September 1
a nice song. I'm not sure why I wrote this.
Please, any comments are okay.
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posted by MadRat at 5:01 PM - 0 comments
As autumn arrives, it always gives me a feeling of glorious sad sentimentality, almost like a chemical reaction. Whether I actually have something to feel sentimental about or not, those chilly sun-filled days create a longing like a chemical reaction. This song is that feeling for me, when you can't get back the past, but flounder to try. Guitar and vox recorded live with a single guitar overdub.
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posted by tunewell at 2:00 PM - 4 comments
August 31
My wonky tribute to the great John Barry. What a tune, even I can't mess this one up!
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posted by Jonesisdying at 10:50 PM - 0 comments
So scody
had a medical adventure today, which got me thinking about how awesome scody is and how much I enjoyed hanging out with her and being music dorks in LA last fall, and this is one of the songs I remember really enjoying during our drunken singalongery.
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posted by cortex at 2:48 PM - 9 comments
August 30
More of my experiment into writing/producing pop-ish music. I'm poor and just messing around at this point, so it's just Garage Band. Feedback much appreciated!
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posted by Lutoslawski at 11:17 AM - 2 comments
This is a cover (gah, feels like all I can do lately) of "
My Roots are Strong and Deep" by the Microphones. Features my friend Taylor Bridges on heavily distorted banjo, and recorded in this wonderful, cement stairwell back at the school I used to attend. Anyone know of good, secluded, reverby spots in Portland, OR? The sort where people generally won't walk by, but if they do they won't snicker?
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posted by Corduroy at 2:55 AM - 1 comment
August 28
August 27
I hadn't wrote a tune in awhile. I had a title "Faces" for some reason...I wanted to write about faces....maybe Facebook who knows? I got a new pedal its a Sweet Sound USA Ultra Vibe( My old teen buddie Gerald Sweet makes these) and gave me one. So I whipped out the Tele and this is what I came up with. Wrote and recorded it all last nite and today. Kinda Lou Reed-ish in parts.
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posted by american caesar at 1:23 PM - 0 comments
I had an idea for a sort of epic slow-build, slow-burn song but I didn't have time to work out an appropriately epic-in-length arrangement so this is a little under two minutes long instead.
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posted by cortex at 8:15 AM - 3 comments
August 26
August 25
Improv track. I'm a stupidly huge Doctor Who fan. I'm sorry. Almost every song I've ever jammed on vocally has included a reference to the Good Doctor. I confess...I may be an incarnation of the Doctor. A fat, currently unemployed incarnation.
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posted by reklus at 9:40 PM - 5 comments
August 24
When I'm in a prolonged songwriting funk - which I am now - it can sometime take a cover of a favorite tune to snap me out of it. Let's hope this does.
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posted by ORthey at 6:45 PM - 5 comments
Another uke tune. I really love the old novelty songs and this is my little contribution to that genre.
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posted by tunewell at 4:40 PM - 4 comments
August 23
This song is a mixture of electronic and classical music. Click to the 2 minute part to see the segue into the classical part. It goes back to the electrotrash sound at around 3:40.
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posted by fantasticninety at 8:58 AM - 1 comment
August 22
A song I wrote when I got back from Japan. With field recordings from Japan. I said I was going to go back and work on it more, but I really don't know what to do and am kind of just complacent with what I have right now.
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posted by azarbayejani at 12:34 PM - 2 comments
August 21
Rough as a bear's arse - the guitar is all one take (complete with
many balls-ups and towards the end it's gloriously out of tune). But quite a good overall sound imho. Double bass features again. All in all, this is just a bit of twatting about really. With apologies to Robert Johnson and a tip of the hat to EC.
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posted by MajorDundee at 3:25 PM - 11 comments
August 19
Slowed-down krautrocky shoegaze pop, if such a thing exists. Like finding your pants tightening while under gas in a dentist's chair.
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posted by jtron at 11:16 AM - 2 comments
August 18
Those familiar with relatively obscure early blues, and/or those who've seen the R. Crumb documentary
Crumb might know this one, originally recorded in 1930 by
Geeshie Wiley. Here's the
Ghost Steppers (duo incarnation) performing the tune on August 16, 2010. The one-year-old who was gleefully running about the room and occasionally trying to ascend to the stage may occasionally be heard in this recording. He was
damn cute. Video at
YouTube.
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posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:37 AM - 10 comments
August 17
To "tap the admiral" means to drink on the sly. You might feel a little woozy after listening to this tune, which begins with a chorus of sixteen blown alcoholic beverage bottles in hocket.
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posted by doubtfulpalace at 11:36 PM - 2 comments
This song was recorded with my old band, Niche, 7 years ago. That's me as an angsty teenager, putting on my best impression of mid-90's alternative.
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posted by ianK at 12:04 AM - 0 comments
August 16
A very quickly produced (potentially unfinished?) song recorded with a Kaossilator, a Realistic MG-1, a Big Muff and a Space Echo for my solo recording project, Birdlaw. This is the song you hear when you reach the end of the universe.
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posted by orville sash at 2:33 PM - 1 comment
Featuring my (barely competent) debut on a rented double bass. A pedal steel would have been nice - but...... One of the best songs I've written to date - actually has a proper chorus for once (golly!). Bit of a sonic departure too - trying to roughen/loosen things up a bit. Hope y'all like it.
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posted by MajorDundee at 1:51 PM - 8 comments
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