Comments on: When My Baby Was Mine

When My Baby Was Mine

Karlos the Jackal — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:10:10 -0800

My one-person band, drowsy, delivers this delicious 1950s-inspired retro-pop (with crunchy autoharp topping!) directly to your doorstep. Quick, answer the door!

I like making up songs. I often find the process of finishing them to be kind of a chore. I have a backlog of maybe 15-20 songs half finished, partially recorded, waiting for me to get back to them. Some of these songs go back years. So in January I made a resolution: I'd finish one song a month and post it to MeFi Music. This is the first of those songs. A glance at the calendar and some basic math will tell you how well that plan has been working out. Can I catch up over the next nine months? Or will I be posting eleven really lousy songs in the last two weeks of December? The suspense is killing me, too! I hope you enjoy this tasty little dish. It's autoharp (two tracks -- one fairly clean, one awful dirty), SR-16 drum machine, and a little bit of Q-Chord on the bridge. More details concerning its genesis are here, and the words are here.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:05:10 -0800

This is just awesome. I really dig the breakdown, especially.

I've got an enormous backlog of half-finished stuff, too. Dozens, maybe a hundred, maybe more. I actually categorized it all once--this is how resistant to actually doing things I am--into "finish," "don't finish," "don't start" folders. I don't think any of the "finish" stuff ever got finished, though. Maybe I'll start on it when I get through the backlog of current unfinished stuff.

By: kingbenny

kingbenny — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:11:32 -0800

Awesome song. Autoharp ftw. What is q-chord?

I too can relate about the backlog of unfinished songs... I've got a little pile myself.

By: Karlos the Jackal

Karlos the Jackal — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:27:32 -0800

kingbenny -- a Q-Chord is sort of a cross between an autoharp and a synthesizer. Here is a picture of mine. In this song, it's the thing making the little harpsichord sounds on the bridge.

uncleozzy -- yeah, I like making little to-do lists -- I wrote down the 15 songs that were closest to being done in a notebook, and wrote a list of things to do under each one, with little checkboxes...then, when I have a free day, the night before I'll go through the notebook and pick out some tasks and write them down in a new to-do list. If I don't pre-focus I end up just sort of wandering around aimlessly.