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This will be about grief
This will be about love
This will be about missing you
Will be about love
This will be 'bout you being gone
I've sung this before
This will be 'bout me moving on
I've clung tight to this before
I don't need release…
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I think that I'm
Incapable of thought
I craft and work
As that's what I've been taught
But see no joy in Rothko or Matisse
Their brushstrokes leave me cold
A value you can't teach
Teach me to feel pain
Teach me how to love
I think that…
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I place a dust sheet over chairs
Where we would sit, hold each other tenderly
No need to dwell on it
No need to dwell here for long
It feels like time has moved
Where we spilt wine and paint all on carpet tessellations
Conversations empty…
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lo-fi kinda thing ripped from a sample of the Green Hornet radio show
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one of the batch I made for this year's RPM. The ending veers into G-Funk territory. The bassline reminds me of the heavy part in *Sunburn Vs. The Rhinovirus*
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my vision's blurry round the opening of your mouth
and i'm not so sure it's sound that's coming out
just take the time to form the consonants and vowels
cause i'm not a lip reader
never learned how
not for lack of wanting
mistaken vocab…
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looking through the backwoods
I heard that motor start
I knew that you were leaving but I knew not very far
coming up the driveway I knew it was my chance
running through the backwoods
we'll meet by happenstance
looking at my kingdom which…
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mixin' up a little bit of something special
want to make you feel like we're in this together
it'll make you larger than life
from my pocket, roll the dice
it suggests just what the next step is
and knowing this makes me better
throw…
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she's got a confident way of talking
knows where she's going when she walks
her fashion sense is never shocking
but it says "she's a boss"
it says "she's on top"
there is no question she can't answer
whether it's secular or trife
she…
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I'm wishing someone can go for a ride
I'm wishing, I'm wishing you well
I've got something that's growing inside
I'm hoping, I'm hoping I'm well
we got no backbone
we got no soul
we've got no back-up plan
no one can know
why you go rushing…
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It's a b-side song for RPM 2024, mostly because I needed a second song in order to create a playlist here.
I need a b-side songs for the flip side
A b-side song to prove that I tried
To put in the effort, to get things done
To try to…
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I needed to keep the streak alive.
15 years of RPM.
But life has been in the way. Considerably. It's not worth getting into, but music is currently so far down the priority list it's not even funny.
But I found time on the 28th to…
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As February and the RPM Challenge approached, Margaret was surprised to find herself gravitating toward country music this time around, but she rolled with it and finished the lyrics in time for us to lay down some scratch tracks on 2/10. Over…
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This is me and two friends goofing around a campfire with a travel didgeridoo, Otamatone, and Stylophone.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
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Robbie’s ode to a favorite vacation destination on the Gulf of Mexico.
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitars, bass, recording, arrangement
Kenny Tannehill – background vocals
Margaret Bibb – background vocals
Kevin Craig…
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Just Leum and an acoustic guitar. Sometimes, that’s all you need. :)
Leum Monroe – lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitar
Kevin Craig – recording, mixing
Our Surprise
by Leum Monroe
Would I stand near the ocean just to hear your cry…
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Ok, not really a djembe, just a plate, but I needed the alliteration for the song title.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
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This one was quite a journey!
Robbie recorded the main guitar parts and a couple of vocal takes on his own, then invited the group to come up with additional parts. On 2/17, after we’d finished up recording a bunch of other stuff (including…
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The title pretty much says it all. I recently got a Theremini, and this is me trying to figure it out.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
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Robbie put together a 5-minute track (“E Rock Jam”) that was meant to feature a bunch of guitar leads from various folks and maybe some vocals, but the timing never quite worked out to get those laid down. We did, however, record some of John…
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I was hoping for more background noise, to be honest. I even went out and recorded just some background noise to mix it in. This is the epitome of "phoning it in".
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the…
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The idea for this one came to Margaret as she was walking to the studio for band practice one night, and we’re glad it did!
