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                                        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 19:47:08 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
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                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Pretentious Loser</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[Okay… there’s a lot to talk about with this goof ball.
The first song I did this year had a drone-like fuzzy guitar. I did it again here but I wanted the song I put around it to be different than the other one, even though the changes are awfully similar. This song became a little on the funky side. I don’t think that’s what I had in mind originally, it just sort of happened.
As I was recording the rhythm parts I wanted to put a distinct division between the droney parts and the hook, so I changed up the tone a little and put the chorus on separate tracks. It sort of works, though I am not sure I like the tone. Under the verses I was getting a little nervous that it would sound empty with just the drone so I setup another guitar sound and added the chunky disco wah wah thing. At first I was loving it, but when I listened back a few days later I decided I would either put it way back in the mix or cut it entirely. I decided to bury it and play little games with panning.
Then we come to the lyrics. In the Covid-19 universe, death is always kinda on our minds. If not, we wouldn’t be locking down as hard as we have and the last year would have turned out very different. I wasn’t planning on writing about death but it started coming out of me and I couldn’t stop it. I churned out the first two verses quickly and then stepped back to review what I had. My thought after a moment’s reflection was, what a pretentious douche I am. I really thought I sounded like a kid who read an older sibling’s Philosophy 101 textbook and then decided the were “deep” and knew all the answers. Again, what a douche. So, naturally, that’s what I wrote about in the chorus. Verse = douchey know it all. Chorus = Making fun of myself for being a douchey know it all. Perfect!
The lead guitars aren’t really noteworthy as far as building this mess of a mess is concerned, but it was the last of a whole pile of songs I worked on that night and I was pretty clearly out of gas. Oh well.
The last questions is, will this get dropped from the final RPM Challenge album? It probably should, but the whole thing is so goofy and stupid that I might just keep it for laughs.
The guitars are all Gibson ES-335 through both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. As for pedals… okay… the drone is a Ryra The Kone into a Wren and Cuff Super Russian. The chorus is the Ryra into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter. The disco goofiness is a crybaby wah into the Ryra. The lead is the same as the chorus, the Ryra into the Black Lives Matter.
They say that you will never hear the one that’s meant just for you
they say that they will call to you and bid you come away with them
Mystery we can never know what happens to us when our number’s up
I don’t think that I want to know I want remain ignorant
I think it’s like a light switch that just clicks off and then that’s it
I’m not afraid of nothingness that’s where we start that’s where we end
Empty heads empty lives empty what do you please
it will last for forever
like a kid getting into philosphy just believing whatever]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Okay… there’s a lot to talk about with this goof ball.
The first song I did this year had a drone-like fuzzy guitar. I did it again here but I wanted the song I put around it to be different than the other one, even though the changes are awfully similar. This song became a little on the funky side. I don’t think that’s what I had in mind originally, it just sort of happened.
As I was recording the rhythm parts I wanted to put a distinct division between the droney parts and the hook, so I changed up the tone a little and put the chorus on separate tracks. It sort of works, though I am not sure I like the tone. Under the verses I was getting a little nervous that it would sound empty with just the drone so I setup another guitar sound and added the chunky disco wah wah thing. At first I was loving it, but when I listened back a few days later I decided I would either put it way back in the mix or cut it entirely. I decided to bury it and play little games with panning.
Then we come to the lyrics. In the Covid-19 universe, death is always kinda on our minds. If not, we wouldn’t be locking down as hard as we have and the last year would have turned out very different. I wasn’t planning on writing about death but it started coming out of me and I couldn’t stop it. I churned out the first two verses quickly and then stepped back to review what I had. My thought after a moment’s reflection was, what a pretentious douche I am. I really thought I sounded like a kid who read an older sibling’s Philosophy 101 textbook and then decided the were “deep” and knew all the answers. Again, what a douche. So, naturally, that’s what I wrote about in the chorus. Verse = douchey know it all. Chorus = Making fun of myself for being a douchey know it all. Perfect!
The lead guitars aren’t really noteworthy as far as building this mess of a mess is concerned, but it was the last of a whole pile of songs I worked on that night and I was pretty clearly out of gas. Oh well.
