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Some may say that given time, every one messes up and thinks of no one else,
Sins their sin, their selfish acts.
But you I would have sworn were different, a faithful heart.
Not without fault, but I never thought you would cut me like that.
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I was playing my mandolin and thought... this sounds like an Irish drinking song. So... that's more or less what it is.
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If you've never been there, the how could you know?
Funny you should mention faith, for mine has always been misplaced.
A decade or more, and all I've learned couldn't fill these hands of mine.
Couldn't fill this head of mine.
If you've never…
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With a new day comes new hope for tomorrow,
It may be unfounded but it's all that we've got.
So don't hide your eyes. No one's watching out for us.
We're on our own, and we're all that we've got.
In your shadow I am groping to find purpose.
What…
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There are no lyrics here... I will not put politics into music. However... the man gives me a very demented case of the blues. Therefore I played music to sooth my poor, sad soul.
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Lack of self respect can blind,
Lead to self destructive tendencies.
But I am old enough to know this game.
I cannot deny the truth to this.
Still I...
I've always recklessly believed that there was more to you than what they said you were.
I…
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Awoke tonight to realize that my girl had a broken heart,
And like an image of me, she fell apart.
You laid it all out on the line, another time. A shout out in the dark.
And I should have come but it seemed too far at the time.
In the end it…
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I'm horrible at foreign languages. So I apologize to anyone who is actually trying to translate this. It came to me spontaneously. Here's my interpretation. It could mean "Saint Love"... which references a song I wrote in 2002... and yet this…
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Track off of the 2011 RPM Challenge album Burds.
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An ode to the loss of vinyl records (yes... i know you can still buy them... but it's not the ONLY way to get music as it was when I was a wee lad). But really it's just a thin metaphor allowing me to write another song about a girl. Yahoo…
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Track of off the 2011 RPM Challenge album Burds.
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Track off of the 2011 RPM Challenge album Burds.
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This was done with my stratocaster through the tonebone classic, Boss DD-7, and into my Kustom '72 Coupe.
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nada especial un dia a la mañana queria sacar otoño medieval no me salio,salio esto... primera grabacion gente mala calidad no se quejen jajajajja
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Preformed freestyle on a Korg Synthesizer DS.
First attempt at writing synthesized music.
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a season inhell by rimbaud,sampled and signal-processed,set to music by wordless poem,composed on the rolad MC 505 grovebox.
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More from the archive. This was intended to have vocals, but that collab never happened. Anybody here want a stab?
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~images of bygone days~
This was 2009, and it was a photo contest to provide seven pictures of a story and all that. I, together with other, more talented photographers, was in.
In parallel with the images I have written short seven neo…
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Mr Gough kindly sent me some of his great lyrics, and this bossanova groove appeared in my head out of nowhere. Features the legendary Hank Johnzon contributing a virtuoso guitar solo.
Again
(Words by Will Gough, Music by Jana Persson…
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This song is a tribute to the slick Californian music branded "Westcoast", that was all the rage back around the turn of the 1980's.
Katie
(Words by Will Gough and Jana Persson, Music by Jana Persson)
Back in the same old place
I take…
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A slow, scaled down, bluesy song with tremolo guitar, soaring organ and close up vocals.
Don't Ever
(Words & Music by Jana Persson)
I wanna hide no more
And I wanna close the door
Don't ever leave me
Never decieve me
Don't ever…
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A couple of ornate melodies on a string that Will worked really hard to decorate with words. Since the song has basically two different melodic themes, the idea is to portray a relationship from two perspectives.
Over You
(Words by Will Gough…
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To conclude the album, here is the title track in a full band setting, featuring the great Rob Wirensjo on a riveting piano and also Hank Johnzon doing a jazzy pedal. The arrangement is a little reminiscent of turn of the 19th century can-can…
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Every thought
words/music: Geir
'in the home late at night
just as I turn out the lights
I hear a voice from the wall
it says it has heard it all
it holds the secrets of the home
every thought that needs a throne
in the middle of…
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All done on the Nintedo Korg DS-10.
Song about my creative processes
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Title: Middle Eight
Original
I can mimic the singles
I hear in the Charts
I can draw on the music
I can borrow their arts…
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I haven't tried the vox pipes in a few months. I've been sickly and singing was out of the question. After 24 days of instrumental RPM, I started getting back to 99%.
Might as well sing right? Better yet , let me trash the greatest song of…
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Vocals, Vocal Melody & Lyrics: Paul T. Bathen
Acoustic Guitar: Peter Kossits
Solo Guitar: Bobby Clohessy
Drums: Gerald Langenfeld
Bass: Walter Tokich
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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Vocals: Kristen Ashton
Lyrics: Darlene C. McCoy
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
I had some trouble with this vocal recording (bad mic/soundcard, or whatever). This was the best I could achieve. But I think they quality of…
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found out it works even better with a bass. Threw this one up here to showcase to some people that could possibly write a vst plugin that would do all this in one.
