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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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Lyrics for the bridge
Logically there's room for all questions
Though the answers aren't all known,
Objectivities the myth of plenty,
Who doubt His truth within their soul.
Written by Leanor Ortega-Till and used with permission.
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This little guy comes from my first complete 50/90 back in 2014. It's super simple but for some reason I have a tough time getting a mix I like. I think the existence of the electric piano might just be throwing off my entire brain or something…
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Playing with my new Zoom B1X effects processor. Synthesized drums are from the B1X. Bassline is a panicky one I like to play. The guitar part I just came up with. Altogether I think I like it -- anyway it gets my pulse up!
Well, it's a work…
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Reg went raving last night to an illeagal rave he got fed up with lockdown and thought fuck it ....and he met a girl.....
I can't tell you how to feel it
You know you got it wrong now baby, you got to get it right
Your all mixed up deep…
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well it does doesn't it??.......Paul put the music together and i added the waffle hope you enjoy......
NEWS FROM NOWHERE
Keep your mouth shut and/or eyes wide open
I understand you that you don’t why
Everything you’ve ever believed…
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2013 was a decent year, song wise. I came up with a few good ones during the RPM Challenge in February, and one good one during NaSoAlMo in November.
This version is faster, shorter, has a bunch of new key changes, and has a little bit of…
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AKA New Wave or "Unknown #1"
As always, apologies to the band for the guesswork.
LYRICS:
New wave
Wine
Dine
Smile
because I said so that's
Why
Mired
Fired
because I said so
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Thank you Greg, Colleen, and Andrew for your comments. I need to add a little more from that day so long ago.
The Battle for Layfayette Square were improvisational warm ups and cool downs for practicing this progressive rock attempt that clocks…
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The sound of an old Remington typewriter, sampled, looped, and run through a vocoder.
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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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Holiday inspired instrumental
Recorded - Nov 2017
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The first song I've covered from side 2 of Led Leppelin III
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some fun with drop C tuning
Nothing New Under the Sun ©2016 words and music by Jeff Cole
They say here’s nothing new under the sun
What there’s nothing like
Has already begun
They say there’s nothing new under the sun
You get those dirty…
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Miles Away is a very simple guitar riff and lyrics that match, but it's a song that came from the heart of one of the band's members. It's kind of a tune about a newly married couple...like most Prood songs it was recorded after one or two rehearsals…
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or A.K.A. the Caribou Lake song...
I wrote this one for my Dad, who while up at our family cabin in the north woods of MN said there's not enough music about the woods...
My first "one take wonder" - just me and my little Uke - roughing…
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Featuring Bob Sorace on vocals.
Stay still, this won’t hurt a bit AD
I promise you won’t feel a thing ad
It’s all in your head, at least that’s what she said AD
Stay still she said, This won’t hurt a…
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song#2 for RPMC2016
Expiration date
A rough month for rock stars
All the good ones are leaving
It's about that time
Just the songs remain and
Public grieving
I read the news today oh no
When you died they wrote you up
Counted your…
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More from the archives. This was the opening cut on Scartaglen's 1986 album "The Middle Path". A double jig, a slip jig, and 2 reels. I played bouzouki and Uilleann pipes on this cut
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A song about a friend of mine who by day is a postman and by night is one crazy dude..........
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written by Damian Lethbridge
"All this slavin' makes me sick I can't relax and have some fun"
RPM 2015
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Here's the second tune we recorded, again, live off the floor.
There will be a full length album coming later this summer...professionally recorded for your listening pleasure. :)...so stay with us.
head to www.anthonysweet.com for more info
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I see in color,
Even when, the words, black and white
I hear in flutters,
Even when, the words come in trite.
After all,
I'm tied to this anchor.
I'm tied to this hull.
Tied to this deck, through the night.
I better get to climbing…
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Track 2 for the RPM 2015 album Cold Ground Was My Bed
"Yesterday was a den of sorrow, today is a bright mystery, the future a dim dream or ancient history"
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Written and recorded by Tiggy Acworth late August 2014
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So 50/90 is an unnatural forcing of a crap ton of songs in a relatively short period of time. We're half way though and I've learned one thing. I've learned how easy it is to repeat something you've already done. This one sounds a LOT like…
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At the crossroads, with the only loved. Where art thou, mein lieber Augustin? Will we see you again?
