The lovely closing track of OK Computer, re-imagined as some sort of throwback synthpop thing. [more inside]

posted by cathodeheart at 10:20 PM PST - 2 comments

It's a pretty dented-up song as it stands. I submit my version with all its dings and dents, though, because I'm up against the deadline.

posted by not_on_display at 9:24 PM PST - 6 comments

Random Free Bird midi dumped onto the robot xylophone.

posted by moonmilk at 9:24 PM PST - 4 comments

Well, here it is. I just couldn't pull off any of the ideas I had to make my cover unique, but I really didn't want to fail the challenge completely. So here's my crappy, iPad recorded version of the tune. [more inside]

posted by lazaruslong at 8:30 PM PST - 10 comments

Here there be sludge. [more inside]

posted by DaDaDaDave at 7:50 PM PST - 7 comments

Not my favourite Radiohead tune, I'll tell you that much. [more inside]

posted by motty at 7:38 PM PST - 3 comments

Sulking straggler throws hat in challenge ring. [more inside]

posted by freya_lamb at 2:27 PM PST - 6 comments

The epic second track off the Roddy's O-Face record. It's pretty hefty compared to the rest of the songs, so make sure you can handle a solid minute and forty five seconds. [more inside]

posted by cortex at 1:34 PM PST - 7 comments

My submission, just under the wire. Improvised into my phone just now, while fighting dizzy spells and having just submitted to a biopsy procedure. This is also my first Mefi Music submission.

Fitting.

posted by swift at 1:28 PM PST - 3 comments

Recorded in my bathroom. [more inside]

posted by qnarf at 7:14 AM PST - 5 comments

an imaginary anthem

posted by at the crossroads at 5:20 AM PST - 0 comments

My song for the OK Computer challenge. Pretty similar to the original, but with my own personal touches here and there. I performed everything, and recorded it in Logic Pro 9. [more inside]

posted by John Cohen at 11:16 PM PST - 4 comments

My contribution for the July challenge. Just a few pianos and vocals. Thanks JaiMahodara for singing. [more inside]

posted by Lutoslawski at 10:23 PM PST - 17 comments

I downloaded a karaoke file to help find out how the arrangement was put together (although the file I downloaded seems to have some odd deviations from the original track). Somehow I ended up rearranging the tracks and assigning them to string quartet, woodwind, church organ, marimba and dulcimer. And TR808. Not real, of course. I liked the way it sounded enough to keep it. And then I put vocals on it, and I don't know whether it didn't all go (as Satie would put it) au form du poire. [more inside]

posted by Grangousier at 4:00 PM PST - 15 comments

Sweet, I tracked down the opening track off Lofi Computer. [more inside]

posted by cortex at 1:16 PM PST - 0 comments

Electronic instrumental, 80's style arpeggio, loud bass and an extremely simple melody. [more inside]

posted by surrendering monkey at 11:01 AM PST - 2 comments

I really have no explanation for what I was thinking on this.

posted by InfidelZombie at 8:39 PM PST - 5 comments

Another long instrumental noodle-athon. Making it up as we go. [more inside]

posted by Devils Rancher at 10:44 PM PST - 0 comments

59 seconds of punk written by Riot Dog's 20 year old drummer Levi, on a subject that should be readily apparent.

posted by InfidelZombie at 12:09 PM PST - 1 comments

Not every cat deserves a theme song.

posted by Ardiril at 5:10 PM PST - 1 comments

A cover of a B-Side from Radiohead's OK Computer. [more inside]

posted by onehalfjunco at 9:56 AM PST - 1 comments

It's well known that Radiohead went to Bob Dylan for inspiration on the title of Subterranean Homesick Alien; it's less well known that they actually lifted the song structure and lyrics themselves from this rare demo recording. [more inside]

posted by cortex at 9:41 AM PST - 5 comments

This one is a sparkly nugget of synthpop about the bitter, self-sabotaging adolescent lurking within all of us. Or at least within me. It's classic Resistor. [more inside]

posted by ludwig_van at 9:23 AM PST - 0 comments

My assigned tune from OK Computer. For mouth bow and Russian vocal. Video here.

posted by flapjax at midnite at 12:44 AM PST - 6 comments

I downloaded a random MIDI file of Radiohead's Karma Police and sent it, almost raw, to this robot xylophone which couldn't understand most of the file. It sounds terrible. There's also a boring video version.

posted by moonmilk at 9:31 PM PST - 13 comments

Version # 7248 of this song. My entry into the OK Computer MeFi Challenge. [more inside]

posted by dobie at 7:44 PM PST - 13 comments

My cover of Radiohead's Airbag for the July 2012 MeFi Music Challenge. [more inside]

posted by owtytrof at 6:21 PM PST - 1 comments

I covered this already but found this version I now have brain cancer and can no longer play. [more inside]

posted by american caesar at 3:40 PM PST - 2 comments

As sang by the paranoid android. Right before running out of battery.

