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Human finds Alien Spacecraft drifting in space, this is he inner dialog of our fearless (fearful) hero.
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A blatant attempt at exploiting the deep well of The Jesus and Mary Chain/Pixies/Raveonettes/House of Love. A lovingly loud, shiny and guitar-laden paean to those great bands.
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A song I wrote and recorded in one day (the day before the RPM Challenge ended, actually). I really stretched my abilities as a picker here (duff notes and all), but I shamefully admit I really like this song. A reminder to me of the strength…
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Another song held over from my band days. Again, an attempted homage to the Velvets, but perhaps a little too shiny. I still plan to replace the cheesy 'solo' synth with glockenspiel somewhere down the 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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An attempt to evoke images that weren't in the first-person. I tend to write in abstract fragments and this piece is no exception.
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An exercise in configuring sonic spaces - it was only later that I realized the scathing lyrics were self-directed.
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An older song from a previous band that was never quite captured to my satisfaction. I was going for very laid-back "Pale Blue Eyes" vibe.
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A deceptively forceful song dealing with the death of my sister.
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This is basically an accordion jam with a nice bass line!
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Powerlounge - Electric Cheer
An album created for the 2009 RPM Challenge, conceived to be eventually cut into vinyl, and arranged as such, in two halves.
The track listing for side 1:
Welcome to my Weird
Bye Bye Baby
Genius / Madness
Negative…
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this is based on the soundtrack of a film called september clues very interesting dunno if its true but fun all the same for conspiracy nuts....
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Easily my favourite track on the album. This was a real forced number at the start of it's life; I was well behind my song quota (5 finished on the 23rd... time to worry) and I needed to knock something out at least. Something clicked about an…
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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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Why this represents 1993 is really quite a mystery to myself. I was 2 years old, so I've no idea why it strikes me as such a dark and mysterious year. I think I managed to get down exactly what I was thinking with this track.
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The scene setter. This was the first track on the album and I've still got mixed feelings about it. Audibly, I like it. Cohesively, it doesn't REALLY fit in... My girlfriend told me "like it needs to represent the rest of the album. It grabs your…
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There are too many amazing quotes from this film to not sample them SOMEWHERE in my album. Time after time, the 'yo-yo master' line got me laughing, so I thought I'd pay homage to it.
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I'd be lying if I said this entire track wasn't sparked by the opening audio clip. It really made me think about the ways some people create their own enjoyment. Cool.
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A bit less percussion and a bit more rhythm was the idea for this. I say that, but the track had a fully formed drum track alongside it until right at the last when I discarded it in a fit of creative temperament.
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This track is the introduction to the main bulk of the album. It says "WELCOME TO RPM '09" and doesn't let you go until you've gotten to "Dancing With The Midnight Waves", the penultimate track.
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Musical tribute to the ideas of Jane Jacobs (author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities) and Christopher Alexander (author of The Timeless Way of Building).
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Original working title was something like, "And after six years I finally understood why they sing in the streets here, and could go home." It's sort of about anonymity in the modern city. If that sounds pretentious, that's because it is.
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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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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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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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This song was recorded illegally. Please don't rat us out.
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through the dead branches, through the dead branches
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I (Al) wrote this song way back, just before the start of the current Iraq war. But it comes back to my mind every time a politician utters words matching a regex something like /(capture and )?kill (Osama )?Bin Laden/. It happened to be Obama…
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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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*Electronic rock*
I've been reading so much information
About my situation
A chemical mix that I must fix
I think it's magnesium
Pills three times a day
I changed the food that I ate
Re-uptake takes time
I'm sure I'll be fine
I can…
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*Electronic rock. Sounds like* **_IAMX_** *and* **_Depeche Mode_**
This is much better than it’s ever been before
Much more real
More rich
More speed
More more
I feel like I could go forever and it only hurts when I stop
This is much…
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*Ambient, downtempo electronic rock*
As a baby the car’s engine put me to sleep.
My parents drove all night
And they raised me by the TV screen
Now I wake to static late at night
At 30,000 feet above the earth
The Rolls-Royce thrusters…
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*Electronic rock*
0 machine, 0 mirror
Can you make the picture clearer?
And bring me nearer to thee?
Make me 1ne, make me (w)h0le
Scan my imperfect soul
And correct the mistakes that you see
You're everything I want
You're everything…
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*Electronic rock*
I am painting a picture with blood and wire
I am writing my story in glass and fire
It's almost right
It's almost nice
Just one more twist and I'll be fixed
Perfect, so perfect
This pound of flesh
Perfect, so perfect…
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*Ambient with vocals*
Forget everything
Drift in the white noise ocean
The sun is rising
Let go of yourself
See the beautiful blankness
It’s Monday morning
This won’t hurt a bit
Breathe in a clean new program
It’s time to wake up
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*Electronic rock with a strong dubstep and* **_Burial_** *influence*
There's no going back to how it used to be
I've known it all along
But I didn't want to see
Command-Z
CTRL-Z
There is no "undo"
And like it or not, this is you…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with drum machines, synthesizers, and vocals*
A lady friend backed up to me last week
She gazed into my eyes and then she pinched my cheek
She whispered "Take me to my house and you can watch the show"
She said "Come check out…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with* **_Run-DMC_** *and* **_Nitzer Ebb_** *influences. Synthesizers and beats.*
Dateline: February 11 in the year 2007
You may want your kids to leave the room
Some graphic content is coming soon
Down the street some kids got…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with electronics and glitchy beats*
I had a friend with a problem that everyone ignored
Pretending not to notice when he fell onto the floor
Never asked a question when he showed up late
Lacerations from a situation
Bruises…
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*Rap/hip-Hop with electric piano, Evolver synthesizer, and vocals*
When I wake up every morning I've got music in my brain
And when my head hits the bed every night it's the same
I'm dreaming up rhymes and synthesizer lines
Casting out the…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with a strong* **_Nitzer Ebb_** *and* **_Underworld_** *influence*
Do...Do you remember? Do you remember how it felt when you were young and by yourself?
