learning a Chaimaria song and getting better at palm muting. This is the result.
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An upbeat hip-hop type number. Made mostly in Reason as I recall.
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Been listening to far too much Black Devil. This is my tribute.
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A sort of electronic/post-rock thing. Came up with a wee tune on the rhodes and built around it.
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I tried so hard to write vocals for this. I even had some recorded but couldn't bear to leave them on. Anyone else wants to give it a go, let me know :)
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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