Song 52 - "One Year Old"
Whew! I made it! Man, it's hard to believe. I will go into hiatus for a month and return with a new plan to put all these ideas into action. Thank you everyone who contributed to my confidence and encouraged me to push on.
One Year Old - How many is that in song years?
FIN
Song 51 - "Wedlocks"
I couldn't muster much this week. Will shoot for a solid grand finale next week.
"Preaching equivocates to going to a great performance and interrupting it with your own" - Anonymous
Song 50 - "V Days"
Pieces of a Valentine's Day song. As usual, lyrics are needed. Two more to go!
Song 49 - "TwoBrothers"
A pretty solid chorus and not much else. I feel like I repeated something from the previous 48 weeks in the verse, in terms of melody. Maybe not though.
Finally saw Avatar. Engaging.
Song 47 - "PYUandPYD"
The verse and chorus, although rough in this cut, certainly will stick. I need to fix the bridge and put in some words. When all is said and done, this project will be more about song ideas than final pieces. I think that when I reach idea 52, I will start another year long project with the goal of cleaning up 12 of these ideas and making an album. Haven't quite worked out those logistics yet.
Song 45 - "one 'n infinity"
I wrote a plethora of songs this weekend. This happens to be the last one I had time for. My improv skills are really coalescing. I think I'd like to get to the point where I could just make up the lyrics all the time. The ones in this song were entirely spontaneous. I came up with most of the guitar part last night, while watching Choke(highly recommended). If I continue to work on this one, I will repeat the verse and tweak the melody a little bit, but i think it has promise.
May your New Year's resolutions die softly:)
Song 44 - "Water and Whine"
Couldn't get a good verse going on this one. Probably will get scratched in the long run but, as always, 'twas a good lesson for me.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year and etc. . .
Song 43 - "testing the methods"
!!!Warning!!! Experimental, ambient noise up ahead. Proceed with caution.
Spent the weekend messing around with my loop pedal after a long hiatus from it. When I woke up this morning, I created some pretty magical stuff. I wasn't able to quite recapture it though when I recorded this afternoon.
Song 42 - "Wyldlin"
A great birthday weekend full of old friends, fun and a concert with The Heavy Pets and P. Groove. Yes.
Song 41 - "Howlin"
I got a new microphone today, and, to test it, I sort of just let go vocally with some improv. So, we're going with that this week. It's shrill in places, but at least it's a bit different.
Song 40 - "Masquerade"
Catchy. Maybe with a chorus/bridge, it might end up as something. Speaking of ending up as something, I tried my hand for the first time at taking a serious stab at some of the song ideas I've posted here. Twas a bit frustrating, but I think I'll be able to get something together in a couple months or so.
Song 38 - "Who Am I"
Given how exhausted and frustrated I was today about my music in general, I am more than delighted with this, which felt like it poured out of me from nowhere. I do seriously mess up the bridge, and you can hear me laugh about it at the break.
I am working on a list of my top 10 or so songs from the year and will be posting a player here or possibly on my facebook page in the next couple weeks or so with the reworked/finalized versions. Exciting stuff :)
Song 37 - "Leave Mr. Johnston Alone Mr. Devil"
Learned "Walking the Cow" this morning and watched some interviews with Daniel Johnston.
P.S. You heard me Mr. Devil. Move along now.
Song 36 - "Goodmourning"
This is certainly one of the roughest sketches I have posted in some time. That's a nice way of saying it's a dire mess. The verses need to be shaped up, and I need to record during the afternoon so I can belt out the chorus and give it body. You can clearly hear how restrained I was, and that high in my range cannot be performed with hesitation (there's a newborn in the apartment next door, okay!?). Better rhythm would be nice as well.
All this being said, I'm going to work on it this week. I think that adding the right beats, synth noises and a couple falsetto oohs and ahhs would lend to a really good indie pop/dance tune and take away some of the morbid ambiance.
Finally, if you have a good set of headphones, this audio file posted by Seed Magazine is a nice jaunt into the true wild. Of note, number 7 in the slide has a bird that sounds electronic.
Song 34 - "Little Round Box"
Had just watched Solaris(the '70s version, not the one with George Clooney, which I haven't seen) before coming up with this this morning, so you could say I had some otherworldly influence going on in my imagination. Going to do something a little different this week and actually post the lyrics. They aren't necessarily set in stone, but they are what show up in this version. So here you are(forgive messy puncuations):
"Maybe I could town you down and throw you up and you would tell me
Maybe I could cut you open tear you out spill you out onto the dance floor and spread you around and you eyes they would open, they would adore the dollared tune
Maybe I could make a Xylophone out of your brain and grow so wise
But what's to say, who knows, who knows
Maybe you'll go hidin in a white guitar, and then i'll break it down and go out. Maybe you'll break your heart, and hold it up, and shake your pans around
And you'll shiver and you'll shake as you make love to yourself in heart, hard times
Thank you, I thank you for saying, we can stay in love in a little round/brown box. We can stay in love with the antelope.
I bet your hiding, I bet your hiding and you don't know where to go or hear what to say. Probably all that excess, you take it into your brain and you don't even love yourself anymore.
A little be higher, and then you break it up, and then go over to I, and yet you make it up, and you got a lie, but you hate it all, and then you've got to die."
Song 33 - "The Next Mistake"
This needs another take, but I am simply out of time.
I spent a lot of the weekend reading about the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the pineal gland. While perusing these topics, I stumbled upon this speech by Alan Watts, whom I had never heard of prior to today, but I will be listening to more as he is quite the fellow.
