At our local supermarket there's a really happy guy that wrangles the shopping carts. He's really, really tall and kind of looks like Lurch. He is always smiling and so into his work that I always wonder what's going on in his head. He's my superhero. [more inside]

posted by chococat at 1:28 AM PST - 6 comments

Two minutes of mellow guitar picking on a song I sketched out. Just sit back and relax. [more inside]

posted by quadog at 4:55 PM PST - 3 comments

Sorry I can't say who you are, but you know I love you darlin'.

posted by sluglicker at 6:06 PM PST - 3 comments

This is the title track for my next album and I need some backup vocals! [more inside]

posted by frenetic at 7:48 AM PST - 5 comments

A Derailleur song with driving guitars, keyboard goofery, and lyrics from the point of view of a peripheral character in Infinite Jest. [more inside]

posted by COBRA! at 10:50 AM PST - 5 comments

Something a friend and I made awhile ago [more inside]

posted by god particle at 9:14 AM PST - 2 comments

A simple cover of a song from Animal Collective's newest album, which MetaFilter greeted with a great deal of enthusiasm. I was kind of reluctant to upload this one, because there are some things about the singing that I don't like (mostly timing and range), but I'm curious to hear what you guys think of it.

posted by revfitz at 1:10 AM PST - 7 comments

This is a demo (sans vocals) I'd like everyone's honest opinion on before I go an upload the finished thing. Guitars/piano/bass/drums. [more inside]

posted by kersplunk at 9:09 PM PST - 10 comments

My earlier foray into music, when I couldn't think of anything to write about. [more inside]

posted by god particle at 8:07 AM PST - 4 comments

Not in my town. Not in any of my five towns. [more inside]

posted by Mali at 4:51 PM PST - 0 comments

Since everybody's submitting instrumentals lately, I guess I'll post another one. Synth groove. [more inside]

posted by strangeguitars at 8:02 AM PST - 2 comments

I finished this with about 5 minutes to spare before turning 30. [more inside]

posted by 31d1 at 9:04 PM PST - 2 comments

Funk to put it nicely. I guess an intreptation on what robots grudge humping might sound like. [more inside]

posted by mnology at 3:56 PM PST - 1 comments

For those times when you just feel like getting funky. [more inside]

posted by man vs sun at 8:55 AM PST - 2 comments

After reading this Wikipedia entry in songs in unusual time signatures, I decided to try to put together a piece along the same lines. Except all the various rhythm and instrumental parts have different time signatures, including free time. Oh well.

posted by Jimbob at 12:30 AM PST - 3 comments

A really poppy Derailleur song, written and sung by our bass player. [more inside]

posted by COBRA! at 5:27 AM PST - 5 comments

I may be a bit late for Talk Like a Pirate day, but I was out a sailin' the seas and a drinkin' rum. A techno-pirate bagpipe-guitar chanty for ye. [more inside]

posted by tehloki at 4:16 AM PST - 4 comments

First post, so I'll start with something short and old. This one is sort of bouncy. Country/Dixieland style. Guitar, bass, and drums. No vocals. [more inside]

posted by strangeguitars at 5:29 AM PST - 10 comments

can ya feel the holy ghost? can i get an a a a men?

posted by kimyo at 9:14 PM PST - 9 comments

Relax. Procrastinate. It's okay. [more inside]

posted by man vs sun at 4:54 PM PST - 3 comments

Inspired and about the 1972 Wes Craven film of the same name, this is a live recording on stage from last week with one of my current bands, The Filthy Thirds. Props to Erich Schuchman and Lou Whitney (of The Skeletons, The Morrells, Wilco producer, and Jonathon Richman) for the fine, fine capture. I play the bass.

posted by sourwookie at 10:21 PM PST - 4 comments

A Red Hay cover of the Neil Young song... [more inside]

posted by COBRA! at 10:24 AM PST - 6 comments

Rob Balder and Pirates for Sail present the official FuMP release for Talk Like a Pirate Day 2007! [more inside]

posted by Faint of Butt at 8:06 PM PST - 2 comments

A live mix I did for an impromptu basement rave in my house. A little rough, but came together nicely for something so spontaneous. Also, wendells. [more inside]

posted by tehloki at 7:14 PM PST - 5 comments

tyuiop [more inside]

posted by 31d1 at 7:02 PM PST - 4 comments

Raw bedroom recording of a song that will eventually end up on an album. Lyrics inside. [more inside]

posted by The White Hat at 10:56 AM PST - 4 comments

The title track from my new album, which you can download for free at my site. Recorded on July 28 at SCM Recordings in Santee, California.

posted by Saellys at 5:38 PM PST - 9 comments

An acoustic demo I did a while ago for a Derailleur song called Superhero. [more inside]

posted by COBRA! at 8:14 AM PST - 1 comments

For the MeFi Music Challenge. This one uses mouthbow, bodhran (but it sounds like a bass drum), a little bell, shakers, some little woodblock rattley things, a drone, and voice.

posted by flapjax at midnite at 11:52 PM PST - 12 comments

This starts slow, but ends with me sticking a screwdriver in my ear. (ENJOY!)