posted by valdesm at 1:44 PM PST - 1 comments

MeFi Music Challenge July 2012 cover of "Subterranean Homesick Alien" off of Radiohead's OK Computer. [more inside]

posted by Rube R. Nekker at 7:33 PM PST - 2 comments

This is what happens when a wimpy acoustic guitar player writes a song entirely with a vintage synthesizer. [more inside]

posted by danb at 7:07 PM PST - 0 comments

a totally improvised guitar solo through 2 alesis nanoverbs, a dod dimension 6 (dual fx) and a behringer virtualizer pro - i love old cheap rack fx [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 4:50 PM PST - 0 comments

My version with the help of Miles [more inside]

posted by Disbro at 10:23 PM PST - 0 comments

Well, this is my cheater because Let Down is my song. But it is turning out to be difficult, so I've been working up a few others to play when I get pissed off at Let Down. [more inside]

posted by TheRedArmy at 10:03 PM PST - 4 comments

A little spit-polish on the learning-to-play-it demo I recorded after I got the assignment. I had to get it mixed and off the desk before I spent the rest of my life adding the goofy little fills I missed the first time through. [more inside]

posted by uncleozzy at 5:03 PM PST - 8 comments

After many failed attempts, here is my contribution to the project. [more inside]

posted by Doleful Creature at 10:05 AM PST - 13 comments

It's time to come clean... [more inside]

posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 11:53 PM PST - 0 comments

Know of any venues between Reno and Los Angeles that might need a band for this Saturday night? [more inside] posted by platinum at 11:05 PM PST - 2 comments

If any of our previous posts for this challenge have been successfully creepy, then hopefully, this will be the stuff of nightmares... [more inside]

posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 11:14 PM PST - 13 comments

Time for a short break from the creepy. Turns out, all that needed changing was one word, and this was actually a bit of Mississippi Delta Blues in disguise--mostly because nobody in Mississippi has ever heard of the word "drivel." Sit back on your front porch with a cool glass of lemonade for this one. [more inside]

posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 10:27 PM PST - 3 comments

I learned how the play the song the proper way, but then I threw it all out the window for... whatever this is. [more inside]

posted by naju at 8:54 PM PST - 4 comments

For some reason, finding out that the song was inspired by a moribund sanitarium brought to mind monks.

posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:09 PM PST - 9 comments

just a instrumental thing I did while trying out some new software.

posted by MadRat at 12:17 PM PST - 0 comments

As I've been advised to stay home in the evening (, I redownloaded FL Studio after a long hiatus and spent last night fiddling around with it again. I'm a bit rusty and I found the new interface (10.x) overly complicated and counter-intuitive from what FL used to be in older versions, but at least it's something to do -- it's also just a demo version of FL and prevents saving progress, so this came out in one go, unedited, as you'll hear.

posted by ageispolis at 12:48 AM PST - 1 comments

From sort of creepy to really creepy. From cover/arrangement/orchestration to abstraction. This is not your Major's Lucky. [more inside]

posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 10:09 PM PST - 6 comments

A Ramones cover from the latest Red On Strike album. For comparison, here's our previous attempt at recording this song, and a video of us doing it live a couple weeks ago.

posted by InfidelZombie at 9:41 PM PST - 1 comments

My attempt at the Bohemian Rhapsody of my generation. [more inside]

posted by onehalfjunco at 5:02 PM PST - 15 comments

"Waves of Waves" explores the sounds which constantly and invisibly lap at our feet, as observed from one particular vantage point on the Westside of Los Angeles. The piece reveals the simultaneously fragile and expansive nature of territories and communities. [more inside]

posted by mykescipark at 12:31 PM PST - 1 comments

It's probably a different film now (could still be Romeo & Juliet, but they might have to use chainsaws now). Headphones are best, for maximum crunchification. [more inside]

posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 10:40 AM PST - 28 comments

take a trip with me... inside your mind [more inside]

posted by dubold at 4:38 AM PST - 7 comments

An instrumental I wrote in 2008 for my Carvin electric 12-string. I was going for a honky-tonk piano sound.

posted by Ardiril at 8:59 PM PST - 0 comments

Not a part of the Monthly Challenge, but the first song I recorded on my tenor ukulele. [more inside]

posted by nile_red at 8:40 AM PST - 6 comments

In the six months they were together, Roddy's O-Face went through three bassists, the last of whom insisted on being called "The Colonel" at all times. This was a song about the town they were all going to high school in. [more inside]

posted by cortex at 8:11 AM PST - 3 comments

Morning is the first of four pieces from a release that I did earlier this year called "Within the Darkness." Quiet, atmospheric textures. I woke up one morning and this fellow on YouTube named MetalSeer had put up this really nice video from Valve's Source Filmmaker. [more inside]

posted by dep at 4:11 AM PST - 2 comments

Forgive me gatecrashing the challenge. I've never consciously heard "OK Computer" or this track. I just read through the lyrics and this one resonated for some reason - serendipitously enough given it's Friday 13th! Hope no-one is offended by this effort bearing absolutely no relation to the original other than the lyric. Feels a bit like I've drunkenly decided to juggle with some Meissen china or something... [more inside]

posted by MajorDundee at 1:18 PM PST - 13 comments

A quiet piano driven song cut and pasted on itself.

