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The title track to this year's RPM album. The lines actually forced themselves into being and then straightaway demanded that no other lines should be written.
When the songs speak that loudly, I do what I'm told.
OBJECTS IN THE MIRROR…
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An attempt at carnival shoegaze. Yes, Violet, it's a freakout.
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Mark Treefrog - percussion
Michael Thomas - guitars, processing
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Audio selection from a 2009 Ustream show I did.
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Well my friends life has been busy. Needed a break tonight and jumped in the car for a drive. One of those, don't know where your going just want to listen to music and relax kind of rides. Headed out and found myself on an old county road through…
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This song originally started as a demo in late 2012, but I didn't know what to do with it lyrically. I dusted it off during RPM Challenge 2013; inspired lyrically by a Thanksgiving 2012 road trip I took to Las Vegas. I guess you could say this…
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Lido shuffle from way back in the 80's a Boz Scraggs cover with Johnny Robbo from over at the Cool Lab, John really smashes the music….hope you enjoy
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A poetic piece written on the fly by Gene. Vinnie does the lead guitar on this all the way through. It's inspired by a tale of a woman and the dunes of Pismo Beach, California. The rest is up to your imagination.
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OH JIMMY - capo @ 4
C Am F G
On page thirty of the yearbook he found a picture sweet
A girl named Marie Angel, in school right down the street
Dm walk down G
He didn’t notice that the date was 1983. Oh, Jimmy!
C Am F G
Oh, Jimmy!
That…
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I jumped on the backer of Dave Berry's cover of a Blind Faith oldie and we turned it into a Reg- Berry Trio.......
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The news today reminded me of this old traditional American song. In 5000 years we still haven't figured out how to keep the world from being run by the war mongers instead of the peacemakers. Certainly we have learned nothing since the time when…
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No it's not the Zep track....it's a bit of blues Reg style thinking of those poor folk who survived the levee breaking in New Orleans but had nothing and had lost loved ones.......
When the Levee Breaks (Lyrics)
oh She is beautiful even dressed…
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This one has a good groove, but I admit you won't dance as much to this one. Grab a drink and just listen and tap your feet. Turning yourself around with conviction drives through every beat...
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I couldn't help but finally make a layered arpeggiated piece along the the lines of Philip Glass. I put it out there for a taker and Bill Grundmann wrote "I hear voices". I had no idea how many and how disturbing they would be. He created a mini…
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From our RPM 2013 album "Something Into Nothing"
written by Damian Lethbridge
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solo piano
information on John's Raven tuning http://www.johnsmusic7.com/
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a little ditty the lady and I put together. Some festive cheer and all that. x
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At least, I think it's a sonata, if a very short one. I did it as an assignment in a music theory class I took in 2011.
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Flow to this new original by oPen cOncept! Only vocals and beatbox accompany this fun track. Get crazy, tonight we're going to loose our minds....
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Me and JK seem to have These at the moment.....
Uncanny really....
A dilemma (Greek: ??-????? "double proposition") is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is practically acceptable.
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remake of the song i did last yr but with a intro section. didn't turn out as good as i had hoped.
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This a song for the lenten season, contemplating what it must have been like for Jesus during His 40 days in the desert after being baptized by St. John, His cousin.
Forty Days
To the desert Jesus Christ was led
And for forty…
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Backing track for Coz I love you by Slade, this was my first attempt at doing a cover version. It's a lot different from the original.
this is the new version with a few added instruments and the vocals ...
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Feel So Blue
Shes the kinda lady I've wanted all my life
The kinda lady that you want to make your wife
Once i found her I never stop the chase
I didn't want my entire life to turn out to be a waste
So I told her that I loved he…
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Ah, that sounds better, A re-recording of an old one.
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This is Mark's First adventure into Song Writing
Big Legged Woman -- Written by Mark Imsdahl
Mark's alonetone site: http://alonetone.com/imsdahl
Mark Imsdahl -- Harmonica
Greg Connor -- Dobro
Here is Ron Rouch's version of Mark…
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This is a beautiful song from Joni Mitchell. My friend had his 50th birthday and this was my gift, I played it live at his party and recorded it later (4-2-2011)in my livingroom.
It's one take, can't mis that if you listen to it all the way…
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Samples used: http://www.freesound.org/people/Voktebef/sounds/39439/ http://www.freesound.org/people/BristolStories/sounds/65916/
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The finished version of the track previously uploaded as Bump 01. Enjoy.
