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This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.
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This is the first rough, acoustic take of the song 'Iris Florentine' from the album Orchids for Betty.
It's super acoustic and just three mono tracks mixed to a stereo file, so don't expect too much by way of production values.
Lyrics follow…
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A cover of David Marcoullier's excellent piece. All lyrics and music are by him, and this is just my version.
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Worked on this track at the end of January.. Then the RPM came and it did not fit with the other tunes... so I decided to get off my behind and upload it for you all to enjoy. Takes place at the zoo,
the plot is, of course, two chimps in love...
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The song is about isolation and loneliness (implied abuse) and the conditions that could lead someone down the path to obsessive, destructive behavior: stalking, arson, and violence.
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A funky tune about my step-dad. This is an out-take from my RPM09 effort. I used the rock version for the cd, though in retrospect I think this version is better! Oh, well...
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About a trip to Des Moines, Iowa, more info here.
http://www.sonador.us
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My friend Nihco and I found the piano and vibes sitting on the stage after school one day, and there happened to be some mics near both of them. The background noise is actually people who were sitting and talking in the hall, as we were too lazy…
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There was a lot more potential for this song at one point. I had actually written a full on song and was ready to record it with a story I had written for a phonecall answering machine over the top involving a mental patient, but I couldn't get…
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I played dulcimer on this song, which is pretty cool. I bought it for $15 from someone in Dover, and I am thankful of whoever they are to this day, because it is a pretty cool instrument. That's it. This song is about rabbits being annoying and…
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This is one of my first ambient tracks, and it's been made up largely of sounds I've captured on a handheld recorder over the last five or so years.
Dark, and more than a little creepy.
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This crazy getaway song is a little something I wrote when I was convinced that the cops were about to raid my apartment for some reason.
It sounds a little neurotic, kind of like a space-jazzy Radiohead song, except all instrumental.
Make up…
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driving that Infiniti all along the coast
doctor of divinity - I didn't mean to boast
with your strange affinity for whiskey & coke
and looking at the stars
brother Shawn, here's a disk for your collection
we're gonna go check out this here…
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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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Another bluegrassy tune. There really were loads of magpies around where I lived at the time.
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A bluegrass tune about my granddad. Accompanied by top UK bluegrasser Rick Townend on banjo and fiddle.
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A punk/pop tune relating to my being a bit of a soap-dodger. Or so my lady says.
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Hanging on to a relationship can be hazardous to your health.
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A fun song I had to make up out of random key words. Some were 33, butterfly, maple strup, commando... etc.
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A Instrumental I wrote, it's full of emotion so I never put any lyrics into it.
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T Boudreau - Lyrics / Music
Bonehead - Music and Vocals
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T Boudreau - Lyrics / Music
Bonehead - Guitar, Vocals
Thunder Chris - Drums, B Vocs
Tim Hochadel - Bass, B Vocals
John Young - Keys
Eddie Davis - Lead guitar
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An RPM 2009 song. Well, this was a personal story for me that came about when your past intersects (briefly) with the present.
Lyrics:
20 years running through time and I remember
all the magic lines
that in our younger days
we drew…
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I heard someone say to an undergraduate class, 'you're on your way to everywhere' and I loved that line. This is sort of a Beatle-esque tune. My friend Mike Levine stopped by while recording a showed me a new jig on the mandolin. I recorded…
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The lyrics were co-written with Mike Novak. I sent him the music, and we worked from there. I've done that a bunch with friends from Canada (Me Man Jack - check them out) and its fun to collaborate..
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Album: How the Aviator Sees the Rainbow
Year: RPM Challenge 2008
Pour vous Tess.
Is there a ghost in these hills?
Something to run from
I've given way to cheap thrills
Problems have just begun
I walk alone, sink like a stone in…
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This track is written and performed by my 12 year old son Zack. He really is coming along great as a musician, and I'm proud to include him in my RPM project for a second year!
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This is the finished version of Trance-Indental. the second half has come out very different to what I thought it would, but I like it. Give it time to build as it progresses.
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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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This is a random, ambient, minimal and free music.
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It was the briefest of looks, but from that moment (in that
discustingly dirty kitchen, no less) it was a certainty that you would
be mine.
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We finally got back to my car at about 8:00am. We fell asleep in
separate seats. When I woke up I checked my wallet. The budget for the
entire trip was gone in one night.
'I think I gave that driver a hundred,' I said.
You just groaned and…
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The e-mail was quick in explaining all details. They had married as
soon as he found out he was being shipped out. They had less than a
month together.
She explained that his father had pushed him towards military service.
That he was told that…
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walter had just turned 71. He had made his fortune through his robot
factory. His favorite had been the one created that he called Bobby.
He was one of a kind.
'Bobby, be a friend and make an old man happy. My eyes are growing
dim. Take me to…
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I watched as she walked back across the border. There was no one
waiting to question her. she turned back to look at me from the other
side of the fence. I couldn't decide which side of the wall I was on.
Goodbye my Penelope.
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Ambient. Electric Bass Guitar. Ebow + Acoustic Guitar
Sometimes a new instrument is all it takes to inspire a nice little piece.
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reading too much sci-fi makes you paranoid and using too many effects pedals can make your songs repetitive, loud, and long.
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i don't know. another paranoid delusion, i guess.
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loop pedal + fuzz pedal + wah-wah = instrumental noise madness.
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This is a random, ambient, minimal and free music.
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An instrumental track recorded for the RPM Challenge 2009.
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A surf instrumental written during a snowstorm.
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A jam written when I was trying to finish the verse for It's Crazy.
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I recorded a demo of this in 2006 with a friend of mine. Never being satisfied with it, I've worked at it on and off over the last couple of years. I used my friends original vocal (which I ran through a vocoder) and rebuilt the backing tracks…
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Started this track the last week in February in the middle of hurrying around, trying to finish the challenge. I put a complete backing track together and it seemed to fit the album as an instrumental. If anyone wants to contribute lyrics or…
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It started with the opening riff. I liked the sound of a twangy guitar riff over a heavy drum loop. The B section has an almost jazzy feel to it. I'm happiest with the bassline.
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I was listening to Dinosaur Jr. on my commute one day. I tried to write the lyrics in the vocal style of J. Mascis. The first line of the chorus comes from a fortune cookie. Inspiration comes from everywhere, I guess.
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