Members Mark L Posted September 27, 2014 Members Share Posted September 27, 2014 Here's a cheerful little ditty from the 80s I was living on my own above a shop at the time This tune features harrowing out-of-tune falsetto vocals. You have been warned! (Recorded on a cassette 4-track) http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12926824 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted September 27, 2014 Members Share Posted September 27, 2014 Actually I rather like it...Can't really understand the vocals, but I like where you were trying to go with them...How deep was that well you sang them in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted September 27, 2014 Author Members Share Posted September 27, 2014 Pretty deep Here are the words so you can sing along to it Can you imagine life on your own Can you imagine life all alone It'll make you cry, it'll make you sigh It'll keep you asking why Can you imagine life by yourself Can you imagine nobody else In the dead of night, what a sorry sight But you just don't have the stomach to fight Can you imagine, oh can you just imagine Can you imagine life all around Can you imagine infinite sound When the morning glow finds you all alone And the seeds of your future are sown Living easy, why can't it be like it should be Living easy, why can't life be as it could be Can it ever be, can you never see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goober(s) Posted September 29, 2014 Members Share Posted September 29, 2014 yeah that's awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted September 30, 2014 Moderators Share Posted September 30, 2014 I like it Mark! Here's my sappy silly embarrassing misfire from a few years back. I kinda still like it. Kinda. But it makes cringe none the less. Cringe away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted September 30, 2014 Moderators Share Posted September 30, 2014 My attempt at becoming a loop master. 13 years ago. Done in ACID V1. All loops and cutting and pitching to the composition. The only playing is the bass and vocal, into ACID as a DAW. The found vocals were tweaker telemarketers forgetting to mute their mics between calls. I recorded them on my job as a telephony marketing audio engineer. They're talking about their latest score of meth. Out of their little minds tweaking. Fired the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted September 30, 2014 Author Members Share Posted September 30, 2014 I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted September 30, 2014 Author Members Share Posted September 30, 2014 My attempt at becoming a loop master. 13 years ago. Done in ACID V1. All loops and cutting and pitching to the composition. The only playing is the bass and vocal' date=' into ACID as a DAW. The found vocals were tweaker telemarketers forgetting to mute their mics between calls. I recorded them on my job as a telephony marketing audio engineer. They're talking about their latest score of meth. Out of their little minds tweaking. Fired the next day.[/quote'] That's clever stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted September 30, 2014 Author Members Share Posted September 30, 2014 I like it Mark! Here's my sappy silly embarrassing misfire from a few years back. I kinda still like it. Kinda. But it makes cringe none the less. Cringe away. Well at least your singing's in tune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 Ok ...So I dug something up Mark. 1984. Four track. Here's the story:A friend of mine was over and we were trying to come up with some ideas for a new song, No real luck. He was monkeying around on my old Juno 106(Long Dead) and I had my old C64 running and he laid done this goofy little upbeat couple of bars. He goes home. I had a couple of drinks and was listening to it, then I hit quantitize....Damn...went from quaint and silly to creepy. I loved it. I was off and running. Wrote the lyrics in about 15 minutes. Revoiced it then laid done a bass track, then programmed the drums. Over the next couple of days I sang a guide vocal, laid down all the guitars and several more keyboard fills. By the time he got back over the next week...He said.."Hell it's done!". I insisted he lay down a couple of creepy keyboard solos in spots I'd left for them. It's really a zombie love song. About a guy that gets killed in a car wreck, but his girl survives...He just thinks he's messed up but doesn't realize he's dead...And he's a little hacked she won;t aknowledge his presence.It's on the top of my soundcloud listings...Just posted it.If this ain't weird enough for ya I don't know what is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 My attempt at becoming a loop master. 13 years ago. Done in ACID V1. All loops and cutting and pitching to the composition. The only playing is the bass and vocal' date=' into ACID as a DAW. The found vocals were tweaker telemarketers forgetting to mute their mics between calls. I recorded them on my job as a telephony marketing audio engineer. They're talking about their latest score of meth. Out of their little minds tweaking. Fired the next day.