The last questions is, will this get dropped from the final RPM Challenge album? It probably should, but the whole thing is so goofy and stupid that I might just keep it for laughs.
The guitars are all Gibson ES-335 through both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. As for pedals… okay… the drone is a Ryra The Kone into a Wren and Cuff Super Russian. The chorus is the Ryra into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter. The disco goofiness is a crybaby wah into the Ryra. The lead is the same as the chorus, the Ryra into the Black Lives Matter.
They say that you will never hear the one that’s meant just for you
they say that they will call to you and bid you come away with them
Mystery we can never know what happens to us when our number’s up
I don’t think that I want to know I want remain ignorant
I think it’s like a light switch that just clicks off and then that’s it
I’m not afraid of nothingness that’s where we start that’s where we end
Empty heads empty lives empty what do you please
it will last for forever
like a kid getting into philosphy just believing whatever]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 04:01:02 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-02-26T04:01:02+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Tempted</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[The second song started is the sixth song finished. Not terrible, though there are a lot of bad guitar sounds. The rhythm tone is kinda sloppy. The playing is sloppy too, but the tone itself is more noticeable this time. The lead sounds flubby and overly compressed. I think all I needed to do was turn the gain down on the second stage pedal and that would have fixed both of them. I think I did better later on in the project.
This continues a Feb 2021 trend of overly long outros that don’t necessarily have anything to do with the rest of the song. Let’s call it a compositional choice that carries through most of this year’s project. Cool.
All of the guitar parts are my Gibson ES-335 Pro and the amps are a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15 in dual mono. For the rhythm part I used a crybaby wah into a Ryra The Klone into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter. For the leads I swapped in a Wren and Cuff Super Russian in place of the Black Lives Matter. For the cleanish thing at the end I only used the Ryra. The delays and the reverb were added in the mix.
Verse 1
This changes everything
what might the future bring
I’m up for anything
anything
Verse 2
feels like we’ve got it made
after a short delay
onward with the crusade
the crusade
Chorus
On some other day
I’m tempted to stay
Has to be a way
Some way to make this work
Bridge
Can we pull it off]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The second song started is the sixth song finished. Not terrible, though there are a lot of bad guitar sounds. The rhythm tone is kinda sloppy. The playing is sloppy too, but the tone itself is more noticeable this time. The lead sounds flubby and overly compressed. I think all I needed to do was turn the gain down on the second stage pedal and that would have fixed both of them. I think I did better later on in the project.
This continues a Feb 2021 trend of overly long outros that don’t necessarily have anything to do with the rest of the song. Let’s call it a compositional choice that carries through most of this year’s project. Cool.
All of the guitar parts are my Gibson ES-335 Pro and the amps are a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15 in dual mono. For the rhythm part I used a crybaby wah into a Ryra The Klone into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter. For the leads I swapped in a Wren and Cuff Super Russian in place of the Black Lives Matter. For the cleanish thing at the end I only used the Ryra. The delays and the reverb were added in the mix.
Verse 1
This changes everything
what might the future bring
I’m up for anything
anything
Verse 2
feels like we’ve got it made
after a short delay
onward with the crusade
the crusade
Chorus
On some other day
I’m tempted to stay
Has to be a way
Some way to make this work
Bridge
Can we pull it off]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:46:42 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-02-28T16:46:42+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Confusing</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[This was the third song I started working on this month and it’s the 15th song finished. What does that tell you?
I liked it a lot when I first came up with the idea. When I put the rhythm guitars down it started to feel like it wasn’t meeting what I heard in my head. When I did the vocals it completely fell apart and crushed my soul. I’m not a singer. I don’t enjoy singing lead (though singing harmony in my band is a blast) and I don’t feel I’m any good at it. I can do it, I just don’t do it as well as someone who can actually sing would do it. Get it?
Anyway, I wrote this out ahead of time and when I actually sat down to record it I couldn’t pull it off. The verses in particular broke my spirit. I ended up rewriting the melody on mic because I just couldn’t pull off what I wrote originally… and what I wrote originally wasn’t hard. I usually give myself a guide track for the melody. I play it out on piano and then sing along. More often than not that helps me stay on pitch. It didn’t work this time. I was all over the map. I actually added harmonies to each section then went back and redid the lead so it would help to lock me into pitch. It almost worked.
