Posts tagged with ukulele

A song about storms, levees, and floods. A new song.
posted on Aug 31, 2008 - View this thread

Mansion on a Hill (v.3)

Here's a first crack at adding a little gospel organ.
posted on Aug 26, 2008 - View this thread

Mansion on the Hill (v.2)

Just added a little vocal harmony, is all.
posted on Aug 26, 2008 - View this thread

Mansion on the Hill

Cortex has given me a taste of MuFi collaboration, and I like it. This is a simply acoustic country gospel ballad about sin and possible redemption. Anyone is welcome to download it and contribute.
posted on Aug 26, 2008 - View this thread

Africa

MuFi music challenge Wildcar, inspired by DaveJay's most recent post. Clocked random, found a comment, made a song. The comment is this one: It's saying that African tragedy gets measured by a different yardstick. Way over here in the land of Paris and Lindsey, it does.
posted on Aug 24, 2008 - View this thread

You Need More MeFi In Your Life

Every word (and emoticon) from this random MetaTalk post, circa October 2006.
posted on Aug 24, 2008 - View this thread

Ellen

A country blues song about love and loss on the road to Los Angeles. A new song.
posted on Aug 19, 2008 - View this thread

You Can't Go Back to London

A new song. A tale of love and addiction.
posted on Aug 17, 2008 - View this thread

They Never Found Her Head

A new song. An uncommonly bleak and maudlin crime tale.
posted on Aug 14, 2008 - View this thread

Mediocre Savior

Another SongFight! entry. Features children's instruments, plucked ukulele and my best impression of a man who's going to die of a head cold.
posted on Aug 7, 2008 - View this thread

The Accursed Hat

My take on Jofus's cowboy epic. Although I think a song like this demands additional production that I am not able to provide. By all means, feel free to download it, add whip cracking and horse hooves and banshee moans, or swirling guitars, or whatever else might epic this bad boy up.
posted on Aug 7, 2008 - View this thread

Cocaine is the Hardest Drug

A new song. Sometimes you just find yourself writing a Johnny Cash song.
posted on Aug 4, 2008 - View this thread

A Bowery Christmas

A new song. A New York holiday song from a drunk.
posted on Aug 2, 2008 - View this thread

Back to the Rio Grand

Part of my Old Songs project. A cowboy song about a lawman and the murderer who plans to kill him.
posted on Aug 1, 2008 - View this thread

The Boys of the 10th

A new song. An Irish-ballad inspired soldier's tale.
posted on Jul 30, 2008 - View this thread

Kick is a Brick

Work in progress: a departure from my typical songwriting, in that there's nothing funny about it. At least, I hope not. Short and cheap scratch recording, feedback on the song appreciated.
posted on Jul 29, 2008 - View this thread

A Widow's Prayer

A new song. A ballad of a rowdy man and a bad end.
posted on Jul 29, 2008 - View this thread

I'm Gonna Miss You When I'm Gone

A minor key song about marriage and betrayal, written in 1990. Part of my Old Songs project.
posted on Jul 25, 2008 - View this thread

Ruth

Part of my Old Songs project. A deliberately "Oriental" song in Hebrew, taken from the text of Ruth 1:16.
posted on Jul 22, 2008 - View this thread

My Fresh Pie

A new song, recorded seconds after having been written. A man comes to town song.
posted on Jul 17, 2008 - View this thread

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

Champagne for Breakfast

A new countrypolitan song about dreaming of a woman and waking to find her gone.
posted on Jul 12, 2008 - View this thread

Gone

A new song about my bad tendency to just pack up and leave without warning.
posted on Jul 10, 2008 - View this thread

(Everybody Likes) Internal Mics

Today cortex and Hoopo wrote, recorded and posted quick songs done with their Mac's internal microphone and GarageBand, a couple of hours apart. I've decided to make it a trifecta.
posted on Jul 9, 2008 - View this thread

But When Cindy Dances

The first song I ever wrote, dating back to 1986. A pop song about a real Cindy and a possibly invented dance, sung in a fragile and especially twee manner. Part of my Old Songs project.
posted on Jul 9, 2008 - View this thread

One Kiss from You

A maudlin love song from an old man to a young woman. Written in 2001. Part of my Old Songs project.
posted on Jul 6, 2008 - View this thread

I Burned This Song

For this month's LYRIC Challenge. It has a very simple backing track, consisting of three elements: a drone (from my trusty Juno 60 analog synth), little wooden bells (from the 100 yen shop!), and my daughter's plastic ukulele, which has a picture of Maisy Mouse on it.
posted on Jul 6, 2008 - View this thread