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Für Fenella Humphreys, a classical artist.
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Another one in our ninjam series. Myself, Jim Goodin, Ray Istorico and an unknown drummer named Stick. Mix By Jim.
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*Here’s another one*
Verse 1:
I beat myself up ‘cause rap
We cuss, I don’t care about that
Coping mechanism, coping medicine
so obsession will hook me since I was in
high school, I listened to rappers buzzing
I moved myself too because…
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This is an RPM collaboration with Bethan.
It's part of her 2014 challenge.
It was the most fun I had this RPM.
Thanks a bunch Bethan.
Enjoy!
© 2014 Mathis - Lennon
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Written for: Sing Me A Story
http://singmeastory.org/
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*World Of Art* was written specifically for *Victoria's Story*
http://singmeastory.org/stories/victoria-s-story
The world of art
Design and color
Leaves…
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When I was about 5 years old, my grandmother gave me a set of those old 78 rpm "records" titled "Songs Many Lands". For some reason this song was always my favorite... to the point I don't even remember anymore what other songs were in that collection…
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For 'Poem Me' Subscribers. anybody not of that ilk can still listen but must be aware that these are bespoke songs! G:)
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Music by Billy Jack (instrumental song "Funk It" previously posted). Lyrics/vox by thetworegs. Damn I wish I could song write like thetworegs.
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Continuing FDR's adventures in space..........
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Well Reg decided to go out Dancing down the Disco to see if there were any young ladies about........he shouldn't drink!!!
So Wrong(Lyrics)
It was a magnet that drew me too her
But the polarity must have been wrong
She drew me in while I repelled…
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Couldn't think of anything to write about so i wrote about that!
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Reverie by Claude Debussy arranged for piano, violins, and violas.
Reverie may refer to:
A daydream
A dreamy state of mind.
reverie, an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character
“Rêverie”, a solo piano piece by Claude Debussy
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Thought I'd put some lyrics to it and this is what came out ...
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I used the reverse of stairway to heaven during chorus. Back in the day I used to listen to stairway backwards
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Apparently this song is the quintessential Gary Fox sound. That's probably because it's done with a special guitar with a special tuning. Anyway, my favorite part of the song is the mid-section. This is a "listen loud in the dark" sort of song.
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Featuring Mark Hubbard & Duma, on didj & percussion respectively, this one begins as the most traditionally structured piece on the album. But don't get used to it, it doesn't last long... just enough to ease you into the formlessness…
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Well you knew he would be in the end.. .i liked the song but not the way it was performed so here's Take 2......
Going to hell in a rowing boat (Lyrics)
Im Going off to hell in a rowing boat
He’s going to hell in a rowing boat
Im Going to…
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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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Featuring my son Kellan on guitar and vocals.
recorded entirely in my kitchen with kitchen stuff.
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Recorded for the Songcrafters.org fest, Live in the Living Room. Cover of the Doors classic, recorded live in the - uhh - bedroom. I played my Telecaster on neck pickup through my Danelectro Cool Cat V2 fuzz and my Biyang AD10 analogue delay.
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performed by Rob Medcalf
from the album "Sunny, sorta..."
is it funny? do I care what you say
(thinking hardly matters)
it’s not who you are at the end of the day
(thinking hardly matters)
you’re worse than a child so please go away…
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Well, another track from yours truly, it's been really hard recently trying to make this stuff sound good. It keeps coming out sounding really midi-ish. I wish I had a better PC... well even better, I wish I had my own studio.
Well, I'll…
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Guitar, live looping and electronics. No overdubs. Just as it was played.
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Good friends, family, my adorable pet--you all bring a smile to my face!!!
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This is a blues riff I've been playing with for a while. I wanted to start with a slow style blues. I'm working on a sped up dance version. So I threw down some rough lyrics and did a quick demo recording, added a solo and a small vocal backup…
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Had to try out the Yamaha DX100.
So I combined with the Korg I3.
Hope you like it!
Video is at youtube!See the link here, if you like to see me playing the instruments!
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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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The contrast of this aging "summer boy" and his outdoors-loving daughter who is more than happy to run out into the cold.
Late December
Late December
The nights get so long
Turning embers
In the dark before dawn
Late December
For…
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Pop-rock song. Recorded 2009.