By the time I had the vocals finished I had already decided that this was going on the dropped songs list. While I was mixing it though, I decided to monkey around with it to see if I could improve it, and I think I did. I put a lot of sauce onto the rhythm guitars and it filled things out in a way that I liked. I did the same to the vocals and it helped too. Could it be that I actually succeeded in my attempt to “fix it in the mix”? Probably not, but it’s not as bad as I feared it would be.
The guitars are all Gibson ES-335 through both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15 (dual mono). The rhythm guitar used a Ryra The Klone and the lead used a cheap little Mosky Black Rat which sounded surprisingly good to me.
The nature sounds in the outro came from here:
freesound.org/people/greysound...nd/sounds/32655
Verse
For a time
for a day or two
Need a sign
something else to do
Make it mine
then give it to you
We have to get through this
Chorus
It’s overwhelming me, confusing
but what else could it be, unmoving
It’s all consuming, too much for me
There is no guarantee, undoing]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This was the third song I started working on this month and it’s the 15th song finished. What does that tell you?
I liked it a lot when I first came up with the idea. When I put the rhythm guitars down it started to feel like it wasn’t meeting what I heard in my head. When I did the vocals it completely fell apart and crushed my soul. I’m not a singer. I don’t enjoy singing lead (though singing harmony in my band is a blast) and I don’t feel I’m any good at it. I can do it, I just don’t do it as well as someone who can actually sing would do it. Get it?
Anyway, I wrote this out ahead of time and when I actually sat down to record it I couldn’t pull it off. The verses in particular broke my spirit. I ended up rewriting the melody on mic because I just couldn’t pull off what I wrote originally… and what I wrote originally wasn’t hard. I usually give myself a guide track for the melody. I play it out on piano and then sing along. More often than not that helps me stay on pitch. It didn’t work this time. I was all over the map. I actually added harmonies to each section then went back and redid the lead so it would help to lock me into pitch. It almost worked.
By the time I had the vocals finished I had already decided that this was going on the dropped songs list. While I was mixing it though, I decided to monkey around with it to see if I could improve it, and I think I did. I put a lot of sauce onto the rhythm guitars and it filled things out in a way that I liked. I did the same to the vocals and it helped too. Could it be that I actually succeeded in my attempt to “fix it in the mix”? Probably not, but it’s not as bad as I feared it would be.
The guitars are all Gibson ES-335 through both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15 (dual mono). The rhythm guitar used a Ryra The Klone and the lead used a cheap little Mosky Black Rat which sounded surprisingly good to me.
The nature sounds in the outro came from here:
freesound.org/people/greysound...nd/sounds/32655
Verse
For a time
for a day or two
Need a sign
something else to do
Make it mine
then give it to you
We have to get through this
Chorus
It’s overwhelming me, confusing
but what else could it be, unmoving
It’s all consuming, too much for me
There is no guarantee, undoing]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 05:35:23 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-02-27T05:35:23+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>I'm Awake</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[The 10th song started is the eighth song finished. Looking at my iTunes playlist I see that the eight songs have topped the 35 minute mark, which means I have enough to submit an RPM Winner this year. Hooray!
I don’t hate this one, but I think it might be on the list of songs that could get dropped from the final RPM Challenge album. I’m not sure yet.
The rhythm guitar is my Gibson ES-335 Pro through a Ryra The Klone and a Wren and Cuff Super Russian then into both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The leads are the same guitar and amp but with a crybaby wah into the Ryra and then a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter.
Verse 1 & 3
Before we get into it
lets talk through a little bit
Makes no sense at all to quit
I just want to throw a fit
Verse 2
We’ve been through it all before
So lets do a little more
There’s so much here to restore
Unless we’re not really sure
Chorus
Break through
and see what it’s leading too
Undo
what ever’s gone wrong
One look
is all that its gonna take
I’m hooked
I am awake
Bridge
I’m here, I’m awake]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The 10th song started is the eighth song finished. Looking at my iTunes playlist I see that the eight songs have topped the 35 minute mark, which means I have enough to submit an RPM Winner this year. Hooray!
