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hopelessness. if you succeed now, you'll fail later. i wrote this song on a banjo :) but never got it in the recording.
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I'm human....I bleed. I guess i need to remember that....I'm not superhuman and I won't save the world. The opposite usually occurs...I am swept away in the bleeding of my mind, the bleeding of my heart, my desperate needs and unholy wants…
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Its my youngest daughters 18th birthday today so i thought i'd write her a song to celebrate it .....we shall be waltzing with Matilda tonight
You can have it all
It was a cold day in January
just like today
when you came…
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with Rek inside the Serra Vortex Sculpture at the Fort Worth MOMA
Rek: didjeridoo, percussion
Kavin.: guitar, loops, percussion
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Reg has been searching the internet again he reads one article and believes it till he reads the next one that disagrees with it... now he's not sure on any of it ......
Fabricated Rubbish ?
Problems with no sleeping…
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Reg decided to go busking down on the subway....
On the subway
Stood on the subway playing my music
As the world rushes by
Lost in a world of my own making
I don’t get washed away in the tide
Its lonely out here where…
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Took the dobro tuned to D6 inside the Serra Vortex sculpture. With a little help from some schoolgirls passing thru.
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Under neon clouds and faded signs,
It moves through walls and crooked lines,
Glass heart beating underneath—
A ghost of what it used to be.
It’s carrying a weight no one else can see,
Invisible chains in the melody,
Smiling through the…
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This is a song I wrote on returning to the place I used to live.
I tried to record it in the 'dream pop' style as suggested for the optional theme on this month's REM Challenge.
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He walks through the city, the lights all aglow,
Faces rush past him, but none seem to know.
He whispers to shadows, he speaks to the skies,
Asking the night where his true love hides.
But the stars keep their silence, the moon turns away…
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(Disclosure: Despite the Aug Upload, these are no longer the demo versions I had. I just didn't want to lose my high listen count... very vain, I know...)
Verse One
I’ve walked past the alter like a ghost
With my hands in pocket afraid to…
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credits: interpolates lyrics by Illogic and Lucid Optics, samples music by Lucid Optics
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(samples music by Jordan River Banks and interpolates lyrics by Killah Priest)
[Intro]
Such a beautiful wedding, a beautiful setting
See Her face up in space, the Mother of Heaven, the mother of second, the mother of seven
The Sister of…
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[Verse]
Just make sure you’re happy
Just do what you want, they’re crappy
They don’t give a shit about you
It's ridiculous rude
But take yourself down because they’re wrong? That’s ridiculous too
Artists ashamed of their art, it’s sad to…
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A paper empire, built off our sweat, a too well traveled trail.
A river’s rapid flow that carries you, well beyond the pale.
Now you’ve gotten what you need
Fairy tales forgotten
And you taken what you please
And paid us next to nothing…
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If I told you how well I know you
Would you tell me it's not true
Have you got yourself believing
No one could know you like I do
I know it's been a long time coming
So many others you thought would treat you right
But I'm gonna show you…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindalee_Operational_Radar_Network
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My cover of fellow RPMer Jarrett Osborn. I wanted to do something along the lines of Coheed and Cambria mixed with a Juliana Theory vibe. I ended up more straight out stealing from them but that is the beauty of covers. You can out right copy…
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Well the Cadillac was there when I left..........
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Ok, this one has a journey for its creation. The original riff actually came to me in the heat of late August 2013. I still remember when it came to me. It was in a different key, with a slight different resolution. It felt like a hot summer's…
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This was the only song from the 2015 RPM Challenge that did anything for me at the time. I clearly remember that. What I didn't remember until I read the notes from that 2015 alonetone post (which I did about four minutes ago) was that the guitar…
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The downside of writing about politics in February of 2016 is that it doesn't have any meaning in October of 2020. Oh well. This one and "Did I Offend You" were both written back to back on the last couple of days of the RPM Challenge and they…
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Another full band cover of an acoustic Kurt song. Apologies to KC for the guesswork.
