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The only track on the album with vocals. Also the first song I wrote for the album. Inspired by Iron and Wine.
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Saw a dude outside Tesco giving a good old religious rant. It was actually pretty decent advice, not fire and brimstone stuff. So I recorded him and made this.
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Been listening to far too much Black Devil. This is my tribute.
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Was learning a Chaimaria song and getting better at palm muting. This is the result.
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George Brown - Music & Lyrics
Brett Picknell - Bass
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George Brown - Music & Lyrics, Guitars
Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming
Jim Tyrrell - Keyboards
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George Brown - Music & Lyrics, Guitars
Brett Picknell - Bass, Keys, Drum Programming
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George Brown - Music & Lyrics, Guitars
Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming
Jim Tyrrell - Keyboards
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Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming, Arranging
George Brown - Guitar, Lyrics&Melodies
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Sundays have always been a disappointment for me. If you've never spent the entire day just moving about, drinking beer, enjoying the weather and putting off the upcoming week, you should. Maybe not every week.
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RPM '09 instrumental. This one was a lot of fun and relatively painless and unplanned, which accounts for its roughness.
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with electric piano*
I start off each morning with my favorite drug
Cook it up in the kitchen and take a slug
Coffee so black it helps me to wake
Prepared to attack the problems I face
Maybe it's keeping my blood pressure high…
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*Hip-hop instrumental with electric piano and acoustic guitar*
I know how hard composing good instrumental music is. This track was going to be the backing for a song called "Ouroboros" but it was too pretty and nice and slow.
I ended up…
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*Electronic rock with jungle/drum-and-bass influence*
I've never really felt that I was ever good enough
But even I can be improved if I just stay tough
My teeth are metal reinforced
My eyes are plastic lens
And daemons run inside my head…
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This song was recorded illegally. Please don't rat us out.
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I'm going to get all pretentious again and say this one is about the concerning strain of what I might call "religious modernist traditionalism" espoused by technological singularity fanatics (Ray Kurzweil) and authors like Neil Stephenson.
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Words are from a sestina of the same title by Steve Davenport, who asked us to make music out of it! This was a terribly fun song to record. We did it, of course, while drinking. Thankfully no instruments were harmed.
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Good old dulcimer bash-up. This is certainly the most aggressive song I've played on dulcimer. I'm sure all those people with solid-body electric dulcimers have done worse...
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I am concerned with the values of my generation.
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This is the end of the journey. It's time to maybe think and reflect about some of the things we heard and then forget we ever heard them.
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This is basically an accordion jam with a nice bass line!
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A song that really crept out of nowhere and one that I don't entirely understand its meaning. Some things in the song I can pinpoint the origin, but some I haven't a clue. I'm really happy with the way it turned out - semi-ok vocal and all.
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*Memories, memories before the end.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian_** *and* **_Fennesz._**
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
I remember sunshine
I remember you
I remember laughing
Do you remember
I do
I remember driving
I remember the…
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*The boat left without me.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian, Fennesz, The Cure_**.
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
Stayed under too long
I guess
I lost track of time
Why didn’t you think to check
If I was alright?
There’s not too much sun…
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*My take on something like a* **_Neil Young_** *song ("After The Goldrush" meets "Revolution Blues"?)*
*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
Well I woke in a cold sweat from a dreamless sleep
The winds were blowing papers through the empty…
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*Ever had problems falling asleep? This is a sort of goth track influenced by* **_Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy,_** _and Faith-era_ **_Cure_**. Dark modern electronic guitar rock.*
Down the steps and into the dark
Leave the kingdom above…
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**_Underworld_** *with guitars instead of synthesizers. A sequel of sorts. Electronic rock.*
A million drops of rain
One sun behind the clouds
A million stars in the milky way
One moon is shining down
A million notes I’ve scribbled
One…
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*"We all live in a little Village...your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners." -* **_Patrick McGoohan_**
Modern electronic guitar rock.
One day you awaken in a different place
Where the names…
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reloaded this in 44.1
a pedal steel gtr improv
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This fulfills a stupid promise I made years ago to write a song that was part Dave Frishberg, part Richard Thompson.
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I was just imagining a morning at the Waits household.