I wrote this several years earlier and rehearsed it with the last band I was in.
The recording was my first "serious" project on my Boss MBR, I was stunned that you could do something like this on a little silver…
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This was a poem written by a guy called Maverick , i altered it to fit a song stucture , it was done live , with my good friends Tina on bass , and AK on second acousic
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Such a sweet girl,
the camera really loves your face
Tall heels and a bullets grace
The creatures gonna eat your name
Such a sad girl
Your mammas gone an let you down
left you wandering down the streets like a sacred cow but holes in your…
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My 17 et guitar, ebow, Sonar X1, and recorded audio into 5 different channels at the same time with different effects
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This one is about remembering the feelings of watching Tv as a child in England when we only had three channels but everyone watched them .......
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I couldn't talk for a while afterwards and I felt like a moron after listening to my vocals, but it had to be done :) So no laffin'!
Our attempt to be on the roof of Abbey Road Studios if only for a moment!
The Lineup:
Guitars: gtalfsen
Piano…
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So Jim of "Movement to Contact" asked me a couple of weeks ago to send him something...
I had no idea how ridiculously good the final result would come out.
KL: Vocals, lyrics, left side rhythm guitar and picking
MTC: Lead guitar, bass…
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Ok, I have decided to put it here. It is a stretch containing several ideas, it falls apart here and there (especially at 3:10), but I think the atmosphere shines through.
Hope I can return to it in a couple of weeks (when my head is clear…
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So I've learned a thousand things
for the thousand things I forgot
Too much too soon to see it changing you
Walking slowly, walking quickly all the time
To survivie the bitter streets where the
castaways always look away, and I do the…
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A Poem about Fear....
-My friend Fear-
By Tharek Mokbul
My friend.... (!?) .....
You have controlled your tone....?!?!
Is this the first time I have truly known you?
The ever present protector....
Moderator of will....
I request that you know…
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An ambient anthemic piece.
The process:
- Start with a live take of me playing an iphone app called tonepad.
- add camelphat and camelspace
- add an Alchemy instance, find a big fat pad, work out a riff
- record a single take accompanying the…
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Standing, waiting, shivering, waiting, hoping, waiting, crying - all the while being cruelly mocked by the passage of time, and my analogue watch. It was not a very nice night.
Peter Fedofsky plays the piano on this song.
If you could…
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It is all about love, isn't it?
Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/loveengine3.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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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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Bolero of Fire is another Fast travel tune that sounds dark and foreboding. Enjoy my heavy repetative pounder version.
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The first song I though my own sweet sexy voice into (lulz). I imagined a soft RnB kick to this as well, but I tried doing jazz, so who'd a thunk it.
Kakariko is a town frequently visited by our young Hylian hero, so I thought this was befitting…
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wonderland
what is the sound of the last few minutes of life
she said I wouldn't feel a thing, but women lie
what is the color of the last thing you'll ever see
frozen for all eternity
and these things inside my brain
tell a wicked tale
and…
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It's the "do no harm" mix.
Because, theoretically you won't hear any difference between this and "technique 43".
Which is sad really, given how many hours I spent on it. Hours spent on the oh-so-exciting put-everything-in-Logic step…
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Some experimentation that started with sandbags saying that he was looking for a wood sound. I responded with marimba plus monster reverb... and I quickly noodled together an ambient thing.
I wondered aloud whether I was done or should continue…
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1st of 10 "Off the cuff" songs I wrote just before the great flood.
I haven't really had a chance to work on any but this one. This is different than the rest of them. All I did was turn on a drum machine and played and sang what ever popped into…
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This song is just what it is and says what it says.
It's where I am and where my hopes lie. It all just happens to fit into a song...
WHEN PEGGY COMES HOME - G
When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away
The floor will be swept…
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hopelessness. if you succeed now, you'll fail later. i wrote this song on a banjo :) but never got it in the recording.
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Once upon a time, in a land far away...
