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Cover of a Byrds cover of an old Louvin Brothers song. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Nov 6, 2009 -
4 comments
It's so hard to see through the filth and the grime.
posted by chococat
on Oct 23, 2009 -
15 comments
I can't stand it when a couple will fight with, swear at, humiliate or completely demean each other in front of a room of people. It happens a lot. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Sep 23, 2009 -
16 comments
In the style of Leonard Cohen. Just kidding.
For the Velvet Underground challenge thing. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Jul 16, 2009 -
12 comments
Brazilian Infomercial fodder. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Jul 2, 2009 -
4 comments
Another from the waste-bin of demos that never went anywhere.
Gauging from the effects unit, I'd say 1996; at least pre-1997.
posted by chococat
on Jun 30, 2009 -
2 comments
Cohen, prison style. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Jun 16, 2009 -
17 comments
I don't know what this is; kind of a pseudo-jugband, neo-bluegrass-ish, Hee-Haw with a whiney singer. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on May 28, 2009 -
23 comments
For May's "remake your first song" challenge. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on May 14, 2009 -
20 comments
Found an old organ. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on May 1, 2009 -
10 comments
For the April "write a song with only two chords" Music Challenge.
Brought to you by the chords E and A. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Apr 3, 2009 -
14 comments
It's the same, dark road. The same, dark room.
posted by chococat
on Mar 6, 2009 -
11 comments
At least I hope it will be. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Feb 25, 2009 -
14 comments
Weird demo. Probably 10 years old. Releasing it to the ether; good riddance.
posted by chococat
on Jan 6, 2009 -
3 comments
Ya. Kind of a Norman Bates take on it.
posted by chococat
on Dec 19, 2008 -
17 comments
Cover. As requested by arcanecrowbar. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Nov 20, 2008 -
9 comments
Cover. As requested by ORthey. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Nov 17, 2008 -
14 comments
Cover. As requested by Mr. cortex.
posted by chococat
on Nov 15, 2008 -
16 comments
Cover. Obviously. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Oct 27, 2008 -
5 comments
For Stephen. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Oct 14, 2008 -
2 comments
Sort of a pathological sibling rivalry. Not autobiographical.
posted by chococat
on Oct 2, 2008 -
10 comments
Water as escapism.
posted by chococat
on Aug 28, 2008 -
3 comments
I was in a band called gleaner in the late 90's and we recorded four songs at a "real" studio.
This was an attempt to make a (power)poppy, happy thing about a stalker-y kind of person.
This is the second of the two songs from this session that were mine. The first is here. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Aug 4, 2008 -
9 comments
For this month's challenge, in the "Spy Music" category. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Jul 18, 2008 -
10 comments
You won't care tomorrow. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Jul 15, 2008 -
6 comments
We're finally free and clear. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Jun 27, 2008 -
13 comments
A cover of micayetoca's wonderful Veronica. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Jun 12, 2008 -
14 comments
Because it's new.
posted by chococat
on Jun 10, 2008 -
10 comments
For this month's MeFiMu Challenge: Here's my fuzzy, fizzy, buzzy cover of chococat's original, one of my very favorite MeFi songs. [more inside]
posted by Karlos the Jackal
on Jun 9, 2008 -
13 comments
Dirty, crusty demo recorded at the turn of the century.
posted by chococat
on Feb 7, 2008 -
7 comments
New recording. Older song. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Jan 23, 2008 -
25 comments
Nostalgia x 2. Recorded in the mid-'90's as nostalgia for the '80's. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Jan 4, 2008 -
5 comments
Yes, that one. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Nov 7, 2007 -
24 comments
is turning 8 today and I can't believe it.
[more inside]
posted by chococat
on Oct 5, 2007 -
4 comments
At our local supermarket there's a really happy guy that wrangles the shopping carts. He's really, really tall and kind of looks like Lurch. He is always smiling and so into his work that I always wonder what's going on in his head.
He's my superhero. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Sep 30, 2007 -
6 comments
This is about the dumbest piece of dumbness ever. I was goofing around on my 7 and 9 year old daughters' keyboard and noticed the "Clav" setting. Ha! I discovered that if I put it through the Crybaby Wah pedal and then through the tube amp that it actually DIDN'T SOUND AT ALL like Songs in the Key of Life-era Stevie Wonder. Instead it sounded like me acting stupid and then I sang some high-assed background vocals like a fucking idiot and did my whitest ever white-guy impersonation at the beginning.
