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a quick-strummer. some warbly stanzas.
posted by punkbitch
on Nov 11, 2009 -
4 comments
I am re-posting this at the suggestion of another user, this time with lyrics included. This and others are available here.
Looking at Wiches
Some say they're having a pretty good time
And they're working on quitting this town.
Everything's working out fine for me.
You should see the way I get around.
Like a dry drunk
Down at the mall.
Looking at watches,
He feels something crawl
Out of a memory
He has of a girl.
Looking at witches,
Down at the mall.
And ain't we got friends that are long ago gone
and that's all that we want them to be?
Nothing but nothing
And nothing alone
Could make them mean nothing to me.
Sometimes in winter
you get to go home.
You get to dress darkly.
You hang up the phone.
You walk home from Pittsburgh
With one thing in mind.
Sometimes in winter,
you leave things behind.
And we miss when you sing
Those old country songs.
We get them for free around here,
but we don't keep them long.
Because we can't keep them long.
posted by Jawbones
on Oct 12, 2009 -
2 comments
I posted a live version of this before, but this is a new and very rough mix of a studio version. [more inside]
posted by motty
on Sep 7, 2009 -
2 comments
Like a dry drunk
Down at the mall
posted by Jawbones
on Apr 30, 2009 -
6 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
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
Ooo! Spooky!
Well, it should be pretty obvious that this song has almost nothing to do with literal werewolves, and everything to do with a predatory mindset, but that doesn’t keep it from weirding my mother out every time I play it!
posted by soundacious
on Feb 26, 2009 -
1 comment
A song about a Devil's X-Ray.
posted by Jawbones
on Feb 5, 2009 -
3 comments
This is my great, sweeping ballad … my Piano Man, if you will. Tinged with chili powder. [more inside]
posted by soundacious
on Jan 30, 2009 -
3 comments
A simple cautionary tale of how celebrity, glamour, ambition and just-plain inauthenticity can twist a human soul. Also, you can dance to it. [more inside]
posted by soundacious
on Jan 28, 2009 -
0 comments
Another of the tunes from my band's live recording session this past July. [more inside]
posted by motty
on Nov 28, 2008 -
1 comment
This is the first song off my album I just finished recording. I guess it's very folk-like.
posted by bingwah
on Oct 8, 2008 -
4 comments
Folk rock song about the belief that one day everything in life will be perfect.
posted by Magnus Jensen
on Sep 23, 2008 -
2 comments
An original song by my old band, Selected Letters. Alto Sax, Oboe, Violin, Guitar, Bass, Drums, and a good mix of tight arrangement and improvisation. I miss this band a lot, but it was great while it lasted.
posted by OverlappingElvis
on Jun 26, 2008 -
1 comment
A demo recorded in a hurry. [more inside]
posted by motty
on Apr 24, 2008 -
2 comments
I wrote this song last week and started playing with it this weekend. I'm excited about its potential, but I would looove love love some feedback. [more inside]
posted by pazazygeek
on Mar 23, 2008 -
6 comments
This is the first song I've recorded on my laptop for my band, Low-Tech Riff Raff. Suggestions on the mix are eagerly accepted. [more inside]
posted by tdismukes
on Feb 11, 2008 -
10 comments
Acoustic version of a previous entry. [more inside]
posted by robotot
on Jan 31, 2008 -
9 comments
Wherein I discover you can lyrically abstract and obscurely rearrange an interpersonal situation, but you can't make it blink. [more inside]
posted by allaboutgeorge
on Jan 22, 2008 -
3 comments
sleepy pete + myself + our pal Feedle = holland buffalo. [more inside]
posted by melissa may
on Jan 2, 2008 -
10 comments
Simple 3 chord song...with drums etc [more inside]
posted by robotot
on Nov 23, 2007 -
2 comments
A mellow song by my band, Low-Tech Riff Raff. The lead singer had a cold, but I kind of like the mood anyway.
posted by tdismukes
on Oct 9, 2007 -
0 comments
I am not sure how this happened. [more inside]
posted by motty
on Oct 5, 2007 -
10 comments
This is a demo (sans vocals) I'd like everyone's honest opinion on before I go an upload the finished thing. Guitars/piano/bass/drums. [more inside]
posted by kersplunk
on Sep 25, 2007 -
10 comments
Wherein I discover writing a song about kissing off an ex is easier and more satisfying than kissing off an ex.
posted by allaboutgeorge
on Jul 9, 2007 -
3 comments
This is a slightly older song, released in '06, but I thought it fit the challenge. I wrote it shortly after moving to L.A. when I was awakened by a thunderstorm, and fell back asleep to some strange dreams...
