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This ain't no song about being pretty and watching out for nutty boyfriends...Listen more closely. ;)
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This song sounds like a lonely road by the beach in the late summer/early fall. Try it out when the weather is cooperating with you. Then, reflect on who you are.
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Track 7 from 2011 RPM Challenge project "Studies in Motion".
Full project at: http://otherhood.rpmchallenge.com/
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Track 3 from 2010 RPM Challenge project "Things Change".
Full project at: http://otherhood.rpmchallenge.com/
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Track 8 from 2009 RPM Challenge project "Even the Bedrock Grooves".
Full project at: http://otherhood.rpmchallenge.com/
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Call that dark, feels cold to me? And I'm waiting for the sound of dead leaves falling.
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A retooling of the song done a year later for The Party 2005. It ended up winning the MP3 competition (because I was too late in entering it in the tracker competition).
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The original version, written in response to LAN goers who used the software and didn't turn off their sound effects.
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Your life (and mine) in two minutes and 50 seconds.
Internet Rock Star
Words & Music by Demetrius P. Hill ©2009 all rights reserved, Oct 8, thru Oct 10, 2009
So You wanna be an Internet rock star
Not the kinda fame that’s gonna get…
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Noodling around one evening, playing with harmonics with a crunchy autowah patch.
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) watchdog
nervus rex, the dog king,
barking mad in the barking mud,
ex-watchdog turned home-brew technologist,
made the following observations:
ideology is a concave mirror;
there's no such thing as a clerical error;
only sidney…
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Track 5 from 2012 RPM Challenge project "Ipseity".
Full project at: http://otherhood.rpmchallenge.com/
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From the RPM Challenge album "Take Us In to the Sky"
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From the RPM Challenge Album "Take Us Into the Sky"
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featuring Mathias Kom on trumpet, horns and backup vocals
Black Widow
Black Widow don’t hesitate
Lock the door, draw the shades
In your web I have been caught
Not enough to fill you up
Leave me a skin
A shell of the man that I was…
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Album: Red Milk (RPM 2012)
Written by: Marc Poirier
We Get Old
We used to go out in the snow
When we felt the urge to go
With every passing season we get old
The tricks we used to play
In the snow where I would lay
Made a promise…
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Ten stubbed out Embassy lay scattered on the floor
The silhouette behind the curtain disappeared from sight once more
Listening in again
Listening in again
The target reappeared, this time his luck was in
The microwave detector read the password…
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When you sat in all the cheap seats
With the money that you paid
I recall the optimism
Then the contempt that you displayed
I had nothing to say to you
On the day you lied
When they had to clear the harbour
To drain the sewage that was there…
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It's six in the morning but it feels like it's ten
The pain in your head has returned once again
It was your answer, your bounty, your prayer
You consumed more than you were aware
(Chorus)
What goes up must come down
Denial overcomes the doubt…
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With the flick of a switch when the light ran away
And the last scraps of daylight abandoned
Instead of feeling secure inside the cozy retreat
There were noises just outside on the landing
When the shadows crept through the deepening gloom
A twinkle…
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You shouldn't try to keep your secrets
And then just run off to confess
I'm sure you've got your own reasons
To fight the movement to suppress
Acting parts in your own theatre
But going blind under the spotlight
(Chorus)
Even though it's all…
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Feels like a lifetime ago that I wrote this back in 2002; sometimes it's good to remember .
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Watching events unfold in Syria...I can't imagine what its like...to all those caught in the crossfires throughout the world...hang in there...
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Special thanks to Dave Desoucey for the bass track.
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were all going to be dead one day ...... what do we care?................
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Part of The Kitchen Sink, AMUC's RPM 2012 album.
If you like what you hear, you can also find the entire Kitchen Sink album as a playlist, with everything in the correct order.
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Sometimes my mail
Stacks up for days and days and
Email? The same.
(Technically not a haiku if you pronounce "mail" as one syllable. Oh well.)
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Something else I'm playing around with for RPM 2012.
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New Original track done the Open Concept way ONLY Vocals and Beatbox. Inspired by the recent events of a close friend. Enjoy!
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Lyrics:
Here's a dance that even you can do,
Cos you don't have to move more than your wrist.
It so simple that it requires
Even less coordination than the twist.