LYRICS:
One less side of me
Wonder how I breathe
I know that I need
Just because
you want my seed
Seems to me that harvest’s overgrown
Step aside…
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some fun with drop C tuning
Nothing New Under the Sun ©2016 words and music by Jeff Cole
They say here’s nothing new under the sun
What there’s nothing like
Has already begun
They say there’s nothing new under the sun
You get those dirty…
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Something new here. Tilden Barger offered to arrange and produce this song. Tell me what you think.
Written by Greg Connor
Arranged and Produced by my friend Tilden Barger
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Miles Away is a very simple guitar riff and lyrics that match, but it's a song that came from the heart of one of the band's members. It's kind of a tune about a newly married couple...like most Prood songs it was recorded after one or two rehearsals…
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Nothing beats when the MN songwriters convene. Greg and Colin sure brought some awesome sound to this song at the coffee table to improve the version that I recorded myself earlier this month. It's what I call a TOTAL MAKEOVER.
Thanks guys…
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You're always on my mind
Gotta take you with me
Can't leave you behind
Blind to circumstance
If I can get a little more
Gotta take the chance
Flyin' high again
It's do or die
There's no need to pretend
Runnin' from wall to…
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It's not really a finished, polished recording, but isn't that the point of this website? Hope you like it.
sunshine and all the dust
faded colors up above
memories of the one I loved
coulda been the one
the desert she don’t forgive ya…
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I remastered this one that got deleted a while ago, still too much stuff in it but keeps rabbits outta the garden when i crank it on exterior speakers outside.
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Steve (SLKrell) and I have been competing over the same *"IMAGINARY"* girlfriend for years now.
And Yep . . . Steve started it. Well she's mine now, at least until Steve writes the next song. Look for Steve's music here:
http://alonetone…
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I have been wanting to do some Cream covers for awhile now and with the passing of Jack Bruce it seemed an appropriate time to record some sort of tribute to him and the band.
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my version of sabbath's - wheels of confusion.
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My new album, my first all-jazz effort, is taking longer to complete than I had hoped, due to my plans to set up a proper isolation booth for recording horn parts (sax, bass clarinet, trumpet). But I've been listening to the rhythm section mixes…
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Lyrics and vocals by Starry Nightmoth. Music by Gene Eric Mann.
FIRE
Firefly --
Who invited you bright bug?
Who said your friends could come?
Who brought down the stars?
Who danced all night long
Around my burning house?
Firebug…
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This a song about St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus. It is a prayer to ask him to intercede for us.
Papa Joseph
Guitar: Capo 5th fret:
G----------------------------------------- C-------
Papa Joseph, the foster father of Jesus…
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from the album xChange
performed by Alex Moody
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Wrote this after hearing on the radio of a bloke who ran off to France with his underage girlfriend and guess what? he's doing time (asshole) Thanks to Lady Jane for backing vocals
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I haven't mixed the song yet - it's really raw. Hopefully, I'll have it done by next month.
Lyrics/Music by Nick Plagakis
Am I a fool to love you
Am I a fool to trust you
You took my heart
And broke it apart
Now you come back
Looking…
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Looping with nLog synth app, with Glenn's bass on top off it, and some ebow.
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Just messing with a few chords and extended it a bit. Could do with some words, but can't think of any - feel free if you can add something) cheers
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A sample of the duo version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Additional Accordion, toy piano, and vocals
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jam at the Apartment above Oona's. Sounds like we were trying out old jam material we had not hit in a while.
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Well Reg decided to go out Dancing down the Disco to see if there were any young ladies about........he shouldn't drink!!!
So Wrong(Lyrics)
It was a magnet that drew me too her
But the polarity must have been wrong
She drew me in while I repelled…
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Reverie by Claude Debussy arranged for piano, violins, and violas.
Reverie may refer to:
A daydream
A dreamy state of mind.
reverie, an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character
“Rêverie”, a solo piano piece by Claude Debussy
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...the Bunker-Bar has been re-stocked...just in time for a visit from an old friend. Ladies and Gentlemen Mr Dean "Reg" Martin...