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i am thinking about words tonight
they can be hard as nails
they-can be as shapeless as water
they can break your heart
they can hang like a chain
hold you up for years
cause you to think twice
take away your fears
you are falling in love…
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i saw the curtains changing color
i watched the sun room come alive
i have been sitting in this rocker
wondering when you might arrive
i am hoping for redemption
cant stand the way i feel
i know it is only passing through me
rivers flood…
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you are like the rain that falls with the snow
or is it the other way around
i dont know
all i know is i love you
and cant get above you
it is driving with no place to go
the muscle and the bone i find
that keeps my heart in line
just…
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in my head i am wondering in the desert
and the night sky is so
full of pregnant stars
the world outside is so fertile
and i feel so fertile too
i know in my heart
you are fertile too
i feel so far from home now
i feel so far from…
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1.Afsluitdijk
...is a Dutch word and it's the name of the dam/road going from the province Friesland to North-Holland (and Amsterdam) The lyrics are about a 15-year old boy who feels so trapped in the boring Frisian town he's living in that he…
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Pain is inspired by my bout with severe nerve damage in my lower back. As anyone who has ever had a good hurt can tell you, it gives you an internal feeling of chaos that often comes and goes in waves and spikes. The music follows this pattern…
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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Written for RPM 2009. A song about having kids.
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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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Mostly for the opportunity to play the Harmonica.
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Guitar and vocals. Kind of the opposite of last years 'Honey, Why You Stay With Me'.
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You never let me smile
You never let me out of sight
You never let me live
You never learned you had to give
I'm taking it away x 2
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I heard a story about you
I didnt want it to be true
But it felt like it might
You, well it was all about you
and how the things that you do
Seem strangely undone
And life doesnt help out the weak
A lifetime tends to bring you some…
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Let me introduce to you
Every woman child and man
The place I did my growing up
Raised by grandma's hand
I think you'll find
That folks are kind
They're sure to ask you in
Enter the warmth
Close the door
And my story will begin…
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Well I been playing the blues for so long
Kinda feel like playing jazz x 2
I dig the random instrumentation.
Play this in eight over three and a half
I been playing the blues for so long, make me feel like tryna rap x 2
I think I'll call…
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The first beat I ever made, first song I produced :) Please forgive the ill advised symbol.
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For the RPMC 2009 album "Sabbatical"
From a news story last year about UFOs over Phoenix. They turned out to be some lighted balloons some guy had set aloft. So this tune about UFO paranoia.
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This song always puts you in a weird mood...forcibly sways your emotional state. There’s some kind of weird juju laced in that song that screws with your emotions no matter how you're feeling.
This song uses a lot of layers for bass along with…
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We've scrapped many songs but 'Murray' is the oldest song that has survived the test of time.
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Live drums here folks...enjoy it. It's becoming extinct.
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This was written while living in the studio. For some reason this song seems like music appropriate for a chase scene. This is all bass and drums...no guitars yet. Vic's working on it.
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This track is an idea that stands out among the sea of bad ideas that come out of my head. This is one idea, this isn't a clip of a whole song. Let me know what you think!
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This track is an idea that stands out among the sea of bad ideas that come out of my head. This is one idea, this isn't a clip of a whole song. Let me know what you think!
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This track is an idea that stands out among the sea of bad ideas that come out of my head. This is one idea, this isn't a clip of a whole song. Let me know what you think!
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This track is an idea that stands out among the sea of bad ideas that come out of my head. This is one idea, this isn't a clip of a whole song. Let me know what you think!
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I don't want to leave you
I don't want to turn and walk the other way
i don't want to leave you
even though you've never heard my name
and i rise from my grave
as if the world was mine to save
you were so cold and lonely
your offer…
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"Slow Build Gamelan" is based on three Indonesian Gongs from FreeSound.org: 24615__anamorphosis__GMB_Jegog_1.wav, 24613__anamorphosis__GMB_Gong_Lanang.wav & 24612__anamorphosis__GMB_Gong_Kempur.wav. I took the three recordings & strung…
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the cold collides, outside, oh woe
this hopless day, the warm resides, inside, makes me want to cry
the emotions, that i hide, oh woe
this hopless way, confide with the sky, don't ask me why
and the branches swining, and the animals play…
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amused, desire to feel inside and will i mean it
confused, and scared of what I'll find, and will I believe it
it's just a scratch but infection has already set it
we go on like the world will never end
no fear of tomorrow, no fear of today…
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she turns the light on, illuminate the way, i'm close behind her, i'm being lead away, and feeling i'm holding, but cannot release
fading, sorrow, fraily, follow, follow, moving, unconsiously, from one beat to another
this beat punctures the…
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I wrote this tune before the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
written 2002 by cdb
recorded 2005 at:
myownfrontporch
Tennessee, U.S.
(C) 2005
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© 2005 Crystal Dawn Baker
CDB recorded this song within minutes of writing it.
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� 2008 Crystal Dawn Baker
Recorded 2006 New York City
The intended recording sound style is a forties style ambiance. Recorded as scratch tracks decided to upload:p
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Remastered the levels slightly on 3/4/09.
An attempt at a progressive metal-inspired piece with time signature changes.
Moral of the story: Kind of a demented play on Charlotte's Web - if you give somebody wings and they hate your guts…
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Ingrid Burrington (lifewinning.com) gives a speech on the cultural importance of Armageddon (1998)
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So, I'm picking up the pace now! Hope the quality is not too ropey...