But it makes me laugh and it's my kids' favourite, go figure.
posted by chococat
on Aug 28, 2007 -
10 comments
We are moving in 2 weeks and a while ago we "fluffed" our house to make it look pretty so we could sell it and that entailed removing any trace of human habitation. As a result, all our stuff has been packed away for weeks and I've been going insane in our neatly arranged, showy house in which no one could possibly live a normal life.
posted by chococat
on Jul 17, 2007 -
10 comments
A jokey, sloppy kind of thing recorded in 2005 for a web project that never got off the ground. As in many of my songs, I seem to be suffering from some type of sinus issue here. Perhaps the flipside of buriednexttoyou's awesome Arboretum from last year, this song tries to be positive about the milestones, the things you can do once nineteen, in Ontario, Canada. Yes, I know the Paul Hardcastle tune. why am I posting this?
posted by chococat
on May 25, 2007 -
6 comments
Recorded quick, titled in a hurry. Kind of sappy with an out-of-tune piano.
posted by chococat
on May 12, 2007 -
9 comments
Sort of a flipside to Sleepover. Same childhood.
posted by chococat
on Apr 5, 2007 -
7 comments
A demo from about six years ago. In Canada, the norm is that we don't tend toward the big rah-rah kind of Patriotism that our neighbours to the south are prone to. Ours is a polite, reserved, (Canadian), skeptical patriotism. There's an F-word in this one, if that sort of thing worries you.
posted by chococat
on Mar 20, 2007 -
9 comments
A slice of 13.
posted by chococat
on Mar 8, 2007 -
10 comments
I had this vague melody a year or so ago, and at the time it was starting to become a song about riding my bike at night, drunk. I stuck it on the backburner until after I saw that Johnny Cash bio-pic, where they sing that June Carter duet "Time's a Wastin'" together, (which they never did in real life.) So then I got this idea to write a nice country duet like that, but instead of it being all happy and fresh-new-relationship-let's-consummate-it kinda thing, I wanted it to be about people that hated each other intensely. People that were sick and tired of seeing each other everyday for years and years. Then, for an added twist, I forced my lovely wife to sing the harmony part. We actually do like each other, though.
posted by chococat
on Mar 1, 2007 -
9 comments
A second pretty much complete song for the RPM Challenge.
Fancy ears will be able to pick out my attempt at learning to play the Cuatro that was hand-delivered to my front door from the awesome and amazing Micayetoca in Venezuela.
posted by chococat
on Feb 23, 2007 -
41 comments
A song I did for that RPM thing, the first kinda finished one. 9 more to go.
posted by chococat
on Feb 13, 2007 -
9 comments
CollaborationFilter: I had this song I could never considered finished because it sounded dreadful in my voice. Then I discovered Metafilter Music and here I discovered chococat. Like pretty much everyone else who heard his music, I was blown away. And so I asked him if he would help me out with the song. Cool guy he is, he did. And this is the result.
posted by micayetoca
on Oct 23, 2006 -
9 comments
I think this'll be my last music post for a while, until I get my shit together, as it were. Thought I'd round it off at a nice even 10.
And, I thought it fitting to post this super-old song, ('98 or '99), which was my first attempt at "multitrack hard disk recording," with one Sure SM58 mic, some crappy Mac software on an old biege G3, handclaps and a LittleTikes™ toy piano. I used what I had.
Way back when, I posted it on sites like the old mp3.com and it got some nice feedback which felt awesome and immediate and kind of weird and new. After a while I got sort of jaded with all the online music site stuff because it was clearly becoming the "So You Think You Can Dance" of the Internet, at the time.
Posting stuff recently to music.metafilter has rekindled a lot of that fun, immediate kind of vibe for me, so I thought this was a good way to complete the circle.
At the time I called this "a happy song about sad people," which I guess it is. It was written after leaving a shitty job. It sounds kind of corny and twee now, and the recording quality is pretty shite, but it was sincere at the time. Cheers everyone.
In preview this seems like way too much information. Oh well.
posted by chococat
on Aug 2, 2006 -
17 comments
Another discarded demo that would otherwise never have seen the light of day.
It's too long, the drum machine is just a placeholder, the guitars are sloppy (DEMO!) and the lyrics are sort of goofy.
Those aren't excuses, they are reasons. It was kind of thrown onto the scrapheap.
But why would I post it? Because I'm addicted to this now.
This one's about a nervous breakdown.
posted by chococat
on Jul 26, 2006 -
11 comments
the 'story of my life,' reduced into 2 verses.
the tabla is a loop. i don't know anyone in my neighbourhood who plays tabla. wish i did.
posted by chococat
on Jul 16, 2006 -
4 comments
Some stuff that happened. A mild case of OCD.
A neighbourhood mom played the violin.
posted by chococat
on Jul 10, 2006 -
63 comments
