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KY69. Based on a Californian radio station that plays awesome music all around the clock. The characters are wildly in love but won't admit it. The car is outrageously sporty.
Apart from everything mentioned in the lyrics, it's a true story…
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Well, this is why I don't play drums. It's the best Moon I could pull off. I keep hammering the gtr riff over and over, but it's because it was so much fun to play. Its structure is a little too meandering in hindsight, but oh well. For whatever…
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The riff came to me in a flash and was probably the first time I recorded an idea on my (then) new micro-cassette player. It was supposed to be one of those spoken songs, complete with 70's backing vocals. I don't know if I pulled it off, but…
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I have discovered PERCUSSION! At least, I had rediscovered it back in 2002, which is when I think I did this one.
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So, I get this e-mail from a friend who had gone to NYC for a conference. At this conference she meets the love of her life, and the weekend turns into a steamy one spent locked in a hotel room. Slight problem...she was already married. She didn…
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A song for someone you know. A song for everyone you know. A song about denial, and denial of denial.
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I really debated uploading this one. It's kind of weak production wise, but it was part of the album. You may love it, hate it, but I decided to keep everything intact. Warts and all...
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An early one from that period. I was still learning how to do everything myself. It was fun to record, though in hindsight...well, it's a little thin.
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We all know someone like this. Sometimes I'm like this. Anyway, recorded using my Epiphone semi-hollowbody. I love the gtr sound on this one. Again, it's older, so the sonic quality isn't anywhere near what I do now.
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One of my first favorite songs...I had this idea floating around for years, even tried it with the band in late 98-99. This 2001 recording comes closest to capturing what I hear in my head.
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Ok, so on this one I wear my influences on my sleeve. This is one that quickly went in one direction so I decided to ride it to the maximum. I still like the words to this one. I'm no Costello (Elvis) but I did ok here.
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The title track. I still like this one, though it is somewhat dense, sonically speaking. Another song where I think I pulled of the lyrics relatively well.
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When anger knows no bounds. When betrayal begets rage. When sleep brings no rest. When fighting is just the beginning.
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So this track was purely for the fun of it. I was messing about in Omnisphere and came across this wonderful sound that reminded me of the guild highliners in Dune.
I built a beat around in using Stylus, Ricochet, and Dubstation. Then added more…
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hazy, green eyes, growing
thinking harder than I can
narrow down the choices, simply
eliminate the obvious obsessions
eliminate
come together
we'll see if it gets any better
cause forever, is forever and ever
staring at barely and missing
beaming…
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I almost thought I knew it, so very close to space and time
it almost makes me lose my mind
2 seconds closer to the, the moment fleeting thoughts are mine
so far away, so close
grasping, the memory, the secret, divine
I never knew that someday…
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the future is uncertain as certain people know
the road behind as vague as the one before us
certain singularities seem less certain every day
the road less traveled once so clear has simply gone away
check the compass, check the atlas, wish upon…
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Featuring our friend and guest vocalist Martin DeBourge.
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This song is a tribute from BHP to all the Browncoats out there.
I'm a leaf on the wind, watch me soar...
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This is quite an old track that got abandoned because I didn't feel it was right or going anywhere.
But listening to it in iTunes this morning I thought it passed muster. I don't think it has enough variation to justify it's length but it's gently…
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This song asks the question, do you know the answer?
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Our national obsession the television gets cut down to size in this track, see if you can figure out what it has to do with a geisha?
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A song for the Dick, Cheney that is, sing along now, sing it brøøtals.
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We use R.Kelly as an example for how easily we're willing to spend a year watching a trial involving urine and the celebrities that are careless with it. We have given up on the news reporting on subjects of value that actually have an impact…
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A simple lesson in finding somewhere to unload your excess urine.
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To protect and serve their corporate masters, cops have been getting away with massive atrocities on the streets of our lovelorn cities, this is a little stab at their black and white world of corruption and double standards.
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Inspired by a vision of someone dousing the flames of a burning flag by pissing on it.