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Yeah soooo this is a rather bizarre sound documentary of my room/apartment. All sounds were recorded there, including: belching, a toy duck call, a cup falling, various toys that make noise, a friend playing Pokemon on their DS, friends talking…
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Very, very raw demo for our 09 RPM disc. Drums are a click track & unmixed; needs one more guitar track, eq, channel compression, an honest-to-god mix, etc...
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The track is based on an actual 911 call a hacker made to police in Colorado Springs to "punish" the father of a girl who had spurned his advances. I played the call against a short distorted heartbeat-like rhythm run through a Mutron and several…
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"Littoral Zone" started with an ambient bass line based (extremely loosely) on a Renaissance-era Classical piece played through an 8-bit SID emulating synth, topped with two tracks based on a Temple Block run through a Mutron & a Subsynth…
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lyrics:
i got a hot date
and you know i don't wanna be late
i need a ride
to the bowling alley
get ready cuz here i come
put my new skirt on
chewing peppermint gum
did my eyebrows fresh
white musk on my neck
part my hair to the right
cuz its…
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rehearsal recording
martin - keyboard
georg - guitar
ulrich - drums
helmut - bass
michael - tech
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rehearsal recording
katrin - vocal
martin - keyboard
georg - guitar
ulrich - drums
helmut - bass
michael - tech
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can you say 妈麻马骂? Can you fit a squared peg in a round hole?
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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One of the few songs we've made so far that has a beat :)
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This is a cover uploaded with permission of the writer, Michael Marquesen. He lives in L.A.
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This ambient track features backwards vocals by Lisa Purdy
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recorded on a mini disc with a stereo mic in a rehearsal studio in brighton uk
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recorded on a mini disc with a stereo mic in a rehearsal studio in brighton uk
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too many woman have been abused, mostly by people they know.
This song is for them.
Eyes and ears have been shut for to long now.
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this was the 2nd piece of music again using live called next cos i didn't know what else to call it...
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A draft from RPM 2009 Challenge.
The lyrics are strange and could easily be misunderstood, so let me help:
So -- you have this bummed out fellow, the same one from my Alonetone 'album in a day' contest submission.
He's wandering around…
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this is just the basics...give it a listen and let me know what you think. It's all rather raw...lots more to be done. :)
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This work is dedicated to Andy Jaffe, jazz composer, pianist, arranger and teacher. I studied with Andy at Williams College from 1988 to 1992, and his approach to music-making and teaching has influenced everything all my work since. He once related…
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an instrumental track.
the voices/screaming/giggling in the back are Melissa Akkurt being tickled by Buddy Fick.
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simple song. you can also find it on the Frail EP which was put together in the months after this album.
Peter Hochstedler provided great lead guitar.
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i went to a small christian boarding school for highschool. we had mandatory worship times. among other things.
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Dan Spencer wrote the main idea to this song. he gave it to me over a break and i added the music to it and ended up with this.
Tamer and i took turns playing around with the keyboard.
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i wrote this song while waiting for my friends to get back from a banquet i was too young to attend.
it's about Jesus, myself, and sin.
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one of the first songs we wrote. Dan Spencer and i wrote it along with Same Angel for our first gig. Pete Matthews helped me finalize it and mesh the guitar and bass together.
i love Tamer's drumming in it.
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A cover of Styx's "Come Sail Away". As can be heard, I am having issues with singing while strumming and distance from the microphone.
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Tomorrow marks the beginning of the RPM Challenge.
So the screwing around I do today should be either tossed or posted to avoid the temptation of using it in my RPM album...
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Among the special guests are Horkmeijer Springtail and his lovely choir of snow fleas providing backing vocals and the very doomed John LaSala on lyrics and lead vocals.
Under shoes:
issued dire adieux.
Too few legs:
the world's new filthy…
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The very doomed John LaSala sings lead.
Lyrics available at virb.com/fes
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Among the special guests are Horkmeijer Springtail and his lovely choir of snow fleas providing backing vocals, the very doomed John LaSala on lead vocals, and the great King Bandit and his mommy, Kate providing additional vocals. The very doomed…
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Definitely one of the more “approachable” songs from our debut album “In My Mind”.
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another song for kindergarten delinquents. wrote this maybe 15 years ago to make my friends laugh. recorded it, of all times in my life, this week.
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Performed by Cherry Bomb and co-Written by Michael Porwoll.
Lyrics:
(Verse)
You gotta rocket in your pahket
and you know i wanna knock it
Lookin at your body
But I wanna crop it
Havent you heard Im a three-pronged socket?
Take yo boat and dock…
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see description on www.dusthill.net for more info
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Another fingerpicky gospel instrumental. From the old days.
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