This is off my band's last album, Found & Lost. It's a fun little Vegas-bound rocker, hope you like it!

posted by platinum at 4:24 PM PST - 5 comments

Just something I was playing with.

posted by buriednexttoyou at 2:30 PM PST - 5 comments

It was 1990 when I first listened to the Quartet for Strings, No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich. I had just gotten out of high school and had not yet started college. That didn't stop me from trying -- emphasis on "try" -- to write my own string quartet. This piece has "student work" and "movie soundtrack" written all over it, but for a product by a beginning teenaged songwriter, it's ambitious. Programmed in Reason without dynamic markings.

posted by NemesisVex at 7:30 PM PST - 3 comments

Another mellow instrumental. If the last one was indie film roadtrip music, this one is low budget spaghetti western...

posted by InfidelZombie at 7:21 AM PST - 2 comments

All of the fascinating, clever, brave and beautiful people you almost met, but didn't.

posted by chimaera at 8:22 PM PST - 4 comments

Thanks for all of the great feedback you guys have given so far on my other songs. This song is one I worked with my friend Andy on. He is playing acoustic guitar which I then chopped up quite a bit.

posted by djamiem at 5:26 PM PST - 3 comments

Started writing it in '91. Finished writing two years later. Figured I'd try it with the melody I remember writing and a spare extra major chord I had lying around. Caution: Trad plink-and-squint guy-and-acoustic-guitar plaint. Use only as directed.

posted by allaboutgeorge at 10:03 PM PST - 1 comments

About a month ago, I discovered this song in MuFi. The guitarron in the song seemed to intrigue some, I said my band also used a guitarron, that I would post songs with it, and perhaps we could get the guitarron tag going. Here is one of them, now let me hear your opinions.

posted by micayetoca at 6:28 AM PST - 4 comments

complete lark! fueled by a bottle of chianti and deep sympathy for a friend smitten with that pesky grad-school-student-loan-debt, i seem to have concocted an acoustic lament on the subject. in an attic, (ok, horrible acoustics, i admit).

posted by garfy3 at 5:14 PM PST - 3 comments

Just recorded a rough demo of this new love song for Edie Sedgwick.

posted by buriednexttoyou at 10:39 AM PST - 5 comments

Heavily manipulated wall of vocal harmony, runover, stabbed, and buried in a shallow grave.

posted by cortex at 6:44 AM PST - 7 comments

A new song from my solo project. The lyrics are about the time a friend betrayed my confidence. So, it's a party song. Get other mp3s at the website.

posted by pollystark at 2:56 AM PST - 3 comments

Hey all, this being my first post, I'll go ahead and explain the situation, for the sake of future songs. I write the music in FL and my friend Dave from back home in TX does the vocals in this yet unnamed project. We're still trying to acquire a sound, so we're knocking simple stuff out of our system first. This song is our (poorly mixed) cliche love song, only about a MySpace stalker. The amount of cheese should make you smile.

posted by bonesy at 10:07 PM PST - 1 comments

A calm and smooth falsetto song with lyrics lifted from an emergency first aid poster (with some additions turning it into a love song). Features guitar, bass, piano, and electronica-style rhythmic vocal snippets.

posted by edlundart at 2:11 PM PST - 11 comments

A song originally by Mono Blanco, performed here by my band. We decided to EQ it in such a way that it would sound as if coming from an old radio. Being upbeat and cheerful, I thought it would be a good way to start the week.

posted by micayetoca at 7:45 AM PST - 7 comments

melty mono synth on the 1:43 / crunchy manganese beats on the rusty flip

posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:45 PM PST - 2 comments

Ambient music, soundscape, something or other for the headphones. (more here)

posted by xmutex at 12:35 PM PST - 5 comments

What do you get when you combine a new copy of Guitar Tracks, a cheap ass guitar with old, grimy strings, and a six pack? I don't know, but it makes me smile.

posted by InfidelZombie at 10:01 AM PST - 4 comments

Mainly an experiment with a new microphone. The vocal needs to be re-done, and made louder. Otherwise, it's okay. Oddly enough, it's about this girl... I hope it's not gauche to post lyrics :-) Longing for summer In the Snow that fell around us All around the town Following children Running In and out of my life Getting drunk and dancing All we had we lost Turned into Ice Waiting for aeroplanes How could You expect much more from me? Did we stand a chance? I tried to keep you Dipping Into London guidebooks Thermals and two bedspreads Even though we knew you'd Never Delay ?