The world was new but you felt old
You were alone and life was cold…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop featuring an Evolver synthesizer*
All you zombies listen up good because I'm only saying this once
There's no sense in repeating it again cuz repeating it again is dumb
This is a tale that starts with snakes but in the end it…
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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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*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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RPM '09 instrumental. This one was a lot of fun and relatively painless and unplanned, which accounts for its roughness.
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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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Corporate boardroom buzzwords are meaningless and worse than useless.
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A song about someone I know, or at least used to, who is almost as much a mess as the metaphors I threw at this effort.
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instrumental. no relation to westley and buttercup, just the title that stuck.
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anxiety over something horrible that someone might have done, will destroy you when it's something that you'll never know for sure.
leads into 'roost.'
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neglected children are coming back home to roost
kind of goes with 'fret.'
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Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming, Arranging
George Brown - Guitar, Lyrics&Melodies
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Jim Tyrrell - Keyboards, Writing, Arranging
Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming, Arranging
George Brown - Guitar, Lyrics&Melodies
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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 - Music, Bass, Drum Programming
George Brown - Guitars, Lyrics&Melodies
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George Brown - Music & Lyrics
Brett Picknell - Bass
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Brett Picknell - Music
George Brown - Lyrics & Vocals
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Mucking about with the StormDrums plugin to try making some Battlestar-Galactica-esque soundtrack music.
Worked as an intro to the album too.
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Just a blues jam. Michael Butler helped out on bass.
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An upbeat hip-hop type number. Made mostly in Reason as I recall.
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A sort of electronic/post-rock thing. Came up with a wee tune on the rhodes and built around it.
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I tried so hard to write vocals for this. I even had some recorded but couldn't bear to leave them on. Anyone else wants to give it a go, let me know :)
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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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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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The title just popped into my head unannounced one day and I had to try to work from that. About a girl with a broken radio and the repairman who would do anything to find her a new one and win her love...
It certainly appears broken, Minerva…
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A song about whether or not to do something you're uncomfortable with...
Moving Too Slow:
Oooooooooh…am I moving too slow for you
cause I don’t want to do this one thing that you want me to?
Oooooooooh…if I want to get close to you
I…
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I guess it's a metaphor for trying to break through to someone who is emotionally removed...
Submarine:
I could write a book for you to read,
Take it in my car and drive away
Down to you and your submarine.
Your submarine…
Or I could…
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I am fascinated by bees. I was thinking about what I might dream about if I were a beekeeper...
Dreams of the Beekeeper:
I’m going back to sleep.
Back to where I keep
the most perfect honeybees.
The honey that they make
is there for…
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A song about the futility of trying to really express yourself...especially to someone you want to impress...
26th Failed Attempt:
When I sat down here tonight and I decided I would write
a love song to explain to you why I feel the way…
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written as it was recorded as a live 3 piece, we then slathered it with vocals, and chris kearsey on guitar. Fun stuff!
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we had an instrumental track that needed lyrics, so bassist jeff kinsman threw something down...or up?
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ahh,mount pearl, newfoundland. This song is about that place, The Pearl
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The clock on the wall isn't moving
There's no paper at the door
And I don't see my friends anymore
My little piece of world is about 3 miles square
There's only empty darkness further beyond there
I gave you everything
And you just left…
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*Hanging out with the young people. I don't get this music. Stolen loops. A Korg PolySix. This is the best of 3 complete versions of this track I recorded.*
I grow more obsolete with each passing day
I used to be so bright when I knew how…
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*A sign at Ed Debevic's.* **_Chris Isaak_**. *A nice twist at the end. Driving on a long, winding road. Is adaptability a good or bad thing?*
There are times when I believe this is the best of all possible worlds
There are times when that…
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**_John Kaizen_** *traded me this song for a guitar. The sun starts every day and symbolizes new beginnings. Sometimes it seems like it is growing more distant.*
I see the blinding shades of winter and I believe it can't go on much more
This…
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*Lunar Excursion Module. A science fiction writer. Lagrange points. The moon doesn't seem so far away sometimes. Memories.*
I awoke today and everything was blue
And I knew that all the answers were on the moon
So I found an old Russian ship…
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*All the verses, then all the choruses. Epic, with live drums courtesy of* **_Chris Fudurich,_** *who made this whole record sound great.*
They say growing old is growing wise
But all they told you were lies
Growing old is growing hard…
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*Drum loop and inspiration courtesy of* **_Failure_.**
Guess I drove myself too hard
Guess I drove you all away
Guessed that I could do it
Guess that I was wrong
Guess that's all there is to say
Burned out and wasted away
It's funny…
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**_David Bowie_** *gave me the film reel unspooling to infinity.* **_Idaho_** *gave me the bass chords and the slowcore vibe. Surf twang. Tabla.* **_Pink Floyd._**
It's time to go
I can't wait to leave
There's nothing more to say
All alone…
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