Pretty Pet -1/15/06 This song kicked off a solid week of songwriting productivity that produced no fewer than ten tunes! I like this lyric: "warriors broken by the cause; slaves to the medication, the occupation." That last word could mean a few different things, eh? You Won't Survive When You Let the Girlfriend Drive -1/16/06 I was pretty excited by this chord progression when I came up with it but I can't say it blossomed into the song I wanted. But it sounds ok and has plenty of mel-OH-dee. Flying High -1/17/06 My eternal quest to write the perfect pop song probably doesn't reach its ambition here but I do like this tune. Plus, I used the word "aerosol" for the first time in a song! I think.. Final Exhibition -1/19/06 This song is reasonably catchy. The second verse is cool and the solo came out nice too -- when in doubt, pick up a slide! Dressed and Desperate -1/19/06 When I initially came up with this main riff, it didn't interest me much at all and I nearly abandoned the idea. But then I figured I should try to see where it would take me, and I wound up with one of my favorite songs in this batch. This is about all the humans swarming out amongst eachother at night, in the clubs, parties and bars, done up to the nines, hoping desperately for something good to happen to them... Dust Upon the Ground -1/20/06 I am fond of this song -- anything with cool chords usually gets me interested. Sample lyric: "attaching to your betters can't be any harm; second-hand expression begs your counterfeit charm." Bangin' the Door -1/22/06 This came out real easy and I like the ones that do that. Another song with no chords -- just single notes. Love that sound for some reason. The ghost of Glenn Danzig is all over the vocal melodies, isn't it? Shattered By the System -1/23/06 I radically reworked this one for the band -- rewrote the main guitar riff, some of the lyrics and the outro -- and shortened the title to "Shattered." Clancy's menacing, tribal drum parts on the band version are really wicked and very different from the simpler beats found here. I think the song's better for it. "Shattered" is a much meaner beast now, dripping with righteous anger! The Better They Know You -1/24/06 The January streak continues! I'm really pleased with how this one came out -- I'm always really happy when I can stretch two chords through an entire song and still make all the parts sound different. And the slide guitar solo is just icing...yum. Over and Done -1/25/06 This song is simple enough. Nothing to get too excited about, although I do like how the solo melody gets a slight reprise at the end -- these little unplanned events are so nice when they work out! Broken Promises -6/22/06 A somewhat average song but fairly listenable anyway. A nice Beatles-esque bridge. Or maybe Fleetwood Mac-esque... Run Together, Die Alone -6/28/06 Sorry that the beginning of the song got taped over accidentally -- I can be clumsy in my haste to get a song done. The lyrics are about the jaded and bitter types who crowd around each other and commiserate about "kids today" and pretend the sky's falling because the world isn't exactly like it was during their own halcyon years. Every generation does this. One Day -6/28/06 I really like this recording and the song. It came out one night after checking out some live Ladytron on the internet. So I guess I have to credit them as an influence! No problem, I love that band. Anyway, lyrically, I suppose this song is about karma; "some day the pain will kiss you, when it's your turn..." Unhappy -7/7/06 I originally wrote this song in spring of '95 -- it was one of my first. I recently listened to it and thought it was really nice but I wanted to change the chords a bit and re-record it, which I did, and here it is. Very simple but does the job. You can hear me talking to my cat at the very end -- she gets very agitated when I sing! Maybe you do, too... |