I don’t hate this one, but I think it might be on the list of songs that could get dropped from the final RPM Challenge album. I’m not sure yet.
The rhythm guitar is my Gibson ES-335 Pro through a Ryra The Klone and a Wren and Cuff Super Russian then into both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The leads are the same guitar and amp but with a crybaby wah into the Ryra and then a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter.
Verse 1 & 3
Before we get into it
lets talk through a little bit
Makes no sense at all to quit
I just want to throw a fit
Verse 2
We’ve been through it all before
So lets do a little more
There’s so much here to restore
Unless we’re not really sure
Chorus
Break through
and see what it’s leading too
Undo
what ever’s gone wrong
One look
is all that its gonna take
I’m hooked
I am awake
Bridge
I’m here, I’m awake]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:19:25 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-02-28T22:19:25+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>One More Second to Perfect</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[This is the 20th and final song for the 2021 RPM Challenge. Nothing left to do now but to sort the songs into the album that gets submitted and the leftovers album that doesn’t. This one’s on the bubble. I expect it to go into the leftovers list, but it’s not too bad. It could squeak into the submission.
There isn’t a lot to note with this one except that I used GarageBand’s mix automation on an effect for the first time ever. I sometimes use it to automate a level change, and more often use it to automate a panning trick, but this time I turned the echo on the rhythm guitar tracks off during the choruses. Nice.
I only used one setup on the guitars for this song. Gibson ES-335 into a Ryra The Klone into a Wren and Cuff Super Russian into a splitter with one side going into a Vox AC15 and the other to a Fender Bassbreaker 15, both of which were mic’d with Shure SM57’s.
Verse 1
Redesign - Rethink it all
Redefine - both large and small
New deadline - break down the wall
New headline - I don’t recall
Verse 2
One second - One look away
One moment - Fatal delay
Missed chances - all disarray
Advances - have gone astray
Chorus
One more second to perfect
One more moment to come around
One more chance to reconnect
One more lost and found]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is the 20th and final song for the 2021 RPM Challenge. Nothing left to do now but to sort the songs into the album that gets submitted and the leftovers album that doesn’t. This one’s on the bubble. I expect it to go into the leftovers list, but it’s not too bad. It could squeak into the submission.
There isn’t a lot to note with this one except that I used GarageBand’s mix automation on an effect for the first time ever. I sometimes use it to automate a level change, and more often use it to automate a panning trick, but this time I turned the echo on the rhythm guitar tracks off during the choruses. Nice.
I only used one setup on the guitars for this song. Gibson ES-335 into a Ryra The Klone into a Wren and Cuff Super Russian into a splitter with one side going into a Vox AC15 and the other to a Fender Bassbreaker 15, both of which were mic’d with Shure SM57’s.
Verse 1
Redesign - Rethink it all
Redefine - both large and small
New deadline - break down the wall
New headline - I don’t recall
Verse 2
One second - One look away
One moment - Fatal delay
Missed chances - all disarray
Advances - have gone astray
Chorus
One more second to perfect
One more moment to come around
One more chance to reconnect
One more lost and found]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:48:03 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-02-28T19:48:03+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>That's How We Do Things Now</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[I figured I needed a social distance song. I mean is it even quarantine if you don’t write a social distance song?
This was from my January album in a month fail. At one point I thought that maybe I could write 10 songs with swing grooves. This came from that. When January ended all I had was bass and drums and the song form. I redid the bass and drums and finished everything else off.
This might make the RPM Challenge submission but it’s just on the bubble. I feel like it will probably end up on the dropped song list. We’ll see.
The guitars are all Gibson ES-335 Pro through a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The rhythm part used a Ryra The Klone and a Wren and Cuff Super Russian. The leads used a Wampler Plexi Drive Mini and the boost side of the Super Russian.
Verse 1
Let me know how you are doing
don’t come by don’t leave your grouping
say hello yell through the window
ask you please don’t let your face show
Verse 2
That’s the way we used to do it
go outside don’t need a permit
that’s the way we operated
see the world is populated
Chorus
That’s how we do things now (x4)
Bridge
I try to do my best
to keep my people safe
security addressed
welcome the new normal]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[I figured I needed a social distance song. I mean is it even quarantine if you don’t write a social distance song?