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THE TABLE by Jeff Prince
Funny, running into you this way after all these years
You hardly aged a single day except those lines around your eyes when you smile. She laughs as she recalls the girl that she was and the boy who chased her around…
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She was a bad girl but boy did she keep me warm in winter!
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Alarm is the first instalment on our demo, to really kick it off with a bang!
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Apparently this song is the quintessential Gary Fox sound. That's probably because it's done with a special guitar with a special tuning. Anyway, my favorite part of the song is the mid-section. This is a "listen loud in the dark" sort of song.
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All first take improvisations. 8 tracks of madness for your enjoyment. Ear goggles will put you inside this piece. Not recommended for the faint of heart!
Recorded between 9AM - 7PM on the 26th of February.
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i tell K.G. that this one is like the allman brothers and bruce springsteen doing a tune together. another kick ass K.G. tune. we played this thing alot and nailed this take live!
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Recorded for the Songcrafters.org fest, Live in the Living Room. Cover of the Doors classic, recorded live in the - uhh - bedroom. I played my Telecaster on neck pickup through my Danelectro Cool Cat V2 fuzz and my Biyang AD10 analogue delay.
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Merengues are fast arrangements with a 2/4 beat, originating from the Dominican Republic. The traditional instrumentation includes a "güira" (guiro), which is a percussion instrument that sounds like a scrapper. The Merengue güira is a cylinder…
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performed by Rob Medcalf
from the album "Sunny, sorta..."
is it funny? do I care what you say
(thinking hardly matters)
it’s not who you are at the end of the day
(thinking hardly matters)
you’re worse than a child so please go away…
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Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity…
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Chris sent this track to me earlier today with the request that I add some percussion to it.
I had something different in mind.
After the first take I was afraid to return it to him, fearing that he would convert it to 23 edo or something…
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http://chrisvaisvil.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/box_harmonics.jpg
I used Paul’s Extreme Stretch (PES) to take a hammer dulcimer + violin improvisation and divide it into seven streams based on just intonation relationships to A at 55 Hz…
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Rock from Atacama desert!
Music & lyrics: Diego Cardenas (Somno Project)
Diego Cardenas: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitars
Pedro Guzman: Vocals
Carmen Paz Nuñez: Bass
John Wooten: Drums
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when you wake up
and it feels like its further away
you get discouraged
could it have really gone unnoticed
what you're tryin to find
isn't so black or so white
it's more rooted in faith and less in fate
what you're tryin to find
isn't so gift…
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I'm finally happy with this track - v1 was too much of a nothing song and it's been bugging me all the way to the last night of the challenge.
1 more to mix
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Performed on Fender Mustang, Casio CZ-101 (keys, bass, percussion), vocal. Recorded via overdubbing on two cassette decks with 4 mono input radio shack mixer with radio shack 10 band graphic equalizer. Written in the years of Ronald Reagen's…
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I wrote this song after me and my boyfriend who planned on getting married broke up. I was in a very desperate state and I believe God gave me the lyrics to this song. It's amazing how His peace brought me through what I thought I couldn't bear.:)
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VOIP (dance for the solstice you fucking plastic robots)
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What's to say? That we actually have anything to do with what our government does? Ha! Even Woody Guthrie knew the truth. They just leave that verse out of his "anthem".
No Man's Land
Easy come, easy go. Nothing lasts for long
Pay your…
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An abuse of Brian Bazeley's Keeping the Peace by Norm Harris and myself.
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Friend of my put some lyrics to this one about his father. Hence the title.
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24-hour album.
This album is a collage of several disconnected pieces recorded & mixed over 18 hours or so.
I've left it as a single long track, but here's a sort of navigational guide if you want to skip around:
0:00 - 1:30 = Living…
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Have no idea where this one came from. I was strumming away and the words just came out. Seems to be about some kind of wrongdoing in the past. May have been possessed. Thanks again to Gary for helping out on lead..
