Sunday Sessions - Song 1
July 30th, 2006Sunday Sessions
A series of lo-fi recordings that I will be doing on Sundays. I will try to post a song every week. These are rough demos and should be heard as sketches for what the actual finished, produced songs might be. I will also be using these as a way to play around with using my Thinkpad R31 and Adobe Audition as a digital studio.
Recording Session: July 30, 2006 / 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Song: NameTag, written sometime between July 2003 - March 2004
Lyrics:
rented out a smile today
spent all my spare change
pretending
watched a black sun eclipse your eyes
didn’t know where else to hide
so I kept on being therepass the bottle and past surprise
a simple mistake, I misrecognized
the sunset for sunriseviolent episode of cherry lip gloss
half smile unconscious hair toss
picking up laundry, off the floor
watching tv and counting time
in coffee rings and ashtray crimes
waiting, waiting forjesus came and jesus wept
in the dark space while you slept
but chaplin, he knew the score
to everything they say there is a time and place
but the memories of your face
must have missed, that particular memowhich me did you love
which me did you betray
cause I lost my nametag somewhere… along the waylost my lines to a sidewalk glance
the neon rain just danced.
Obviously, all the songs posted in this series are copyright protected and owned by me. You are more than welcome to download and share any song I post for personal use. If, for some reason you want to use any of my work for commercial reasons, please email me and we will come to an arrangement.
Enjoy!
August 1st, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Dude, you know I like most of your work, so it’s no surprise that I enjoyed this one as well. However, I’m not sure I dig the distortion. I recognize that it’s “lo-fi” and all, but it’s really hard to appreciate it when parts are so fuzzy…and I don’t think that if you had the opportunity to redo it “hi-fi” you would have the distortion bits in there (that is, I’m assuming that it’s not part of the vision of the song). Anyway, if there’s a way to make these sonds without the distortion, that would rock.
Of course if it was supposed to be there, please ignore my comment.
Do you take requests? I would love a copy of that song you tried to teach me when you were living in New carolton (SP)…I can’t remember what it was called though, but it was my fav of your songs.
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:34 am
Thanks and glad you enjoyed - and I will definitely record “Hot Summer Day” in the next couple of weeks and post it just for you! As to the distortion on the voice in this song, it was on purpose, but maybe it’s too much as you aren’t the first person to mention that they didn’t like it. Maybe I’ll upload a “cleaner” version as an alternative.
August 2nd, 2006 at 6:46 am
Yea…”Hot Summer Day,” that’s it.
I was a little confused because the first time it started, the distortion sounded like it was planned, but then it got to be too much.