Last minute entry. This was supposed to be, and will eventually be, an a capella/choral twofer with
Fitter Happier, but I wasn't able to finish it in time.
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posted by askmeaboutLOOM
on Aug 31, 2012 -
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Oh shit. I lost the power supply to the br-532 in the move, so to be econimical i got a br-800 which arrived this week.. i recorded all this within the last 2 hours and about a half hour ago realized i had no idea how to get it off the damn thing. turns out it was the same way as the 532 but to make a short story short used the mixing on the 800 and um.. here we go.. straight off the br-800.. also played bass for the first time in 500 years
posted by xorry
on Aug 31, 2012 -
3 comments
Like all supergroups, the OK LA MeFi Action Band sometimes pares itself down to a solo performer and producer arrangement. Nobody leaves the room, you understand, but everyone takes a drink and everyone but me holds their breath.
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posted by carsonb
on Aug 20, 2012 -
2 comments
Performed by the
OK L.A. MeFi Action Band: speicus, mandymanwasregistered, scody, holyrood, klangklangston, weston, carsonb, and The World Famous
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posted by The World Famous
on Aug 8, 2012 -
11 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
on Jul 31, 2012 -
6 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.
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posted by lazaruslong
on Jul 31, 2012 -
10 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.
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posted by cortex
on Jul 31, 2012 -
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
on Jul 31, 2012 -
3 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.
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posted by John Cohen
on Jul 30, 2012 -
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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.
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posted by Grangousier
on Jul 30, 2012 -
15 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.
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posted by cortex
on Jul 26, 2012 -
5 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
on Jul 25, 2012 -
13 comments
As sang by the paranoid android. Right before running out of battery.
posted by valdesm
on Jul 25, 2012 -
1 comment
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.
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posted by askmeaboutLOOM
on Jul 17, 2012 -
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.
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posted by naju
on Jul 17, 2012 -
4 comments
For some reason, finding out that the song was inspired by a moribund sanitarium brought to mind monks.
posted by Johnny Wallflower
on Jul 17, 2012 -
8 comments
From sort of creepy to really creepy. From cover/arrangement/orchestration to abstraction. This is not your Major's
Lucky.
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posted by askmeaboutLOOM
on Jul 16, 2012 -
6 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.
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posted by askmeaboutLOOM
on Jul 15, 2012 -
24 comments
Not a part of the Monthly Challenge, but the first song I recorded on my tenor ukulele.
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posted by nile_red
on Jul 14, 2012 -
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.
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posted by cortex
on Jul 14, 2012 -
3 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...
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posted by MajorDundee
on Jul 13, 2012 -
13 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.
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posted by cortex
on Jul 12, 2012 -
10 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.
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posted by cortex
on Jul 11, 2012 -
14 comments
So, y'all know that Thom Yorke has a ridiculous power and range to his singing right? Well I don't.
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posted by carsonb
on Jul 10, 2012 -
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