This was from my January album in a month fail. At one point I thought that maybe I could write 10 songs with swing grooves. This came from that. When January ended all I had was bass and drums and the song form. I redid the bass and drums and finished everything else off.
This might make the RPM Challenge submission but it’s just on the bubble. I feel like it will probably end up on the dropped song list. We’ll see.
The guitars are all Gibson ES-335 Pro through a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The rhythm part used a Ryra The Klone and a Wren and Cuff Super Russian. The leads used a Wampler Plexi Drive Mini and the boost side of the Super Russian.
Verse 1
Let me know how you are doing
don’t come by don’t leave your grouping
say hello yell through the window
ask you please don’t let your face show
Verse 2
That’s the way we used to do it
go outside don’t need a permit
that’s the way we operated
see the world is populated
Chorus
That’s how we do things now (x4)
Bridge
I try to do my best
to keep my people safe
security addressed
welcome the new normal]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:04:23 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-02-27T18:04:23+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Okay, It's All Right</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[This one seems destined for the dropped list. It’s just kinda blah. The verses remind me of a King Crimson Projekct song and I can’t remember the title. Something from Scarcity of Miracles (great album, by the way). The choruses remind me of Dave Chappelle… right?
Two interesting things about this one. First, I didn’t use any copy and paste on the vocals. (I think? Maybe a little) The choruses at least we all sung as is, and in some places I recorded two sections in one take. It was almost like I could sing. That’s pretty funny.
The other interesting thing is in the feedback at the end. There was one nanosecond or so where I was getting a different feedback pitch out of each amp. I so wanted it to keep going but one of the amps came into line with the other and the magic was lost. It was a pretty sweet nanosecond though.
The guitars are all Gibson ES-335 Pro and the amps are all a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The pedals for the rhythm guitar were a Ryra The Klone into a Wren and Cuff Super Russian. For the leads, including the feedback at the end, it was the Ryra into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter.
Okay its all right
Okay its all right
Nothing left to fight
Okay its all right
Maybe it never ends
maybe can’t come again
Maybe no other way
Maybe some other day
Can’t be like this again]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This one seems destined for the dropped list. It’s just kinda blah. The verses remind me of a King Crimson Projekct song and I can’t remember the title. Something from Scarcity of Miracles (great album, by the way). The choruses remind me of Dave Chappelle… right?
Two interesting things about this one. First, I didn’t use any copy and paste on the vocals. (I think? Maybe a little) The choruses at least we all sung as is, and in some places I recorded two sections in one take. It was almost like I could sing. That’s pretty funny.
The other interesting thing is in the feedback at the end. There was one nanosecond or so where I was getting a different feedback pitch out of each amp. I so wanted it to keep going but one of the amps came into line with the other and the magic was lost. It was a pretty sweet nanosecond though.
The guitars are all Gibson ES-335 Pro and the amps are all a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The pedals for the rhythm guitar were a Ryra The Klone into a Wren and Cuff Super Russian. For the leads, including the feedback at the end, it was the Ryra into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter.
Okay its all right
Okay its all right
Nothing left to fight
Okay its all right
Maybe it never ends
maybe can’t come again
Maybe no other way
Maybe some other day
Can’t be like this again]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 20:47:36 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-02-28T20:47:36+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Prefab Blues</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[I should have named this song Double Meaning Blues. Allow me to explain.
My wife, step son, and I spent much of January and early February working on redesigning a couple of rooms in our house. A big part of the project involved putting together lots or pre-fabricated, IKEA style, furniture. In the literal sense, that is what the lyrics to this song are about. Get it? Well there is a double meaning as well! The song is a 12-bar blues and tries to hit most of the cliches associated to that song form. In a sense, the song itself is pre-fabricated. Get it?? Deep, huh?
But there’s another double meaning here too! Shocking! I put ambient sound effects onto a handful of the RPM Challenge songs this year. This song started out in January where all of the other sound effect songs were 100% February. I added the crowd noise to this song to make it feel more at home with the February songs. Nice of me, huh? The double meaning comes from the crowd noise itself. The crowd audio runs through the entire song, but there is no cheering. The sample was actually of a crowd just hanging out, waiting for a concert to start (freesound.org/people/joedeshon...n/sounds/487434). There is no cheering, and there is no excitement. Why? Because the song is so boring it’s like they don’t even notice the band is playing. HA! I love it! The lyric says call it a throw away and the audience agrees! This may be the most genius moment of my entire musical life!