posted by snsranch at 5:34 PM PST - 6 comments

My take on this wonderful Irish Gaelic song, which I learned from Clannad, and which was written by Diarmuid MacDiarmada. Donegaler Mefites, please don't kill me if I've mangled the pronunciation! [more inside]

posted by LN at 5:02 PM PST - 3 comments

As promised, music from a non-existent top-down space shooter. Instead of the lack of percussion, imagine a chorus of pixellated missile explosions.

posted by tehloki at 4:59 PM PST - 6 comments

Everyone around me is sick, although this song isn't really about that. [more inside]

posted by cyphill at 2:48 PM PST - 1 comments

Single from our first full length CD. [more inside]

posted by bryanzera at 11:54 AM PST - 4 comments

A mess-around-at-practice riff that grew into a song. This one knocks down some walls live. [more inside]

posted by COBRA! at 5:06 AM PST - 7 comments

Eighties inspired electropop with vox verse and instrumental dance hook. That's Arundhati Roy you hear at the beginning. I just had to use that beautiful voice of hers somewhere.

posted by ageispolis at 7:43 AM PST - 1 comments

Yes, that one, by Alanis Morisette. I had a more airy, spacey take on it. [more inside]

posted by tehloki at 7:17 AM PST - 4 comments

This is submitted as the crappiest Bob Dylan cover ever created, in relation to this. [more inside]

posted by Meatbomb at 6:22 PM PST - 6 comments

little song i wrote a few years back about how i spent the first few hours after 9/11. I was in high school and the scene was fairly surreal there (as I'm sure it was almost everywhere). [more inside]

posted by es_de_bah at 6:18 PM PST - 2 comments

First track off my ep under the guise of Gnome Gallagher, a failed british dj / garden gnome. [more inside]

posted by ageispolis at 5:10 PM PST - 2 comments

A brief description of the song.

posted by tehloki at 7:38 AM PST - 3 comments

Fare you well, you fortunate star On your journey out of the dark. [more inside]

posted by dhammond at 12:44 AM PST - 2 comments

I found an entry-level Yamaha synth in my friend's basement. The dials were stuck on 80's. [more inside]

posted by tehloki at 4:45 PM PST - 4 comments

A simple, melancholy electro instrumental that I recorded a couple of years ago. Percussion ideas came from various hip-hop sources; the melody is my own. I use it as background music during a spoken-word segment of my live shows. [more inside]

posted by Artifice_Eternity at 10:31 PM PST - 4 comments

I'm the drummer in a band with my husband and one of his brothers (called Birds Anonymous) and this is one of our "moody" tunes, recorded "live" in our laundry room. [more inside]

posted by stefnet at 8:32 PM PST - 2 comments

Several years ago, a friend loaned me this AV Geeks DVD and recommended that I watch The ABCs of Sex Education for Trainables. I wasted no time in sampling selected bits of the film into a song, and I've dug it up for your NSFW pleasure. [more inside]

posted by davejay at 12:21 AM PST - 7 comments

I wrote this song about my eldest daughter, who a constant source of inspiration. Steve Eschelman is playing mandolin and singing backing vocals.

posted by chuckdarwin at 2:39 PM PST - 10 comments

Tender love song with an intriguing, unusual structure

posted by Afroblanco at 12:49 PM PST - 2 comments

A tribute to all those other big psychedelic trance guys who consume vast, impressive quantities of mind-altering drugs and yet manage live through it, sanity intact, to relate their experiences through their music.

posted by tehloki at 8:28 AM PST - 6 comments

This is Bell Dora, an alt-country band I had until very recently. Here we are, I'm the one in orange.
It's a bit of a ballad, and was my first foray ever into the pedal steel (a crazy-hard instrument). I used the C6 slab.

posted by sourwookie at 7:35 AM PST - 6 comments

i entered in a contest to test my wit and ability

posted by ageispolis at 5:39 PM PST - 1 comments

A brief excursion into the world of Drum'n'Bass. I'd like to travel there again sometime.

posted by tehloki at 5:28 AM PST - 5 comments

Mwahahaha! By request...

posted by LN at 4:47 PM PST - 4 comments

In 1993 I spent every weekend between the Spring Bank Holiday recording songs that I'd written on my four-track tape recorder. I'm not sure where they came from. On August Bank Holiday Monday I mixed down the final album - It's Amazing What Some People Can Believe - and copied it onto C90 cassettes. The run almost reached double figures. A raging success, then. This is the first track on Side One. The almost fifteen years' distance allows me to admit that I like it very much.

posted by Grangousier at 2:35 PM PST - 9 comments

The very last Red Hay song recorded. This was actually one of our first songs, a very Neil Young-ish guitar thing with a weird time signature. After we'd broken up as a band, we all got together one weekend and started messing with the old country-rock stuff, redoing a lot of it with our new keyboard-torturing habit. This was the most radical rethink, and the best outcome.

posted by COBRA! at 10:49 AM PST - 3 comments

Long weekends are great for getting stuff done. This here is why the yard is still overgrown.

posted by waxboy at 9:18 PM PST - 3 comments

A beat about a special treat.

posted by ageispolis at 9:04 PM PST - 2 comments

My current band, Derailleur, covering the Smiths. This was recorded live at a show a couple of years ago, right after we discovered the joys of doing weird things to keyboards. I'd like to point out that I'm the one torturing the keyboard this time.

posted by COBRA! at 11:36 AM PST - 3 comments

A song about race and baseball.

posted by sleepy pete at 1:33 PM PST - 5 comments