Margaret, Robbie, and I (Kevin) recorded the main takes together live off the floor during our usual band practice timeslot…
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I'll leave it to the listener to decide if it's more of a bonus to listen to this track or skip it. This is more of the didgeridoo/Otamatone/Stylophone session.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024…
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Another Monroe-Robinson collaboration. So glad Kenny brought those two together a few years ago!
As with a few other tracks this time around, Robbie recorded his parts on his own, then we replaced the canned GarageBand drum loops with actual…
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This one was kind of a scatter-shot collaboration. Robbie was playing around with the guitar riff before band practice one night, so Kenny and I (Kevin) joined in on vocals and drums, respectively. Robbie recorded that jam, then fleshed out the…
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This short track also spawned from Robbie’s “E Rock Jam”, though in a more roundabout way than Sugar Free Jam earlier on the album.
On 2/17, we recorded John’s drum tracks for the full 5-minute song, then got a take of Cody playing keys along…
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Another lovely Monroe/Robinson collaboration. This one was recorded piecemeal across the whole month of February 2024, with Robbie adding the guitar lead on 2/29 while I (Kevin) was doing the final(-ish) mixes!
Leum Monroe – lyrics
Robbie…
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Everything was recorded live off the floor except the harmony vocal track, which was added a couple of weeks later.
Margaret Bibb – lyrics, songwriting, vocals
Robbie Robinson – guitar
Kevin Craig – recording, bass, mixing
These Old Boots…
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Toward the end of the month, I (Kevin) got a wild hair to try something silly with Robbie’s sweet little acoustic ditty about the cycle of the seasons, which lets us end the album on a sweet and hopeful note. Hope you like it!
Robbie Robinson…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 16 becomes finished song number 17.
This one will make the album, I think. I kinda like it even though I am sure I have written this exact song about 100 times before. Oh well. It has a nice 6/8 groove…
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That satisfactory feeling after all the hard work is done.
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The mischievous hungry tech pirates at it again.
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 13 becomes finished song number 18.
I like this one. It's kinda bouncy and fun. The melody is better than my usual crap too. A little bit better at least.
Rhythm guitars are a Les Paul Custom. Leads are…
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Various LABS instruments and a couple of Hainbach plugins in Reaper.
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VCV Rack patch reacting to an audio field recording. Cheers to Omri Cohen for the excellent patch walkthrough!
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Messing with an audio field recording in VCV Rack.
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Built an Omri Cohen patch idea in VCV Rack, recorded a couple of takes, then edited and arranged the results in Reaper.
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 14 becomes finished song number 19.
Fmajor7 to Eminor7. I use that change a lot. I used it as the entire basis of this song. It didn't really work. This one doesn't do much for me. It's okay, but it's not…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 20 becomes finished song number 20. Fitting, eh?
This one isn't going to make the final album. It's okay but I think there are at least 10 songs better this year. Oh well. I'm too tired to care. 2.5 hours…
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A sea shanty that I wrote for the collaborative "Mayors" project. Featuring Jarrett Osborn on drums.
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February ProTools project files into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February ProTools project files into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February projects into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February projects into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February projects into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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Into the wind I felt it
Let her in
Past all the scenes I sold
In fewer words the motives
Can’t begin
They’re always pacing pacing
And I’m looking for a red eye
And my train’s not coming round
And I can’t defend tonight
I gotta take…
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give me a love with a heart that’s beating
give you my all as the world is reeling
hear what i say, don’t assume my feeling
coming to you with my hopes up kneeling
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smile - nod my head
emphatic agreement
i want you to know this team is my bag
please don’t take this earnestness
to be a fake, a ploy, a way
to get ahead
Costs nothing for me to smile
Costs nothing for me to shake
Let this sincere…
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i won’t deny
i was afraid
what kind of lie
what kind of fate
all the unknowns
push them away
what can you write
what can you say
can you go and tell to someone
how my life’s now broken bottles
can we come back all of a sudden…
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Wildfire - neighbors to the north
See them as they flee
Wildfire - smoke that falls upon
All our city streets, that’s you and me
Wildfire - burning hot again
In the springtime breeze
Wildfire - are you ready for it
As it makes a comeback…
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I won’t fight (this) no more
I’ll acknowledge the score
I will get on that floor (right)
And get down
Get down on it
I won’t hide no more
I will run through that door
Then you’ll see what’s in store (right)
And get down
Get down on…
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headed out - the night was new
took a minute; taking two
and it felt like you could make a few
long walks
but no one knew the route
there ran a stretch all dense with trees
along a field; we stood beneath
and in the leaves we saw
a…
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We stumbled upon some recordings from years ago. Sheehan made something fantastic with them.
