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Music for No Good Reason
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Available Episodes (29)
Uh oh, Love comes to town!
I really hope this is a satire.
Re-recording of Silvia in mono-- I am getting better at this home recording business.
New Mono recording
Mono Version
Response to Bob Dylan's "Everything is Broken" and a companion peace to "Against Pain." Written a long time ago on piano, but never quite right.
Okay, yeah this one is pretty hardcore pansy, but the melody seemed to suggest someone wrapped in flowers, which rather pansified the rest of the song.
Based on Aldo Palazzeschi's manifesto "Il Controdolore," which I always found very touching. I guess this is as close as I can come to writing a happy song. I can almost play piano
Another very personal song written on piano. I had to cut most of the lines about what the chains are, because they were fairly awkward. I guess its still fairly clear. I realize now...
I know what you're thinking, and the answer is yes: I did just need a three syllable name. Watch out for synthesizer saxophones!
Not bad for my second day playing piano. Otherwise, bad. It feels a little like "Choppin' Broccoli"... we'll see what happens when I try to add some layers to it.
New microphone!!! I've got the bathroom studio all set up, it's glamorous and smelly. I rewrote the lyrics to this early song-- probably the simplest and most personal I've written....
As I say on the recording, the origin of this song baffles me. I think I was listening to blues music and reading about Randy Newman at the time. I labeled it explicit, but I'm not
An old song I finally finished up by cutting out a whole bunch of stuff. The first recorded in the new bathroom studio!
I rewrote the lyrics to this song, so here it is again-- played live from my bathroom, which is somewhat difficult with this song because it's hard for me to sing.
This one came really quickly. It's kind of like a pansy-rock Neil Young song. Yes, I realize I don't hit all the notes. I will record another version when I get the new microphone set...
I wanted to have a go at writing a political song. In a Hank Williams style, I may have lifted the melody line entirely from one of his songs, but I'm not sure. I think you are allowed...
This took forever to record. It started as a kind of gospel melody I kept singing, but I couldn't manage to write a gospel song. So it became this song, whatever exactly this song
Apparently I only write songs in 3/4 time. I wrote the music part first before I knew what the words would be about, so the words don't make much sense. This is d minor, which I've
Written in about a half hour this morning. Pretty standard blues arrangement mixed with some Luigi Pirandello. If it weren't for all the background noise this would sound okay.
I was always struck by the line in the movie closer that goes "Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist covered in blood!" That and some of my preoccupations about song-writing...
Well, I didn't set out to re-write "Almost Blue" but it did kind of wind up that way. That was always one of my alltime favorite lines-- Costello or otherwise: "there's a girl here
A bottle of Pinot Noir, part of an Elvis Costello chord sequence, some subconsciously embedded Joni Mitchell... I even curse a bit. I have to admit I kind of get a kick out of labeling...
Original... only two chords really, but I still like it.
A Robert Johnson Pastiche. It's fun to do.
A song I wrote when I moved to Charlottesville.
A Tennyson poem I put to music and then kept fiddling with until it turned into a Hank Williams song. And then I played the Harmonica.
Another original song about getting salsa dance lessons. Somehow has a country feel to it and involves plenty of Cartesian dualism.
Adapted from a poem by Giacomo Leopardi... maybe the saddest poem ever. I set it to a tune I fiddled out one night, which turns out to be fairly similar to the Tom Waits song "Please...
