I put together a collection of songs from different sessions before the equipment gave up on me, to pass around to friends.

All done.

Yesterday Never Believes You (demo):
Finer People (w/52nd Street Rebellion):





Scab, Vol. III

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1. Meno Mosso
2. This is How it Ends (see below)
3. Will You?! (w/52nd Street Rebellion)
4. Maria, Dancing All Alone (w/52nd Street Rebellion)
5. Madame Butterfly (w/Failed Catholics)
6. How You Feel (demo)
7. That's How Strong My Love is (4 track recording)
8. Finer People (w/52nd Street Rebellion)
9. Yesterday Never Believes You (demo)
10. Rolling Wheels
11. Love Will Accompany You (4 track recording)
12. ...And You Will (demo)

Found something else while cleaning up.

Alright!!


"In my dreams you stand between carnivores and stacks of meat. Alright."

Fun.

I was trading songs with my drummer for a while, the idea being to work 15 minutes of new music up each week and have it ready by Saturday. This was one of those exercises, and while some of that stuff was really only fun for the one listen this little suite (I removed the first two songs) has some fun lines, and I think it's worth sharing.

*Actually, I put this suite on the CD I burned for friends, in between Warming Up and Will You, labeled as "This is How it Ends." It was a much better opening to the record, I think.

This is How it Ends

Thanks, McP. I've got it queued up for the morning ride.

I hope you find one or two things on there worth listening to. Or, if it all sucks, let me know.

I have a few more of these to download today because my network connection was a pile of crap yesterday. Looks like you changed the pic.

and the name.

After I added the suite to the beginning, I listened through it all once to make sure it flowed well, and I realized something that I'd totally missed before: all of these songs are about giving up on making music.

They were all written within the short period of time that I was coming to that decision, and then coming to grips with it, and I realized that each song in some way drew back to that. Songs about dancing all alone, to nothing, or lines like "You think about standing still. You want to leave," or "I know how you feel...like a singer with a song, who reaches out but mostly gets it wrong."

I was a lot less disappointed in it after that, so I changed the name and cover to fit. I'm glad to have it, now. It's like a photograph of an important moment in your life.

I like that song, and I can relate. The line after the one you posted was a great way to end it.

Anyway, after two listens, there's plenty of really good stuff here. I had a few already, and your trademark studio touch is ever present. I still love the organic sound you get from the snare drum.

Finer People is awesome.

Maybe you should change the name to "McParadigm and the 52nd St. Rebellion?"

I admit I haven't had a minute to listen to these without distractions. I intend to do that on Saturday before I drink a lot of margaritas and run around the house in my underwear. That's my only day off for the 'foreseeable future' aka until the end of August. I have tickets to a ballgame that day, but my "date" went to Bogota. *adjusting*

The lyric about reaching out is something I can relate to too.

Would you be a sweetie and send me a PM that enables me to download the Suite Surrender mp3? I'm a purist and I need every mp3 in this thread. I tried publishing the mp3 link using the preview function here at RM, to "save link as," but it loads a .htm file and not the mp3 to download.

Damn techies and their (protective) URL magic.


Edit: Actually I'm interested in the whole suite as you think it should open the album so send me a link for This Is How It Ends.

I really like Rolling Wheels edit: oh and Love Will Accompany You

All of these are fantastic, though. You've got some great melodies, McP.