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Loretta
Another song about a girl. Her name was Loretta. By Esther.
The Greatest Days
These are the greatest days, and this is optimism rock from The Forget.
It's Like Your Heart's the Color Yellow
This is a song from the concept band Heroes that Hurt. My roommate writes the lyrics, in which he explores the futility of super-love. Then we all get together and set them to music. This one is about the Green Lantern.
One Thing's For Certain
Another from Esther. The vocals could use quite a bit more post-production work, but overall, I'm happy about how this one turned out.
Hit me in the Head
An entreaty to hit me in the head, but good. By Esther.
Hold Together
More fuzzy lo-fi goodness from Esther. We always enjoyed the hell out of playing this one live, but were never able to capture that same energy on disk. This was our best effort.
Warren Peacetime
I wrote/recorded this song when I had moved to a new city and was shopping around for a new band/songwriting collaborator. For a lot of reasons, that didn't happen and am thinking about resurrecting it and putting vocals to it, but I have a niggling sense that it sounds too much like some tune from the 80s I can vaguely remember. Any ideas? Guitars, bass by me, drumming by my faithful drum machine, whom I call "Steve".
(not) Polished
Rough track I wrote when mired in a bit of a funk. Wanted to see if I could write a song that contained both 3/4 and common time and not end up sounding like Rush. I think it works... sorta.
Bullfighter
A very, very low tech recording of little pop tune my band put together. Vocals definitely not for everyone.
Technology Let Me Down
A simple and intimate recording about the fallibility of technology.
Untitled Bossa Nova
Here is a mellow bossa nova flavored tune with a bit of a free jazz outro that I recorded with my friend and principal musical co-conspirator Jeffrey "Hawtlixxx" Gulley. Our friend Zach, who is in a really great band called Telenovela btw, provided the atmospheric guitar drone in the background. This is one of my favorite home recordings so I hope you enjoy it.
I Shine
CollaborationFilter: I had this song I could never considered finished because it sounded dreadful in my voice. Then I discovered Metafilter Music and here I discovered chococat. Like pretty much everyone else who heard his music, I was blown away. And so I asked him if he would help me out with the song. Cool guy he is, he did. And this is the result.
Tale of The Friendly Dolphin
An odd and jarring, yet ultimately life affirming, song about how I got a dorsal fin.
El If You Find
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.
sallie mae (you suck)
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).
La Palma (1958)
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.
Happy Song
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.
triste
Short tomwaitsy song, without any of Tom Waits' actual talent. It may sound better on headphones.
En la zafra
Small song I did for a weekly TV show in Venezuela.
Gumby's Got a Gun
A rockin' little ditty I recorded on my computer a while back. Hope you like it.
Charityn
Why did you do that disappearing thing?
Old song, not the best quality recording, but hopefully the cheerful mood will make up for it.
Na Na
Been listening to a lot of great demos and rough tracks here lately, which has given me the courage to post one of my early attempts at home recording, just putting a melody over some chords.
the ballad of sorry casino
Another mean spirit'd robots song; this one was never released. It was written on a bus from nyc to philadelphia, on the ticket jacket. Probably the longest MSR song ever, with the possible exception of "the distribution of wealth in this country really sux"
Fireworks School
This is a song by The Forget about a fireworks factory blowing up and killing a bunch of people. Not that we're into that sort of thing.
I fell down in the shower this a.m.
From 1993-1998 I was the Mean Spirit'd Robots. Here's a little song from '96 or so. Hope you like!
We Have the Technology
My band recorded this for a Song Fight. It's quirky casio acuostic rock, with just a hint of out of tune accordion, and percussion supplied by a djembe. That's me singing.
Something Friendly
Casiotronic feel-good in a can.