You can squirm about all you want,
Or you can stand real still, just like…
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will i ram/jesmiaus/cryptic meadow 's "mosquito summer killing" bye bye remix
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A tribute to Hawkwind
The Surreal Age of the Naked Lemon
Haley's Comet flies across the English sky and the Saxon king will not survive
It's a dark dark omen a foreboding warning it's a dark dark Amen like a beautiful morning
On the…
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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Live recording at Michelangelo's. Paul Mimlitsch playing an ES-175 and myself playing a Goodall 12 string.
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Live recording at Coffee At The Point with myself and Paul Mimlitsch playing electric guitars Paul is playing an ES-175 and myself playing a Fender Stratocaster.
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hollow eyes
feed the birds
shells of cars
litter the streets
broken homes
desolate roads
this is how we devolve
who cares how we made it here
truthfully i just don't care
who cares how we made it here
cold comforts get us nowhere…
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W/M by Tharek Mokbul
-Lyrics-
When the world is in battle,
It grows hard to see,
The fights that occur within lines.
Constant distraction dispensed
From the top
of the castle
With oil down its sides.
All of the effort
now wasted…
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I think this song is about falling in love ... the way attraction can be a sort of a shortcut ... and the way real love feels.
I'm working on this track as part of my RPM/2012 effort. This version is simply the first cut recorded on my iPhone…
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Sometimes it comes down to the simple pleasures of life.
Written by Greg Connor
Lyrics:
Hop into my Lincoln Continental
Head on down to the greasy spoon
Table or booth is inconsequential
Long as I can find some room
Waitress coming with a…
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Hi, this is my first publicly released track, please do comment, stating what you like, what you don't. enjoy!
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Song #2 for the RPMC. My goal is to have 12 short tunes (1-3 minutes long), so I need to pick up the pace.
Again, quartal tuning on the top 3 unison pairs of the 12 string. I've been listening to Ralph Towner's Blue Sun, hence the title.
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a shrill shit
a shrill shit shatters the moonlit midnight air
despair distorts the dreamy darkness
twists its fluid form into a gloomy dankness
looming like malignant vapours
over stagnant pools
you are surrounded by fools
grounded by…
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timothy and the tramp
as timothy walked past marks and spencer’s
the muttering tramp stood up and looked him
squarely in the eye and said:-
i have seen the great
bear
crouching on his haunches
in his cavernous mountain lair
and…
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Well i didn't think the lyrics fitted the tune first time round so here's the second attempt............more a song from the miss spent youth that the man today......
ONE OF THEM DAYS (Lyrics)
The sunrise screams my mind wide awake
My head so…
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The Brood have gone visiting and i have sometime so i've been busy as you may have noticed ....so heres a ad-libber with the £16 special....i always write miserable songs when i'm happy the happy ones come when i'm depressed....i'm normally quite…
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I have dreamt of starting a stoner rock band called "God Mode" for a while now, this is what it would sound like.
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Name inspired by an episode of Sliders, song has nothing to do with the episode and is pretty self explanatory.
Features Gilly (http://alonetone.com/toolniner) on lead axe pumping out some sexy licks.
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Inspired by Voyager's recordings of Jupiter as it passed by. Check it out on youtube for more info.
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Inspired by and very very loosely based on a movie I watched that was made in the 30's about a naive small town guy that moved to Hollywood to make it big.
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A sci-fi-ish song about the sun burning out and the universe expanding to the point where it tears itself apart.
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An old guy checking into his deathbed and coming to terms with it.
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This one sat around for quite a while collecting dust until I picked it up a couple days ago and started tinkering with it. I think I like it.
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Here's a song I recorded a couple of months ago when I had the flu ... as the voice reveals :)
Recorded early in the morning,in the bathroom, using the built-in mics on my boss br800.
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The other Reg has got the Blues too the Folsom kind......
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Opinion is divided as to whether Simeon (also sometimes referred to by some sources as "Simeon the True" and by others as "Simeon the Pretender" was the agent of the Psimians, entrusted with the sound engineering of the ancient songs according…
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bedtime for bonzo - recorded in glorious 4-trak at lotek studios in the '90s
well i came home today
and i turned on the television
and i tried all 17 channels
and there was nothing on any of them
except trained monkeys
trained monkeys…
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i've started to take some Blues lessons from the Reverend over on Cool-Lab and this is the first attempt over his backer in Am and i couldn't help myself i had to sing along as well....hope you like the first effort...BB watch out!!
