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Wrote this after hearing on the radio of a bloke who ran off to France with his underage girlfriend and guess what? he's doing time (asshole) Thanks to Lady Jane for backing vocals
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Try not to listen to my butcher guitar playing and instead listen to Reg's awesome vocals. Ozzy wishes he sounded this good...
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SofC song - Streams of consciousness to you, my friends. G:)
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A little work in progress here : written with a friend as a female/male duet.
Ill cut off my hair
And trim down my nails
Set out to sea
Then let down my sails
Mistake me for a man
You wouldn't be the first
You can't have my best
Without getting…
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Trampled
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A quickly improvised tune with some stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Written/recorded hastily in the dead of night on Tuesday 11/27 with a short overdub session on Thursday 11/29, when I should have been sleeping.
All basic tracks…
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A Flamenco piece in palo(genre) of Taranta, ending with a little Buleria. This is about a man, who wanders like ghost along snowfields flooded with starlight near one northern city. He pointlessly looks to the sky. A kind of city legend from the…
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This is my first song ever. An original production with the collaboration Mr Joe Funktastic.
My soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/papigalaxy
Enjoy
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No excuse here.... I just love the Good Wife's voice on this one. From my point of view I tried to get a 50's/60's feel to the song.....
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...the Bunker-Bar has been re-stocked...just in time for a visit from an old friend. Ladies and Gentlemen Mr Dean "Reg" Martin...
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I'm on ice, I'm afraid to go on.
It seems fragile, but I have to go,
I have to go through it.
I had to.
Tardius evolvere on my theme "From Outside A Wall" (presented here at alonetone, too).
For the idle people (or, better: Pour la…
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This weekend I was thinking about artists that I used to enjoy listening to in highschool. Toad the Wet Sprocket came to mind, and I thought it would be fun to cover one of their songs. I've always liked "Pray Your Gods" - even though the chorus…
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this song is a happy acoustic song. it will get stuck in your head just like she does. enjoy.
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Re-uploaded cause it was getting stuck at 2 minutes in :/ Replacing the audio didn't work either.
Funny how we can feel like the most important person in the world, and yet the most flawed. To many if-then-else parameters
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In 2001 my most recent band, Hoss Williams, recorded a four-song demo, and each of the four bandmembers contributed one song to it. This was mine. It's loosely about growing up in the country and being a teenager ripping around in clapped-out…
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The Lament of Saint Patrick’s Snakes is an ambient piece using a home made instrument of six guitar strings stretched over a 28? by 3? by 1/2? oak board tuned with zither pins by ear to a JI open chord. The instrument is then bowed with a viola…
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A meditation of sorts.
Arose from experimentation with a technique described here
http://www.ehx.com/blog/ehx-tone-tips-stereo-memory-man-w-hazarai
This is a single take with a bunch of reverb added after the fact in Reaper (also an experiment…
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ditty #5 for the RPM Challenge. Alnitak is the left star in the belt of the Orion constellation. This is part 1 of the Orion's Belt Trilogy.
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It's the strangest thing
Must be a waking dream
The strangest thing
Or the latest invention
Reflections
Holographic projections
Some cruel trick
Or pharmaceutical deception
Through the downtown crowds in the rainy streets
You were walking around…
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Self indulgent first half, It Decides to be a proper tune for a while.
Always wear protective clothing with this tune due to staining.
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Well....the lead in the background and the main is done by a vocal Fx ......no guitars were harmed ......the rest of the music was my trusty M-audio Pro keys ......i sent it over to the other Reg as an example of what i wanted him to do with…
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from the album "Que Vive!"
which is circumstance and which is fate
the child with nothing or the one with hate
one may see wrong from right
but the line is hard to follow
even with the right design
where do miracles go when the world’s in…
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In memory of my cousin Mike, nicknamed Shovel Head, because of the Harley Davidson Shovel Head motorcycle he drove.
Lyrics
I can feel the wind blow
Lean into that winding road
Setting Sun against my skin
Shift into that high gear
Get…
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This track was made for collaborative purposes. Looking for a slow build of layers. If you hear anything that you would like to add...feel free to do so, and send it back to me...or post it and let me know that you did. TANKS!
