Recent Blog Posts
may 28, 2008
post a comment | posted May 28
Happy jumpy music which I've been listening to lately:
The Dodos
Flight of the Conchords
Weezer - The Red Album
Wolf Tickets Q&A
1 comment | posted Mar 18
The last song, 'Rock in My Shoe' was a lot of fun - it was also the last thing I recorded for the album. It's essentially a late-at-night improvisation (actually two of them, spliced together), with mistakes and missed notes - I'm not a very good guitar player. At the beginning of the song you can faintly hear some 'shoop-shoop' backing vocals. They were the hardest thing to do.
Not-So-Recent Blog Posts
still alive
post a comment | posted Nov 26
I've been thinking about my release plans. The original idea was to release the 2001 CD, "Car Alarms are Entertaining", and then follow that with a new album, whenever that might be ready. On the other hand, as I re-mixed the songs on that CD, it became clear there were some songs I never liked, and some that I wouldn't really release. Also, I wanted to do different vocal takes and mixes with some tracks. So it wouldn't really have been the 2001 album anyway, more of a 2007 version of it. And who apart from me would really be interested in that 2001 release? Or the fact that it was recorded in 2001? People just want good songs. So maybe it would just be better to gather the best songs that I've ever recorded, and make that my first release. Otherwise I'd just be stuck with explaining to people, "oh well, you see this is an older song, I have newer songs now, but they're not out yet".
krow blues
post a comment | posted Oct 9
This is a song from 2004, and was a bit of a throwaway - I didn't really think much of it at the time, since it was one of a series of songs which sounded the same. But I remember writing the lyrics - they were assembled from phrases written randomly on a page. My lyrics didn't really make sense back then, but at least these didn't make sense in a fun way.
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