The guitars are all Gibson ES-335 Pro through a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The rhythm used a Ryra The Klone pedal and the lead used the Ryra and a Wren and Cuff Super Russian.
Chorus
Call this a throw away
(a) throw away
Verse 1
instructions by numbers
its easy do what it says
(x2)
It all looks so simple
it’s prefab you can do it
Verse 2
It gives you the how to
provides you with everything
(x2)
the tools and components
are all provided to you]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[I should have named this song Double Meaning Blues. Allow me to explain.
My wife, step son, and I spent much of January and early February working on redesigning a couple of rooms in our house. A big part of the project involved putting together lots or pre-fabricated, IKEA style, furniture. In the literal sense, that is what the lyrics to this song are about. Get it? Well there is a double meaning as well! The song is a 12-bar blues and tries to hit most of the cliches associated to that song form. In a sense, the song itself is pre-fabricated. Get it?? Deep, huh?
But there’s another double meaning here too! Shocking! I put ambient sound effects onto a handful of the RPM Challenge songs this year. This song started out in January where all of the other sound effect songs were 100% February. I added the crowd noise to this song to make it feel more at home with the February songs. Nice of me, huh? The double meaning comes from the crowd noise itself. The crowd audio runs through the entire song, but there is no cheering. The sample was actually of a crowd just hanging out, waiting for a concert to start (freesound.org/people/joedeshon...n/sounds/487434). There is no cheering, and there is no excitement. Why? Because the song is so boring it’s like they don’t even notice the band is playing. HA! I love it! The lyric says call it a throw away and the audience agrees! This may be the most genius moment of my entire musical life!
The guitars are all Gibson ES-335 Pro through a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The rhythm used a Ryra The Klone pedal and the lead used the Ryra and a Wren and Cuff Super Russian.
Chorus
Call this a throw away
(a) throw away
Verse 1
instructions by numbers
its easy do what it says
(x2)
It all looks so simple
it’s prefab you can do it
Verse 2
It gives you the how to
provides you with everything
(x2)
the tools and components
are all provided to you]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 03:36:11 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2021-02-28T03:36:11+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Gloom</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[This was the 12th song started this month and it’s the 14th song finished. It’s important in that it officially makes me a winner for FAWM this year, but it’s unimportant for the RPM Challenge as this puppy goes straight to the dropped song list. Like, with a bullet.
I intended this to be a gloomy closer for the album but ended up writing a similar song that is more or less the same in every way except that it’s better. So a dropping we will go.
The rhythm guitar is fuzz and the lead guitar is clean(ish)? It’s mass hysteria!
All of the guitars are a Gibson ES-335 Pro. All of the takes had two amps, a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. All of the takes also used a Ryra The Klone overdrive pedal. The rhythm tracks also used a Wren and Cuff Super Russian fuzz pedal.
The last days are here
Nothing’s ever been so clear
Keep your loved ones near
and keep them safe
keep them away from what is coming
hide away
final day
anyway
come what may]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This was the 12th song started this month and it’s the 14th song finished. It’s important in that it officially makes me a winner for FAWM this year, but it’s unimportant for the RPM Challenge as this puppy goes straight to the dropped song list. Like, with a bullet.
I intended this to be a gloomy closer for the album but ended up writing a similar song that is more or less the same in every way except that it’s better. So a dropping we will go.
The rhythm guitar is fuzz and the lead guitar is clean(ish)? It’s mass hysteria!
All of the guitars are a Gibson ES-335 Pro. All of the takes had two amps, a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. All of the takes also used a Ryra The Klone overdrive pedal. The rhythm tracks also used a Wren and Cuff Super Russian fuzz pedal.
The last days are here
Nothing’s ever been so clear
Keep your loved ones near
and keep them safe
keep them away from what is coming
hide away
final day
anyway
come what may]]></itunes:summary>
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