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...almost a love song ... - ish. deal with it, and don't come to expect it from here.
Scent
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I can smell your perfume on my body
*scent of the chase i need what i want, this is on
Invigorating my sense of taste for your world
Making…
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The passport, acapulco and finding out about the affair with Reg was the final straw ithe saga of Desirea and Reg is finally over Reg has drawn a line in the sand and stepped over it. It over and done he washes his hands of her. So he went out…
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Mario... what can I say about our lovable Nintendo mascot. He's short... chubby... fights reptiles of many shapes and sizes.
The music is deffinitely fitting for our Plumber's adventures into the Mushroomy, Mushroom Kingdom. Maybe he'll get…
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I'm really thinking of renaming the upcoming "Burning Wood... The Bonfire Sessions" album "Stealing Genius." I write something simple, put down some picking at the beginning, some acoustic guitar and some vocals, and send it off to people with…
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A manipulated ambient-ish piece
Sound sources, 5 string bass, 18" and 14" china cymbal, cornet, mixed tuning, 6 edo, 12 edo, unconstrained pitch.
kudos for anyone who listens to the whole thing.
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the collaboration team
Norm percussion
Reefwalker bass and voices
Chris 12 string and vocal
john lennon wrote it - coda by paul
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A light classical solo piano piece with a touch of humor.
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Over the weekend Reg had gone back to his home town where he come from and met up with a few of his friends from whey back when. He found that he seemed like stranger. He was sitting telling Elvis about his weekend. Elvis felt sorry for Reg because…
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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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Another Zelda tribute. Tal Tal mountains had some pretty epic music. but I have to admit, I'm no OC Remixer when it comes to this sort of thing. either way, hope you enjoy my Happyhardcore/ Rock remix of The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening…
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Song for a great friend that lost his home to a fire around christmas 2010.
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Simple Plan
T Boudreau
Wandering soul, do as your told
and come back inside it's getting cold
I've been waiting here with hope n fear and my hands on the wheel til you decide to steer
Mr. Hollowtree you're a mystery to me you stand tall…
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So I'm watching Ken Burns' documentary on the National Parks and realize that I'd never written that John Muir song I had been meaning to get to... So I got to it. Tim Alexander (Letter Seventeen) mentioned that he thought the song needed a…
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Performed on Fender Mustang, Casio CZ-101 (keys, bass, percussion), vocal. Recorded via overdubbing on two cassette decks with 4 mono input radio shack mixer with radio shack 10 band graphic equalizer. Written in the years of Ronald Reagen's…
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Reg was in the library reading back issues of the national papers to keep warm because a cold spell had hit the country hard and he had no money for heating. At least he could sit in the library reading until 5pm when it closed. Some strange stories…
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2010
Depeche Mode lite
I was going to hire Meatloaf for the ending but it turns out he will NOT work for pancakes... which is what I had heard.
This is one of the prime examples of (early on) being WAY more ambitious than what my ability…
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rpm 2011
I don't want to wake up
Don't want to watch tv
Don't want to go to work
No desire to read
Don't want to take out the trash
Don't want to take off my shades
Don't want to mow the yard
I've got better things to do
Surfin round…
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Genres:
Urban/Hip-Hop: Rhythm and Blues
Urban/Hip-Hop: Soul
Album:
Its About Soul
Artist's description:
a collaboration
Contributors:
thetworegs vocals
Norm percussion and didgeridoo
Chris guitars n stuff.
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It's Wednesday night lets all get F................
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from the album "orange"
I feel the same as yesterday
Even though I’m losing my mind
It’s hard to remember my name
When I wake I never know what I will find
Whither away, further each day
I’m invincible
Nothing can slow me down
My feet…
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from the album "orange"
this game, is a, last stop
before, you see, to the, very top
and I'm half asleep, yet I'm wide awake
and this ride isn't working out, not it's not for me
cause it gets so hard to believe, in
anything that you…
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This song is dedicated to my van...the Pumpkin.