[/quote'] Lee...If I had your talent and your voice and you had a feather up your patoot, we'd both be tickled. I'd be proud to claim your "Misfire". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted October 6, 2014 Author Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 Ok ...So I dug something up Mark. 1984. Four track. Here's the story: A friend of mine was over and we were trying to come up with some ideas for a new song, No real luck. He was monkeying around on my old Juno 106(Long Dead) and I had my old C64 running and he laid done this goofy little upbeat couple of bars. He goes home. I had a couple of drinks and was listening to it, then I hit quantitize....Damn...went from quaint and silly to creepy. I loved it. I was off and running. Wrote the lyrics in about 15 minutes. Revoiced it then laid done a bass track, then programmed the drums. Over the next couple of days I sang a guide vocal, laid down all the guitars and several more keyboard fills. By the time he got back over the next week...He said.."Hell it's done!". I insisted he lay down a couple of creepy keyboard solos in spots I'd left for them. It's really a zombie love song. About a guy that gets killed in a car wreck, but his girl survives...He just thinks he's messed up but doesn't realize he's dead...And he's a little hacked she won;t aknowledge his presence. It's on the top of my soundcloud listings...Just posted it. If this ain't weird enough for ya I don't know what is. That's great! Love the weird instrumentation and sinister vocals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted October 6, 2014 Author Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 Lee...If I had your talent and your voice and you had a feather up your patoot, we'd both be tickled. I'd be proud to claim your "Misfire". He is rather good, isn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 That's great! Love the weird instrumentation and sinister vocals Thank you Sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarville Posted October 7, 2014 Members Share Posted October 7, 2014 Pretty deep Here are the words so you can sing along to it Can you imagine life on your own Can you imagine life all alone It'll make you cry, it'll make you sigh It'll keep you asking why Can you imagine life by yourself Can you imagine nobody else In the dead of night, what a sorry sight But you just don't have the stomach to fight Can you imagine, oh can you just imagine Can you imagine life all around Can you imagine infinite sound When the morning glow finds you all alone And the seeds of your future are sown Living easy, why can't it be like it should be Living easy, why can't life be as it could be Can it ever be, can you never see Very nice lyrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted October 7, 2014 Author Members Share Posted October 7, 2014 Very nice lyrics. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted October 10, 2014 Moderators Share Posted October 10, 2014 I'll play. Back in the 80's I entered a regional songwriting contest. I was really proud of the tune I entered, thought it might have a chance, and got very excited when I was told it was in the top three finalists in the rock category. I was invited to the awards ceremony where "celebrity" judges would make the final decisions while I sat on stage at a table with the other finalists. As you can probably guess, my masterpiece didn't win. Instead, a really poorly written, badly sung song full of cliche'd lyrics did - in MY opinion of course! You might guess that I'm about to link you to THAT song but that would be less interesting. Instead, I'm going to link you to the song I wrote, played, and recorded for next year's contest which was INTENTIONALLY terrible, similar in nature to the song that beat mine the year before, similarly filled with trite, cliche lyrics, harmony screaming before the solo, etc. because that's just how bad a sport I was. I told my friends that THIS piece of crap must be exactly what the contest committee likes given the results last year. Guess what, it won. Without further ado, here is "Sharon." http://www.mrknobs.com/music/Sharon.mp3 Terry D. P.S. Joke was on me, though. First prize was a bunch of hours of recording time at my competitor's studio in town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted October 10, 2014 Author Members Share Posted October 10, 2014 Hey that's pretty good, Terry! Contains every cliché in the book, but still... I'm still waiting for someone to post something as sonically offensive as my song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted October 10, 2014 Members Share Posted October 10, 2014 What if it's all trough? Or if each new thing I do is a new low in the trough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted October 11, 2014 Members Share Posted October 11, 2014 What if it's all trough? Or if each new thing I do is a new low in the trough? Then you are me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted October 11, 2014 Author Members Share Posted October 11, 2014 Then you are me. Nonsense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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