Jimmy the Shrew

A song about a villain, written in 2000. Part of my Old Songs project.
posted on Jul 5, 2008 - View this thread

Let the Band Play On

Part of my Old Songs project. A moody tune from 1999 about the terminus of a relationship.
posted on Jul 4, 2008 - View this thread

Wasn't We a Pair

Part of my Old Songs project. A tale of loss and regret told in the manner of a Mexican ragtime cowboy song.
posted on Jul 2, 2008 - View this thread

I'm the Same Man

Part of my Old Songs project. An unforgivably bitter song about the end of a relationship, written in 1998.
posted on Jul 1, 2008 - View this thread

Colonel Roger (is a Soldier from the Future (is a Cover))

I know this song has been uploaded right at the very end (if not shortly beyond) of the MeFi Music Challenge, but I went through a number of songs in the long debate to find a MeFite's song to cover, eventually landing on the one that most frequently gets stuck in my head. That song is Colonel Roger (is a Soldier from the Future) by chiefbluefeather.
posted on Jun 30, 2008 - View this thread

A Man is Coming

Another new song, recording in the lowest-fidelity I can manage. This time a country blues song about scary things.
posted on Jun 30, 2008 - View this thread

Alfred Packer, A Man Who Liked to Eat

Part of my Old Songs project: An uptempo country ditty from 2004 about a Colorado cannibal, and, later, Astro Zombies neighbor in New Orleans' French Quarter.
posted on Jun 29, 2008 - View this thread

A Christmastime Toast

Part of my Old Songs project. An unnecessarily melancholy Christmas song from 1999.
posted on Jun 28, 2008 - View this thread

Four Detestable Children

Part of my Old Songs series, a circuslike melody from 2004 telling of little criminals.
posted on Jun 25, 2008 - View this thread

Woe Is Me

Part of my quickly growing Old Songs collection, in which I record songs I wrote many years and even decades ago. This is a somewhat scandalous song about unrequited love.
posted on Jun 24, 2008 - View this thread

Song of the Cane Toad

Part of my Old Songs project, where I record song I wrote years or even decades ago. This song tells of the disasterous introduction of the Hawaiian Can Toad to Australia, for some reason.
posted on Jun 23, 2008 - View this thread

God Damn You Tom Brown

Part of my old songs series, where I do lo-fi recordings of songs written years and sometimes decades ago. This one is a sort-of Irish folksong about a very mean man.
posted on Jun 22, 2008 - View this thread

Serenade the Moon

Part of my Old Songs project of recording song I wrote years and sometimes decades ago, this one a Tin Pan Alley styled love song.
posted on Jun 21, 2008 - View this thread

The Band Will Play a Melody

Part of my Old Songs project of making lo-fi recordings of songs I wrote many years, and, sometimes, decades ago. I have come to the inexorable conclusion that in the years between 1996 and 2000, I was either quite depressed, or unexpectedly skilled at feigning it in song
posted on Jun 20, 2008 - View this thread

This Dream of Love

Another in my collection of Old Songs, in which I record lo-fi versions of song written many years and, in some cases, decades ago.
posted on Jun 18, 2008 - View this thread

Beggar's Song

Another in my "Old Songs" series, where I record lo-fi versions of songs I wrote quite a while ago. This one came from sometime about 1996, and, as far as I can tell, it was composed in a fit of Brechtian depression after listening to an evening of Yiddish art songs.
posted on Jun 17, 2008 - View this thread

Great Long Strumming Thing

Part of my project to record old songs I wrote. This one probably dates back to 2000, and it rather naughty. Recorded with ukulele accompaniment.
posted on Jun 16, 2008 - View this thread

Tip Your Hat

A song I wrote back in 1996. Its lyrics draw from images from the Mexican Day of the Dead, which I've always fancied. In particular, I like the small clay dioramas that show scenes of skeletons going about daily activities, such as getting haircuts or riding in cars, and it is those images that fueled this song.
posted on Jun 15, 2008 - View this thread

I'm Afriad That There Has Been an Accident

But it was quick and it was painless.
posted on Mar 10, 2008 - View this thread

Tumbalalaika

Traditional Yiddish song from Poland or Russian, performed by voice and ukulele.
posted on Feb 18, 2008 - View this thread

The Girl From Donkey Kong (Demo)

A song about breaking up with the love of your life, only to watch them to find the love of their life straight afterwards.
posted on Feb 2, 2008 - View this thread

Di Mama iz Gegangen

Yiddish standard, performed for voice and ukulele.
posted on Feb 1, 2008 - View this thread

Seres Humanos

A cover of 'Human Behavior' by Bjork sung in Portuguese.
posted on Dec 16, 2007 - View this thread

When the Water Rise Up