posted by ajp at 8:48 PM PST - 17 comments

stars

posted by Blazecock Pileon at 2:39 PM PST - 13 comments

This might be the first song that directly references a question in the green. I recorded this a few years back as a present to my mum. (The talented Mr Matt Evans added the scritchy-scratchiness.) This is the song as I remember my mum singing it to me. The only difference is that my Mum sang it in a lilting Scouse, whereas I tend to intone it pretentiously. BTW: My question in Ask still stands. I'd love it if anyone knew this song - or anything like it. I fully intend, one day, to illustrate the song as a children's book, sell millions and retire to a caribbean island to kill myself slowly with daiquiris. You have been warned.

posted by Jofus at 7:05 AM PST - 8 comments

spit, n. 1. a. The fluid secreted by the glands of the mouth, esp. when ejected; saliva, spittle; a clot of this.

posted by Blazecock Pileon at 2:10 PM PST - 2 comments

This is a song that my band, Los Muchachos Mexicanos, made for the 2006.09.18 GarageBand Contest at the Apple Store in Ginza, Tokyo.

posted by mexican at 6:13 PM PST - 4 comments

Another song by my ex-band, again with me on trumpet. Mellow soul/funk.

posted by Lotto at 4:12 AM PST - 4 comments

Y'know, I'm the sort that tends to attract those crazy people, the ones on the bus, as the sort to whom their life stories should be told. This song is about some of the things that go on in my brain whilst they are telling me said stories. I mean, every once in a while. Usually they're quite coherent. And, on occasion, I am that crazy person on the bus.

posted by The Great Big Mulp at 10:09 PM PST - 3 comments

I made this after falling in love with this box set of old girl group singles. I wanted to take the hook from one of the best songs on there and do something interesting with it. I hope you dig.

posted by djamiem at 4:53 PM PST - 5 comments

Short tomwaitsy song, without any of Tom Waits' actual talent. It may sound better on headphones.

posted by micayetoca at 11:32 AM PST - 2 comments

I, too, recorded this song! It came out a little bit weird, which is probably appropriate.

posted by cortex at 7:59 AM PST - 8 comments

there’s a weird buzz in the background of this one that may come from my computer or this apartment - which is wired very strangely. i think its going to electrocute me someday. anyway, this is a mostly-improvised, slightly depressing song. in the end it gets-um, funny. oh and its long...

posted by punkbitch at 4:05 PM PST - 0 comments

If I can teach myself how to use AutoCad by Wednesday, I will be employed. If not, the search must continue.

posted by The Great Big Mulp at 9:54 PM PST - 6 comments

An original, campy, Shatner-esque take on a fictional Moon-based Patrol-squad.

posted by erikgrande at 7:48 PM PST - 19 comments

This is an uplifting cover of the Dizzee Rascal song Stand Up Tall. Tons of synths all around.

posted by djamiem at 3:21 PM PST - 4 comments

Extremely weird shoegazer "Cortex made me do it" version.

posted by Jimbob at 3:03 AM PST - 5 comments

A Van Winkle side project, Kurt Kostokos on guitar and drums, and Dave Appelbaum on keyboards. Definately of an exploratory sonic nature...

posted by dappelbaum at 11:58 PM PST - 1 comments

Another version of Elliott Smith's Waltz#2 for Cortex. This is only a rough mix unfortunately so tis a little rough around the edges with plenty of mistakes and whatnot, but a deadline's a deadline!!

posted by TwoWordReview at 5:38 PM PST - 2 comments

A chunky synth work out with a chopped up Big Country sample. I hope it can move some feet in a big room.

posted by djamiem at 3:53 PM PST - 7 comments

Amateur hour part 5. Of course, if you look at the root of the word amateur as being "one who loves" to do what they do... as opposed to, you know, those who do it for money (the musical prostitutes!), well then... Anyway, the same song twice because i can't tell if one came out better than the other.

posted by punkbitch at 6:38 PM PST - 2 comments

This is practice based on what I've learned about recording here on MuFi. Please comment on my recording skill or lack of. Regarding compression and mic "liveness": am I getting there?

posted by snsranch at 5:03 PM PST - 4 comments

The second in a series of songs i've remastered for a short [50 copy] run of my favorite tracks from 2002-2006. This one is a little more experimental and insomnia-fueled than the last one i posted, but not completely abandoning the previous emphasis on melody and atmosphere. See inside for more.

posted by phylum sinter at 1:47 PM PST - 4 comments

Me on keyboards with Van Winkle (bass, drums, electric guitar)

posted by dappelbaum at 1:27 PM PST - 5 comments

portamento-o-o-o gliding.

posted by distrakted at 11:46 AM PST - 3 comments

I like them so much. However, when I eat hot cheetos I get crazy.

posted by eddydamascene at 7:58 PM PST - 4 comments

6:30 am, drunken recording of me singing motherless child in English and Spanish. i think i'm so fucking cool...

posted by punkbitch at 4:00 AM PST - 1 comments

I'm sure George Putnam would not approve.

