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Synthy nerd rock about goth kids who find love at the happiest place on Earth. [more inside]
posted by uncleozzy
on Sep 21, 2009 -
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song about drugs & cops &tc [more inside]
posted by nutate
on Sep 21, 2009 -
2 comments
Another Geese song, this one's new. Wrote it this afternoon. Sounds like I stumbled into a Pearl Jam/Stone Temple Pilots song, circa 1992.
Ah, well. Enjoy. [more inside]
posted by grubi
on Sep 20, 2009 -
3 comments
As I was noodling around with these chords, beautiful summer has arrived here in Seattle. I couldn’t help but look out the window of our little music room at the gorgeous weather, flowers, blue skies, and people having fun on the water and asking myself, what am I doing inside on such a lovely day? And the answer is, writing a song about how I love the summer months as long as I’m safely ensconced indoors and out of the sun. It’s not my fault that I’m borderline translucent and in danger of melting in summer sun like a chocolate bar on the backseat of a car in July. But keep in mind, those of us who prefer it inside, aren’t necessarily anti-summer. We love watching it from the safety of air-conditioned shade. [more inside]
posted by hillelc
on Jun 1, 2009 -
1 comment
I don’t know crap about this topic but it hasn’t stopped me from having my interest piqued. Specifically, I’m talking about brain chemistry. Both the mechanics of it and the way we manipulate what those mechanics do these days are super interesting. Even more amazing to me is how people’s emotions (usually negative emotions) can be a simple result of a chemical imbalance in their brain. Wow. I realize the drugs we have today are both amazing relative to nothing and very blunt instruments relative to what we’ll have down the road. And while I haven’t tried any of them, I sometimes wonder what people did before they existed. Mostly suffered I suppose. :| [more inside]
posted by hillelc
on May 19, 2009 -
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Thanks to the inspiration from a terrific link about this song today, I decided I'd give this bad boy a try for myself. Let me know if you like it. And rock on!
posted by grubi
on May 1, 2009 -
8 comments
I made some power-pop. It's crunchy. [more inside]
posted by Jon_Evil
on Apr 29, 2009 -
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A resurrected ditty from more than a decade ago -- finally retooled it and recorded it properly. Another Geese tune. I originally wrote it for my then-infant son Mikey (who was heard on other recent tunes I've submitted to MeFi Music). I think it has an old-school flavor (with a pinch of the Monkees and ABBA). Enjoy. [more inside]
posted by grubi
on Apr 20, 2009 -
4 comments
A song made famous by Nirvana, I recorded it this afternoon with my son Mikey on the lead vocals. It's fun, bouncy, and it even rocks. Mikey's almost 13 and I think, despite having a rough little voice, he can hit the notes and maybe even could be a heck of a singer one day if he so chose. "Let's rock!"
posted by grubi
on Mar 11, 2009 -
7 comments
For the RPM Challenge. [more inside]
posted by grubi
on Feb 25, 2008 -
4 comments
A little alterna-power-pop from the 90s. [more inside]
posted by uncleozzy
on Feb 17, 2008 -
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This one I did for the musical version of NaNoWriMo (aka RPM). It's part of a planned concept album/musical (in the vein of Tommy or The Wall) called Comeuppance by my band Ready Demolition. This is the third demo I did tonight. Lemme know whatcha think. [more inside]
posted by grubi
on Feb 10, 2008 -
1 comment
In the mid-to-late '90's I was in a band called Gleaner.
Kind of a "Power Pop" thing, which I always hated calling us as it was such a buzz-term of the time. [more inside]
posted by chococat
on Oct 24, 2007 -
5 comments
From an all-original Power-Pop group I'm currently in called The Rugs. I played bass and keys (Hammond, Wurlitzer, Synth) in the studio but just play the keys on stage.
Our longest song clocks in at under three minutes.
posted by sourwookie
on Aug 22, 2007 -
6 comments
Continuing with the theme from yesterday, (and as promised), here's my version of "Twist and Shout." Is it any good? That's for you to decide. I hope it is.