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A loose variation of theme from movie "Ip Man" originally composed by Kenji Kawai. Modestly performed by JC Prophets band.
Ip Man was a Gradmaster of Wing Chun(southern Chinese kung-fu) and he is widely known as a Bruce Lee's SiFu(teacher…
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Desirea has done a number on Reg, she stole his Credit cards birth certificate and passport and has cloned him to at least a dozen banks that he knows of. He has lost his house his car everything he has./ And to top it all he cant sleep for missing…
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This is a kinda progfunky little song ....
One monkey was injured in the song ... none in real life during the making of this song
LYRICS:
Nothings white and nothings black
the yellow snow has thought me that
every day is painted gray…
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i like this song as a song but i have NO DAMNED IDEA how to arrange, perform, or record it. acoustic it's missing intensity. i can't make it work with drums and bass. this version with electric gtr and kbds is barely listenable. if there's one…
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the thing, cast outside the gates of gormenghast.
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this is titus alone and the brown dog affair. that, combined with the slowness, makes for a long-ass song.
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in our vision of this world these guys live out in the foothills and are threatened not by floodwater, as in Gormenghast, but by landslides, as in The Control of Nature (John McPhee).
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titus passes by his old home, decides not to go back.
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this one almost didn't make it. jess turned in heroic gtr+vox through a sore throat.
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working title was "violence is optional". then the sea came to me and something changed - for now. ")
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Guitar instrumental, I had two licks in mind when I started recording and the rest happened along the way.
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This is a one hour piece I did after having poisoned myself with MSG.
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a season in hell by rimbaud,set to music by wordless poem,composed on the roland MC 505 groovebox.
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The only thing notable about this cover of George Harrison's The Art of Dying is that it is one take (of *many* blown attempts) with the only edit being adding a bit of choir at the end using the midi data from the Roland GR-20. And no I didn…
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Witnessing a stellar collapse, and then playing a melancholy tune for it on a Novachord...
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No more messing about for Reg, this is the one she has long black satin hair the body of an angel, her accent is pure English rose she stands by the bar talking to her friends, she turns Reg catches her eye and smiles a bolt of electricity zaps…
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Reg was positive that she was the one until he had chat with Norm who said "Be careful remember Desirea" Norm was only trying to help but it has put doubt in Reg's mind and now hes not sure what he wants...........................thought i'd do…
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Basically, i remixed Yeah3x and Like A G6 together :)
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a season in hell by rimbaud,sampled and signal-processed,set to music by wordless poem;composed on the roland MC 505 groovebox.
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Vocals: Rebecca Riss
Lyrics: Donna Devine
Drums & Horns: Ian Burrage
Bass: Andy Gupta
Piano: Steffen Offermann
Guitars: Mike Woodford
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
I think this was the first song that Donna and I collaborated…
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Written by Errol Chugg (music & lyric)
Vocals: Error Chugg
Guitar: Mike Woodford
Organ: Swansong
Drum programming, steel drums, synths: Steffen Offermann
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
A "I wish Winter was over"-song by…
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Something that might have ended up on my failed RPM attempt.
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Tom and Amy are having a baby. This song is for the little nugget.
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Our 4th song about Wawa. The praise is eternal. If you've never experienced Wawa, you just wouldn't understand.
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John Salad wakes up, brushes his teeth, reads the paper, drinks a coffee out of his Ray's Diner mug.
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More Original song than cover, I think.
A re-imagining of the AC/DC story.
My Rosie is a bolemia sufferer and is in a coma in hospital. The story is told by the concerned partner...
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Whole Lotta Rosie
Never met a woman
Never…
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John Salad walks off into the sunset, carrying a severed dinosaur head in hand.
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A man loses his sight after walking in on his great-great aunt in the shower.
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Anyone who has ever gone to the Y between 9:30 am and Noon knows what it's like to go through the gauntlet of wrinkly asses to get to your locker.
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Sometimes, when a woman gives birth, two holes become one. Consider this song a PSA.
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The Devil blocks your view at the drive-in, and steals some of your snacks. What an asshat.
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This is a collaboration with a prolific chap called James Higgins (oldrottenhead on songcrafters.org), based on an instrumental of mine from a couple of years ago: http://alonetone.com/andyr/tracks/muletide
I was quietly minding my own business…
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Cover of the Blondie song, from the Plastic Letters album, vocal inspired by Sonic Youth's version of the Carpenters Superstar off of Juno soundtrack. This mixdown made on 7th March 2011, tracks recorded late Feb / early March.
