Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Amoeba Productions, Ltd. - Book
Here is the link to my new album:
Book
The track order and a version of the front cover should be encoded into the mp3s.
Danny, Woodduck and Paul; I have real physical versions to send to you, which hopefully I will get time to do before I go overseas for 3 weeks next Tuesday.
Book
The track order and a version of the front cover should be encoded into the mp3s.
Danny, Woodduck and Paul; I have real physical versions to send to you, which hopefully I will get time to do before I go overseas for 3 weeks next Tuesday.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Recent Tweets 3
Recently, I was...
thinking about the unreliability of memory
thinking US Life on Mars' Sam Tyler's mother's name is Rose?
looking for cheap hotels in Paris' 11eme arr for my trip in November
starting my 4th last day of holidays
@peeboo do you have "Lee Remick" on disc anywhere? It's not on anything you sent me.
working out the setlist that Dirt and I will be playing at Chantal's 40th... in October, probably.
listening to NZ rugby commentators realise they'd better explain what "get in behind" means.
using some of my remaining download allotment listening to awful "songsmith" videos on youtube.
feeling shagged after a couple of hours of whipper-snipping.
@peeboo Yes, starting to lose interest already. Too much work scrolling through all of Stephen Fry's tweets.
I have no idea anymore why that is relevant.
my nana died a few years ago. That's my dad's mother. My Mum's mother, Ronnie, died in 1969 either just before or just after I was born...
Thinking Isaka Cernak is no Tahj Minnicon.
reading about Zombies attacking Austin, Tx. http://tinyurl.com/aqotcv
hanging around the house
staying up past midnight
Wondering what two after 909 would be...
don't know if I'm going up or down with you, M. C. Escher. http://www.mcescher.com/
understanding that the name of this tune is the "funky drummer".
In my slightly less drunken state; wondering if "Dear God" isn't the best song ever written.
or maybe 7... except this makes 8.
Worrying if 8 tweets in an hour makes me strange.
listening to "Psychodrama City" by the Byrds. Wondering if Symo would have felt better if he'd got up at 3am and slammed down a diet Coke.
welcoming you to the cheap seats.
feeling sad about Kirsty MacColl
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thinking about the unreliability of memory
thinking US Life on Mars' Sam Tyler's mother's name is Rose?
looking for cheap hotels in Paris' 11eme arr for my trip in November
starting my 4th last day of holidays
@peeboo do you have "Lee Remick" on disc anywhere? It's not on anything you sent me.
working out the setlist that Dirt and I will be playing at Chantal's 40th... in October, probably.
listening to NZ rugby commentators realise they'd better explain what "get in behind" means.
using some of my remaining download allotment listening to awful "songsmith" videos on youtube.
feeling shagged after a couple of hours of whipper-snipping.
@peeboo Yes, starting to lose interest already. Too much work scrolling through all of Stephen Fry's tweets.
I have no idea anymore why that is relevant.
my nana died a few years ago. That's my dad's mother. My Mum's mother, Ronnie, died in 1969 either just before or just after I was born...
Thinking Isaka Cernak is no Tahj Minnicon.
reading about Zombies attacking Austin, Tx. http://tinyurl.com/aqotcv
hanging around the house
staying up past midnight
Wondering what two after 909 would be...
don't know if I'm going up or down with you, M. C. Escher. http://www.mcescher.com/
understanding that the name of this tune is the "funky drummer".
In my slightly less drunken state; wondering if "Dear God" isn't the best song ever written.
or maybe 7... except this makes 8.
Worrying if 8 tweets in an hour makes me strange.
listening to "Psychodrama City" by the Byrds. Wondering if Symo would have felt better if he'd got up at 3am and slammed down a diet Coke.
welcoming you to the cheap seats.
feeling sad about Kirsty MacColl
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Did you know...
that if you google "steve coogan being attacked by a crocodile" this blog comes up as the first entry? (A handy hint if you can't remember "Boycat's Dad".)
that I am listening to "Crescent" by Bitch Magnet right now?
that Boycat wants to be fed?
that Symo appears to have deleted his twitter profile?
that I'm now listening to "Soda Jerk" by Buffalo Tom.
that my broadband is getting flakier by the day?
that the song on my random windows media player is now "Blue Line" by Let's Active?
that I'm about to hit "Publish Post"?
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that I am listening to "Crescent" by Bitch Magnet right now?
that Boycat wants to be fed?
that Symo appears to have deleted his twitter profile?
that I'm now listening to "Soda Jerk" by Buffalo Tom.
that my broadband is getting flakier by the day?
that the song on my random windows media player is now "Blue Line" by Let's Active?
that I'm about to hit "Publish Post"?
