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Written and recorded over a couple of days in Feb 2016. A songette.
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My step daughter sings in her school chorus, was the lead in her school musical, has a fantastic voice, and is well on her way to becoming an outstanding classical pianist.
But she don't know blues.
She decided to try out for her high school…
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Here is the 18. Exclusive Single from Mordant In Flesh.
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Here is the 18. Exclusive Single from Mordant In Flesh.
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Simple enough, musically. Just a little 6/8 swing. I tend to go here when I am writing a bunch of songs at once. There are probably 20 little 6/8 swingers in either Aminor or Eminor buried here on my alonetone account.
The lyrics though…
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I woke up at about 6:00am on February 1st, picked up my iPad, opened GarageBand, and immediately noodled out the bass line that became the chorus on this song. And the rest is RPM Challenge history.
The lyrics are about a theory that Flat…
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Here is the 18. Exclusive Single from Mordant In Flesh.
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I love this song - well of course I do - but seriously I had so much fun writing it and I just love hearing it,
These are the lyrics:
Ya know it’s really bad,
Getting dumped the way I’d been
I felt nothing but sad,
Like I would…
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Another simple little one. I tried on a few occasions to just roll tape while sitting in front of a mic with an acoustic and see what happens. Short snippets of lyrics would come out while I was playing the first thing to pop into my head, and…
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This one is still a bit rough, but I wanted to share and see if anyone has an interest in adding some guitars, bass, other vocal parts for fun. I left the chords in the lyrics below, in case you wanted to collaborate. I hope you enjoy it…
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Aliens thought they knew the best means to attack us, but their intelligence was a little dated.
Lyrics :
another forgotten signal
TV tuned to UHF
dead air an abandoned station
snowy light red screen of death
green men plotting conquest…
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Amidst the Irish country side, a drunken chap encounters wee folk, but not the sort he was expecting.
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just a recycled tale from the days of old
when many a drunk irishman looked for his pot of gold
gallavanting wassling through…
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Vault 106 will be remembered.
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the past
haunting me in triplicate
into the blue
I pursue my ghosts again
what is the glue
holding all this together?
is there a clue to allow me
to remember?
is their some truth
buried…
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I told this song in three parts/colors. Kind of like 'Love Song' by Tesla, if Tesla was working in 16 bit.
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Robot completely failed the Turing Test, but the novelty Nixon mask he picked up at a thrift store allows him to pass amongst humanity undetected.
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Robot gets hit by a car crossing through Kelley Square (Had he passed the Turing Test, he would have known not to try that.) He ascends into the Chinese Room, where he has access to total knowledge through an infinite number of fortune cookies.
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Big Dumb Rocker Alert.
Also, lyrics inspired by a post on the Florida Man twitter account (link below).
Everything I was doing was slow and kinda quiet. So I wrote something fast and noisy and gave it lyrics about a guy who tries to pay…
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Our dreams can be very vivid and realistic - there are days I think all of reality is simply somebody thinking about (or remembering?) us.
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I'm not the god of thee
you're just my memories
as I remember them
[see the scenery…
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Sample info :
Librivox Audio Recording
https://archive.org/details/she_0802_librivox
Book : She
Author : H Rider Haggard
Chapter 21 : The Dead And The Living Meet
Sample was passed through the EVPMaker application.
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The Chinese believe if you perform a certain choreographed routine while aboard an elevator, the elevator will open a door to 'somewhere else'.
[Addendum : It's heavily formatted, but I want to point out I did use Chris Carignan's DjentBot…
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One can hear a lot of interesting things in the silence of the night (particularly when their plumbing freezes).
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When magic and technology cross paths, all heck will break loose.
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I can't help believing
that this course she can't stop weaving
a part of her deceiving
herself that this is right
She focuses fate
her intentions transferred…
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There is a challenge on the FAWM Forum to write a song using the Ice Cream Chords. I–vi–IV–V. I took that challenge twice this year. This was the first try, and by far the better of the two (although that isn't saying much). On this song I…
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Eh.
I thought it would be cool to write something in drop D and then play it on a 12 string. Then I could drop two D's! HarHarHar.