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i’m living in flub city
my baby she’s got no pity
cuz basically no one will hear me
an empty grave is what i’m talking about
did i leave a mark? would it give me a spark like frankenstein’s monster?
i’m living in flub city
my baby she…
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Well I felt much better than yesterday
And I won't say nothing
But you can't give all this time away
Give me a break
Please say something
But a forced word's not worth much today
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girls y'all stop running to me alright
i'm taken and i'm so up tight
this ring shoudld let you know by it's shine
if you can't see the glow go find
let me first tell you she's great
she's bumping all over the state
she springing my anaconda…
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Throw it away
Throw it away
Murder your darlings and make a break you can’t
Keep them all hanging round this place
We all know an ending’s never a waste
Take it away
Take it away
What’s so special it can’t be safe and we
Felt the loss…
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I can knock 'em down
I can knock it off
I can knock it down
I can knock 'em down
I can knock it off
I can knock it down
I can knock 'em down
I can knock it off
I cannot get down
I can knock 'em down
I can knock it off
I cannot get down
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RPM 2024 track two .. exciting commentary to follow
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A guided meditation with ukelele. I thought there would be more uke on this album ...
RPM 2024 track 4
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RPM 2024 track 7
A good friend of mine has a Samoyed. This is a song about him.
I was hoping for a kiiind of Cheap Suit Serenaders feel. Acoustic guitar, a 1920s tenor banjo and a brand new mandolin.
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Recorded for the compilation Passed Love on Passed Recordings. The full version of the song is available at https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/passed-love under the name Twilight Sleep.
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Sometimes I remember that I don't know how to sing XD
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Instrumental intro to my album, slow riffs to set the mood
Written and recorded for Record Production Month February 2024 for my 10-track Demo.
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This is a song about the conflicting ideas around masculinity I had growing up in England.
Written and recorded for Record Production Month February 2024 for my 10-track Demo.
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This is about the first time I met a Non Binary person, before I had even heard the term or considered the possibility that that could be a thing.
Written and recorded for Record Production Month February 2024 for my 10-track Demo.
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This is a song about the Pink Power Ranger, I desperately wanted to be her when I was small. Best role model ever.
Written and recorded for Record Production Month February 2024 for my 10-track Demo.
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How hard it is to question yourself while you're also just trying to live your life. How to act? What to do? It gets existential.
Written and recorded for Record Production Month February 2024 for my 10-track Demo.
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How hard it is to question yourself while you're also just trying to live your life. How to act? What to do? It gets existential.
Written and recorded for Record Production Month February 2024 for my 10-track Demo.
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I've honestly forgotten what this song was supposed to be about.
Written and recorded for Record Production Month February 2024 for my 10-track Demo.
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When I was small I wanted to be a girl and I didn't even know that was possible! Imagine if I grew up 30 years later - perhaps I would have had a very different life.
Written and recorded for Record Production Month February 2024 for my 10-track…
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Sometime you can feel very lost on this journey.
Written and recorded for Record Production Month February 2024 for my 10-track Demo.
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It's funny - I'd forgotten all about my childhood ambitions to cross the gender boundaries and just be myself. I remembered only a few years ago while talking to a friend about their upbringing and all these memories suddenly started coming back…
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Set it down on the spot then overdubbed a tiny bit. For a friend who died much too soon... played an instrument, see if you can figure out what.
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