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Changed this one up into a bit Alt.Country vibe
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My favorite Zappa song......long guitar solo!!!!!
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featuring the fantastic Tim Green on vocals. Thanks Tim.
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This is the Prozac version of the beloved and strangely haunting song 'Inchworm' as remembered from childhood. There are a couple of microphone glitches in the beginning. And it's pretty much improvised, I think this is the first time playing…
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Thanks anonymous for recalling the title. I think it is one of the best Prozac songs ever. Also from the practice cellar. Chris Keegan drums, Frank Hanson bass, Dustin Stuhr guitar, Danny Campbell guitar.
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Reg was reading the paper today about the Spandex vigilante. Now Reg has got himself sorted becoming a superhero appeals to him. Ummmm about the suit i think it should be Blue to match my eyes with a large TTR motif of some sort on the chest in…
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I heard a blues song underneath the Beatles polish.
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Reg has just had a moment he doesn't mean it, he was in the bar entertaining the leeches his fellow companions on his shadow of a life and he became depressed at his situation and struck out but he doesn't mean he would be lost without his companions…
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I woke up one day after a dream about mice crawling over me ... and ended up writing this song .......
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A little bluegrass fun.
Words & Music Errol Chugg.
Recorded by Brush Hill Studios.
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A cover of Alex Moody's excellent track from the 2011 RPM Challenge.
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Words & Music Errol Chugg
Produced at Brush Hill Studios.
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Words & Music Errol Chugg
Produced at Ken Barken Studios
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Previously uploaded under the working title of "squiggle," but pretty much unchanged.
4 tracks feedback guitar,
1 drum machine
1 vocal (whistling) track -- not sure if the really out-of-tune parts are cool or awful.
Sorry for killing the comments…
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The piano track is a mangled version of the already-mangled piano from the previous song ("The Saucers Arrive").
The plan was to try to improvise in a way that was somehow rhythmically compatible with the skittering piano track. The guitar track…
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The darkness has come to haunt Reg again.....
The Darkness comes again
Disbeliever what is your name
Your calling out from the dark again
I hear your words but there not what they say
in my mind there as clear as mud
The trodden…
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My mother was telling me a story the other day and at one point she used the phrase "I used to could..." and I thought it would make a good title for a funk jam, so I went home and recorded this. Hope you like it.
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In the 90s I was in a band called "Tainted Angel" and we played this in a bar and after the first time people were calling out requests for it all night, so I ended up playing it about fifteen times that night, without receiving even one tip or…
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This song is all about everyday life. working all week and living for the weekend.
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Self explanatory song really, about those people who are selfish and think of no-one else but themself.
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - November. This song was inspired, in part, by the balance (or imbalance) between the things that must be done in life (work, bills, etc), the things that one would rather be doing, and the constant…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - October. Ah, the great mysteries in life: Why are we here? Is there a God? How much do you tip a bartender for a beer? Back when we were recording the songs for TheSongOfTheDay.com, inspiration…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - December. Written from a kid's perspective, this song challenges his parents to come clean about the truth behind Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. After all, lies make the Baby…
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Guitars - Appleuza
Mix - Stoman
Vocals, words & music - Chesook (Errol)
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A song of two halfs. First represents someone who is getting drunk and haing a really goodtime. And the second half of the song is when that persons personality changes and they get all agressive. (as for me i'm happy drunk, drink be happy &…
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Original song: from the album, All In A Day's Work (which started out life as our RPM album for 2007). The views expressed in this song solely represent Beatnik Turtle, the band, and do not reflect the views of any individual member. The band…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - December. This was one of the last songs recorded for TheSongOfTheDay.com project. The original version was completely a sixties-inspired orchestra ballad a la something off The Beatles album…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - January. This song began it's life back in 1999 on an 8-track cassette recorder. In 2007, for TheSongOfTheDay.com project, we were able to overlay drums, re-do vocals, and replace some hummed…
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A song about those people that always pick on a person when that person is feeling down,vulnerable and weak.
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Words & Music Errol Chugg
Produced at Ken Barken Studios
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - February. This song refers to February 29th, or Leap Day. It also refers to heartbreak and loss, but that's not nearly as important as Leap Day. The observant listener will notice that back…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - June. Featuring our friend, Qadree Holmes on vocals, this song goes out to all Notary Publics everywhere. The song came about when Jason was asked to notarize a few immigration documents for…
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Original song: from the album, When I Was Your Age (which started off life as our RPM album for 2009). When I Was Your Age features songs that take a look back at when we were kids. If you're anything like us, Saturday mornings were about two…
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