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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For anyone who loves Tortoise and especially the fired up drive of their first two albums, or maybe Sputniks Down, you will likely love an ear-scoop of this Ummagma track.
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posted by Brodyaga
on May 2, 2013 -
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While the term space rock is kicked around quite often these days, there is something else out there: space pop. This song epitomizes that term, as reflected in the title itself. Poppy, spacey and ethereal trip to the cosmos.
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posted by Brodyaga
on Apr 18, 2013 -
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Resistor celebrates springtime with a lush new single, "Everyone I Know."
This hook-laden dance-pop number is seasoned with Resistor's cynical charm, pondering whether originality can exist if a person is merely a product of his environment. Of course, the existentialism lurks beneath many layers of burbling synths, glitchy drum machines, and boy-girl harmonies.
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posted by ludwig_van
on Apr 17, 2013 -
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For some of the best things in life, intensity builds as anticipation kicks in. That is what this Ummagma track is for me - with layer on layer, building a sort of icicle/sand castle that never melts or washes away. It just builds and then takes flight. I hope you will feel the same.
Of course, there is that The Smiths thing happening - happy music, depressing lyrics. Rightly so. Spot on - have a read.
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posted by Brodyaga
on Apr 8, 2013 -
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My new band. Our new song. Video link inside. Just watch the video. Hip-hop influence pop-dance weirdatude.
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posted by even butter
on Apr 1, 2013 -
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This remix of the track "Lama" does not outright flip the original version on its head, though it does dress it in a murkier shade of darkgaze (darkwave). The bright dreamy element from the original version spills over into this version too, so as to not detract from the original point of this song in the first place. I hope you enjoy it. Your feedback is most welcome.
posted by Brodyaga
on Apr 1, 2013 -
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It's funny how sometimes it takes all but a few minutes to write a song, while the development of another song can really stretch out. This was one of those stretches - "Risky" was a song that was written "in chunks" - the basic instrumental bit was written in Kyiv, Ukraine before a big move to western Ukraine and then to Canada, where the rest was written & recorded before finally being dragged back to Ukraine, where it was properly mixed and mastered. The time span from start to finish: 5 years. All that moving around was us, by the way, not just the tracks bouncing around in cyber space. Thus is the history of this track. I'm posting the lyrics too if anyone wants to have a go at them or "sing along" …. yeah, right… any feedback is welcome. Peace.
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posted by Brodyaga
on Mar 26, 2013 -
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Went into a studio this last weekend without songs written and this is one that came out. It's kinda glossy post punk.
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posted by l2p
on Mar 4, 2013 -
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Another bit of synthpop metacommentary in the form of the funny-cause-it's-sad-cause-it's-true inner monologue of a cynical artist.
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posted by ludwig_van
on Feb 1, 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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A song about the lovely location called Anglesey.
posted by haines
on Jan 10, 2013 -
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So I have another instrumental piece of pop to share with everyone. This one has lyrics but I don't like the way my vocals sound with it. It basically expresses remorse for a Wet Reckless (reduced DUI) in a roundabout way all while using a 1-5-6-4 progression that avoids total cliché by way of a treble synth playing altered tones and keeping it fresh.
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posted by dacre
on Jan 10, 2013 -
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A sort of sixties-ish jangly folk-pop demo with a couple of synthy touches.
posted by howfar
on Jan 6, 2013 -
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7/8 is usually thought of as an aggressive time signature — for the likes of harder jazz, metalcore, and Stravinsky. But here I'm using it in a ballad. The melody playfully bounces and trips over itself in 7/8, blushing and giggling around its crush while trying to be smooth with racing thoughts and too much to say.
Still trying to find the right words and vocalist.
posted by dacre
on Jan 6, 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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The 11th entry in the monthly series of homemade synthpop singles from Resistor, "Narcissist" does what it says on the tin.
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posted by ludwig_van
on Nov 27, 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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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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Here's me bashing away on our crappy piano, from this past winter.
It's a song about blindly following things.
posted by chococat
on Aug 3, 2012 -
9 comments
This one is a sparkly nugget of synthpop about the bitter, self-sabotaging adolescent lurking within all of us. Or at least within me. It's classic Resistor.
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posted by ludwig_van
on Jul 26, 2012 -
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This might be a good song for a sunny summer weekend! My wife Sue sings it. Other ingredients: Autoharp, marimba, and a boss baritone sax solo supplied by MeFi's own
man vs sun.
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posted by Karlos the Jackal
on Jul 6, 2012 -
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A homemade synthpop tune about the myth of the meritocracy and the pain of being an artist without an audience, like something Stephin Merritt could've come up with on a dreary evening in an alternate universe where The Magnetic Fields never got popular.
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posted by ludwig_van
on Jun 13, 2012 -
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This is an electro version of the theme song to the children's show "The World of David the Gnome," which aired in the US on Nickelodeon from 1987 to 1995.
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posted by ludwig_van
on May 28, 2012 -
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This is a balls out little rush of a song that I came up with on my iPhone of all places. After I got the first line I realized it was going to have to continue in the same vein so I went over to
AskMe for help. I just meant this to be a rough sketch but I ended up liking the feel of it even though it's ridiculously ragged. The song's a sort of statement of intent, I guess. Equal parts Elvis Costello, Cheap Trick and the Stones, more or less.
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posted by unSane
on Apr 27, 2012 -
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My attempt at a modern new wave instrumental, and a new way of recording with Ableton.
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posted by tunewell
on Apr 26, 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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Another track from my electronic shoegaze project Public Transport!
Inspiration from M83, My Bloody Valentine and Ulrich Schnauss.
posted by dunkadunc
on Feb 13, 2012 -
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The nearest I ever got to a hit record. 1995-6 4-track cassette demo (God knows how I got all those guitars happening) of a song for my then band Earcandy. I really think this could have launched us if we hadn't all had day jobs. Pretty much irrelevant now, but at the time when we played it we felt like Gods! As it was, we got a bunch of radio play but never followed through because the drummer quit. Oh, well.
posted by unSane
on Jan 26, 2012 -
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