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Friday, February 20, 2009
More music more music more music
Here's something else I did last year. This has actual live guitar in it, rather than samples played on Hydrogen, although it has a lot of them, too. It's mostly another drum machine programming exercise.
102 bpm song
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102 bpm song
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Friday, December 05, 2008
I want you back...
I got the CDs, thanks PeeBoo.
Of course that makes me a music pirate (as if Symo's DVD of eels and Beatles didn't already make me so), something I've been against; since I know what it costs to pay for a recording session. BobSpeaking is an inveterate pirate.
Hmmm. Do you ever listen to a song and think "I've ripped that off" ? Possibly you have to have written a song.
Anyway, I'm sure I have a song that has the lyric "I want you back" repeated randomly throughout. It seems I ripped that off from "Man O'Sand to Girl O'Sea".
I remember once realising that I'd ripped off a song from the Undertones' "Sin of Pride" album. I can't remember the song or the bit I ripped off now, but when I listened to that album again, I thought "Hmmm..." I think it was a guitar line that went "da-dah da-dah da-dah-de-dah-dah".
By the way, my neighbour two doors down is an Irish woman and one of her dogs is named "Feargal".
Oops the boss is home, better go now. One final thing - "People Say" ? I always liked the B-side "Don't Let Him Come Back". My sister Annie had the original single. Or was that the B-side to "Lee Remick" ?
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Of course that makes me a music pirate (as if Symo's DVD of eels and Beatles didn't already make me so), something I've been against; since I know what it costs to pay for a recording session. BobSpeaking is an inveterate pirate.
Hmmm. Do you ever listen to a song and think "I've ripped that off" ? Possibly you have to have written a song.
Anyway, I'm sure I have a song that has the lyric "I want you back" repeated randomly throughout. It seems I ripped that off from "Man O'Sand to Girl O'Sea".
I remember once realising that I'd ripped off a song from the Undertones' "Sin of Pride" album. I can't remember the song or the bit I ripped off now, but when I listened to that album again, I thought "Hmmm..." I think it was a guitar line that went "da-dah da-dah da-dah-de-dah-dah".
By the way, my neighbour two doors down is an Irish woman and one of her dogs is named "Feargal".
Oops the boss is home, better go now. One final thing - "People Say" ? I always liked the B-side "Don't Let Him Come Back". My sister Annie had the original single. Or was that the B-side to "Lee Remick" ?
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Friday, November 28, 2008
Hi Y'all
Thanks Paul, I got the CDs. You know that I had all of the Husker Du except the Zen Arcade outtakes, right?
And I've got REM Accelerate. My review: Meh. It's better than recent stuff, but it's pretty much REM by numbers. A lot of the songs sound like faster, rockier versions of old REM songs. There's one that you can sing "Losing My Religion" to, etc. For the record, BobSpeaking thinks much the same.
You know what I'd really like - the non-bonus-disc of "Don't Try This At Home". I listened to about three hours of the Billy Bragg podcast when I drove to Sydney in August, and I couldn't get the crappy "Sexuality" demo out of my head. I had to use YouTube to listen to the Johnny Marr version. Also "Workers' Playtime".
Also, you could send me that Go-Betweens best of. I've got a couple of tracks, but I'd like the whole thing.
Hi Symo. Welcome back to the unreal world.
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And I've got REM Accelerate. My review: Meh. It's better than recent stuff, but it's pretty much REM by numbers. A lot of the songs sound like faster, rockier versions of old REM songs. There's one that you can sing "Losing My Religion" to, etc. For the record, BobSpeaking thinks much the same.
You know what I'd really like - the non-bonus-disc of "Don't Try This At Home". I listened to about three hours of the Billy Bragg podcast when I drove to Sydney in August, and I couldn't get the crappy "Sexuality" demo out of my head. I had to use YouTube to listen to the Johnny Marr version. Also "Workers' Playtime".
Also, you could send me that Go-Betweens best of. I've got a couple of tracks, but I'd like the whole thing.
Hi Symo. Welcome back to the unreal world.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Also I...
...downloaded the Hydrogen drum machine, and the Kristal and Audacity audio programs and I started creating music again. I won't say writing, because mostly what I've done is create some stuff while learning to program the drum machine and use the other two audio programs.