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Way, way back I read an article in the newspaper about a little old lady who embezzled money from the bank and wound up in Brazi, living the good life with her boyfriend. Fans seem to like this song.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Featuring Norm Harris on Percussion
http://alonetone.com/norm
Norm is playing his piece:
"Groove For All Hallows"
http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/groove-for-all-hallows
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Something that I'm now ready to share from last September. Took a while. But recent changes made it possible. Blues rock I'd guess.
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A tribute to Hawkwind
The Surreal Age of the Naked Lemon
Haley's Comet flies across the English sky and the Saxon king will not survive
It's a dark dark omen a foreboding warning it's a dark dark Amen like a beautiful morning
On the…
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My first song wirh my new toy, a banjo, got it for Christmas.
Banjo, Mandolin, synth(organ), harmonica
Recorded on Boss BR-80
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here at southend-on-sea
where we used to walk with you
on the sand & the mud & the clay
that an ancient science
said we were all made out of
and here at southend-on-sea
my old man
old man river
old father thames
and old father…
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Version 2 of Cable Tie frets.
details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2008
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Made with the Boité Diabolique playing some piano and cello samples. I did a bit of hand editing in Live and then added some light compression, reverb, and limiting.
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Wrote and recorded my first Xmas tune ...was supposed to be entered into a song contest but that site closed...all instruments except drums are played by me.
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Got to keep the Monkey busy....then he won't bother you .....Thanks Norm
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We just finished another of Alberto's compositions.
Working with Alberto has made me listen a lot to Lucio Battisti and Lucio Dalla recently. This is exactly the vintage sound of Italo rock that I love.
I hope you like it - I do…
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I'm obsessed with this tune (actually, just few notes, but...), and I cannot get rid of it, at least for today. At least for all these days...
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Here comes the rush
You feel it in your bones
And when your bones are crushed
You feel it in your soul
You just cant escape it
Its everywhere you go
Turn round and face it
Tell everyone you know
Ah, the rush
You've missed so much
Here comes…
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my second song i made i the first jumpstyle song iv made. I feel that the beat is ok, not bone chilling, but enough to make you jump like a champ.
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a bit techno-like jew's harping. i like this stile of playing because it shows the instruments strength in rythmical patterns and ancient synthesized music.
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Kept in the Cellar is a piece for piano, percussion, and processed street signs in 17 edo.
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A song about loss and the change it brings in a family; this was actually a live edition recording and I think it has something that the polished version does not. Enjoy!
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Art of Love #1
these are my piano moment pieces arranged for other instruments, hence the name,, in a way it's kind of interesting to use one piece of work in more than one way ,,, Richard
and yes this version was put up 1st about 4 months…
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Reg has added some lyrics to the Slowdown piece.....Reg has just realized that its ok! to get clean, but now he's got to stay like it the rest of his life ...................and that's a long time to be sober...............
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From the album of the same name, this track really was recorded on a dark and stormy night, just to see if any of the elemental turmoil going on outside would lend its ambience to the proceedings. The thunder claps came from a sound effects album…
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This was more of an experiment that somehow worked it's way into a song.
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This is a two guitar sketch I posted to Youtube a while back.
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For the lyrics I tried to "paint a picture" rather than tell a story or make a clear point. I was thinking of Caroline No by the Beach Boys about a girl who suddenly lost the glow of youth. The lyric is not quite succesfull but... it will have…
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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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this is titus alone and the brown dog affair. that, combined with the slowness, makes for a long-ass song.
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Song came out of a chord progression I had had for awhile and finally had some lyrics come that fit it. Might be on the RPM cd might not.
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
ebow loop
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Final version
it needs a fiddle but it has a mandolin, a chicken banjo and some excellent backing vocalists
my third demo for RPM 2011
The cat's in the window and
the rabbit's in the hutch
goat's in the meadow just
a-chewin on the…
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Grenade_Fish_by_Fenrir06 from deviantART
A musical setting in 17 notes per octave of CA Conrad’s reading of his poem “Say it With Green Paint for the Comfort and Healing of Their Wounds†posted on PennSound. Title and concept credit…
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Another song I love. Nothing compares to Lou, though. Seasonal, will melt away soon!
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Alright so with the advent of Markus's Java plat game, Minecraft, and me getting utterly addicted to it. I made a remix of Minecraft musician C418's Calm 1 theme for Minecraft.
It might suck to the trained ear, but remember it is because…
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Now you have to make a decision. Do you go with it or against it?
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a field recording/sound collage from last Saturday at the Fort Worth MOMA. Sounds inside the Serra sculpture Vortex, and the African percussion/dance ensemble Jumbie.
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finding meaning in nothing new.