We've been letting certain fat cats piss all over our freedom, we shouldn't forget that freedom is not a privilege it is a right, those dastardly bastards…
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Certain technology has made us soft and slow and easily distracted and though it started out as a way to make things easier for everyone, it has turned into laziness, and we don't even use that extra time for anything of value anymore.
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There once was a town called Kalamazoo and there once was a venue called Kraftbrau, but then an evil Wizard named Sean Smith came along and decided to fuck everyone right in the mouth. He did it for the best reason possible, to make more money…
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A story to my love. I'm not perfect, but I love you.
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This is a new song off our 2009 release " Middle of the Night" . Available online everywhere in late summer .
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Lyric:
SHE
She,
Shes never far away from me.
She always gives me what I need.
So that I never want.
She,
She never strays too far from home.
She rarely leaves me all alone.
She's my whole world.
She,
She watches over me.
She…
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Apparently I wrote this three years ago, well, August '06. I just found it. It picks up after a minute or so...
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it is winter. there is breath. it flows in the forest. the white fur is hidden in the trees. it moves slowly toward the heart. the heart beats fast. it runs. the white fur moves slowly. it will always catch the heart, no matter how fast the heart…
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Quite the tongue-twister, Jason's STILL trying to catch his breath after recording this re-worked traditional Irish folk song
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"Tell Me Ma", was featured on National Public Radio's Second Stage. As NPR put it: "Beatnik Turtle is a remarkably prolific and fiercely independent rock group based in Chicago. The eight-piece band includes a full horn section and has been making…
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Mick McGuire was "all that" when he was dating the family's older daughter (who was 40). As soon as he married her and spent all the money, poor Mick was subjected to his Mother-In-Law. Mother-in-Laws have gotten a bad wrap for hundreds of years.
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Another Irish classic. This song tells the story of a group of pub regulars who, upon learning that the pub is on fire, head to the cellar to drink all the booze. You know, cuz it's free that way. What's a few burns?
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This was the song that launched the entire SHAM ROCK album. This is what happens when you turn up the tempo, crank the volume, and add a horn section.
As with most of these songs, we came up with our own music to add to these songs. So, the…
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Have you ever heard a traditional Irish folk song re-worked as a ska song? No? How about with an additional Spanish horn riff? Well, now you have! This song tells the story of an unfortunate guy who hooks up with a girl in the kitchen of her boss…
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Beatnik Turtle's take on another ol' Irish classic.
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We couldn't resist breaking out the traditional Irish instruments halfway through this one and going all Celtic on your arse.
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This old song had a lot of braggin' in it. So, we couldn't resist giving it a bit of the old skool hip-hop flavor.
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This song's extremely popular and so has been done to death. We decided if we were going to re-make this one, we had to try something new. So, we hit on the 7/4 time signature, the melodica (thought it was bagpipes, didja?), and arrangement. By…
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Another ol' Irish song about drinkin' and smokin'. Who knew?
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Contrary to public opinion, the term "The Holy Ground" doesn't refer to the Emerald Isle. Nope. It's the name of a whore house that Irish sailors would visit. The Irish have quite a sense of humor...!
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This is the first public output after going through about 40% of nickstutorials.com sound design series.
All the sounds started off with my sampling myself either saying something, clicking my fingers or clapping. They were recorded through…
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Something I came up with on a Sunday afternoon.
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My D & D days coming out to play.
Lyrics
Gather round
a fairy tale
of waiting ladies
a Prince's vail
First real love
for the King and Queen
pass this day
where the wizards play
by the castle walls
casting spells for the…
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late night, impromptu, its like emotional diarrhea.
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an exploration,using a loop station and guitar rig effects,of musical soundscapes
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I Believe by far my most beautiful instrumental track, much the
opposite of You Forgot Bush's War Crimes. Maybe because I haven't commited any?
I'm growing to accept that most of the time, my instrumentals should be short and
sweet.
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I've never heard "Horse with No Name" all the way through, and i wasn't trying to
rip it off, but i really like the melody i wrote for this and it turned out to fit
perfectly with the sound of the bass. Really proud of my composing on this track…
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This was supposed to be my "folky" track, but I love the way this turned out.
