I wrote the music for this last summer, and I eventually intend to re-record it with lyrics once I finish them but for now I'm putting it up here as an instrumental and looking for feedback from the MeFi community.
posted by MattMangels
on Jan 15, 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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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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One night when I was about twenty I dreamed about looking into a mirror and seeing my father's face staring back. It freaked me out, deeply, because I had made a conscious effort not to be like him. So this is a song about that.
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posted by unSane
on Nov 11, 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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OK, this is a shitty mix, I freely admit, but I need to draw a line under it for the moment. Features an underwhelming banjo solo -- in fact the only thing I can play on the banjo as yet -- and a bunch of notes I really can't hit, but I still like it for the way it kicks off at about 1'45, and in particular the lift at 2'20. It's a hell of a lot of fun to play live too.
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posted by unSane
on Sep 8, 2012 -
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Back on the horse! Here's a song I wrote and recorded tonight. The idea was a laid-back, french café sort of sounding tune. It's about interstellar exploration.
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posted by lazaruslong
on Aug 5, 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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A bit of mellow but bight piano-based pop in 6/8, ostensibly about getting out of your head and into your life.
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posted by anthom
on Mar 1, 2012 -
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For some reason I entered the New Year feeling despondent, so I wrote this to cheer myself up. So I suppose it's a resolution.
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posted by unSane
on Jan 18, 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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Entry for this week's Songfight. Set the time signature to 15/8 and janglepop to maximum!
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posted by unSane
on Nov 2, 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 -
18 comments
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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Just sneaking this one under the wire for the Hallowe'en challenge. A thrown-together palate cleanser from the recent power pop -- a piece of Eastern European-flavored surf about the scariest thing I can think of. I actually gave myself the shivers when I was putting together the ending so it's probably worth sticking around for that.
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posted by unSane
on Oct 29, 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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A bit of 80s style guitar-rock goodness. I wanted to wait with sharing this until the mix had actually been completed, but the sound guy is taking his sweet time, so here it is.
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posted by MaiaMadness
on Sep 21, 2010 -
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Someone suggested I re-record
this with a heavier treatment. So I threw the kitchen sink at it. Guitars, guitars, more guitars, a cello section, some HEAVY guitars, harmonies and a bonus weather forecast. Don't let the quiet beginning fool you.
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posted by unSane
on Jun 9, 2010 -
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Amped up version of a song I posted a few days ago. Gnarly guitars, Hammond organ, sweet harmonies, in a Television / Big Star / Matthew Sweet frame of mind.
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posted by unSane
on May 31, 2010 -
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Another semi-autobiographical 1995 slice of cheerful melancholia. But a pretty guitar riff and one of my favorite choruses to sing, even if I never really could hit the last note. There's an electric version of this with more of a Big Star / Matthew Sweet feel, but darned if I can find it and anyway I like this one.
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posted by unSane
on May 25, 2010 -
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Me, a 4-track, a guitar, some cigarettes and some booze. Probably the most autobiographical thing I've ever written. That I'll cop too, anyway. And one of my favorites too.
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posted by unSane
on May 19, 2010 -
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A song about how humans fool pests to kill them, from the pest's point of view. Made today in 2 hours.
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posted by onehalfjunco
on Dec 28, 2008 -
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This is a recording from Ground Zero in Troy, NY. I played a solo show for about 50ish people and a stuffed pony.
posted by mikey10101
on Dec 28, 2007 -
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Kind of rough. We just mic the room and record while we play. No mixing or anything. I play the bass.
posted by Sailormom
on Jun 8, 2007 -
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A Van Winkle side project, Kurt Kostokos on guitar and drums, and Dave Appelbaum on keyboards. Definately of an exploratory sonic nature...
posted by dappelbaum
on Sep 13, 2006 -
1 comment
Me on keyboards with Van Winkle (bass, drums, electric guitar)
posted by dappelbaum
on Sep 11, 2006 -
5 comments