She took me all the way from Winnipeg to St. John's, Newfoundland. On the way home she died on the 40 East between Quebec City and Montreal where i had to let her go.
Oh Pumpkin you have been good…
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Funky version i created of a a friends song. (thetworegs)
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a little jam with Norm's "Cabinets" percussion track.
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a waddling guitar solo transforms into godknowswhat
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Recorded on my old Alvarez 5023 with a Fishman Rare Earth soundhole pickup.
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This is my first effort with real bongos. I've been so inspired by Norm's talents, that I had to give it a try. I borrowed a set of bongos from my brother Asa.
http://alonetone.com/asalennon
I had to play 18 holes of golf to get my hands…
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This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year.
The original piano version can be had here
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528
or listen to it…
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What's to say? That we actually have anything to do with what our government does? Ha! Even Woody Guthrie knew the truth. They just leave that verse out of his "anthem".
No Man's Land
Easy come, easy go. Nothing lasts for long
Pay your…
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Fender Mustang guitar, Roland GR-20, and Fractal Tune Smithy
Alontone refused to accept the update
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I wrote and recorded this song about five years ago. All vocals are mine. I would like to redo this song and change a few of the lyrics...but here it is in its current incarnation.
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I call those harmonies at the end, my chipmunk voices....which, by the way, is the best part of this song. This work was done at January Sound in about 1981. Yikes! That's a long time ago.
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do not follow instructions/its just other people making signs/ an asphault schooner sky/ a plaster walrus eye/ why are people pointing guns at each other/ isnt that crazy/ they mad or sumptin? I just dont get it/ why dont we have/ a global bucket…
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You live long enough... you take some real hits. And the only way to get on, is, to, "Pick myself up, walk down the long long road". Lifes real easy when it's all theoretical, but it's never been lived until the theories and philosophies are trashed…
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The vodka, ahhh. One of 3 that I recorded to a dimming flashlight during a power outage.
One take into the Micro BR hole with some harmony and noodle overdubs.
Vodka
I want the vodka
'Cause I know it's gonna make me play better…
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Lorelei reaches her breaking point after years of abuse — via a failed attempt at an homage to Ennio Morricone (had he been Mexican).
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This provides a theory which ties together two of my key traits a) always tired b) terminally disappointed by peoples lack of courtesy - there's a link people!
Did you ever feel so down
That you didnt know up
Didnt recognise highs
And smiles…
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A collaboration that involved 5 musicians over several parts of the world. A crazy stalker tune - Has a soft/hard/soft format. Recorded with The Boss Micro BR(MBR), Mixed with Audacity and then mastered with the MBR.
More details in the Youtube…
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Okay I need to say a few things. Please read before listening!
I did not do the 24 hour challenge but I did try and hang around in the chatroom as much as possible with Glu, SisterS, and ChrisM while they battled through it.
At about midnight…
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A song about how I don't follow, or care about, fashion or trends.
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and you didn't even have to spend the night to get it.
another one from the morning sessions...
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Sudara sent me a guitar piece he was working on... So I added a song. And it didn't turn out at all as I expected.
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words fail me right now, so I will just include the music.
fretless bass, electric and acoustic guitars, tambourine, fake drums, emotions.
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My cover of Gumbo Stu's (Stuart Walker) Blind In One Eye. Originally on his 2009 RPM Challenge Album, and available here on alonetone. Thanks Stu!
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this song was inspired from an ee cummings poem. it was composed for rpm 2009.
lyrics:
i'll tell you a dream i had once
up in the sky blue everything
flying away a kite on a string
i didn't have anything
i was cool you were warm…
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A happy song about being left by your no-good spouse. There's a word for the attitude in this song but I can't think of it right now ...
this is now a tidied up version 18/3/09
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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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Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y Sin animo de Lucro. www.carranga.org
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here we are, for the very first time
is it safe to touch you
or am I way out of line
now it's over, and our embrace was far too sweet
is it safe to fall in love or is this a game that can never be beat
here we are in my bedroom all alone…
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A song about Jesus. you believe or you don't, it's that simple.