posted by Durhey at 1:56 PM PST - 5 comments

many people cover this song in a variety of manners. here, i cover it in the manner of one who loses control of his voice and begins to screech - perhaps as a result of smoking too much. third garage band recording ever! beware!

posted by punkbitch at 8:56 AM PST - 2 comments

Small song I did for a weekly TV show in Venezuela.

posted by micayetoca at 6:32 AM PST - 2 comments

sad glitch

posted by distrakted at 12:35 PM PST - 9 comments

A short melodic snippet I've been playing around with in need of a nice lyric. If anyone has one that fits, I'm all ears.

posted by gfrobe at 11:53 AM PST - 6 comments

A quiet acoustic diddy. Written for my old band, The Big Lie, by my former bandmate, Chris Knott.

posted by csimpkins at 6:07 AM PST - 1 comments

second ever recording on garage band! beware! - a little, perhaps too-sappy song about something. i don't know. i even sing about rainbows in it (apologies in advance for that).

posted by punkbitch at 11:49 PM PST - 3 comments

A slow(er) one from my band Red On Strike

posted by InfidelZombie at 9:06 PM PST - 3 comments

Traditional Zapoteca song.

posted by micayetoca at 10:32 AM PST - 10 comments

first ever recording on garage band! beware!

posted by punkbitch at 11:32 PM PST - 3 comments

Well, last week I had stepped out for a cigarette and witnessed a snippet of a conversation between a man and his daughter. They were both riding their bicycles down the sidewalk through the plazain which I work, and my guess would place the daughter at about 9 or 10 years old. As they rode past me, I heard the man say to the girl, "I just want to feed the ducks, and you keep pulling me away." And that's pretty much the basis for this song. It gets kinda awesome about halfway through. I mean, I think so, anyway.

posted by The Great Big Mulp at 9:18 PM PST - 4 comments

me, my guitar, and a computer microphone. Simple but sweet.

posted by calpaully at 3:44 PM PST - 1 comments

A rockin' little ditty I recorded on my computer a while back. Hope you like it.

posted by GalaxieFiveHundred at 2:37 PM PST - 1 comments

Julia / you've got a lovely uvula / I wanna take you to Florida / so please say yes We'll start a family / play lots of D&D / and watch the Goonies / on VHS

posted by ludwig_van at 2:33 PM PST - 12 comments

Based on a beautiful novel called Eureka St.

posted by micayetoca at 9:04 AM PST - 2 comments

Another song from my concept CD that has been long in the making. This one was inspired by riding Washington, DC's Metro system to and from work every day.

posted by terrapin at 8:34 AM PST - 1 comments

I put this together days after being given a banjo as a gift. It is made up of the one roll and four chords I knew at the time (about a year ago). It doesn't really kick in for like :40 so give it a bit. (horn stabs at the end are sampled.)

posted by RobertFrost at 6:41 AM PST - 4 comments

Fun with sinebeats. I like this kind of stuff while coding.

posted by distrakted at 5:56 AM PST - 1 comments

This song is called mathowie's community blog, and it's about mathowie, and the community blog, but mathowie's community blog is not the name of the community blog, that's just the name of the song. - lyrical brilliance by It's Raining Florence Henderson, with extra bits of artistic license taken in the studio. - Arlo-esque lead vocals by French Fry, aka my brother Alex.

posted by cortex at 10:40 PM PST - 146 comments

For the cortex compilation. Recorded today as a quick one-take solo acoustic guitar piece. Hope you like it!

posted by adrian_h at 3:54 PM PST - 11 comments

My teenage brother's trance remix of Indian alternative-pop superstar Sheila Chandra's haunting lyrics to "Ever So Lonely Eyes." Done, of course, for fun and without permission and with no rights assumed. Of all his little projects, this is my favorite.

posted by mrmojoflying at 2:41 PM PST - 1 comments

It's 7am, I've been up all night, I'm tearing my hair out, I don't have any cigarettes left, and I can't get this particular piece of code working. What is there to do but write a song (and pray for cigarettes)?

posted by Savvas at 2:28 PM PST - 2 comments

Plinky plunky pianoky. Lestrade.

posted by nthdegx at 12:14 PM PST - 0 comments

Inspired by the Gullah singers of the Georgia Sea Islands, with their marvelous a capella style. My friends and I sat in a half circle in my living room and as each singer took a turn leaning in to sing the lead, the others all around filled all the little spaces with harmonies.

posted by kellykessler at 12:15 PM PST - 11 comments

As long as songs about colored dinosaurs are on the front page, I thought I'd add mine. This song is about 8 years old (hence the junky analog recording). It's about a little orange dinosaur I loved when I was a kid.

posted by AgentRocket at 3:47 PM PST - 2 comments

Written during a Squarepusher phase I'm guessing. It's at least 5 years old. I like how it develops.

posted by distrakted at 6:06 AM PST - 1 comments