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[Thanks to Helen and Colin for coming to my aid with the warblings! :) ]
When You Least Expect It
And you're out to dry
And its all too hectic
Thats when it comes x 2
And it feels electric
And you feel alive
Cos when you least expect…
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01 – My Prayer. Written and recorded 16th Feb.
Paying homage to ‘Our Prayer’, the opening of SMiLE – the Beach Boy’s album that never was. An extended version of this song appears on ‘28 seconds later’, an album on which each song is exactly…
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02 – Falling Down Again. Written 17th/18th Feb. Recorded 17th/18th/19th Feb.
A slightly schizophrenic pop song, with a vocal section that also betrays me wanting to be a Beach Boy. Worryingly there is actually a red sticky trickle that seeps…
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03 – Meteorites. Written 2nd/3rd Feb. Recorded 3rd Feb.
Inspired by the film ‘Stardust’ where our hero meets a (literal) fallen star. The painful low vocals were particularly fun, and their emotional cracking was acting rather than the fact…
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04 – Machiavellian Ways. Written 5th Feb. Recorded 5th/9th Feb.
Mark Morriss has written some really witty triple rhymes in a slightly country fashion, and I wanted to try it too. Although I am not sure if I succeeded, I had fun - and got…
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05 – Officer’s Mess (March). Written and recorded 2nd Feb.
This is as close to beat-boxing as I am able to do. I can only apologise for the smutty pun.
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite.com/uglifruit
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06 – Lullaby. Written and recorded 14th Feb.
A song for the sleeping.
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite.com/uglifruit
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07 – What’s ‘Round Here? (A Mystery). Written and recorded 22nd Feb.
A mystery.
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite.com/uglifruit
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08 – Feeling Confuzzzed. Written 19th/20th Feb. Recorded 20th Feb.
Come on Wembley, let’s see those hands in the air. As poppy as they come, including plenty of la la las to sing along with. I was very pleased with my Harrison-style slide…
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09 – Carry On Crying. Written and recorded on 12th/17th Feb.
A 5/4 romp starring Sid James and Hattie Jacques. Godley and Creme will direct the video.
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite.com/uglifruit
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10 – Strictly Rehearsed. Written 13th Feb. Recorded 13th/14th Feb.
More upbeat shenanigans, this time attacking someone’s who’s off the cuff remarks are pre-prepared (and written as crib notes on their cuffs).
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite…
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11 – Eventually (Pop Song). Written and recorded 1st Feb.
A joyous celebration of the lie ‘Ladies First’. Honestly - this is pure filth, start to finish. Cover your ears.
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite.com/uglifruit
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12 – Goodbye From The Okay Chorale. Written and recorded 22nd Feb.
‘Til next time.
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite.com/uglifruit
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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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Pretty much the title says it all. It's about memories of my brothers and me. Only one of my brothers remains. My other brother only lives in my memories. This is for my brother Mark who became my sister Sandra. She passed on to a better place…
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Right. So, faced with the task of creating my first ever sample based beat, I decided to tip my hat to the sheer awesome that is the character Kara "Starbuck" Thrace from Battlestar Galactica.
All drum patterns were created by myself in Reason…
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This is about my paternal grandmother, Ma. She more faith in God than anyone else I knew then or since. I miss her to this day.
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A sample-based song that glorifies the absurdity of 80's arena rock.
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Title track to my RPM09 album.
Mostly ukulele and vocal, with a few other things thrown in.
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Fun little tune about the evils of strong drink.
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A song for the end of your last set of the night.
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Sequoia Memories...Capo @ 5
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Off the coast of California
Where the dolphins ride the waves
We stood and watched them from the cliffs above
Until the sunlight went away
Then we slept in ancient shadows
Underneath the redwood trees…
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An excerpt from a 40 Minute long (!) Ambient Noise piece; I like the grumbling bassline in this piece.
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Written for RPM 2009. My wife said "write me a song". Here it is.
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Written for RPM 2009. A song about having kids.