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swerving off the road...coming so close to the ever waiting trees...
sometimes, yes, sometimes this is the space I find myself in.
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A remix of the [lead vocals](http://ccmixter.org/files/shannonsongs/15128) of "Silence" by [Shannon Hurley](http://www.myspace.com/shannonhurley).
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From where I lay I can see the morning sky
The colour of a car mechanic’s rag
He made love so quick. Too quick
Only thing missing was the chequered flag.
I sit up in bed as he mumbles some crap
Post coital cigarette smoke still in the air…
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Well she's left him it wasn't even a week he's not sure he didn't just dream it...
It was only you
i stumble from my bed
my life lived is lived like a dream
Nothing going wrong
Nothing too extreme…
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The clue is in the title Reg woke up feeling a little disgruntled with the world ....
Screwed up & wary
You say tell me your secrets
but all you’ll hear are my lies
The compromised childhood
remember…
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Reg decided to go busking down on the subway....
On the subway
Stood on the subway playing my music
As the world rushes by
Lost in a world of my own making
I don’t get washed away in the tide
Its lonely out here where…
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Took the dobro tuned to D6 inside the Serra Vortex sculpture. With a little help from some schoolgirls passing thru.
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Dukat je prljav, jer dugo se kuje, nema on više ni malo struje, promenio je ruku sijaset, kada se okrene, a ono...
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Subdued - adjective: quietened and brought under control
poor old Reg has been told again.....
Subdued
Sky burning bright with that jagged blue
She’s Off to bed with that dinnner for two
She read youlike…
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Darlin I been dreamin about the moon on the prairie
The way our voices carry, the song on the radio
Arm out the window, dipper in the sky
On a solstice night
Darlin I been dreamin about the breeze on the water
The mountain and her daughter…
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[Chorus]
Good riddance, America, you fucking cunt
Have a dick come in you with spunk
Then blow it out like you no want
Good riddance, you whore
I no want to live inside you no more
Find another boy
Or take that baby in you, abort
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On any other day than this I might recall, the words to make you feel better
and spin the waves of the record known by heart
I’ve tried to fool myself to sleep so many nights I fear I may never wake up
A moonlight trance
I drank the drink…
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interpolates lyrics written by Illogic and Lucid Optics and samples music produced by Lucid Optics
[Hook]
What are you running from?
Don’t wait for tomorrow
In this world, there’s only one of you
The sun doesn’t follow
What are you running…
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[Intro]
Well hello there, let me tell you today about a personality that I come across
Actually, it’s more like a device type, yes, device type
So without further ado, let me tell you about this device type
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Show me an aggressive…
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[Verse]
As I look what’s here in front of me
I can’t quite believe what these eyes have seen
Mounds of sugar shit in the stupid pit
And all the while I smile ‘cause I’m the wunderkind inspired by nothing really
In an empty box just like Christmas…
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My mom
What you love most is being our mom
Forces against it seem to pull you down
Out the nest, we still needed our mom
You said I loved to cuddle
I love you more than the stars
Know when you slip away, you’ll never leave where we are…
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[Verse]
Just make sure you’re happy
Just do what you want, they’re crappy
They don’t give a shit about you
It's ridiculous rude
But take yourself down because they’re wrong? That’s ridiculous too
Artists ashamed of their art, it’s sad to…
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[Verse 1]
All they ever see are the frowns
All they ever hear are the swearing sounds
They don’t ever see that I really hurt
It’s not just me, it’s your and my fault
I don’t sit around and just mope
I jump on the raps and get dope
This…
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Written and recorded for the Record Every Month Challenge in March 2023. I'm thinking of trying to record a single each month this year. This would be the A side for March.
The idea started bubbling up in my head at the tail end of the RPM…
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This started off with a play around on Edie the acoustic and then I got carried away.....Thanks for listening
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Castaway. The Tom Hanks Movie.
* Disclaimer: I understand that most of the songs on this album are pitchy and hard to listen to. I recorded all of the vocals on Feb 27 and 28th as single takes. Most of them stream of conscience nonsense.
