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Napoleonic blues - second song posted
A song I wrote the lyrics for and worked up the melody and progression with the band. Me on ukulele, Jamie singing and on glockenspiel, Justin on guitar, Ella on cello, Tina hitting a a tin. This was recorded before Christmas, again not the most beautiful of recording quality but it gives you a sense of the band's fuller sound with the cello.
Any feedback or critique appreciated as always.
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So We'll Go No More A-Roving
As it's Valentine's Day, here's a song about love. Well, kind of about love. Actually it's about the end of love, as it fades due to age and fatigue, and the death of romance.
Errr...happy Valentine's Day! [more inside]
The Great Space Darkness vs Love
A short but epic song that dares to ask: Is our only hope in this war against the great space darkness the love of an ageless, gender neutral couple? Will their love be enough? [more inside]
Drunk Again
Uke-driven boozer's lament. One of the demos I recorded yesterday for my album-in-a-month. [more inside]
shallow song/airport fiction
First song posted from our band. Two ukes and a guitar. Feedback appreciated. [more inside]
There Could Be a Reason
A short song with some talking. Two tracks of ukulele, a drum loop, one canned organ blast, distortion. It's 8 degrees outside and the song reflects that. Recorded by The Grandma Sylvias, January 2010.
Keep On The Sunny Side
A ridiculously happy bluegrass song, which you may recognise from the "O Brother, Where Art Thou" soundtrack. Arranged for ukulele, bass and three vocal parts. [more inside]
Distressed
For the past several months, I've been working on a number of songs, but haven't completed anything. Well, I was in a lousy mood yesterday and decided to barrel through creating a short song about what I was going on in my brain. [more inside]
Power Set
This is the song that the set of subsets of the natural numbers would write if it had a difficult adolescence and listened to a lot of early R.E.M.
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Unwed Fathers
This is a cover of John Prine's sad little song about a girl, a bus, and a man who done her wrong. Also babies. [more inside]
I'll Be Fine
An Irish air for the Peter O'Tooles about the unintended and disappointed effect of too much alcohol on an amorous evening. [more inside]
Whiskee
A drinking song in waltz time for the Peter O'Tooles, telling a tale of semi-sober pub hookups; loosely borrowed from "Irish Lullabye." [more inside]
Dear Santa
County Down
A song for the Peter O'Tooles where I seem to be using the names of locations in Ireland as a metaphor for oral sex, which I am sure they don't appreciate and for which I apologize. [more inside]
She Too Rah'd My Loo Rah'd
A love song, and, possibly, an extremely flithy one; second song for the Peter O'Tooles. [more inside]
Derry Pair
The first song for my new Irish band, The Peter O'Tooles, about a comely young woman from Derry and her desirable fruits. [more inside]
V
Adapted from a Poem by James Joyce, from "Chamber Music." [more inside]
XXIV
Adapted from a poem by James Joyce, from his collection "Chamber Music." [more inside]
Instaglo
Cover of the 2004 song by SF indie-rockers The Invisible Cities. My first ukulele recording. [more inside]
The Beast in Me
Every so often, everybody gets to be an animal. [more inside]
Kill All the Witnesses
Four hours until dawn, and things are getting hairy. [more inside]
Orgy in the Wasp Woman Hive
Sometimes an invitation scrawled on a bathroom stall leads to unexpected horror. Actually, pretty much always. It always leads to horror. You should just ahead and expect horror. [more inside]
Ride the Wild Moleman
When there's no surf around, you ride what you can. [more inside]
From the Heart of the Moon
With a ukulele, some whistling, and several Garage Band 09 filters, you can make something that sounds like a transmission from Venus. [more inside]
Grace's Song
It is so cool to make whipped cream with a whisk instead of an electric mixer. [more inside]
Don't Go in the Garage
The first song from my new collection of supernaturally themed novelty garage rock by my multiply pierced and tattooed sailor puppet, Sailor Martin; the collection of songs will also, eventually, be called Don't Go in the Garage. [more inside]
Leave Me Lonely
Sometimes, somebody likes you for your faults. [more inside]
1337 as Fuck
Sometimes the Web is like the Wild West. [more inside]
Staring at a VDU
A VDU is, of course, a video display unit. A song about one of the things the Web has made: Millions of people who sit all day long staring at a screen. [more inside]
1978
Screw the new stuff. I'm loading up my iPod with punk rock. [more inside]
grid flux_1
Filtery drone from my JUNO 60 meets ukulele playing exactly four notes. No verse, no chorus, no changes, no development... just does what it does for 2 minutes and 43 seconds, then stops. It's the soundtrack for a video here.
Brain in a Jar
I've been working on this song for the past few months. This is the result of my trying to write something sad. Unfortunately, my recording computer died last week, so some bits final mix came out sounding a little more sloppy than intended as there were a couple things I wanted to re-record. Also, I'm terrible at writing second verses.
Facebook Profile
Although not strictly part of this month's challenge, I would like to point out that this song, which deals with how our social media lives on after we die, is heavily inspired by "Waiting for My Man." [more inside]
Put It Online
A song about oversharing. [more inside]
Jill Turned On the Radio
Yet another from my series of glam and punk inspired songs about the series of tubes we call the Interweb. [more inside]
The Kids Are Online
Another in my series of punk and glam inspired songs about Web culture, this one is sort of an answer song to both "The Kids Are Alright" and "Blitzkrieg Bop." [more inside]
This Party is Over
Another from my series of lo-fi punk and glam inspired songs about the Interweb, this time dealing with Web hoaxes and tragedies. [more inside]
Barely Legal
Another of my punk and glam rock-inspired songs about the Interwebs. [more inside]
Internet Famous
Another in my series of glam rock-styled lo-fi songs about the Web. [more inside]
Every Sunday Morning
Another song from my one-man show about Tiny Tim, Tulip. [more inside]
Queen for a Day
Another song from my one-man show about Tiny Tim, Tulip, which I am still writing. [more inside]
Hillbillujah
This is the soundtrack to a movie about Leonard Cohen going on a rafting trip in rural Appalachia. [more inside]
Halle Hula
When Elvis Met Leonard. Nothing but uke, vox, and questionable taste. [more inside]
Picnic in Fairyland
Another song from my still-being-written one-man play about Tiny Tim, Tulip. [more inside]
The Downtown Downs
The third song for my one-man show about Tiny Tim, Tulip. [more inside]
No Sunny Skies
A SECOND SONG for Tulip (formerly Tiny), my one-man show about entertainer Tiny Tim. I cannot yet sing like him, and sound like Martyn Jacques of the Tiger Lillies when I try. [more inside]
So Strange
The first in a series of old-timey pre-rock popular songs I am composing for a one-man show about Tiny Tim. [more inside]
WT Fuck
A song about seeing something on the Internet you wish you didn't. [more inside]
David's Chords
Includes the rejects.
Landlocked Memorial Day Blues
A song for Memorial Day, posted a few days late. [more inside]