Another old 4-track demo, from around the same time 'The Devil is Out' was recorded (aka a million years ago). I mentioned this one in my 'Getting personal' post so I thought it would be fitting to share it.

I am fighting the urge to write what I think about the overall quality of this recording in fear that I shall be cyber-slapped by AnnMarije & Xanlee…  :p I'll just say that I recently considered re-recording it as a PROPER sounding song , but decided against it in the end. I mean, I like it, but I'd rather focus on other (okay, BETTER) stuff. ;) ...I still dig the lyrics, though!

You should have made me a God
I'm royalty by blood
But you've made me
A society outcast

Fifty thousand burning souls
I could have saved you all
I'm a hero
I'm a Caligula wannabe

Take the feathers off my hair
I don't care if they stare
I dare them
To try and tame me

It's romantic but it's sad
Although I'm really bad
I love you all
So let's die together

Hear me out
Try not to break me down
I am young
And full of apathy
I am God and I'm EVERYWHERE

Mother Nature knows SHIT
I am a tabloid hit
They've crowned me
The Caligula wannabe

Take it, fake it
Break it down
I'm heading to your town
I love you…

LYRICS:

let's play pretend
until the end, 
whenever that will be.

we'll dress in gowns 
and dance around 
and jump into the sea.

we'll float and fly 
straight through the sky 
in our hot air balloon,

and then we'll race 
to outer space 
and steal ourselves the moon.

let's make believe 
and never leave 
our own fantasy land.

we'll sing love songs 
forever long, 
now wouldn't that be grand?

and even though 
inside we'll know 
nothing is as it seems,

as long as we're 
together here, 
who needs reality?

sang my lyrics over wirrow/gwen's amazing song. um... i hope this isn't terrible. <3 be sure to check out metaphorest's song for these lyrics (resourced) - it's the cheerful version. this is the melancholy version...

gwen's loop of lala's and breathing is the most amazing record ive heard on this website. i'll definitely be making more things out of this.

the title is my nod to the wonderful sparklehorse. "it's a sad and beautiful life" r.i.p

we can be star-ways upside down-ways any way you like

we see moons n suns where others see the city lights

i know you like the fear, ive seen your eyes light up

when theres a human sacrifice

i know you like to panic and ring the alarms

but we are superloving creatures and we mean you no harm

you're never alone you know

it's a wonderful life

So, I kinda vanished after my initial posting a few weeks ago. I've been experiencing an endless string of technical difficulties these last few weeks, and it took some time until I was able to finally record some new stuff.

This one is the latest out of 3 short tracks that I've managed to record during that period. It's probably the simplest song I've ever written. Wrote it very quickly, and recorded it in one pretty short session. I'm not sure it's actually a finished song, though. I guess it could benefit from having an extra verse, if anyone would be interested in adding it... 

Cheers. 

Choose sides

Time to form an opinion

It's a battle between good and bad

By now

They've established dominion

Over hope and dreams and jellybeans

And all the things that make you glad

Beware

Of their false advertisement

They're not in it for the common good

(No, no)

Let's share

Your 2 bedroom apartment

And make plans of revolution

Find solutions for our neighborhood

Take, take

My words for what they are

Oh hell, let's just get into my car

And drive away

On our own

Where we'll end up

I couldn't say

But fuck It, we'll be together    

(A better-sounding remastered version can be found in the results)

Drum loop taken from calahan's "When We Were Young" (aka gweninterrupted's "drum loop 14").

Let's move to California

Get a place in Hollywood

Go to bars that the stars

Are known to frequent

And get their autographs

(We'll get some money out of it)

We'll stay up late every night

And make believe

There are no obligations

We'll roam the town

And say we're celebrities

(And friends of Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

It won't take long

Til they know our names

Til we burst in flames

All over Tinseltown

We'll be cast

In all the big productions

Objects of attraction

Singing all the way to the bank

They won't be able

To call us idiots

Anymore

We'll be adored

We'll be wine

We'll be acid

We'll be all they're craving

Packaged neatly and massively sold

When Hugh fuckin' Laurie

Is my best mate

They will be sorry

(Oh man, will they be sorry!)

They always made us wait

And laughed at us behind our backs

And when we do lines

With Charlie Sheen

All those assholes will be green

(May their envy consume them!)

