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i woke up saturday afternoon my eyes were strained outside was rain it was nothing new the calendar that marked the date said it's too late the 28th roll over hit snooze
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my summer started with an end digging up bricks feeling sick think i'll stay in bed i had nothing to despise no reason to feel the way i did so my eyes stayed dry
This one I recorded in November 2007 and subsequently have lost in computer translation. So here's my attempt at salvaging the remains of a forgotten memory. plus drums.
I never could wait to get to their place to play halo mostly i would lose blame the fact i was a newb as the scapegoat but as time progressed i grew better than the best and that'd be thomas so as it stood in '05 i spent the summer takin lives from the ones i loved the most
we were fifteen our lives were carefree
the only time we'd take a break was to grab a kool-aid and a shake and hit the pool dive in or do a flip we'd check out all the older chicks boy we thought we were cool after the hours spent there we'd burn our feet because they were bare on the walk back home we'd maybe play tag or race back to your pad where the xbox was waitin alone
we were fifteen our lives were carefree
as summer drew to a close i knew our friendship wouldn't go but it did i went off to highschool where the junior gals thought i was cool lucky kid so as i reminisce that house will be missed just like you you sold it the next year i'll go back to it i swear but until i do i'll still play from time to time whatever works i don't
mind your own business don't hate me for my interests
This song sparked my venture back into recording. It was november of last year. (I had recorded a handful of songs a year earlier but most have been lost completely, if not marginally). I've since went back and added a few elements (namely drums) so I suppose that earns itself the title "(mix 2)".
It's still obviously ill formed. Let's stay on task though.
There are songs happening. There just aren't songs finishing. This is the first of a slew, promise. Also a fellow by the name of Noel sent me over one of his great songs that I'm supposed to be adding lyrics to, unfortunately I've just recently got out of my lyrical slump (i.e. today). Expect more regarding that soon. A link to his stuff as well.
This is a song I plan (emphasis on plan) to include in a concept EP, all songs having a similar subject matter, or at least basis. There are five or six that are waiting to be finished. This is the first.
one night i woke up frantic and holed up on a leather couch i panicked and slouched deeper in the cushions i felt myself hooked in my brain kept slipping while they were sleeping
here they are this is it they've finally come to take me with
the electronics malfunctioned clock blinked twelve i was still tucked in as i slowly fell
their snores i'm bored wake up get off the floor
when they poked i laughed and laughed when they spoke it made me sad
before they stopped talking one more thing is this the life you wanted? the answer i had to think
when august comes around you won't think twice growing up did you ever have a concept of time?
Sorry mates, dry spell. I've got plenty in the works though. Hold your proverbial horses.
All respect goes to the originators of this ditty, and no respect goes to my pale voice in comparison. Something's weird with it today, maybe because I've not eaten or anything, regardless:
A lot of people cover this on YouTube, I suppose because it's pretty easy, short and sweet. But nothing beats the original. I just used it as an outlet for a jazzy tune.
"DigiDelay I use this thing, a delay pedal called the DigiTech DigiDelay. I use it for everything. If I had to have one [instrument] to make music with, it would be that. I've used it on every vocal I've ever done. It's also the source of a lot of sounds on our record that people didn't realize-- the entire first track ["Intro"] is done on one. That's just my voice; there's no keyboards on the majority of that track. There's one keyboard part at the end, but that's it. All the loops are my voice. And a lot of the sounds on "Octet" are my voice looped through this thing. It has a really cool additive way of making loops. Everybody in Deerhunter has one. Every single person in the band, after seeing me use it, was like, "I have to have one of those." It's the one thing we all have in common. ... I went to this thrift store in Marietta, and I got this bad-ass Tiffany lamp with a dragonfly design in the stained glass. I really like old stained glass lamps, I have no idea why. But I got that and this fucking insane vintage pearloid yellow drum kit. And my grand total that day was $17. It was totally unexpected too. I saw the drum kit in the window, and I totally expected it to be-- you know how thrift stores will get a shitty Casio keyboard these days and charge $35?-- so I'm expecting them to tell me the drums are $500 or something: "We know what these go for on eBay! We have a computer you know!" So I go back there and ask how much it is, and she was like, "Oh, I don't know, $25." And then I went back in and found that lamp, and I almost shit myself. And then I went to check out, and it turns out it was half-off day. So I got a drum set for 12 bucks! "
Sorry for the wait, I've just been half-heartedly busy with this and that. Truthfully I haven't been able to record anything for a couple of weeks due to a dive in self confidence (musically). That and I'm out of hard drive space. Not that either of those two things should stop me from writing anything. and I've dabbled. But only today has something remotely come to fruition. It shall be expanded upon and put to tape (digital) as soon as the next opportunity arrives.