In sleepy towns through…
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A collaboration that involved 5 musicians over several parts of the world. A crazy stalker tune - Has a soft/hard/soft format. Recorded with The Boss Micro BR(MBR), Mixed with Audacity and then mastered with the MBR.
More details in the Youtube…
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You know those people who like to break out the family photos or something of that sort with which to bore their guests? This is my version of that.
Most of what makes this song special to me is for all the same reasons that you won't share…
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Okay I need to say a few things. Please read before listening!
I did not do the 24 hour challenge but I did try and hang around in the chatroom as much as possible with Glu, SisterS, and ChrisM while they battled through it.
At about midnight…
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sexy synth pop tune.
It's still rough around the edges
but it's time to unveil the idea.
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Sudara sent me a guitar piece he was working on... So I added a song. And it didn't turn out at all as I expected.
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This is my 12 hour song (written, recorded, mixed, mastered) ... I pined away all day at it while a storm kept me company.
instrumentation:
a man lost his house and sold me his fretless bass for next to nothing. a family friend gave me…
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a moody ethereal track. recorded straight from the laptop mic, so not the best, but had to capture it before it faded away.
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A track created for a character called Rainy, on the North walk (entitled "Life Is Monumental") of "Charm City Remix", a site-specific narrative by Kianga Ford.
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Grackle Live Straw Drawing improv
Miguel, percussion
Kavin., fretless Chinese junk strat, loops
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A sort of pentatonic pairs improvisation with a looper and drum machine
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I made this for the "Cooking with Deluge" challenge for July 2025, and also for my Hyperphantasia album project. It was partly inspired by the music and parade scene from the 2006 anime Paprika. I started by sampling some pots, lids, bowls, and…
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Darlin I been dreamin about the moon on the prairie
The way our voices carry, the song on the radio
Arm out the window, dipper in the sky
On a solstice night
Darlin I been dreamin about the breeze on the water
The mountain and her daughter…
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Making tunes feels like swimming through mud at the moment ... make that quick setting concrete!
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you may fail but at least your not square .....
Don't waste life being square
You’ve got tomorrow and I’ve got today
to let all my dreams just roll away
You say theres nothing o letting it go
That there tells me you don’t know…
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Prophet 12 Desk Module
Hydrasynth Explorer
u-he Diva
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[Verse 1]
Integrity integral to integers
Gibberish, that of the just natural, not detritus
Firmly wound around dignity
Sea quiet, limit speech, lips just sealed
These inhabitants free radicals
Training on battleground to stand your ground…
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This is actually a pretty old track, made in 2011 and released under the (now defunct) Ember Music label. I only now realise it never got uploaded it here.
Alonetone bonus: this version is 11s longer than the released version!
I guess this…
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Hello, today’s topic is healthcare
I’ve worked in healthcare for a little over ten years
I got a BS in medical laboratory science
So I’ve seen a lot of things, and the public should know that, they already know that the healthcare system is…
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The Our Father in Latin and sung a cappella. I don’t really know any Latin but I’ve tried to learn to say some of the basic prayers. For me it’s a really nice way to pray sometimes and frees my mind a bit to focus on God. This melody came to…
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A friend got me excited about writing short instrumentals for Video, TV etc and posting them on Pond5 ( A site catering to that type of thing). I recorded this little banjo piece this morning.
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I Want You To Know - A A J Russe
Written 21st June 1987
Recorded 6th March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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This was to the same lady who inspired Foolishness. There's a couple of others from the same period, related to her, that will…
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Cross my heart, and hope to live forever
If we’re wishing we might as well jump
Bittersweet, sepia tones rolling down the canyon,
Turning my head
So long this long refrain
So long we’ll meet again
Flying past though leave no trails…
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I developed a strong obsession with the building blocks of pop songs and tried to craft one. Unfortunately, I wrote it in a key that was high enough that the combination of the rapid-fire words and the pitch nearly made me pass out while singing…
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