Mon Apr 7, 2008, 1:21 AM
Mood: Lazy
Listening to: "next other" 74:25 min song I wrote
Reading: spacetime bororo of brazil by S. M. Fabian
Watching: tracy like trails into the nite
Playing: Apophysis
Eating: brain…
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Sour Milk on your Weetabix. Can you imagine it?
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Just a little jam track i came up with. Simple little chord progression simple lead work.
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Sometimes the past in which you felt successful and strong, reminds of fragility of life. It's a sign of that you are in a point of transition and you should make a choice. Or the choice will be made for you. For me.
~for Geoffrey~
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"Aww" they said. And I guess it was cute... I don't know... I don't what's cute I guess... anyways, where was I? Oh yeah, who am I? who am I... who am I... ?
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The closing number.
Lockdown:
We don't get to choose our days or chase our past
We only get the ones, we've made to cast
but there are things I'd say if I could
and If I was a better man
but under lockdown all I have...
Sweet end…
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i recorded this song a few months ago. i didn't add any other instrumentation at request of my wife who wanted it just guitar and singing.
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what did we find?
created for the Shorty Stories event.
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My love for America is . . . complicated. And yours?
The song is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," which can be found here:
http://bit…
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All music by Tyler Dedera. All vocals by Lisa Nelson.
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Ich mag ambiant Stil Musik, Ich hatte Inspiration für dieses Lied, wenn es regnete. Ich liebe den regen. Plötzlich begannen die Wolken dicht über dem Boden erhalten, als wären sie vom Himmel fallen. Dann verschwanden die Wolken, als wenn es…
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This song is about how even though there are so many things wrong with the world you can still find peace and happiness. Ummm i played guitar on this and rim shots on drums and put the guitar through a double filter to get the sound you will here…
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I just bought a mandolin and while I was playing around with it to try to learn it this song kinda developed. A dark Alt.Country tale of love lost.
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This is a weird little story about a a green monster .... There'a a monkey reference in this one too !
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A Black Eye Friday track that has previously not made it on to the interweb. Probably one of the last that will until the bands reincarnation is complete.
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A long over due changing of the acoustic strings led to this epic production. 40 tracks and 34 plug-ins. Good Gravy that's a boat load of tracks. All kinds of stuff happening.
Enjoy!
you spend your days and your night times
bustin' ass…
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More stuff from the ancient archives rescued from the same cassette tape as Last Nights Fun. This time a set of 3 Irish reels Live at a concert back around 1992
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This is a piece that uses MOTU Ethno 2. All but percussion and voice were performed my Fender Mustang and midi recorded via Roland GR-20. The piece uses the Almak tuning included in Ethno 2. [Amlak recurrent sequence (x^2 = x + 1/3), as a matrix…
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After listening to Brian's beautiful guitar piece "Mellow," Brian was kind enough to allow me to sing along...
Never saw you coming
Down my lonely road
I never saw you coming
Can't be sure you'll never go
I know you'll be leaving
But I keep believing…
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My submission for the Woody Project.
I started this jam in A minor then found out it was in C. So I figure I got as close as a guess can get.
I left it as is because it's a jam, and this tune should be jammed 300 million ways.
Enjoy Woody…
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Backyard Ghost sent me something to work on...i added my own touch and arranged it...i sent it to him and he added another of his touches and rearranged it and You've Had My Tears is the end result...we both love this collaboration...expect more…
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If this song could have babies it would be triplets. (I have no idea what that means either).
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Words and music by Michael Thomas
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
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I'm not sure if I'll keep the song title. Anyway, this song is more about feeling I guess. At times the song feels happy, then creepy, then sad or dissonant. How does this song make you feel?! Thanks for listening!
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Loops, Dupes, Whoops, Ooops, and a bit of reverb.
Dedicated to South Dakota.
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Bass and Backing Vox from Launched (Mark)
Lead from Geir...
Hope You Like it!
-EASY LONDON-
(By Tharek Mokbul 2010)
We Live in London Town
Moving in Cans in the Underground
You’ll never know
You’ll Never Know, Never Know…
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A quick song about the Times paedophilia correspondent, Roger Boyes.
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Keep Shining Through- Last minute lyrics…kind of a cop-out, since it’s a song about song-writing. I didn’t have any better ideas and after losing so much time from the outage I had to just bust out what I could. It was pretty much written on the…
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Sentiments I think most of us feel at one time or another.
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My fourth piece for RPM. 'Twould definitely benefit from live instruments.
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In the immortal words of Tone Loc: "Let's do it"
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Sleep
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I’m in this ancient place of peace...
