Final version of the rough acoustic demo I posted a few days back. A bit of blue-eyed soul, a bit of BONNY era Prefab Sprout, a bit of TEMPTED era Squeeze and a few 10cc harmonies, and the guitar from Alison. Did I miss anything?
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posted by unSane
on May 16, 2013 -
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In which my Prefab Sprout obsession results in a nakedly sappy love song speculating about the origins and end of the universe.
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posted by unSane
on May 10, 2013 -
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In June 2010, I posted a song called
Womankind. I was just digging through some old demo recordings and found the demo for this song.
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posted by edlundart
on Apr 24, 2013 -
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Final version of the song I posted a few days ago. Also my New Year's challenge entry. The usual 70s-tinged nonsense.
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posted by unSane
on Jan 15, 2013 -
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I wrote this song on New Year's Day. There are some things I love about it and some things I don't entirely. Help me figure out what to do with it.
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posted by unSane
on Jan 7, 2013 -
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I've always wanted to write a blue-eyed Northern Soul stomper. And it appears now I have, kinda. Grab some Lucozade and a towel and we'll have a MeFi meetup down at the Wigan Casino.
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posted by unSane
on Dec 16, 2012 -
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I had this riff knocking around for a while and I decided to do what I sometimes do, which is just slather overdubs on it, and different changes, and let it go wherever the hell it wants to. That's what happened here, only things got a little out of hand. Like Topsy, it just growed. It made me smile, so I thought I'd post it. Rough as a badger's arse, but it has a certain loony charm. Parts of it will probably turn into a song eventually, but this version is it's own thing...
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posted by unSane
on Nov 24, 2012 -
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Chococat asked about a stripped version of this song I posted a few days ago. I tried and failed.
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posted by unSane
on Nov 18, 2012 -
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I remixed this song I
posted a few days ago taking into account some of the feedback and I like it a whole lot better now!
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posted by unSane
on Oct 12, 2012 -
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This a love song about the first two creatures to evolve from out of the sea to live on land. Quickie recording - link to (possibly better) video inside.
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posted by jrengreen
on Sep 18, 2012 -
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One-take before-pants demo of a cynical little song that's been buzzing round in my head recently. Video
here.
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posted by unSane
on Mar 11, 2012 -
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I don't know why I keep going back to this song I wrote when I was 17, but here's new version of
Time to
Get Up that I recorded yesterday. Starts slow, but includes lots of organ, a little cardboard box banging percussion and Leah Wilmoth's reverb'd out harmonies. Recorded on a Zoom H2.
Wear headphones.
posted by Corduroy
on Feb 28, 2012 -
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On February 11th, 1963, the poet Sylvia Plath committed suicide. This is the song the elderly painter, Mr Thomas, who lived in the flat below hers, did not write about the event. An odd little ballad in 7/8.
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posted by unSane
on Nov 10, 2011 -
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Orgiastically melodromatic Jacques Brel-inspired version of the strange little ballad I posted a couple of days ago.
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posted by unSane
on Oct 21, 2011 -
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This is a super-rough demo of a song I wrote yesterday for the 'Has Been for Years' song fight. It's a gothic little waltz using a resonator guitar, told from the point of view of a trooper in the 7th cavalry who was killed at Little Big Horn while waiting to be relieved by Reno's troops. Recorded before I put my pants on, for the challenge.
Video proof is here.
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posted by unSane
on Oct 18, 2011 -
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Shorter, sweeter mix of
this responding to some of the suggestions on the last one. Lost the first intro, cleaned up the drums, changed the harmonies slightly, brought up the melody guitars, and dropped in a blazing little guitar solo, even if I do say so myself! It's under three minutes now -- give it a listen! Now just have to figure out the B-side...
posted by unSane
on May 3, 2011 -
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I've been trying to come up with a love story titled ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS for a movie, but this fell out instead. Video link inside.
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posted by unSane
on Apr 7, 2011 -
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It's been weeks since I posted anything. This damn song is mostly why, with a side of overwork and a helping of broken leg.
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posted by unSane
on Mar 18, 2011 -
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I wrote this simple little Mellotron piano chord progression this morning but it's baffling me. Can anyone suggest how I get it to loop back around to the beginning again?
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posted by unSane
on Dec 20, 2010 -
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So Aimee Mann and Bruce Springsteen are in a bar discussing the greatness that is
Living on a Prayer, but what they haven't noticed is that Toto are at the next table, and Sonic Youth just walked in the back...
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posted by unSane
on Dec 5, 2010 -
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Feisty powerpop version of the
a capella song I posted for the challenge. Man, this was another freakin' difficult song to mix, not least because it was the first one I did on my Yamaha HS50m monitors which Chococat
recommended.You know when you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night in a hotel and accidentally turn on the overhead fluorescents and catch yourself stark naked in the most unflattering, pore-revealing detail and sort of gasp in horror? These speakers are like that. You fight them every inch of the way, not trying to get the song sounding good, but just to stop it sound so goddamn
bad.
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posted by unSane
on Nov 24, 2010 -
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The only good thing about having a sore throat is that for a brief window of time I can hit some low notes. I was too sick today to concentrate on any real work but this was lying around half-finished so I took it another quarter of the way. Despite the title, this is not a murder ballad but a song about the day I realized Ms. unSane might (eventually) become Mrs unSane. Features a totally fake Hawaiian guitar, one of the rare moments where my surf playing has spilled over into one of my songs.
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posted by unSane
on Nov 9, 2010 -
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The (hopefully) final mix of Y&SF with all the problems fixed and Major Dundee's epic solo finally loud and proud before the last chorus.
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posted by unSane
on Nov 7, 2010 -
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Today's espresso-driven shot of melodrama power-pop. Originally written around 1995, I think I finally nailed how it was supposed to sound.
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posted by unSane
on Oct 28, 2010 -
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Sometimes songs come easy and sometimes they come hard. Everything about this one was hard. The final, sweated over, version of a song I posted a rough demo of a few weeks ago. Hopefully the results are worth it!
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posted by unSane
on Oct 26, 2010 -
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At long last, the remix of Y&SF with new vocals and Major Dundee's guitar work incorporated.
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posted by unSane
on Oct 25, 2010 -
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It's really freakin' hard to write a song about someone you weren't in love with.
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posted by unSane
on Sep 7, 2010 -
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Full on vocal harmony twin electric 12-string assault, my attempt to collide the Monkees with the Byrds with a side of the Go-Betweens.
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posted by unSane
on May 24, 2010 -
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This is the first song I've ever recorded using real mics instead of my laptops internal mics. Also, first time I've played a bass.
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posted by Corduroy
on Feb 8, 2010 -
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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.
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posted by edlundart
on Aug 7, 2009 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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.
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posted by chococat
on Aug 4, 2008 -
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This is a rerecording of an older
song of mine (probably my favorite). I hadn't listened to it in a while and was struck by how much fuzz noise there was. I put a capo on, added some stuttering percussion and some very light harmony towards the end, and I would love any thoughts on this new version.
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posted by Corduroy
on Jul 4, 2008 -
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