But honestly, I feel as though I've been listening to Street Hassle too much since I came to the idea by playing over a loop of myself fingering the general bassline and noodling licks here and there. The chords are different though, and we all know how many songs have Charlie Brown's bassline, hmm?
At least in the drought I've had experiences that lend themselves to being written about. How I could do so without being so overtly obvious to those who were involved, I do not know. So maybe it's time for me to avoid the vague and plainly write, at the risk of alienating those whom I've written about?Or welcoming them in?
This is a song Just Us Caruso did (which I found on Collected Animals).He posted it asking for someone to do vocals, so I gave it a shot. Unfortunately I'm too lazy right now to go back and fix the panning that got messed up in the bounce. So it's just mono which kind of ruins the effect on the vocals (for the imaginitive: picture the words wrapping around your ears more, being spread apart, bigger).
when i was younger i always wondered what if gene simmons was here? with nick and sophie it'd be real low key we'd all share a beer and nicole richie walked in, unexpectedly bitchy because what she heard in the news that everyone and their ma's were freakin out cause the first pictures of suri cruise dude
peace out life get ready for the end.
i'm trapped in wisdom and sneaky suspicions that jett travolta's still alive and blanket jackson shouldn't have been subjected to live life in pantomime and shiloh and maddox will be blowin out wicks until six becomes nine but all this chatter doesn't matter because the revolution will not be televised
Although some songs have resulted from coming back to them weeks later, like "Innocent and Pretty", "Key Bored" (which I still need to think of a better name for), and probably another one.
I actually did change Kroger up a tad, as promised.
Can you spot the changes?
- retracked lead vocals - polished up the background vocals - added lead guitar - changed the sound of the drums a bit, they're dryer, more upfront as opposed to sounding like cardboard boxes (in my opinion they did at least) - something with the bass (it sounded a bit too muddy before, it might still I forget if I actually addressed this oops). - etccccc.
I certainly could have written better lyrics. Oh well, I like how it turned out. The instruments need to be mixed up to the vocals, I left them up from when I was tracking them and bounced it without remembering to revert it to normal.
there isn't much i wouldn't do in the name of you all you have to do is catch me in the right mood when your cheeks are burnin fire truck redyou'd think you'd be learnin it's all in your head that you don't deserve the things that all your kindness brings you see it is the truth i'm only trying to prove that i love you and wanna hug you until we both shave our heads
"crawling through my things you think you're funny" excuse me while i sneeze i'm allergic to bologna don't expect me to believe that story "what is it you think you're doing always assuming?
that i was out too late snuck in the fire escape turned off my phone and i was not alone but even if it's true what'd you expect to do leave me standing here you think i'd even care? i'd leave you with nothing they'd put you in cuffs and take away the kids no matter what you did you'll try and try and waste your money but i won't let you leave me honey"
well that's what you said and that's what you think aimed at your head i didn't even blink
Sometimes my favorite part of an album are the little vingettes, little sound collages in between the singles. (The most prominent of these: No Age, M83, Boards of Canada, Spoon, Of Montreal etc.). I know I've not come near the emotional magnitude of I Guess I'm Floating, but the idea behind it was a breif inspiration to just make some noise.