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Written for RPM 2009. Lyrics originally written in conjunction with Sister Savage many moons ago.
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Written for RPM 2009. Inspired by a piece of graffiti on the wall in the toilet of Nottingham's Rock City club.
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One of my best melodies, but I can't seem to get the vocals right. Would welcome any one else who might want to take a crack at it.
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I used to work in Chicago, but have my home in Ohio. This is travelogue on the trip home.
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Another ode to the affect my beloved has on me.
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The unwritten, often unspoken pact between lovers.
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A story about farmers, and how they are squeezed out of success.
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for the 2009 RPM Challenge album "Sabbatical"
Standing at the edge of Canyon de Chelly in Arizona at sunrise last summer I had an out of body experience.
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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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clarity during a swift beginning is a mirage yet unknown
lyrics:
Momma, you've got to see this man I've found
clean cut, honest, and so handsome
We're thinkin' 'bout pickin' up and movin' on
he'll get a job where we'll go
and he'll make…
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turning point #1
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It was spring time, or their time depending on which one you asked
how much it mattered to two birds flying away from the cold.
She sang and he'd swing, together a flight all their own on wings she swore were made…
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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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this song makes me think of a splintered piece of wood.
lyrics:
It's a cold day out, the kind where you think you're missing
the longer days with the sun beating on your face
but you're beside me and I think
the cold was a gift to lead…
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lyrics:
The silence sometimes
is all you have to say and I believe it, and you
and everything surrounding the skin beneath your eyes
Time's without a shield or an attack against the sight
of a lifetime that was burning you by
And I may…
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Recorded in Logic Pro 8. Inspired By Weird Guitar tones.
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Recorded in Logic Pro 8. Inspired By Debussy a bit.
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Recorded in Logic Pro 8. Inspired By Leo Brower a bit.
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Recorded in Logic Pro 8. Inspired By Debussy and Chopin a bit.
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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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"You let her go, didn't you?"
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From RPM 2009 Album entitled "Like A Dark Mirror Keeping Its Secrets". Sample credits to be posted when I upload the complete album.
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How's the volume? I didn't quite get it close to 0DB, and wasn't…
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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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sung by my family for my mum's upcoming birthday
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From the RPM Challenge 2009 album - "Like A Dark Mirror Keeping Its Secrets":
Native American Industrial?
Sample credits will appear with album info once posted.
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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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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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Fun/Silly song. My first recording with [the Hang](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_(musical_instrument\)).
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An instrumental song about happiness and puppies and vampires and possibly vampire puppies.
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Rough sketch of a proposed dreamy 12 string piece that I couldn't pull off on the 12 string so did this quick electric version with vocal pads. Not sure of the recording quality- sounds OK in my cans and kinda crappy on my monitors. Recorded march…
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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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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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The art of marketing is to sell you emotional states, not products.
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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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The response to the telegraphinar communication, from a darker perspective. The deleted don't like to remain that way. Even deleted files still lurk somewhere.
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Experimentation with polyrhythms - it goes in some weird directions from there.
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An abduction of sorts - the abductor has honest intentions but perhaps a twisted sense of wrong and right.
(Having your atoms jumbled up by a black hole sometimes has that effect, according to that Stephen Hawking guy. I think Stephen King may…
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Oh crap - somebody broke the multiverse. I should have known those #?%! black holes were a serious security flaw.
We were really meaning to fix that, but never got around to it. (It would have cut into our golf time.)
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The monitors of the omniverse are bored out of their mind, and wish something would happen to break the monotony.
There are some things that transcend the laws of physics - Murphy's Law is one of those things.
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May be a little soft for…
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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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Hurtling towards oblivion thanks to a giant catapult owned by a foul-mouthed voodoo child, he sends a final lewd finger gesture back to the world he sought escape from.
Unbeknownst to him, Voodoo Boy may have a vested interest in using him…
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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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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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There was an entirely separate piece under this name, nearly finished two days before the 09 RPM challenge finished, but while taking a break before getting ready to do the final mix this version came to me in the shower.
Sadly, the towel wiped…
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