I love songs that sound really happy, but have a really dark meaning to it. I couldn't think of one at the top of my head, but it just makes it sound so sarcastic, even if it's not trying to sound sarcastic.
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Ross Allaire is an author, composer, screenwriter, EMT, and security officer who lives, works, and plays in the Philadelphia area.
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i've found weezer is the ultimate band for pulling that trick, of having this lovely poppy melody (albeit with heavy-ass guitars) and then lyrically going in a completely opposite direction. something about rivers cuomo's delivery in "pink triangle" comes to mind, wherein the narrator is totally crushed that his 'perfect woman' is lesbian, but the music that backs up the sentiment is basically pop rock, sing-along anthem quality pop with distortion out the ass.
i figured i'd throw out "the lion's den" name of the demo as kind of like cobain's "fecal matter" demo, as in it's the first work of a fledgling songwriter, and all the fans know the name (and nobody heard it at all until recently), but as an album, as music, it's basically unlistenable. (note: i will probably NEVER release anything directly from 'the lion's den' while i'm alive. it's that bad.)
don't get me wrong, i LOVE "fecal matter" and i love "the lion's den," but they are very much demos, and not albums. but "spank thru" is an awesome song, period, and as exemplified by my intended re-recording of "kicked' and probably one or two more off that demo, they're still my songs, so i still have responsibility to them and all that crap. :)
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I'd love to see the docket...yknow...i dunno...like maybe u can accidently put it in a rar and accidently host it online for a week..yknow
my saturday was pretty awesome. i had the garage band over...it was alright...we did some recordings of covers. Livin Lovin Maid (sounded terrible), Fortunate Son (sounded pretty good), and Bron-y-aur Stomp (sounded good). I hooked Josh to my USB recording interface and he did his part, but we never recorded anyone else. I recorded myself and everyone elses part (aside from singing) after they had left. I saw Saw6 with Kody after that and came home and realized that when u played our recordings backward...freakin scary. Not so much the songs but the intermissions in between...one example on my page...shameless plug
oh right this is YOUR blog.
also, if you had saved any other versions of Hotel NJ i want some...im bein naggy but also bein a Ross follower i gotta have every mix of every song.
if that doesnt happen its all good
but yeah good to hear ur good. after hearing some of this maybe the idea of a Gunshy retrospective isn't all such a horrible idea.
Gunshy
PM me with email and i can send you versions 2 & 3 of Hotel NJ if you'd like
"the docket" is actually a pretty short list, maybe only seven or eight songs in the foreseeable future, basically the rest of the songs that will/would be on the next album, the new material album. the folk songs and 'kicked' and i think i mentioned 'chickenshit' at some point in a past post.
'-ism' and the new 'HNJ' were on there until they were recorded and posted, and the new '4 chords' is of course there, somewhere near the bottom :P
sounds like cool stuff with your garage band. "fortunate son" is always a good standard jam song. fun, too!
i almost hesitate to say that a band i was in in high school would jam out to "sweet home alabama" for ten minute stretches, making up our own lyrics along the way, since we didn't know the real ones. i was always a big fan of ccr (i know, 'alabama' is skynyrd, i'm just sayin'), and 'grapevine' is never too far from my heart.
the gunshy retrospective album is actually ready to go, so i'll see how my mood's going in a week or so, how well these new recordings work out, etc., and maybe that'll come out before the new year. i don't expect the brand new album to be done until february or march.