The lyrics are about how scary some of Donald Trumps followers are. If he wins in November I'm moving to…
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This one had throw away written all over it from the first moment I thought of it. It's my second entry in the Ice Cream Chords challenge over at FAWM.org. I kept this one in Major and it's just as fruity as one would expect. The lyrics are…
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It's an emergency
It's time to follow through
This fateful spell
This hateful shell
This view
If only you'd permit yourself
To see the vision before your eyes
The intervening years
The fading cheers
The garden full of wine
(Chorus…
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Scarf tied to hide the face
Lurking in the shadows
Entertained by every chase
Covertly underexposed
Tag it
And admire it
Then on to the next wall
Fluorescent basement sign
Hiding in the rat run
Phosphorescent alibi
Stylistic but overdone…
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Woke up late again today
Just in time to catch the matinee
Filling up on TV
Another coffee
And a smoke
Back to sleep until midday
Ignore the morning cabaret
Never met the postman
Bills delivered
But never read
(Chorus)
Stuck in…
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Drowning in a sea of pills
Testing their performance
Keep from slipping off downhill
Accept this circumstance
Jump right back in to the fray
Expect reaction no delay
(Chorus)
Balance, it’s the new mantra
Balance, the new prayer
Balance…
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Looking back, travelled so far
A green outline all that's left
Floating off, no more sunset
All the memories seem bereft
Moving faster, increasing speed
Boosters dropped long ago
A silhouette against the starlight
Much more time, now…
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This city is dangerous
It cuts like a knife
Traffic flowing down a one way street
No time to fight
Overtime not injury time
Shots ring out on Kings Road
Double blasts of shotgun
Pay back what’s been owed
(Chorus)
The city's pulling…
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Twisting and flapping
Never making sense
At the end of the argument
Offered no defence
Stacking the odds
Before the debts accrue
A sign of the times
A case of déjà vu
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Tongue, bite your tongue
Tongue
Declaring the winner…
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If you get rid of me
The tower will fall down
Can’t wait to see the back of me
Not hard to push around
That's what you wanted all along
But your prediction’s very wrong
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Taking flight the raven turns and then escapes
Wraps its…
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See that post? They see it too
Tracking down your latest move
Right or wrong, they don't care
Intercepting as you share
And I bet you feel secure at home
Check the blinds you’re not alone
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Ever get that subtle feeling
That they…
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Standing on a tightrope
Stranded in midair
Struggling to balance
Mortality aware
Scared of looking downwards
As the drop below is much too far
The pole is getting heavy
Sliding through the hands
Braced against the headwind
Submit to…
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Executed entirely upon the Roland JX-3P if I recall correctly. The title refers to the three interwoven harmonic lines.
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I wrote this while my mother was terminally ill. She had three stays at Sisters of Providence in Portland at the end of her life. Real-life events did not have the rosy outcome I was hoping for.
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drone (noun) plural: drones
1.
a low continuous humming sound.
a monotonous speech.
a continuous musical note, typically of low pitch.
a musical instrument sounding a continuous note.
2.
a male bee in a colony of social bees.
a person…
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Hey, kid. Find my Facebook page and click "Like," will ya?
Actually, I don't have a Facebook page.
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Perhaps inspired by a misremembered line of T.S. Eliot? I thought the line was, "I have measured out time in teaspoonfuls."
The proper line is "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons."
Oh well. I like my bungled line better.
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Everyone is so full of it these days. Know what I mean?
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I had something to say about this track, but I can't remember what it was. Never mind. ;)
Mostly executed upon the Roland JX-3P, if I recall rightly. Drums, choir pad, and piano courtesy of the Yamaha CS1x.
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Madame Fortune seems to enjoy spinning that wheel of hers. It's tough to keep up sometimes. As Gilda always used to say, "it's always something."
Executed entirely upon the Korg DW-6000 and Yamaha CS1x.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Imagine the scene, if you will. Four little square waves, afraid and cold out in the wild, begin calling to one another. Over millions of years, here collapsed into several minutes, their calls evolve.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects, sustained square waves, and Korg Monotron.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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I originally wanted to rap over this beat, and had the idea to improvise nonsense syllables just to figure out what the flow might be like. Ultimately I decided to keep it as it was, as it sounded like a hip hop song from another planet. Also…
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The experiment here was to program a rhythm at a fairly slow tempo, then speed it up way too much.
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Basically a drum-n-bass remix of my earlier song "Mike The Considerate Center For The Performing Arts".
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Somewhat Residents-inspired. The rhythm is me breathing heavily and slapping my desk, run through a lot of reverb.
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Originally my idea was to improvise half a conversation, then also improvise the other half as a different character - I ended up deciding just having half the conversation was funnier. Kinda unintentionally inspired by "Pollo Asado" by Ween.
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For some of these tracks I was really thinking "what can I do to make this annoying to listen to?"
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Man I was really into making these square-wave-sampling, dodgy bootleg 8-bit video game soundtrack pieces for a while.
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I did a little "self-sampling" on this album - the cut up vocals were from my song "Nasty Asterisk". Later on I'd use the exact same backing track to cover "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mixalot, because I realized I'd inadvertently copied that bass-line.
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I gave myself a rough guideline that most songs should be between 30 seconds and 2 minutes long - this was both because I didn't want the album to be much longer than 45 minutes and because I knew there were going to be certain days when I wouldn…
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Just before I made Feb.ZOIG, I made a noisy, experimental EP (Noisy Exploding Brain) and a minimal ambient one (Jack Shetland EP), and I think because of this, this album ended up as a mix of both styles. This song is the first one that ended…
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Annie Taylor was the first to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel back in 1901.
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Just a simple little tune to take me out of my minor key, noisy rock comfort zone. G Major. Who woulda thunk it?
Chorus:
Anything you say
anything you want
anything you need
I’ll take care of you
Verse 1:
I’m always here for you…
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a nice happy song about depression
ol' black dog is sniffing at my door
ol' black dog is sniffing at my door
i've seen him here before
i don't want him any more
ol' black dog is sniffing at my door
ol' black dog don't want me to be free…
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The RPM Challenge does weird things to a guy, I tell you. The chorus to this one popped into my head, fully formed, at about 9:15pm on Saturday February 27. I wrote the whole thing that night, including lyrics and melody, and recorded all but…
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The most last minute song I have. I woke up early on Sunday February 28. At about 7:00am The riff from the chorus of this song popped into my head. I sang it into the new iOS music notes app so that I wouldn't forget it. The lyrics for the…
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