I wrote and recorded this yesterday. I have faith in it. I also don't have the time to finish it at the moment. So before I do anything else, I'd like to know what you'd do in the name of art. It's a solid Buddy Holly-esque pop song. All I've done so far are guitar, drums, bass and vocals. Granted, that's all you need. I'll probably just re-do the vocals and end it at that.
i don't want to be another stupid boy that you think is a cute and funny toy that you stole from your friend who called me first just to prove you could get me why don't you purse your lips my dear get ready for a kiss but watch me as i duck and do what i never did
hold on girl you've got another thing coming for you
let's meet before the bell for school spend a day in the park with nothing to do i get a hint of your lovely perfume who knew so much fun could be had in the women's bathroom i find it funny that we both agree it was a good thing that you were bloody
hold on girl i got a nothing thing coming for me
you'd think that i would make a move but i'm too young and dumb to have a clue don't forget you're the one who's older so why'd you take advantage of me behind the kroger where we rolled in the grass before i knew it was over and now it's all in the past
hold on girl you've got another thing coming for you
i think i'd notice if i have changed but since i was told this i realized it be sad if i had stayed the same as always fame is calling
lying on the floor always accept knocks on the door get up and let them in so feminine but you know she's alright despite the fact that she makes me feel attacked
is it those eyes or that she grew up with me all so familiar originality left probably not here but i try and i try and this is what i get
cut me some slack i'm trying to get back to where i was last year all innocent and pretty stuck in the past growing up fast wondering how i got here pouty and sickly
1. Bistro - Madvillain 2. Dr. Carter - Lil' Wayne 3. Airworks - J Dilla 4. I'm A Lady - Diplo/Santogold 5. Posse On Broadway - Sir Mix A Lot/Diplo/Santogold 6. Basic Instinct - Quasimoto 7. One Blood Under W - Wu-Tang Clan 8. Hoe Cakes - MF DOOM 9. Suicide Uma Schrantz - P.O.S. 10. The Bmore Club Slam - Wale 11. Gold Watch - Lupe Fiasco 12. Phony Rappers - A Tribe Called Quest 13. Hi. - J Dilla 14. Shells - MIA 15. Me - Atmosphere 16. The Artistic Integrity - Wale
1. Risky and Pretty - Asobi Seksu 2. Keechie - No Age 3. Wishful Thinking - Wilco 4. Femme Fatale - Velvet Underground 5. What Child Is This - Vince Guaraldi 6. Gibralter - The Radio Dept. 7. Quick Canal - Atlas Sound 8. I Guess I'm Floating - M83 9. Rebel Rebel - Seu Jorge 10. No More Sorry - My Bloody Valentine 11. Glow Worms - Vashti Bunyan 12. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) - Beach Boys 13. Call the Doctor - Spaceman 3 14. Glacially - Asobi Seksu 15. Lower Your Eyelids To Die With - M83
never go to them let them come to you just like i do
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You can fiddle with frequencies, twist knobs, compress the heck out of things, but in the end sometimes it's best to just redo it completely. Move that mic back an inch, press record.
I've gotta keep telling myself that, sometimes it's hard to let go.
it seems like days since you were sittin pretty feedin lies into a tube packing so much salt into my wounds that you're leaving barely any room for respectin lives and critisizin beady eyes and open flies
too much that no one ever notices all the faults in your ways and i'm tired of today
total strangers in our kitchen living room tried t0 take one for the team if it wasn't for the trap you set for me i would've dropped you when i was seventeen
fought my way to the front of the line i got what i could get took out a loan and then distributed mine to all the ladies that i met ashtrays filled to the point of breaking like hearts in high school i'm reminded of a time when i was just a simple happy fool
what is this in my bed
total breakdown in the cafeteria dirty rice all on the floor sending you into a mass hysteria looks like i'm stuck forever more
