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Traditional old-time fiddle tune in D, instrumental clawhammer banjo & guitar. [more inside]
posted by usonian
on Nov 18, 2009 -
2 comments
A quiet song about looking around for all the people you've misplaced over the years.
Guitar, piano, cello, recorded live using a field recorder. Vocals overdubbed later at home.
Unreleased from a new Tangemeenie side-project my wife Lori will eventually also contribute vocals to, called "The Wishing Well Divers." [more inside]
posted by saulgoodman
on Nov 17, 2009 -
3 comments
A traditional old-timey tune as recorded by my pseudonymous string band, Crookneck John. [more inside]
posted by usonian
on Nov 11, 2009 -
6 comments
Having used my current DAW for the last 3 years, and spending countless hours re-recording tracks that were too slow, I finally discover that it does have a varispeed function. Just how fucking dumb is that.......? [more inside]
posted by MajorDundee
on Nov 10, 2009 -
7 comments
Cover of a Byrds cover of an old Louvin Brothers song. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Nov 6, 2009 -
7 comments
What I would sound like if I were trying to sound like Bob Dylan - if Dylan were simultaneously "bringin' it" and "keepin' it real". [more inside]
posted by crapples
on Nov 4, 2009 -
0 comments
For my first MeFiMu post, I decided to whip up a recording of this bit o'sad bastard piano balladry. It's a rough recording, all pretty much first takes, but I think it works well enough.
(And no, despite the title, this is not a Halloween challenge entry.) [more inside]
posted by anthom
on Oct 30, 2009 -
3 comments
Turbocharged acoustic. Love and regret. So it goes. [more inside]
posted by MajorDundee
on Oct 30, 2009 -
5 comments
A song I wrote about a trip to Texas with a girl in 1989. [more inside]
posted by crapples
on Oct 28, 2009 -
1 comment
cortex was kind enough to let me borrow the lyrics from his song "The Bottom Falls Out of the Clouds" (which he wrote for the first ever MeFi Music Challenge), and allow me to set them to new folky/acoustic/lo-fi music for this month's challenge. [more inside]
posted by rangefinder 1.4
on Sep 30, 2009 -
8 comments
Ghosts. [more inside]
posted by MajorDundee
on Sep 25, 2009 -
7 comments
An abandoned demo that starts light, gets heavier, and ends slow. [more inside]
posted by ignignokt
on Sep 6, 2009 -
0 comments
A modest and lightweight acoustic ditty wherein dad inserts pipe, ruminatively scratches his arse and proceeds to patronise wayward offspring.... [more inside]
posted by MajorDundee
on Aug 30, 2009 -
7 comments
An instrumental track that went under the working title "pseudo-eastern." Most prominently features guitars, lap steel, fretless bass and programmed sitar sounds. The subtle percussion is a spinner ring kind of like this one, run through a healthy dose of reverb. [more inside]
posted by edlundart
on Aug 23, 2009 -
9 comments
Demo for a song about my neighborhood here in Los Angeles...with mouth trumpet!
posted by ford and the prefects
on Aug 21, 2009 -
2 comments
Beatles cover recorded with my 6 year old daughter a few years back. Voice is a bit pitchy throughout but give me a break, I was only 40 at the time.
posted by gfrobe
on Aug 9, 2009 -
12 comments
Another entry in my recent demo series of posts. I posted a not-quite-done version of the track here, featuring piano and overly heavy drums. It's a song about the old classic video game "Snake". I'm sure I'll revisit the "proper" recording some day, but in the meantime, this is a nice performance. [more inside]
posted by edlundart
on Aug 7, 2009 -
3 comments
In a huge creative drought for awhile, I found this old thing I wrote and recorded years ago. When I was new to Garageband.
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posted by kingbenny
on Jul 31, 2009 -
7 comments
Very little idea what this is really about....but it sounds like something written by a slightly loopy obsessive. That'll be me then.... [more inside]
posted by MajorDundee
on Jul 24, 2009 -
12 comments
This is the demo I recorded for this song posted earlier. I slapped some kind of distortion effect over it to approximate the feel I wanted in the final version. Although it's too hazy-sounding and the vocals are nearly unintelligble, I really love a lot of things about this recording. It sounds like some kind of important uncovered secret to me. Anyway, this post is part of an "evolution of my songs" series I started here and here.
posted by edlundart
on Jul 21, 2009 -
11 comments
As a follow-up to this post, here is the demo I recorded for the song I posted a long time ago here. As before, the idea is to share something about the evolution of my songs for anyone who might care.
posted by edlundart
on Jul 19, 2009 -
4 comments
Recorded a couple of years back, this was inspired by a visit to the house of the late composer Manuel De Falla in Granada, Spain (a wonderful city). At the risk of immodesty this one has some of the best "lead" acoustic guitar playing I've recorded to date. For those with no Spanish "suenos" translates as "dreams" [more inside]
posted by MajorDundee
on Jul 17, 2009 -
18 comments
A demo that I later recorded and posted here. I'm posting this as a contribution along the lines of what others have done before me -- providing a window into my songwriting. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if some prefer this version.