These are the first things I did. These are just Hydrogen and Audacity, I didn't get onto Kristal until later. All of these sounds are various free samples from around the net programmed in and sequenced in Hydrogen; there's nothing live here at all. I actually prefer "test 2" to "test 3" because of the piano (a sample from the end of "Leave the Biker" from Fountains of Wayne)...
test2_110bpm
test3_110bpm
I'm pretty sure this gives the game away about who I am. Oh well, if they want to arrest me for the sedition on my previous blog, "loudmouth, hothead", they can go ahead.
More stuff when I transfer it from a Wave to an MP3...
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These are the first things I did. These are just Hydrogen and Audacity, I didn't get onto Kristal until later. All of these sounds are various free samples from around the net programmed in and sequenced in Hydrogen; there's nothing live here at all. I actually prefer "test 2" to "test 3" because of the piano (a sample from the end of "Leave the Biker" from Fountains of Wayne)...
test2_110bpm
test3_110bpm
I'm pretty sure this gives the game away about who I am. Oh well, if they want to arrest me for the sedition on my previous blog, "loudmouth, hothead", they can go ahead.
More stuff when I transfer it from a Wave to an MP3...
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Friday, April 04, 2008
Photos from the past few months
Flooding on the Logan River.
The view from my seat at the Roar's home semi-final.
Playing bowls in Tuggeranong.
Buffalo Tom at the Zoo.
Dirt at Buffalo Tom.[END]
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Buffalo Tom at The Zoo
I just got home.
It was awesome. They played Sunflower Suit!
Yes, they played Treehouse and Summer and Velvet Roof and (of course) Taillights Fade and loads of those songs with one word titles that I can't remember which is which, but man, they played Sunflower Suit!
They didn't play Birdbrain, what a shame
Dirt was there, as was Robbie Warren and a couple of other people I know. I took some photos, but I have to load them off my phone to see if they're any good.
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It was awesome. They played Sunflower Suit!
Yes, they played Treehouse and Summer and Velvet Roof and (of course) Taillights Fade and loads of those songs with one word titles that I can't remember which is which, but man, they played Sunflower Suit!
They didn't play Birdbrain, what a shame
Dirt was there, as was Robbie Warren and a couple of other people I know. I took some photos, but I have to load them off my phone to see if they're any good.
[END]
Friday, January 11, 2008
Help me write a song
It's simple, just take these words and make them rhyme...
What would Bjorn Nitmo do?
Sixth of May what a sad sad day
"Let it all come out," she said
Grant, I hope it was only a rumour
And this line would end with a word like 'dead'
At least I'm writing again
She said "Why do bad things happen to really good people?"
But I think there are no good people
This is a revolutionary suicide
Keep your emotions down. Children, this will not hurt.
George, you lived your life like a football match. It was a game of two halves.
Aegrescit medendo -"The disease worsens with the treatment" or "The remedy makes the disease worse" or "The remedy is worse than the disease" or "He becomes ill by being cured"
It rubs the lotion on its skin/
Or it gets the hose again
Howl at the paratactic syntax
I'm so cool Armani wears my clothes
A line from her letter, May 24
...that's all I do, non sequiturs that rhyme and then I do some Em, Am, G, D progression over it. Have a go, you can't be any worse than me.
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What would Bjorn Nitmo do?
Sixth of May what a sad sad day
"Let it all come out," she said
Grant, I hope it was only a rumour
And this line would end with a word like 'dead'
At least I'm writing again
She said "Why do bad things happen to really good people?"
But I think there are no good people
This is a revolutionary suicide
Keep your emotions down. Children, this will not hurt.
George, you lived your life like a football match. It was a game of two halves.
Aegrescit medendo -"The disease worsens with the treatment" or "The remedy makes the disease worse" or "The remedy is worse than the disease" or "He becomes ill by being cured"
It rubs the lotion on its skin/
Or it gets the hose again
Howl at the paratactic syntax
I'm so cool Armani wears my clothes
A line from her letter, May 24
...that's all I do, non sequiturs that rhyme and then I do some Em, Am, G, D progression over it. Have a go, you can't be any worse than me.
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Mandy Moore
Why, oh why do I really dig Mandy Moore doing a cover of "Senses Working Overtime"? [No YouTube link because the one I used a month ago is now gone. Although someone else has used it as the music for their own video.]
Is it because I like this song so much that I'm really chuffed when a chickypopster likes it too, so much that she decides to cover it and makes it the lead track off an album. Kind of like if Britney or Christina decided to cover "Cattle and Cane" or "It's a motherfucker"?
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Is it because I like this song so much that I'm really chuffed when a chickypopster likes it too, so much that she decides to cover it and makes it the lead track off an album. Kind of like if Britney or Christina decided to cover "Cattle and Cane" or "It's a motherfucker"?