Perhaps "I'll Get You" is next?
posted by grubi
on Jul 7, 2007 -
7 comments
In hono(u)r of the anniversary of the nucleus of the Beatles coming together, I bring you a cover of a song that both Lennon and McCartney derided as not all that good, but I always kinda liked. Maybe tomorrow, I'll upload my version of "Twist and Shout." :-)
posted by grubi
on Jul 6, 2007 -
7 comments
Another Geese song. I wrote this for my wife, who was meeting her father for the first time at age 36. Hope you like it!
posted by grubi
on Jun 24, 2007 -
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Another Geese song! I wrote this song a little more than ten years for the woman who eventually became my wife. My original recording was simply me and a guitar, neither sounding particularly good. I recently re-recorded it, and, well, hear what happened. For more, you can go to my music site (forgive my self-promotion). Enjoy!
posted by grubi
on Jun 15, 2007 -
5 comments
This is a nearly-completed song I wrote for a couple of friends who are about to move to northern New Jersey (I'm originally from there) but my wife and I will miss them once they leave. As a going-away present, I wrote and recorded this. They don't know about it yet. It's meant to be a driving-down-the-highway-top-down-car-full-of-girls-all-singing-the-catchy-rock-chorus sort of power pop song. Throw me some feedback.
posted by grubi
on Apr 23, 2007 -
4 comments
I've been working on this song for 18 months -- sort of. I have had the whole thing essentially finished that whole time... except for the verse tune. Tonight, I finally got it. Power pop complete with organ solo!
posted by grubi
on Apr 13, 2007 -
1 comment
This is a little something I did (obviously unfinished) that I'd liek to get some reaction for. Any thoughts? It's a pretty straightforward power pop/rock song, complete with ahhs, claps, shakers, and tambourines. Rawk.
posted by grubi
on Apr 11, 2007 -
9 comments
This is a live version of a song I did with Video, a band I'm no longer in.
posted by mexican
on Mar 12, 2007 -
4 comments
To celebrate my 7th MetaFilter Birthday (yay!) here is another track from the band I was in in 1991. This is a cover of a Young Fresh Fellows song. It's a little rough. There's another thing we cover during the intro part before I start singing -- see if you recognize it.
posted by litlnemo
on Feb 5, 2007 -
4 comments
Here's an unfortunately prescient political power-pop tune I penned in '02, as recorded by Detroit's own rock foursome LISBOA at our (then) modest home studio in our first collective foray into DIY recording. RIFYL: The New Pornographers and dudes/lady-dudes in that vein. Honky tonk piano (emphasis on the "honky"), a Hammond, some e-Bow, a little vibraphone, and a few too many "nah-nah-nah-nahs," but whaddya gonna do, right? Hope you dig it, friends.
posted by joe lisboa
on Feb 1, 2007 -
1 comment
The Archers of Loaf meet the Bay City Rollers in this humble contribution to the grand tradition of cheeky break-up tunes. Terrible puns abound, but you've been warned. From LISBOA's 2003 EP Either Origami, available here for five lousy clams. Crank it up, friends.
posted by joe lisboa
on Jan 19, 2007 -
3 comments
Here's a sarcastic little ditty about post-divorce helplessness, just in time for that freshly-single-the-holidays drinking binge. Recorded in 1986 by my long-defunct trio, The Whores, but never finished because we ran out of money. We weren't very good whores. Mixed last year by me at home in Logic 6.
posted by Devils Rancher
on Dec 20, 2006 -
3 comments
Putting the "b" in "subtle," Detroit's LISBOA pens a political power-pop tune that pulls no punches. Alliteration is always awesome. Sounds like: Kansas City's best (i.e., only) Cheap Trick cover band meets Propaghandi at an after-hours bingo parlor. In drag. Dig the horns, dudes and lady-dudes.
posted by joe lisboa
on Dec 8, 2006 -
5 comments
Garagey powerpoppy cover of a song by the Pointed Sticks. Recorded almost exactly 15 years ago by the band I was in at the time, NOT!. (That's the band name. Not a comment on whether we recorded the song. Yes, we had seen Wayne's World. I'm sorry.) There are some glitches that are on the original tape. I'm singing lead and harmony. I might be playing some rhythm guitar. This was our rowdy set closer, and lots of fun.
posted by litlnemo
on Dec 3, 2006 -
2 comments
Another slice of power-pop rock from LISBOA's self-produced 2005 LP Live from the Grand Hotel Abyss [iTunes link], with a title indirectly inspired by a mefi thread of all things! By the way, you should totally pick up a copy of the mefi compilation CD: it features another track from LISBOA as well as a bunch of great tunes from some genuinely talented mefites, too. Plus, proceeds go to, you know, the kids.
posted by joe lisboa
on Nov 29, 2006 -
2 comments
Power-pop tune from Detroit foursome LISBOA.
posted by joe lisboa
on Nov 26, 2006 -
1 comment
Freebie from their Starsign : Tarantula album. See www.myspace.com/montanamusic
posted by Lojinx
on Aug 25, 2006 -
0 comments
Un-seasonal uplifting powerpop from Farrah.
posted by Lojinx
on Jul 29, 2006 -
5 comments