posted by edlundart
on Jul 15, 2009 -
6 comments
Acoustic Guitar Loops [more inside]
posted by eyeballkid
on Jul 11, 2009 -
3 comments
The trials of trying to get prescription medicine through counsellors. [more inside]
posted by lhude sing cuccu
on Jun 28, 2009 -
1 comment
A song i wrote a few months ago and just recently recorded. Again, recorded straight into my Macbook Pro. One take for Guitar and lead Vocals, one take for backup vocals. [more inside]
posted by ichthuz
on Jun 27, 2009 -
1 comment
I basically put the words to Hallelujah to an acoustic chill rock guitar thing. and this happened. [more inside]
posted by ichthuz
on Jun 23, 2009 -
6 comments
An old track that a kid recently digitized off the cassette tape. [more inside]
posted by Danf
on Jun 19, 2009 -
3 comments
my take on the monthly challenge fairly faithful but with some harmonies. One take for guitar and vox, one take for harmony, no level altering (it needs it, it also needs the guitar rerecording, but no time!). Again recorded by singing and playing at my mac. One day I'll set up my recording gear!
posted by nunoidia
on Jun 8, 2009 -
23 comments
I read a friend's blog this morning and she had a line in there about how she felt like her heart was stuck together with gaffer tape and glue.
10 minutes later I had this, another 20 and I had recorded it using Garageband and my mac's internal mic.
As I haven't written anything in about two years, I'm pretty happy with this writer's block break.
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posted by nunoidia
on Jun 7, 2009 -
9 comments
Everybody I know is popping out kids. So for all the parents, I wrote a lullaby. Please experiment with your children and let me know if this puts them to sleep.
posted by chillmost
on Jun 6, 2009 -
1 comment
A new 'episode' of the "Evolution of a Song" series started by chococat a while ago. [more inside]
posted by micayetoca
on Jun 3, 2009 -
7 comments
newest thing i have recorded, still a bit rough about the edges but you get the general idea :] [more inside]
posted by greenish
on May 31, 2009 -
4 comments
A mellow acoustic oldie - worth re-recording? Comments/advice welcome [more inside]
posted by MajorDundee
on May 22, 2009 -
8 comments
song I wrote about a friend of mine and his girlfriend
posted by eclectitude
on May 7, 2009 -
1 comment
project for senior seminar. Acoustic + vocal. Poorly recorded, poorly written, poor performed :P [more inside]
posted by eclectitude
on May 6, 2009 -
2 comments
Hallelujah, on a ukulele.
posted by jhighmore
on May 2, 2009 -
9 comments
For the April "two chords" Challenge. The two 3-note chords even share a note in common, so we're talking a total of five notes serving as harmonic accompaniment for this song. Played on the strumstick. There's a hoop drum, too, of indeterminate pitch. I posted a lo-fi, live version of this song to YouTube as well, direct from my 6-mat tatami room at home. You can see it here.
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Apr 29, 2009 -
12 comments
Acoustic guitar instrumental cover of a very popular song, I won't mention the artist, perhaps a commenter can spill the beans :) Recorded in two parts.
posted by Admira
on Apr 29, 2009 -
3 comments
There are times I wish I had an electric guitar . . . [more inside]
posted by quadog
on Apr 26, 2009 -
4 comments
An older recording that I just dug up. One of my friend Hawk Coleman's best vocal performances. A bit of a folky melodramatic march that builds pretty big towards the end. [more inside]
posted by dagosto
on Apr 24, 2009 -
0 comments
An old Portuguese song.
posted by micayetoca
on Apr 19, 2009 -
11 comments
Part 2 of the drunken covers story rampage (part 1 was pretty angsty), in which our hero borrows from the Flaming Lips as he muses on how to incorporate violence into his law-breaking.
posted by COBRA!
on Apr 18, 2009 -
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2 guys drink more than they should while listening to Merle Haggard, decide to assault Judas Priest. [more inside]
posted by COBRA!
on Apr 17, 2009 -
3 comments
An accoustic version of a song from my band, Red Tractor Factory [more inside]
posted by Ironmouth
on Mar 22, 2009 -
1 comment
Just another folk-rock song about Jorge Luis Borges. [more inside]
posted by ludwig_van
on Mar 17, 2009 -
4 comments
Doo doo doo, doo doo doo, la la la, la la la la. The new hit single from Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies. A chamber-pop meditation on time, aging, and death. [more inside]
posted by ludwig_van
on Mar 15, 2009 -
4 comments
As requested by umbú. [more inside]
posted by micayetoca
on Mar 14, 2009 -
13 comments
An entry to the amnesty challenge, trying out the "wrong" challenge. [more inside]
posted by idiopath
on Mar 7, 2009 -
6 comments
Believe it or not, this song was not written about the Iraq war. In fact, it was a reaction to something I was sensing in the air back before the first Gulf War, circa 1990. I changed the wording slightly to reflect the times, but the song still works beautifully.
The recording is from my new collection 2 O's, 2 E's (a reference to how I spell my last name). You can download the entire album and lots more stuff at johnvoorhees.com.
posted by soundacious
on Mar 4, 2009 -
2 comments