-Leland
posted by danandleland
on Jul 1, 2007 -
7 comments
Another track by Selected Letters (my sadly defunct band). Music by J. Sher and I. Ochs, lyrics by R. Witte. Enjoy!
posted by OverlappingElvis
on May 21, 2007 -
2 comments
A cover of one of my favorite songs about tornadoes, originally by Butterglory.
posted by sleepy pete
on May 15, 2007 -
6 comments
We'll Drive This Car ('Til Hell Is Shooting Out the Stars) - Selected Letters
We just played our last show ever this Friday night (a house party at Kenyon College in Ohio - we're all former or current students there) and I wanted to post one of our best songs to commemorate a great year. I miss them already.
Selected Letters is:
Ira Ochs on the bass guitar
Joe Donohue on the guitar
Alex Murphy on the drums
Evan Axelbaum on the saxophone
Riley Witte on the oboe
Jeremy Sher (that's me!) on the violin
posted by OverlappingElvis
on May 13, 2007 -
3 comments
Dan and Leland are an acoustic duo blending great guitar playing and vocals with melodic songwriting and thoughtful lyrics.
posted by danandleland
on Apr 30, 2007 -
8 comments
A rough folk-cover of L'Trimm's "Cars That Go Boom", with me on guitar, mandolin and vocals.
posted by 235w103
on Dec 9, 2006 -
0 comments
A selection from the recently released album "e4/e5" ...songs about elected servants and employed servants. Songs about shock and awe, the beatniks, & holy Moses. Songs about Paul Bunyan, Tammy Faye, & Zelda Fitzgerald. Posthumous songs, sacreligious songs, contradictory slanderings... Jewelry store robberies, the language virus, & the reawakening of the languished American dream?
posted by Satapher
on Oct 1, 2006 -
5 comments
by Felonious Bosch -- “Never got drunk, as you can see, I'm (hic) perfectly sober...”
posted by omnidrew
on Jul 5, 2006 -
3 comments
punchy, tuneful and melodic - written by a quiet phone in London. Brrrr Brrrr
posted by zzzcantona
on Jul 3, 2006 -
0 comments
Off the album released in January, here's a blues written almost two years ago featuring Colin Keller on the Drums.
posted by The White Hat
on Jul 3, 2006 -
5 comments
I made a record, then I had a kid. I don't get to play much anymore, and I sure would like to get rid of some of my hundreds of CDs I have left! :) Mellow, mopey, been described as Chris Isaak meets Coldplay...
posted by madscene
on Jul 3, 2006 -
4 comments
I'm not angry . . . I'm just feeling down
posted by Outlawyr
on Jul 3, 2006 -
0 comments
Small sad song about seeking a quick fix. This and other texts here, music here.
posted by nanojath
on Jul 1, 2006 -
4 comments
Recorded 7 or so years ago with a friend. It's missing something in the middle, but I like the way it disintegrates towards the end. I've no idea what genre it is, but I guess it shows influence from all the country/folk/lofi music I listen to.
posted by ericost
on Jul 1, 2006 -
4 comments
Indie acoustic fock. Written and recorded some time in 2002.
Sorry the vocal's a bit quiet.
posted by armoured-ant
on Jul 1, 2006 -
5 comments
A fading red sun and black trees. Written in a fleapit of a kitchen under the glare of a striplight in West Ealing. Be patient and wait for the drums to kick in.... ...the song got us all our gigs in 2005
posted by zzzcantona
on Jul 1, 2006 -
2 comments
Solving The Puzzle of Love.
posted by Fuzzy Monster
on Jun 30, 2006 -
4 comments
Ah, those long hot sticky days of Summertime, waking up hung over and stumbling bleary-eyed through breakfast at one PM before dragging your alcohol-bruised body outside and collapsing in a deck chair beside the overflowing ashtrays and empty pizza boxes while the neighbors’ air conditioner hums and cats prowl through the backyard grass... and your buddy hands you a can of sorta-cold beer still dripping with melted cooler ice from the night before and someone else lights a cigarette and everyone stares straight ahead at nothing, totally dazed, eyes squinting in the afternoon sun... yeah.
posted by Fuzzy Monster
on Jun 30, 2006 -
6 comments
Upbeat acoustic indie folk rock blues! Most of my songs are about drinking.
posted by armoured-ant
on Jun 30, 2006 -
18 comments
