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Hmm...Now where have I seen someone getting hassled by someone who should just mind their own business? Where indeed!
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John has carried this story with him since his early days in college. He worked at a place called "Moore's Foodland and Laundromat" and delivered groceries and laundry to their customers. One in particular was a woman named Dixie. She had and…
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Carl has a lot of his music up on SoundCloud. This is one of Carl's songs that John discovered there and helped spawn the thought of getting Carl's help for the RPM Challenge. It seems this is a song recalling a time when there was someone…
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a deluge of insight
bright screen
but illuminight
pick your favorite poison
what color truths
do we choose to imbibe?
a whisper from dark corners
don't let the shadow of facts
detract from false light
the part of the brain
that…
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(Apologies - very cussy lyrics! I ate an entire bar of Irish Spring soap to repent.)
tappity tap
tappity tap
fingers on the glass
how did you end up in
this goddamn rat trap
with your head stuffed
up your a--
you dreamt a picture…
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Excess intense, eye-watering energy I didn't know what to do with then did. This. Overpowered turned into a music slap.
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Okay... there's a lot to talk about with this goof ball.
The first song I did this year had a drone-like fuzzy guitar. I did it again here but I wanted the song I put around it to be different than the other one, even though the changes are…
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This is the 10th and final song for my RPM Challenge 2021. It is a long piece inspired by Tchaikovsky's The Sick Doll. It opens and closes with a modified piano version from the beginning of Tchaikovsky's piece and then twists and turns into…
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The Memoryhole
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Here was my house
here used to be our shop
now this is all that's left
of the world
where I grew up
They changed the names of streets
and squares and buildings
and parks and statues were…
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It's time to decarbonize --- let's just get on with it!
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First "real" song I finished, way back in the day for RPM09, and that pointed the direction for where things would eventually go.
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Another from RPM11 - when I went back to re-learn this one so I could transcribe it into the 8 bit format, I thought, "I'm really glad I came up with this riff."
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I just listened to too much CNN and FOX over the past year.
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A raw & acapella unleashing with no effects whatsoever - aural apologies but RPM deadline looms and I wanted something full frontal.
Caveat leo feminam!
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Robbie sent me the first rough mix of this song on 2/21/2021, and we collaborated on it for the next few days. (Uploaded on 2/28/2021.)
Robbie R. - Lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitars, organ, recording.
Kevin C. - Drums, bass, recording…
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Karma Working Overtime
T Boudreau
I can see that your tired and uninspired
A bit too wired to sleep
You’ve pondered all there is to wonder
I bet you’ve counted every sheep
And all those endless ear worms in your mind
That's karma working…
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John wrote this somewhere around 1972 or 1973. This is pretty much a song about the conflict of self vs. what you think is expected of you and the casualties that are impacted along the way. There was probably a lot of James Taylor influence…
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I've had these lyrics around a while - an older version of this song, just called "Casual Sin", is also available on the "Experimental Dandelion Farm" compilation.
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I got the first and last lines of the song from a story prompt site, then tried to bridge them together with the rest of the lyrics.
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I aimed to produce a 30 minute EP for RPM 2021 and made this 3 minute beat instead. The plan was to get as many songs early in the month without being slowed down by detail, instead I spent a month tweaking inaudible drum parameters.
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Set em up one at a time
Then knock em down to ease my mind
I‘m just trying to unwind
From a world that’s less than kind
And I’m just trying to decide
Were you just wasting my time?
The thought has come to my mind
We’re at the end of the…
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The only way to decide this bet
Is having you concede your place to me
Even though you’ve met your fate
You didn’t come to play the game for free
Well, there’s a limit, and you’ll find
You’re not gonna win it, every time
You won’t believe…
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As usual, the track titles have nothing to do with the actual music/sounds - I usually just pick something that fits with whatever theme/concept is in my head when it's time to get the cover art together. (This time around, it's power grid failures…
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The music is canned chords and patterns I pulled from EZKeys, then filtered through a plugin (Wires by AudioThing).
The story comes from a silly cartoon a buddy posted on social media, followed by my addition about saltines. The last line is…
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Listening back to this one, I was struck by a trio of mental images.
The first was a memory from a flight back from some business trip. The clouds and the angle of the sunlight formed what looked like a blasted landscape over which towered…
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My mood keeps changing, something's broken
Maybe it's you
Maybe it's not
I try to replace it, let the clean air in
But I feel so cold
Maybe you do too
I'll think about messaging you sometimes
But then I don't
I'm too scared to
I'll…
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Walk Away
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walk away
go your own way
walk away
vote with your feet
there's no reason to stay
don't grant them your power
don't give them control
don't let them fool you
just say no and go
walk away
go your…
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This is my first complete song and it still needs lots of polishing. There are a few timing issues I need to resolve and some gaps to put in and omit. I also want to re-record my chorus vocal... but for the sake of getting something submitted…
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This is an ode to my spouse of over 46 years. He definitely brings out the best in me.
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(Don’t Know Why) I’m Happy I’m Alive
Written By Fictional Name
Maybe if I just spent my time a little wiser
I could write myself a reminder
Frostbite has taken both of my thumbs
Language is what they're afraid of
It's a game of mystery…
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Originally I had a Motown idea in mind, and I kept my stomping and clapping, but the song seemed to lend itself to a more spacey-synthey feel, so I ran with it. I also am hinting a tiny (very tiny) bit at Joe Jackson's band's backing vocal styles…
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What else can be said of the last 12 months? Everybody wants a piece of my time. Get in line.
The riff came first and I walked around for days just banging it out non-stop. Hammer-ons for fun and pleasure...
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Similar to a couple of other tunes this year, the How Many More? chorus idea has been floating around my addled head for a few years, but again, it wouldn't come to shore. But in promising my ideas that I never give up on them, I tried it again…
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I tend to just say a filler line and that ends up being the only lyric I have time to ever (never) develop.
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Again, like "All The Good Notes Are Taken", I needed to use this title so I just came up with some music. The "song" is because of the title!
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We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.
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A song I wrote last September about... the weather or something lol...
lyrics:
when the ice melts on the window sill
cant abate the weight of summers kill
and in the morning when the sky's still pink
can you feel the chill in the writer…
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Trying to get out of an endless basement. The crumbling walls drip poisonous slime onto the uneven floor. low ceilings are supported by exposed beams, creating areas full of spiders. Some greyish light filters in through small and filthy windows…
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What? A fourth track? Is it even possible? Yes, it is.
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