With a Lullaby in me.....
But I cannot seem to sleep....
Just a Pill to help me go to sleep ........
This Lullaby in me..... I cant hear......
The sirens…
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I like changing things. Going from one place to another. Like a journey. Kinda like life. This instrumental guitar track goes many places. Enjoy the ride!
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Everyone has heard the phrase 'he can talk the talk, but he can't walk the walk'. Well I was thinking it should be more 'can you walk your talk'. Do your actions back up your words? As a Christian I was thinking that yeah I can talk the gospel…
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She just a panic standin in that ring of fire
Say hey maybe Janet baby ya took it just a little far?
Maybe ya said somethin ya ought to take back?
Said she don't need to be forgiven for nothin
She the one they run into this shot gun shack
And…
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A very rough demo. Programmed the drum kit live in one cut. I messed up on the guitar part at one point too. Oh well.
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Otherwise known as the 'opus'. This song was my life for a good year. Left forgotten in the dusty hills of Santa Fe. This is pretty much the A section :)
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Parental advisory lyrics in conjunction with Sister Savage (unless she denies it, in which case, she's right)
Based on a graffiti that simply set the mind racing
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This one was written after coming home in the harsh light of being out all night after learning someone I knew put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. I write this from his perspective...
'Nuff said.
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My wife and I had a fight. It was a bad one. And, after awhile, without words, we made up. This is a song about that.
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Here's the soon-to-be smash-hit all on its own. Rob and Steve enlisted the talents of a serious hip-hop producer to nineties-up samples from Alphaville's 1984 chart-tickler before unleashing the sick and also fat rhymes of the MC they're calling…
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This is another version of the same tune used in Dana's Song. I just changed the lyrics. It was created back in 1999 with the help of Alontoner K.Scot.
This is my own way of looking at a beautiful text - Psalm 139.
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the wifebot inspires
synths, tabla, beatboxing, claps, and love.
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My evening challenge: compose and record a piece in an evening. Song titles will reflect the time of day when the day's light slips into the darkness of night.
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Originally for (unfinished) RPM '08 album. This song and "shortwave" together probably required more component audio tracks than my entire RPM '09 album, which is one reason RPM '08 didn't see completion.
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Ghost Dobro
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 all rights reserved
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spider silk of the stars
heard me playing the ghost dobro
saw me slip through the bars
to quench my fevered glow
her allure was practiced and warm
and all the…
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This is my newest song made using Reason 4. Compositionally it might get slightly repetitive but I am hoping that there is enough variation that it will keep the listeners attention through the whole piece. Enjoy and let me know what you like…
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Dreamy instrumental with piano, middle eastern percussion, and deep bass. Inspired by William Orbit.
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Title track to my RPM09 album.
Mostly ukulele and vocal, with a few other things thrown in.
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It's another war song. The lyrics pretty much tell the feeling behind this one.
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While my wife and I were travelling back down the coast of California (near Big Sur) from a vacation around New Years, we stopped at a turnout over a cliff, and took a bunch of video of at least 15 California Condors, flying and hanging out on…
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I think this is my favorite song ive done but idk you decide.
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When I wrote this I was not thinking about the verison commercial! Though God always has the best reception! The chorus is based on Psalm 17:1-7.
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I wrote this on one rainy Saturday morning. I was thinking of the old Beatles song I call your name.
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acoustic guitar improv recorded in Keith House, Fort Worth, Tx.
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[Lyric is based on a quote of Jack Kerouac]
When our colors start to fade
And our flowers fall away
Will you love me in December
As you do in May?
As you do in May
Do in May
When our colors start to fade
And our flowers fall away…
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Christmas Everlasting
Chorus:
Merry Christmas to you all. Share His love with the world.
Spread His joy throughout the earth, for we are all one.
The One who was born and died for us — send His love to everyone.
Be like Him; let us heal…
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Lyrics:
I clock in at sunrise, hammer in my hand
Framing up these houses on someone else’s land
It’s my hard work and know-how makes these walls grow
But I can't give my family a house of their own
I'm building dreams for wealthy folk…
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Because y'all like weird crap. Thanks, Tom, for the idea of writing from the perspective of a dead person watching their body decompose.
Kat: lyrics, keys, vocals
Once I was composed
eyes of stars, lips like a rose but
what am I worth…
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(Disclosure: Despite the Aug Upload, these are no longer the demo versions I had. I just didn't want to lose my high listen count... very vain, I know...)
Verse One
I hide in corners where the light won’t stay
Your voice slips through the…
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My version of Woody Guthries "all you fascists bound to lose.
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