112 posts tagged with ukulele by Astro Zombie.
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I Married Her for Her Money (She Married Me for My Lies)
My 6th RPM song for Sailor Martin. A close harmony country song about love and deception. [more inside]
If This Bed Could Talk
The fifth song for the RPM challenge. Sailor Martin does a song in the style of Andrew Bird. [more inside]
How Am I Gonna Enjoy It When You Just Sit On It
Third RPM song for my puppet Sailor Martin. Ukulele, harmonica, and a whole lot of inappropriate. [more inside]
If You Don't Want a Razor Fight
My second song for the RPM challenge, written for my horrible puppet, Sailor Martin. [more inside]
Horrible Things What Live in the Sea
The first RPM challenge song written for my creepy puppet, Sailor Martin. The title is self-explanatory. The electric guitar he is singing along to is actually a ukulele. [more inside]
I've Been to Hollywood Too
A song about watching someone else succeed in a town that wasn't very kind to you. [more inside]
Kari Ann
A getting ready to leave town song. [more inside]
Apartment 503
A somewhat naughty true story. [more inside]
Tracey Knows How to Lie
In truth, I am not sure the actual Tracey was a liar, and didn't simply live a completely unbelievable life. Either way, she was enormously entertaining. [more inside]
This Is Hollywood
Two chords and a lot of bad memories. [more inside]
Steven's Sunset Boulevard Bookstore
Sort of in the style of Marshall Crenshaw. Or Crenshaw in the style of Buddy Holly. Or Holly in the style of the Everly Brothers. Anyway, written in celebration of a transgressive bookstore on Sunset. [more inside]
First Person Three-Way
A song about the porn scene in LA. [more inside]
The Day of the Christmas Parade
Hollywood is famous for its annual Christmas Parade, which inspired the song "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)", which Gene Autrey wrote after playing Santa in the parade and hearing children call out to him. I decided to write my own song about the event, as experienced by slightly older children -- the homeless teens who used to (and probably still do) squat in abandoned buildings and under bridges in Hollywood. Ah, memories. [more inside]
Shelley Winters
A song about an actress I knew once. [more inside]
The Shelter Gang
A song based on the dozens of teenagers I saw pass through the Citrus House homeless shelter in the summer of 1992. [more inside]
If They Made a Movie of My Life
A song about a girl I knew. [more inside]
When John Drinks
A song about a former roommate. [more inside]
L.A. Xpress
A song about Los Angeles's notorious free girlie newspaper. [more inside]
Fuck You LA
A song about leaving Los Angeles. Some cussing. [more inside]
Watch It Burn
A song about watching the LA Riots from the rooftop of a Hollwyood apartment. [more inside]
Danny Says
Another in my series of autobiographical songs based on my experiences in Los Angeles in the early 90s, this one based on a fellow I used to do some writing projects with. Every line of this song is true. [more inside]
The Moviegoer
Another in my series of autobiographical songs about my experiences in Los Angeles in the early 90s, this based on my obsessive movie watching habits back then. [more inside]
Santa Monica
A song about male prostitution in Hollywood. Lyrics NSFW. [more inside]
Annalee
A song about getting old. [more inside]
When the Water Rise Up
A song about storms, levees, and floods. A new song. [more inside]
Mansion on the Hill
Cortex has given me a taste of MuFi collaboration, and I like it. This is a simply acoustic country gospel ballad about sin and possible redemption. Anyone is welcome to download it and contribute. [more inside]
Africa
MuFi music challenge Wildcar, inspired by DaveJay's most recent post. Clocked random, found a comment, made a song. The comment is this one:
It's saying that African tragedy gets measured by a different yardstick.
Way over here in the land of Paris and Lindsey, it does.
Ellen
You Can't Go Back to London
They Never Found Her Head
The Accursed Hat
My take on Jofus's cowboy epic. Although I think a song like this demands additional production that I am not able to provide. By all means, feel free to download it, add whip cracking and horse hooves and banshee moans, or swirling guitars, or whatever else might epic this bad boy up.
Cocaine is the Hardest Drug
A Bowery Christmas
Back to the Rio Grand
Part of my Old Songs project. A cowboy song about a lawman and the murderer who plans to kill him. [more inside]
The Boys of the 10th
A Widow's Prayer
I'm Gonna Miss You When I'm Gone
A minor key song about marriage and betrayal, written in 1990. Part of my Old Songs project. [more inside]
Ruth
Part of my Old Songs project. A deliberately "Oriental" song in Hebrew, taken from the text of Ruth 1:16. [more inside]
My Fresh Pie
A new song, recorded seconds after having been written. A man comes to town song. [more inside]
Champagne for Breakfast
A new countrypolitan song about dreaming of a woman and waking to find her gone. [more inside]
Gone
A new song about my bad tendency to just pack up and leave without warning. [more inside]
But When Cindy Dances
The first song I ever wrote, dating back to 1986. A pop song about a real Cindy and a possibly invented dance, sung in a fragile and especially twee manner. Part of my Old Songs project. [more inside]
One Kiss from You
A maudlin love song from an old man to a young woman. Written in 2001. Part of my Old Songs project. [more inside]
Jimmy the Shrew
Let the Band Play On
Part of my Old Songs project. A moody tune from 1999 about the terminus of a relationship. [more inside]
Wasn't We a Pair
Part of my Old Songs project. A tale of loss and regret told in the manner of a Mexican ragtime cowboy song. [more inside]
I'm the Same Man
Part of my Old Songs project. An unforgivably bitter song about the end of a relationship, written in 1998. [more inside]
A Man is Coming
Another new song, recording in the lowest-fidelity I can manage. This time a country blues song about scary things. [more inside]
Alfred Packer, A Man Who Liked to Eat
Part of my Old Songs project: An uptempo country ditty from 2004 about a Colorado cannibal, and, later, Astro Zombies neighbor in New Orleans' French Quarter. [more inside]