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Then She Begins ...
Tonight, I created a really, really, really good remake of an old song of mine. I don't even know if I have a copy of the original anymore, but ... whoa ... this thing ended up being kind of epic. Features horns and toy pianos, a reed organ, both regular and electric ukulele, some drums. I even tried my hand at playing the bass. Short, simple lyrics within (of which I am also rather proud)!
posted on Jul 13, 2008 - View this thread
Out of Gas
This is a short song I've made for my girlfriend in the past half hour or so. It is a true story.
posted on Jul 12, 2008 - View this threadGrendel
Sort of strived for emotional content with this one. If the first part is asking questions, the second is not liking the answers.
posted on Jul 1, 2008 - View this threadAidu
four ewe [the cover]
I'm Afriad That There Has Been an Accident
I!!
It's Time to Get Up
A short song about sleeping in and not having someone to rely on.
posted on Jan 11, 2008 - View this threadSam's Company
Sam's Company
Todas las mitades del mundo
Reno Dakota
A Magnetic Fields cover I recorded recently. I've been working on my singing for a while, and I was mostly wondering if anyone had any suggestions on where to go from here in improving it? Any other feedback is also welcome, of course.
posted on Aug 26, 2007 - View this threadThe Imlovence (of My Heart)
I had promised Sarah I would write her a song. Granted, that was while we were dating. We're not anymore. But I did promise, and she is a superly awesome person, wholly deserving of a song. The chorus comes from a facecloth we found in a dollar store, and it's words, three of which being nonexistent, can be found within the bowels of this music post.
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - View this threadShipwrecked!
I wanted to make a song with a few of the instruments I rarely use, like the reed organ and toy piano. I thought about coming up with lyrics, but my hangover makes my brain feel ... not working so good. So I threw in some kazoo instead. Enjoy!
posted on Jul 8, 2007 - View this threadBurning need. Write a song.
This isn't a particularly good song, so I recommend you don't listen if you like music. Which you do. Pay no attention to all my shitty lyrics peppering your music page, now, if you please.
posted on Jul 4, 2007 - View this threadticket
just a quote - link is in the comment.
posted on Jun 28, 2007 - View this threadI Want to Drive
This is a short, NSFW song about an aggravating place. It was thrown together in a two-hour burst of creative intoxication this afternoon, though most of the lyrics have been bumbling around in my head for the past few weeks.
posted on Jun 26, 2007 - View this threadTracatacata tun tun
A little something my girl and I put together.
posted on May 14, 2007 - View this threadthe vase
My wife accidentally broke a vase. This song resulted. It was recorded in a couple of days inbetween other projects. I used no clicktrack, metronome or drum beat, so the timing is nice and loose (in a good way, I hope). It's short, so listen twice!
posted on Apr 4, 2007 - View this threadLembro
The White Whale
The weekend before last found me hanging out with my special lady friend in the historic district of New Bedford, MA. Now, New Bedford is really a rather depressing place, being one of the eastern cities that has outlived its major industry, but one lovely thing we did get to see was the
Seamen's Bethel, the church in which Moby Dick's famous
Father Mapple sermon was delivered. Oh, and I promise never to attempt to rap again. (And it's NSFW)
posted on Nov 21, 2006 - View this threadBaby One More Time
This thread reminded me that I wanted to cover this horrible, awful song. One of a series of vile covers I've been planning. For my own amusement and hastily thrown together. Don't worry -- I only went as far as the first chorus.
posted on Nov 9, 2006 - View this thread
12-01-06
While listening to the final mixdown of this song, which is about my search for a place to which to move at the end of the month, I received a phone call from someone looking for a roommate. Coincidence! And, yes, I am playing glasses with varying amounts of water in them.
posted on Nov 7, 2006 - View this threadI Shine
CollaborationFilter: I had this song I could never considered finished because it sounded dreadful in my voice. Then I discovered Metafilter Music and here I discovered
chococat. Like pretty much everyone else who heard his music, I was blown away. And so I asked him if he would help me out with the song. Cool guy he is, he did. And this is the result.
posted on Oct 23, 2006 - View this thread3 Days
If I can teach myself how to use AutoCad by Wednesday, I will be employed. If not, the search must continue.
posted on Sep 16, 2006 - View this threadEn la zafra
Small song I did for a weekly TV show in Venezuela.
posted on Sep 8, 2006 - View this threadotterpunch
So, anyway, this song is based on a quote in
this article. Twas made in the past hour and a half, upon the inspiration of cortex's breaking-news-story related songs. And it's short as hell. Which is somewhat oxymoronical, depending on your viewpoint of such things.
posted on Aug 13, 2006 - View this threadfour ewe
So, at the time of the creation of this brief song, I was trying to force myself to write a song a week. Searching for something about which to sing, I stumbled across the Myspace profile of someone who looked an awful lot like someone I used to know. That's the basic gist of it, really. Twas submitted for the MeFi Compilation album, but, alas, I could do little to remove the hiss.
posted on Jul 24, 2006 - View this threadMetroid
So, this is how I've spent the afternoon. Constructing a cover of what is, in my opinion, the greatest video game theme ever composed. For your enjoyment. Yes, I know it falls apart a little, in some places. But that's because it's a cappella. And it's a cappella because it would have taken much longer to make were I to have used instruments. Oh! And I'm exhausted. And it seemed like a good idea at the time. Enjoy!
posted on Jul 19, 2006 - View this threadFending Off the Invasion
A week or so ago I embarked upon a thorough kitchen cleaning in a seemingly failed attempt to dissuade the cockroaches from continuing to live in it. Without paying rent. Whatever I used to clean the wooden cabinets, and I don't quite recall what it was, was also, I discovered, removing the varnish as well. And that is what this song is about. And it's (almost entirely) a capella.
posted on Jul 12, 2006 - View this threadIn the Smoking Section
Exhausted, on an all-too-brief lunchbreak this past Friday, I was smoking a cigarette, watching an ant cart around a dragonfly corpse. And I thought, "Damn. It's a good thing they aren't big enough to carry cigarettes. And that they don't smoke."
posted on Jul 8, 2006 - View this threadAnd Thus Was Founded the First RoboChurch
Have the robots become sentient? What will all the robots think when they watch us humans go through our daily lives? Will they know I was very drunk, alone in my band's creepy practice space? Will they still like me?
posted on Jul 5, 2006 - View this thread