posted by ianK at 10:28 AM PST - 1 comments

You get what you pay for.

posted by Ardiril at 9:12 PM PST - 5 comments

Here's another Roddy's O-Face track off their Lofi Computer album! If I remember right, Ned wrote this one, and it's about his ex-girlfriend's cop dad and the time he drew a magic marker Hitler stache on her at a party when she passed out, or something like that. [more inside]

posted by cortex at 4:08 PM PST - 10 comments

A live performance of a "reconstruction" of a Zola Jesus song performed at Sonic Circuits Broken Mic Night. [more inside]

posted by azarbayejani at 2:24 PM PST - 0 comments

My allotted song for the July Metafilter Music Radiohead Extravaganza. [more inside]

posted by chococat at 11:16 AM PST - 28 comments

Starts out atmospheric as we slowly descend through the thickening clouds. [more inside]

posted by Devils Rancher at 7:01 AM PST - 2 comments

I know I uploaded a previous version. But now I've completed a solo part with my friends who played lead guitar and pedal steel. The rest is me trying to work out this Zappa tune with my own words, midi instruments, and staying true to the basic idea, western theme, music, but with a 'now' twist. I hope you enjoy it, and send me any thoughts that might occur to your wild elephant mind.

posted by Disbro at 9:27 PM PST - 1 comments

Here is my entry into the "Educational Song" challenge from March of last year. (THIS IS AS FAST AS I WORK, PEOPLE.) It is a searing exposé / sing-along waltz that reveals the truth about early arctic exploration. My dad plays trumpet, my friend Jessica plays trombone and sings, my wife Sue sings just a little bit, and MeFi's own dubold and Pecinpah sing as well. Lyrics and (yes!) citations are inside. [more inside]

posted by Karlos the Jackal at 9:07 PM PST - 4 comments

As recorded in Tom's mom's garage by the infamously unfamous punk ingenues Roddy's O-Face. From their first and only album, Lofi Computer. [more inside]

posted by cortex at 4:03 PM PST - 14 comments

So, y'all know that Thom Yorke has a ridiculous power and range to his singing right? Well I don't. [more inside]

posted by carsonb at 5:42 AM PST - 7 comments

My attempt at the July challenge... [more inside]

posted by dubold at 1:05 PM PST - 10 comments

my cover of the radiohead song ...

posted by pyramid termite at 12:33 PM PST - 5 comments

Radiohead's Subterranean Homesick Alien, the mariachi cover. [more inside]

posted by hanoixan at 2:56 PM PST - 42 comments

It's always best when the light is off. [more inside]

posted by Elmore at 3:25 PM PST - 9 comments

Another Riot Dog song, written by our bass player Steve about 300 clowns who got together in Mexico City to laugh for peace. [more inside]

posted by InfidelZombie at 8:17 AM PST - 1 comments

Another jam (Sly cover) at yet another gig, circa 1994. It would have been totally forgotten and unremarked were it not for the fact that someone taped it. [more inside]

posted by bonefish at 1:00 AM PST - 1 comments

Another ditty for the baritone uke

posted by pugh at 9:32 PM PST - 1 comments

Fun with samples on my entry for the MeFi Music Album Challenge. [more inside]

posted by modernserf at 5:42 PM PST - 18 comments

This might be a good song for a sunny summer weekend! My wife Sue sings it. Other ingredients: Autoharp, marimba, and a boss baritone sax solo supplied by MeFi's own man vs sun. [more inside]

posted by Karlos the Jackal at 4:57 PM PST - 2 comments

Bouncy Tech House piece [more inside]

posted by djdrue at 3:11 PM PST - 0 comments

Hau' weg das Zeug! [more inside]

posted by MajorDundee at 1:58 PM PST - 4 comments

I like this song, so I sang it in a room by myself.

posted by pugh at 12:31 PM PST - 5 comments

That, or God Save the Queen. Your choice. [more inside]

posted by The White Hat at 10:19 AM PST - 2 comments

Some beach music off the new album from my punk band Riot Dog. Oi! Oi! Oi!

posted by InfidelZombie at 8:16 AM PST - 2 comments

A plain-jane cover for The World Famous. [more inside]

posted by uncleozzy at 4:54 PM PST - 5 comments

I tried to imagine what Duran Duran's "Notorious" would sound like if it were originally written by Japanese funk band Zoobombs.

posted by NemesisVex at 7:01 AM PST - 2 comments

This a remix of an earlier drumline-based song by me using an a capella rap recorded by 3 MCs and allowed for use — the fusion makes a nice catchy result.

posted by dacre at 11:48 AM PST - 0 comments

A very short and simple ode to my dog who I love. [more inside]

posted by ORthey at 9:53 AM PST - 9 comments