It was originally written Napalm Shoot up but My Chair took it's place on that
album.
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Drinking coffee at my modest kitchen table around noon, after just waking up, I
starred out the skinny window next to my door and saw the back of a stairway. These
Lyrics were partly inspired by Bukowski's style, partly remnants of growing up…
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I don't know if even I can tell, but this is inspired by Captain Beefheart's
Trout Mask Replica. Ok, maybe its not so well hidden. Katie Lawrence can be heard
on this track, recording this having never seen the lyrics prior to.
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A couple months in a metal band called Season's Legion inspired this song. The
lyrics were written in what we (Katie Lawrence Co-wrote) thought would be what
their singer would have written for this type of song. The title was supposed
to be…
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Not much to say about this but that it's one of the first songs I actually
wrote down every note for. I think that makes it a small cut above most of my
instrumental songs.
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Inspired partly by a co-worker who was a great, now lost musician. This track is
somewhat about my five year stint in Gallup, New Mexico (Bob Dylan anyone?). This
was written as a poem before I started writing Slumber Love.
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I'm not usually good at mixing two of my songs together, but i think this turned
out great. Maybe a little too Velvet Underground. Maybe nothing is ever too
Velvet Underground... Written just for Abide.
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Supposed to be the biggest joke on this album, Candle turned more into an actual
like-able song. I was trying to make fun of Sonic Youth stuff, but it ended up
growing and becoming an instant Mud Octave classic track. The Lyrics were written…
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This is one of the songs I wrote for Filthy Time that's been hiding
in the back of a notebook waiting for music to be chugged out. I'm
really glad I let this seep for a while before letting loose.
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This song is one of the few i wrote just for Abide. I've been listening almost
non-stop to Dylan's latest release and this is what I got out of it. I mean no
disrespect to Bob, just trying to sing my songs.
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I. The triumphant space pioneers land on the new planet, set up camp and decide to have a party.
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III. The ion storm draws nearer to base camp, and with it, weird alien creatures that are part bug, part raw energy. The bugs play fetch with the elemental forces that surround them.
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1, Intro to the arduous task of facing one's personal wall.
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2. "This Wall Within Me" exposes the struggle to overcome one's own limitations during the RPM challenge. Story (and struggle) by Mick, music by Alan Hall
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Self-titled opening track from Dead In The Water. Part one of the Format Sea suite.
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Part 3 of the Format Sea suite. Probably the closest thing to honest-to-goodness electronica here.
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Format Sea - Part Four. The outro.
(One of the spots where I actually think I got the vocals fairly okay.)
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Sorry - I forgot to take my medication when I came up with this one.
It began as an exercise in strange sound effects, and developed into this exploration of headphone space.
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There's some kind of Tool/Pain Of Salvation vibe to this one, albeit murked up by a lot of electronic ambience.
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A quick transitional piece - sort of a hybrid of ambient drone and louder rock.
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MMi's Voices
http://alonetone.com/mmi/tracks/voices-3
MMi wrote the song. I programmed percussion, recorded tabla and vocals.
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This should be the final tune from Nitro's "Wanna Dance" album project. Ruthie's "theme song". I added the slide guitar at the end.
Nitro:Guitar/Drums/vocal
Ruthie:vocals
Tommy:Bass
Charlie:harmonica
Bull: Keys
Rick:Lead G.
Kavin:Lead G.
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This is a song that I wrote. Once again I am playing all of the instruments and doing the singing. The style has been described as a mixture of Depeche Mode and the Human League, but I don't know why anyone would think it sounds like the Human…
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This is nothing to do with what I've been doing.. The truth is I was bored and turned on my roland juno-d and I started mixing up some sounds and well this is it, I know its not my musical area but wanted to try...
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instrumentation:
synthesizers, nylon acoustic, electric guitar + violin bow, tabla, voice
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this is the slow version of a 6/8 over 4/4 idea repetitive thingy...
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Friday evening. No plans. Life is good.
No major trickery to describe. Just three tracks and a whole lotta reverb.
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Just a little political tale from the dark side. another quickie.
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