Robert James's listening history
This bouncy little groove brings the 2020 50/90 Challenge to a close. I end with 51 songs written in 88(?) days. I've only finished this challenge once before, in 2014. That year I stopped at 50 songs but I got there with a lot more time to…
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Short and sweet. Nice and hyper. The mix is a little ratty, but I can live with it on a Tuesday afternoon. Lyrically I think this is the most milage I've ever gotten out of the fewest words. I'm just winning all around.
This is the 50th…
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I really like the chorus in this one. I don't know if it's the pick up notes in the vocals, or the key change coming out of the verse, but I just dig it.
The rhythm guitar is a Gibson ES-335 into a Klon KTR into a Malaise Forever Black Lives…
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Did you see any of the articles recently that talked about the John Cage piece? Cage wrote what is unquestionably the slowest piece of music ever performed. A machine was designed in order to play the entire piece and recently it changed chord…
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I was going for something here... I don't know what it was, but I didn't get it. It's not the worst thing ever. I like the strummy guitar solos. The chorus isn't so bad. I don't know. I might just be tired, but I think this one is going to…
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This one is okay. Nothing special. The whole stream of conscious lyric writing approach got a little screwy here when the second verse went really dark but the chorus was kinda up and happy. Oh well.
I kinda like the chorus here. A few…
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A nice, bouncy little ditty, eh?
This has two tie backs to the 1980's. First, the lead guitar. Back in the late 80's I was not a guitar gear junkie at all. That addiction only developed a few years ago. Back then it was Les Paul -> Wah…
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I keep waffling on whether I like this one or not. Right now I'm okay with it, but sometimes I just want to junk it. I think I'm too close to all of this stuff to know what's good and what isn't.
The star of the show here is clearly the Garageband…
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Okay, this one is all about being a guitar gear nerd.
Wet/Dry. You play through two amplifiers. One amplifier gets a dry signal and the other gets all of the effects. The idea is you can crank up the effects without having to worry about…
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The lyrics were off the top of my head so if you're wondering how I really feel, or what I'm talking about... let's just say there's a lot of stupid out there right now and a lot of it has important jobs. Dig?
Kinda funky. Not bad. Maybe…
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