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Make Your Mind Up!
A modest and lightweight acoustic ditty wherein dad inserts pipe, ruminatively scratches his arse and proceeds to patronise wayward offspring.... [more inside]
first step
An instrumental track that went under the working title "pseudo-eastern." Most prominently features guitars, lap steel, fretless bass and programmed sitar sounds. The subtle percussion is a spinner ring kind of like this one, run through a healthy dose of reverb. [more inside]
Andrita Street
Demo for a song about my neighborhood here in Los Angeles...with mouth trumpet!
If I Fell
Beatles cover recorded with my 6 year old daughter a few years back. Voice is a bit pitchy throughout but give me a break, I was only 40 at the time.
snake (demo)
Another entry in my recent demo series of posts. I posted a not-quite-done version of the track here, featuring piano and overly heavy drums. It's a song about the old classic video game "Snake". I'm sure I'll revisit the "proper" recording some day, but in the meantime, this is a nice performance. [more inside]
Runnin'
In a huge creative drought for awhile, I found this old thing I wrote and recorded years ago. When I was new to Garageband.
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Hidden
Very little idea what this is really about....but it sounds like something written by a slightly loopy obsessive. That'll be me then.... [more inside]
come careening (demo)
This is the demo I recorded for this song posted earlier. I slapped some kind of distortion effect over it to approximate the feel I wanted in the final version. Although it's too hazy-sounding and the vocals are nearly unintelligble, I really love a lot of things about this recording. It sounds like some kind of important uncovered secret to me. Anyway, this post is part of an "evolution of my songs" series I started here and here.
the vase (demo)
As a follow-up to this post, here is the demo I recorded for the song I posted a long time ago here. As before, the idea is to share something about the evolution of my songs for anyone who might care.
Suenos
Recorded a couple of years back, this was inspired by a visit to the house of the late composer Manuel De Falla in Granada, Spain (a wonderful city). At the risk of immodesty this one has some of the best "lead" acoustic guitar playing I've recorded to date. For those with no Spanish "suenos" translates as "dreams" [more inside]
undulate underling (demo)
A demo that I later recorded and posted here. I'm posting this as a contribution along the lines of what others have done before me -- providing a window into my songwriting. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if some prefer this version.
Untitled (a jumble of guitar)
Acoustic Guitar Loops [more inside]
Counsellors Don't Lie
The trials of trying to get prescription medicine through counsellors. [more inside]
Revolutionary
A song i wrote a few months ago and just recently recorded. Again, recorded straight into my Macbook Pro. One take for Guitar and lead Vocals, one take for backup vocals. [more inside]
Chill-elujah
I basically put the words to Hallelujah to an acoustic chill rock guitar thing. and this happened. [more inside]
Redwood City Blues
An old track that a kid recently digitized off the cassette tape. [more inside]
Hallebritishlujah
my take on the monthly challenge fairly faithful but with some harmonies. One take for guitar and vox, one take for harmony, no level altering (it needs it, it also needs the guitar rerecording, but no time!). Again recorded by singing and playing at my mac. One day I'll set up my recording gear!
Gaffer Tape and Glue
I read a friend's blog this morning and she had a line in there about how she felt like her heart was stuck together with gaffer tape and glue.
10 minutes later I had this, another 20 and I had recorded it using Garageband and my mac's internal mic.
As I haven't written anything in about two years, I'm pretty happy with this writer's block break.
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Sweet Little Baby
Everybody I know is popping out kids. So for all the parents, I wrote a lullaby. Please experiment with your children and let me know if this puts them to sleep.
SCNMNR
The Company You Keep
A mellow acoustic oldie - worth re-recording? Comments/advice welcome [more inside]
One Star in a Million
song I wrote about a friend of mine and his girlfriend
Empires Fall
project for senior seminar. Acoustic + vocal. Poorly recorded, poorly written, poor performed :P [more inside]
Hallelukulelejah
Hallelujah, on a ukulele.
Gone Gone Gone
For the April "two chords" Challenge. The two 3-note chords even share a note in common, so we're talking a total of five notes serving as harmonic accompaniment for this song. Played on the strumstick. There's a hoop drum, too, of indeterminate pitch. I posted a lo-fi, live version of this song to YouTube as well, direct from my 6-mat tatami room at home. You can see it here.
Cover: One More Time
Acoustic guitar instrumental cover of a very popular song, I won't mention the artist, perhaps a commenter can spill the beans :) Recorded in two parts.
Hey, Hey Rock 'n' Roll
There are times I wish I had an electric guitar . . . [more inside]
Joy In The Morning (Cast Your Stone)
An older recording that I just dug up. One of my friend Hawk Coleman's best vocal performances. A bit of a folky melodramatic march that builds pretty big towards the end. [more inside]
Estranha Forma de Vida
An old Portuguese song.
Fight Test
Part 2 of the drunken covers story rampage (part 1 was pretty angsty), in which our hero borrows from the Flaming Lips as he muses on how to incorporate violence into his law-breaking.
Breaking the Law
2 guys drink more than they should while listening to Merle Haggard, decide to assault Judas Priest. [more inside]
Low Down Feeling
An accoustic version of a song from my band, Red Tractor Factory [more inside]
The Garden of Forking Paths
Just another folk-rock song about Jorge Luis Borges. [more inside]
Shutterbug
Doo doo doo, doo doo doo, la la la, la la la la. The new hit single from Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies. A chamber-pop meditation on time, aging, and death. [more inside]
El aparato
Misused
An entry to the amnesty challenge, trying out the "wrong" challenge. [more inside]
The Best War
Believe it or not, this song was not written about the Iraq war. In fact, it was a reaction to something I was sensing in the air back before the first Gulf War, circa 1990. I changed the wording slightly to reflect the times, but the song still works beautifully.
The recording is from my new collection 2 O's, 2 E's (a reference to how I spell my last name). You can download the entire album and lots more stuff at johnvoorhees.com.
Clowning Around
A little upbeat piece I came up with one day mucking around with some friends - not the greatest recording quality, the microphone I used was actually one of those headsets that I clamped over the guitar. Still its one of my favourites, hope everyone gets into it.
Werewolf Night
Ooo! Spooky!
Well, it should be pretty obvious that this song has almost nothing to do with literal werewolves, and everything to do with a predatory mindset, but that doesn’t keep it from weirding my mother out every time I play it!
sidewalk dance
Just imagine strolling down a brick sidewalk, sun streaming down, day full of possibilities.
My Heart Will Give You Up
The third and final installment of my 2009 Valentine's day project. Celine Dion + Rick Astley, as if the internet needed another rickroll. [more inside]
Saint V. Massacree
Guitar Rag, with banjo. [more inside]
O Superman (cover)
Here's an attempt to cover O Superman without copying it; no synths, no vocoders, no sampling or looping. [more inside]
A Problem
(to your solution)
Fiesta Time
This is my great, sweeping ballad … my Piano Man, if you will. Tinged with chili powder. [more inside]
Undercover Maggie
A simple cautionary tale of how celebrity, glamour, ambition and just-plain inauthenticity can twist a human soul. Also, you can dance to it. [more inside]
Snowstorm
Stuck inside all day, it fades in.
Pancho & Lefty
Another country song that I recorded for my dad for Christmas. [more inside]
N.E.R.D. Frontin' (acoustic cover)
tear yo ass up. [more inside]
I Have A Window
Electro-acoustic piece with piano, guitar and synths that started out as an idea to write a "palindromic" song. [more inside]