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“These bleats of pedantry should be regarded as respectfully as we regard rag dolls that keep infants occupied and noiseless.
“Millions ruled by a small band of esoterics.
“The great difficulty that authoritativeness has to contend with is…
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uncensored. inappropriate. illegal. Play this track anyway. Or don’t. You do have a choice.
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I saw her mother
Just the other day
She didn’t know me
So I froze on what to say
When she was happy
Nothing made her frown
Danced so much
They even gave her a crown
She was , she was royalty
Really wish that she remembered me
She…
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Push & pull,
Left & right,
Up & down,
Don't forget your dog's in this fight.
Courage!
Might!
All so hard to see in this light.
Couldn’t put it any other way,
Hands up in the air as if they’re trynna say,
Will I ever be…
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There’s. man by the shallow
He goes there each day
Screams about his problems,
Prays them away
Why’d you come to the shallow?
Do you ever feel peace?
I need a solution
Before my head is fleeced.
The shallow, it saves me
It, holds…
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I wait, I wait,
For you now.
I wait, I wait,
For you now.
Now that you're ahead I wonder,
Will you turn and wait for me?
I wonder.
If I lost direction,
Would the favor return for free?
I wonder.
Hit the brakes, hit the brakes!
Wait…
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It’s all smoke and mirrors
Why I can’t see straight
Will this illusion vanish
When will it break
The smoke it lifting
The mirrors clear
I wasn’t really risking
Everything is still there
Am I still dreaming
This just don’t sit right…
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You'll lose everything like lightning casts shadows on the wall
you'll be delighted by the persistence of vision
The cool
of the breeze
the clouds,
the rain
The snow,
the seas,
the stars,
the lakes
The ponds,
the bees,
the frogs…
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“White coral islands in a dark blue sea.
Luminous clouds of hyacinth flakes.
Jet-black snow and hailstones flavored like oranges.
Pink snow, flakes the size of saucers.
“Vast things poised like crows over the moon.
Dark shadows crossing…
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“There doesn't seem to be anything to discuss. A needle that no one ever lost, in a haystack that never was.
“We've been damned by giants, sound asleep. Things that are leprous to the faithful. Things that deep-sea fishes are bumped by…
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“The fittest survive. Not the strongest; not the cleverest -- Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. ‘Fitness,’ then, is only another name for ‘survival.’” – Charles…
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“All imaginings that materialize into machines or statues, buildings, dollars, paintings or books in paper and ink are graduations from unrealness to realness.” – Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, 1919
Various electrical doodads played…
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“A very interesting and curious phenomenon happened. Our greasy, shiny brains may be of some use after all.” – Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, 1919
VCV Rack patch with drums added in Reaper.
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Robbie (or I guess Danny) is really ready to go to the beach! (Also, when I read the title, I thought of a hurricane warning... It’s been a long couple of years!)
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitars, bass, recording
Daniel…
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Robbie and his buddy Danny came up with the words for this one, and Robbie recorded most of the instruments on his own. I (Kevin) just added MIDI drums.
Robbie Robinson - lyrics, vocals, songwriting, guitars, bass, recording
Daniel Shea…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 19 becomes finished song number 20.
The 20th and final song worked on for this year's RPM. I think we're going out on a high note this year. I like this one. Everything is working for me except for the…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number four becomes finished song number 17.
I'm waffling between not liking this song and thinking it's just meh.
The guitar in your left speaker is a Les Paul Custom and the one in your right is a Les Paul…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number nine becomes finished song number 15.
This one is not going to make the RPM Challenge album cut. That middle bridge section... what was I thinking? Laughably bad.
The rhythm guitar in your left speaker…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 18 becomes finished song number 14.
I like the song all right, but the performance could have (should have) been better. It's okay, I guess.
Rhythm guitars are a Takamine F-400 S 12-string into a Shure…
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A bit of Frankenstein of a song, lyrics cobbled from old lyric fragments, with variations on bass and melody and piano motifs, like I couldn't make my mind up where it was heading. Something about it, so has made the cut!
*Tech Notes*
Hmm…
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The song started life as more sonic doodles using the Numanesque 1979 synth emulators -- so if you think it's 80s, you're a year out!
Was also working on transitions from verse to chorus (as I've listened to too many fawmers doing this rather…
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TL;DR: it's got percussion in it.
I had an idea for percussion-heavy song: that I found tough to articulate because it's not a usual thing for me. More practice required.
I dialled back the bpm as the percussion became (even more) a wall of…
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This started out from some sound design doodlery. A couple of the synths I've been using have some non-standard routing options, so I've been getting better acquainted. They're not modular, though the Reason hosted stuff does have visible, virtual…
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I sold my upright piano earlier this year: it had been underused for a while and my head's been buried in the DAW for a long time. So played arpeggios into DAW instead. Then quantised them within a inch of their lives. More doodles with the Backbone…
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Ditty with jangles, bass and celloish thing (all Halion) and plenty of triplets. [Drum sounds from Groove Agent; edited using the new Drum Pattern editor. New for Cubase that is ... but every other DAW has had for 20 years, I suspect.] Vocal synths…
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Hmm. The trigger was to use a random Wikipedia page [via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random ] -- it gave me a 1990s Brazilian film I'd never heard of. Although it sparked a song, the verses that more obviously related to the film got…
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I'd been recommended some free plug-ins for DAWs. One of these plug-ins emulated synths from yesteryear that were bizarrely nostalgia inducing. Which led me down a path to a sort-of retro style song. It's possibly anachronistic: I didn't check…
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Not _entirely_ sure where this came from, probably the muted trumpet sound, that's only possible to play in the wearing-a-black-turtle-neck style. Other motifs followed suit.
'Tis mainly from Cubase Halion sounds ... Reason double bass, and…
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