Just a minute!
xOx
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with Rek inside the Serra Vortex Sculpture at the Fort Worth MOMA
Rek: didjeridoo, percussion
Kavin.: guitar, loops, percussion
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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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I made this for the "Cooking with Deluge" challenge for July 2025, and also for my Hyperphantasia album project. It was partly inspired by the music and parade scene from the 2006 anime Paprika. I started by sampling some pots, lids, bowls, and…
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Prophet 12 Desk Module
Hydrasynth Explorer
u-he Diva
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Note: Dr. Sattilaro strayed from the diet in the late '80s and back onto typical Western fare, his cancer returned, and he died soon thereafter.
hey so just wanna pop in really quick and talk about a book I just read
it’s by a doctor called…
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[Verse 1]
Integrity integral to integers
Gibberish, that of the just natural, not detritus
Firmly wound around dignity
Sea quiet, limit speech, lips just sealed
These inhabitants free radicals
Training on battleground to stand your ground…
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[Verse 1]
I used to grin at the idea of attention whore
’til I saw one in real life, now I get it more
Do you make music for you, or to get some dough?
You should make it for you, they don’t get your score
It’s some subconscious reminders…
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Hello, today’s topic is healthcare
I’ve worked in healthcare for a little over ten years
I got a BS in medical laboratory science
So I’ve seen a lot of things, and the public should know that, they already know that the healthcare system is…
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[Chorus]
Good morning, America
Big race problem everywhere we are
If there’s trouble for minority
It probably ‘cause of ethnicity
If colored man is content, he is a bitch
You should let it get to you, be pissed
I wish I never been born…
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I developed a strong obsession with the building blocks of pop songs and tried to craft one. Unfortunately, I wrote it in a key that was high enough that the combination of the rapid-fire words and the pitch nearly made me pass out while singing…
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This was the only song from the 2015 RPM Challenge that did anything for me at the time. I clearly remember that. What I didn't remember until I read the notes from that 2015 alonetone post (which I did about four minutes ago) was that the guitar…
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I think I need to take a day off. My ears are turning to mush. I really struggled mixing this and I can't even tell if it's worth keeping or not.
This song was written during my first attempt at doing anything in GarageBand. Prior August…
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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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So, what do you think... could it use more wah-wah?
This was written for the 2014 RPM Challenge. The chromatic thing at the beginning had been rattling around in my head for years and years but had never found a home.
The lyrics here…
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This is for my MT Bottles, it's a bit naff , ( British slang ) but I love it.
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This is my 2nd Piece that I "wrote" in a pretty simple fashion. I started with the 2 pizzicato tracks and then Improvised 3 voices on top of that. It started as a test if I can plug in my audiointerface into my phone and it kind of worked out…
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I'll admit it right up front . . . This is the result of an idle mind.
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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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New material to put together and listen to in case we get quarantined:)
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Another full band cover of an acoustic Kurt song. Apologies to KC for the guesswork.
LYRICS:
One less side of me
Wonder how I breathe
I know that I need
Just because
you want my seed
Seems to me that harvest’s overgrown
Step aside…
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RPM17
3/10
The most tasteful song i've made this year :)
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Inspired by Mark Hall of Casting Crowns, by his sensational testamony
He'll Take Me As I Am by Tom Brandow
Feeling busted, bruised and broken, sometimes barely hangin on
calling out, to my savior, keep me safe and strong
Jesus…
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Since my baby left me
I found a new place to dwell
It's down the end of Lonely Street
At Heartbreak Hotel
You're makin' me so lonely, baby
I get so lonely, I get so lonely, I could die
Though it's always crowded
You still can find…
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Lyrics and vocals by Starry Nightmoth. Music by Gene Eric Mann.
FIRE
Firefly --
Who invited you bright bug?
Who said your friends could come?
Who brought down the stars?
Who danced all night long
Around my burning house?
Firebug…
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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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Straight cover, from a backing track, just because I had the urge and I don't think the neighbours would appreciate me thrashing the guitar so late!
The backing track pretty much sums up where my head was at when I recorded it :)
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Just messing with a few chords and extended it a bit. Could do with some words, but can't think of any - feel free if you can add something) cheers
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Segunda parte del set de New Beat del DJ Fredy Gamboa
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A sample of the duo version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Additional Accordion, toy piano, and vocals
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Well i got the £16 special out and Bon came down the cellar for a visit last night it was a shame Angus didn't as the lead is a bit limp but hey!! were trying down here.......now with some finger drums.......
Helter Skelter (Lyrics)
i ain’t…
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I need an electric geeetar. My weary old Crafter electroacoustic picks up every touch. 'Scuse the solo, I'm only a strummer..