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Hey!
(been trying to meet you...)
I'm fourth on google for the phrase "Mitch Easter solo album". That probably explains why Beth from Atlanta read my post and left a comment. (I always wonder when someone outside my usual readership of two leaves a comment. For example, who is the anonymous who told me about the change in venue of the Rubber Bug gig?)
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I'm fourth on google for the phrase "Mitch Easter solo album". That probably explains why Beth from Atlanta read my post and left a comment. (I always wonder when someone outside my usual readership of two leaves a comment. For example, who is the anonymous who told me about the change in venue of the Rubber Bug gig?)
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Friday, December 14, 2007
God save the village green!
Let's just say that someone is getting the Kinks' "Village Green Preservation Society" for Christmas... And Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, it if arrives before Christmas.
If you've seen the movie "Hot Fuzz" (and I recommend it if you haven't) you will hear songs from these two albums.
It reminded me of the village green at Twickenham. There was a second-hand/antiques shop nearby.
I don't know where this post is going, but here are some YouTube links...
The Kinks, "Village Green Preservation Society"
The Kinks, "Lola"
The Small Faces, "Lazy Sundays"
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If you've seen the movie "Hot Fuzz" (and I recommend it if you haven't) you will hear songs from these two albums.
It reminded me of the village green at Twickenham. There was a second-hand/antiques shop nearby.
I don't know where this post is going, but here are some YouTube links...
The Kinks, "Village Green Preservation Society"
The Kinks, "Lola"
The Small Faces, "Lazy Sundays"
[END]
Friday, August 31, 2007
You know you're old when...
You realise "Bust a move" by Young MC is 17 years old.
He'd be Old MC by now.
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He'd be Old MC by now.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Apparently, I didn't go to school with the mad bomber
According to an anonymous commenter - and why shouldn't I believe them, this is the internet and I believe everything I read - John Amundsen was only at Rosalie for Grades 4-7, then he went to Terrace in 1979. So I didn't go to school with him, I only went to the same school as him. (Although if you want to argue that the Primary and Secondary sections were different schools, then I didn't even do that.)
It's weird getting comments on a posting from May 2006 - and no, I don't compulsively check all of the comments from old posts, I get an email - my article must come up on Google or something.
Speaking of Google, a blog post of mine was second top when you searched for "Minnesota Triplets" recently. (Someone from Minnesota who had triplets was first). Now we're second, because the news.com.au entertainment guide page (listing the Zoo gig) is now first. Take that, Patrick Smith, who didn't believe I was in a Hüsker Dü tribute band.
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It's weird getting comments on a posting from May 2006 - and no, I don't compulsively check all of the comments from old posts, I get an email - my article must come up on Google or something.
Speaking of Google, a blog post of mine was second top when you searched for "Minnesota Triplets" recently. (Someone from Minnesota who had triplets was first). Now we're second, because the news.com.au entertainment guide page (listing the Zoo gig) is now first. Take that, Patrick Smith, who didn't believe I was in a Hüsker Dü tribute band.
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Monday, August 13, 2007
Another Girl Another Planet
The Sci Fi Channel is using The Only Ones' Another Girl Another Planet as music in one of their advertisements.
I first heard this song on a movie soundtrack that my sister, Anne*, had - I think the movie was called "That Summer" but it's really hard to find details about it. The listing on IMDB seems about right, but it doesn't have soundtrack info, so I can't be sure. Bob-speaking will know.
Anyway, whatever the movie was called, the soundtrack was fantastic - it was the first time I heard the Undertones (the song was probably Teenage Kicks) and it had The Only Ones of course, and many more that I can't remember right now.
I've often thought that this was the best soundtrack for any movie I'd never heard of.
*Anne was way ahead of the game musically; before they got stolen she had the Go-Betweens' Lee Remick and the Riptides' 77 Sunset Strip 45s.
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I first heard this song on a movie soundtrack that my sister, Anne*, had - I think the movie was called "That Summer" but it's really hard to find details about it. The listing on IMDB seems about right, but it doesn't have soundtrack info, so I can't be sure. Bob-speaking will know.
Anyway, whatever the movie was called, the soundtrack was fantastic - it was the first time I heard the Undertones (the song was probably Teenage Kicks) and it had The Only Ones of course, and many more that I can't remember right now.
I've often thought that this was the best soundtrack for any movie I'd never heard of.
*Anne was way ahead of the game musically; before they got stolen she had the Go-Betweens' Lee Remick and the Riptides' 77 Sunset Strip 45s.
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