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6th song for my RPM album. If you like slow and depressing music...this is for you! I had a blast using my new crash cymbal and brushes...my fingers are not very pleased about playing the bass riff however (ouch).
somehow you knew me
and…
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I stole part of the chord sequence ,anyone guess which classic its from ? Anyway just getting over a bout of flu and ventured down to the cellar and this one came out....Thanks for listening
You are who you are
No one can answer all the…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 14
Written Monday 21st February 2022
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This is it ... FAWM's all finished for me... time for a lie down now.
There's still nearly a week to go, but I'm done, 14 songs written in 16…
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This is a song about a time I took too much drugs. It was an experience that has had a lasting impact on me.
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minimalistic piece. Like the one as before. It was my sunshine today.
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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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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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The 10th and final song for the third round or re-recorded Quarantine Tunes is now complete. I wish it closed with a better effort though.
I don't dislike the way this came out, I just had higher hopes. This song is probably the most difficult…
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The downside of writing about politics in February of 2016 is that it doesn't have any meaning in October of 2020. Oh well. This one and "Did I Offend You" were both written back to back on the last couple of days of the RPM Challenge and they…
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Reg was reading the Sunday papers today and he's finally had enough he's going to get a shovel and dig himself a big hole and dissapear into it he's had enough of their silly games ....all of them he's off..being him....being the thespian that…
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Another in an endless string of recordings that would have been saved by a competent singer. Maybe. I like the individual pieces of this song, but I don't think I like the song as a whole. Okay... maybe I don't like the chorus at all. I don…
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Not bad, 10 to 15 years to to get this one done Ha Ha. This was wrote tongue in
cheek. The story behind it is, a group of us used to meet up, taking turns whose house we used, have a chat, a bit of food, a few drinks ( ok then, more than…
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Passover is a time for redemption from exile and all kind of disasters in our lives. I really tried to make this a happier upbeat track.
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I love surf music complete with Fender guitars dripping in lots of spring reverb. This one came out of the clear blue and somehow developed the double-naught spy thing in the process.
Matt plays lead. He's got the surf thing down pat!
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There's a line in an Indigo Girls song that says, "If you need to know that you weathered the storm of cruel mortality, a hundred years later I'm sitting here living proof." For me, ever since hearing the words "cruel mortality," they have always…
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Had a blast doing this one with Ally
feat new AT'er Alexandriaharris
enjoy! Reef
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Yah its going to be Fat Tuesday, king cake,
Green Purple and Gold and all Carnival.
see you all dancing on Canal Street
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An American Contemporary worship music band, has released a new gospel song titled ‘ Do It Again ‘ the track is off “Evidence – Elevation Collective” Album featuring Kierra Sheard and Travis Greene , it was also produced by Israel Houghton.
The…
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because tardigrades are cool and look a lot friendlier than Guild navigators
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It's been a while...
This song was recorded with another verse, it ties the song together nicely but who the heck wants to listen to a 5 minute song about depressing stuff? We're really looking forward to feedback from those of you who've like…
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The song is supposed to be one of those "Saturday Morning Hits", which goes back to when I was a kid watching Top of The Pops in '72-'74 with my older sister in the UK. You would see all these bands playing their hit on TV, with all these kids…
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Another recent song somehow not posted to AT (?) cleaning house this weekend.
Had the privilege of playing around with a cello in the house.
Dont know how to play the damn thing but too fun not adding it in the mix
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RPM17
3/10
The most tasteful song i've made this year :)
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Crazy is a term of art, insane is a term of law.
-Hunter S Thompson
RPM 17, Enjoy!
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A bit of a mess around on an old Elvis song....
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Haven't been about for a while...been busy doing nothing but i had some time this morning to have a strum and this is what i came up with after a bit of pondering.....Thanks for listening
One and one makes two
two in turn makes one
everyone…
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This song's going on 32 years old...
Some 12 years older than I was when I wrote it!!
I borrowed the title from one of my favourite madrigals, The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons:
"The silver swan who living hath no note, when death approached…
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