Anyway, the song. Clogging up my brain, had to get it out. Some lasses don't know what they look like, and some lads…
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According to John this lyric was inspired by the weird visions of a former sports reporter who now thinks the people in high political places are actually lizard men from space. :D
Lyrics: John Williams
Composed by: Andy Gupta
Vocals: George…
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THE TABLE by Jeff Prince
Funny, running into you this way after all these years
You hardly aged a single day except those lines around your eyes when you smile. She laughs as she recalls the girl that she was and the boy who chased her around…
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All first take improvisations. 8 tracks of madness for your enjoyment. Ear goggles will put you inside this piece. Not recommended for the faint of heart!
Recorded between 9AM - 7PM on the 26th of February.
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i tell K.G. that this one is like the allman brothers and bruce springsteen doing a tune together. another kick ass K.G. tune. we played this thing alot and nailed this take live!
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i have been afield for a while,, this is my first contribution RPM 2012
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A track I did as part of an ImprovFriday tribute for Richard Lainhart who passed away recently.
Guitar, fx, live loops
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Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity…
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Recorded live during the last days of the Red Blood Club in Dallas, this Dennis Gonzalez Yells At Eels song features Stefan Gonzalez (drums), Aaron Gonzalez (contrabass), and Dennis Gonzalez (treated trumpet).
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when you wake up
and it feels like its further away
you get discouraged
could it have really gone unnoticed
what you're tryin to find
isn't so black or so white
it's more rooted in faith and less in fate
what you're tryin to find
isn't so gift…
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A light classical solo piano piece with a touch of humor.
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~Decrepit shadow of a piano in the shadows of former visitors~
I've played in such a cafe, a long time ago, for a meal/drink, thru the night. Surreal it was; second life. Yeah ...
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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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thought,, id try doing something for valentines day so i chose two Beatles tunes,, amazingly (or not) i found them very difficult for me to personalize, ,,hope all you lovers have a good day and enjoy
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2011
One of my favorite songs I've recorded. An amalgamated tribute to 80's Crimson, Andy Summers and Peter Gabriel.
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Thoughtless
w/m: Tharek & Geir
Guitars /Music : Tharek
Vocals/Lyrics: Geir
-Lyrics-
A simple mind
not evil or unkind
had lost it's sight
of anything but it's spot in the night
the words should have been unsaid
what they did can't be undone…
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A cover of the Cure's minimalist alt-rock classic, an old favorite of mine.
keywords: instrumental, chill, the cure, clock watching, lucky time
Remixed: 12/18/2010
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(a setting of) The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allen Poe
LO! 't is a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years.
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra…
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Friend of my put some lyrics to this one about his father. Hence the title.
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24-hour album.
This album is a collage of several disconnected pieces recorded & mixed over 18 hours or so.
I've left it as a single long track, but here's a sort of navigational guide if you want to skip around:
0:00 - 1:30 = Living…
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an emmotional storytelling through instrumentalism. a whistle transcends the feeling of an explosive bowel movement. a noisy arcane reduction of bass jagged jarring hook and pursed lipped vocals
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Being Jettisoned In A Sarcophagus Into The Deep,Dark Starless Void
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This One was a creation with my friend and gran Master, Kavin. You can fin more kavin´s tracks on alonetone.com/kavin :)
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You know those people who like to break out the family photos or something of that sort with which to bore their guests? This is my version of that.
Most of what makes this song special to me is for all the same reasons that you won't share…
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Honestly I have no idea where this came from or how.
I was messing with Omnisphere patches and came across a lovely, flutey, breathy sound that put me in mind of the scenes inside the monolith at the end of 2001. I setup a Rytme pattern to…
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Lyrics for 'Wild and Free' came while looking at a painting of the head of a horse. Composed by Julie Day and Grant Duncan in 2007, this rock song has a swing element to it. Enjoy.
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start here at the airport
feels like im going blind
middle of the day in a dark bar
1000 miles away from peace of mind
im tring to remember
when i was a kid
did the sun set in my back yard
i think it did
what comes before and goes on…
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A fingerpicky tune from the old days.
Tuning is DADF#AD Capo III.
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Nice melodic pop song. Mostly guitar instrumental with a roll your top down, feel good outlook.
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