They will eat us

They will drink us

They will crave and need us

Like a drug they could never afford

They will eat us

They will wine and feed us

Nowherevillians arise

From the gutter to the skies!

When Hugh fuckin' Laurie

Is my best mate

(So get your lazy ass out of bed

Pack a bag

And let's do it!)

They will be sorry

(Oh man, will they be sorry!)

They always made us wait

And laughed at us behind our backs

And when we arrive

At our old school

All the haters

Will fuckin' drool!

And when we are down

And feeling blue

We can tell ourselves

We're no longer me and you

Vocal RECordings by Metaphorest & The Morning Hollows (RECorded 4/2011)

Bass Gtr & Drum RECording by Albert (RECorded 2/2011)

 Drum Kit sample & Keyboard RECording by GwenInterrupted (RECorded 5/2011)

Cymbal crash RECording by thisishowiroll (RECorded 10/2011)

EBow gtr solo by me (RECorded 2010)

2012 REmix arrangement & production by meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

This REmix contains only samples from the RECords resourced. No outside/extra RECordings were used.

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this took nearly a full year after the original bass line & 'Ravens' RECords were released for me to 'crack' the idea for an arrangement that worked.
back in April 2011, i downloaded the audio stems that Albert, Sarah, and Matt uploaded to the site, and after trying some ideas that ended up not going aywhere, decided to put this REmix on hold until I could think of something suitable. Sometimes the best ideas come much later. Sometimes, it's better to put your impulses aside and allow time to pass...
in January 2012, I came up with the idea of looping Matt & Sarah's ending vocal lines which created the proper foundation, along with Albert's bass, for the song to move in a cohesive, structured direction. Everything else, the drums, guitar solo, format, followed suit.
And there you have it.

many thanks to Albert, Matt & Sarah <3

Robo J
8/2012

Albert was looking for vocals for some of his tracks with lyrics on the theme of depression. So here's what I've come up with using his excellent track '23-bass riff'. I looped it, added a vocal line or two and some weird ambienty sounds. Hope ya like it Albert!

Oh and my headphones are busted so sorry if the mix sucks - I can upload stems if you like it!

The air is my enemy
the sun comes up without me

the minutes pollute my lungs
and dull my mind and tie my tongue

pit of my stomach churning coal
my soul is old
my soul is cold

the ravens use me as their perch
call off the search
I'm in the earth

the mud is up to my chest
I only want to rest
my heavy eyelids turn me blind
I can't unwind the binds

Here comes the deluge
there goes my shortlived refuge
home is the dark days
I am the knot that frays

Grr! There are so many musical projects that I've been meaning to work on (well, 4, if to be precise), but I currently don't have time for anything… So, against my better judgment, I've decided to post one (or two, we'll see) of my old, awkwardly recorded, ultra-unprofessional sounding 4-track demos in the meantime.

This is one of my earliest compositions. It was written and recorded 17 years ago. (Damn, that makes me feel SO FREAKIN' OLD! :O).

When I was done writing these words, (finished it on my birthday) it seemed to me like a sort of tavern sing-along.  So here's the bottom layer.  Now I'd love to hear what y'all add to it.

Sing along with the chorus!  Or sing along with any part of it you see fit.  Play along on another guitar.  Acoustic, electric, the chords are just the same old ones: G C D and Em.  It definitely needs bass for at least part of it.  Perhaps a drum set, although I think even more fitting would be less formal percussion.  Clink bottles together, stamp your feet, knock on wood, etc.  And who knows what else?  Piano, fiddle, Moogs, shit, the more the merrier.

When you upload your new layer, make sure you release it as an isolated stem (in other words, by itself without any other records mixed in), so we can remix it together with all the others.  Here I've released a full version as an MP3 file for listening, and also uploaded a ZIP file with stems.  So, if you want us to listen to your addition in combination with all the others, you can upload that version, just make sure to also upload the isolated stem(s), either as audio files or a ZIP file.

Also, when I first wrote this and released the lyrics, and then a GarageBand recording of it, I was happy to see that quite a few hitRECorders recorded various versions of their own.  LizzieMackie and Metaphorest made a beautiful one, as did TongueCutSparrow and others too.  So here I hope to start a definitive bottom layer for the purposes of mass sing-along, but that doesn't mean those other excellent versions will be forgotten :o)