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Sometimes, reaching out and touching the stuff that's hidden deep down inside is the most rewarding hiking you can do.
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A story of a girl, growing up to be a woman, a wife, a mother ... but forgetting about herself ...
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You know how it is when you look around, trying to figure out what everyone is doing and how they lead their live, looking for an answer to how you should run your own ... don't ... otherwise, you'll wind up with a life that is just a cut-and…
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Spun around like a seer's needle
A philosopher so lost in his riddle
Tries to speak but no longer able
Drifting in the deepest dream
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This one took me a while [years!] to complete - how did it come out?
Freesound samples used…
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this is from college an old free jam with Joel and Dean.
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I wrote a lot of songs as a teenager in the early 80's and recorded them on a cheap push button cassette recorder. This song was sent to a local radio station as part of a contest and actually garnered some airplay and was a minor local hit, despite…
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This is an unmixed preview of the song "Amy" from our upcoming record "Du Willst Action!"
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Conga (John David) & Kaosollator (Dean Palermo) 1st take.
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acapella vocal loop
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron
Water turned to stone
Snow had fallen
Snow on snow on snow
In the bleak midwinter
Long, long ago
- Christina Rossetti 1872
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Another festive cover, this was recorded in December 2010.
Written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan.
(Please let me know if there is a copyright issue here and I will happily remove the track. Thanks.)
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The experience: First reaction - "This sound feels so wrong!". Second Reaction - "My eyes are opened!". Third Reaction - "This sound feels so right!".
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The first sound reminds me of my father's first electric piano that I play with when I was 5 years old. It's a simple beautiful thing! I tried to create a snapshot of simplicity that blossoms into a full blown "Christmas Extravaganza".
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originally written and performed by Rural Alberta Advantage
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(Snakeskin Sally)
Open E tuning - EBEGBE
She wears a snake skin belt that says SALLY
and she's working at the lumber yard
I know you're thinking, "With a job like that
the lady must be hard."
She cuts my glass. Threads my pipe.
She really…
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My most requested song.
(c) 1990 Royal T Music
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THE BUDS AND BLOSSOMS
I've been meaning to write you a letter
But I did not know what I would say
I've been thinking about you and your new love
And wishing that there was a way...
And the buds and the blossoms remind me of you today…
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I wrote this song after planting and fertalizing a crop of sudan grass just to have the sun shine down with no relief on it for 100 days and no rain. We, Texas Water, were heading home one night AFTER A GIG at Gringo's in Grapevine when the…
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Rough draft Gustav Holst's In the Bleak Midwinter. Debating whether to ruin this with a vocal part or not.
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This is the title song from my first LP.
FEATHERS IN THE WIND by SNOWGEESE.
Snowgeese was my first wife, BarbaraAnne and me. Michael was a new friend we met when we moved to Texas that liked my songs enough to produce and arrange and record…
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HOEDOWN
Hey now. Hoe now. Hey now. Hoe now.
Chop that cotton. row now. Oh. Oh.
...two, three, four. Hoe now. Hey now.
What you got to say, now? Tell me what you
said. What’s in your pretty head now.
Swing your partner. Oh. Allemande right…
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COAL FEVER Key D
D D sus D D D sus D
When I got the fever I was eight years old
Mamma called the doctor. So the story is told
G…
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The lyrics of this song,
as they pertain to plot,
are my exact memory of the event.
I had spoken to the kid maybe a minute before the "action" started about how the pressure of the water was very strong. He was nestled down with his back…
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PEGGY'S GONE Capo @ 3 in C
C G
Peggy's gone, after twenty nine years
Am F
Three grown children. What…
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This song was written about being around someone who just didn't take any notice of what they were doing and took no notice of the warnings you had given them about their actions, so you had to go.
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Dare ya to not be singing this the rest of the day
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Something like a Johnny Cash song, at least that's where it started. Demo.
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Was this the first song I actually recorded? Degraded copy since the original has perished.
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The guy who lives next door to the guy who has lots and lots of friends...
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