My Own Biggest Fan

Ok… so what do we have here? Well, these were made on the PIII that I sold about two weeks ago, and Reason. I made a bit of an effort to make them sound a little like real instruments, whether I have succeded is a little debatable, not that you will be able to tell while listening to the 128K/sec mp3s here.

Practice – A little demo I made to bounce some ideas off of Joel when we were going to start the wildly successful band “The Vanity Project” Summer of 2002. Joel used this in his DVD portfolio to Concordia.

Breakup – So named because Eric (who also has a song available for download right now) said that it sounded like one. I am not sure what I was doing when I made it, but I like it anyways. the melody is improvised and it sounds like it, but no matter. Winter 2002.

Then there is the matter of the cover versions I made last year. What I did here was download .mid files and dumped them into Reason. From there I tweeked the hell out of them until they sounded, umm… well sounded like this I guess. The encoding on these are really low, so they sound a little wack.

Taxman – The best from this batch. Sorry about the electroclash. Hmm… would make a good lyric, that.

Eye In The Sky – Is there anyone who does not like this song? Well, I mean the original, mine is a little bizarre.

Blitzrieg Bop – I still want to add a vocal to this one, but not what you would think.

September – I never knew I had it in me.

Wichita Lineman – A co-worker in Edinburgh played this song on the jukebox every night. I learned to love this song and now it is one of my favorites. I guess you could call it a tribute, but that would be wrong on so many levels.

My Sweet Lord – “Blasphemy, blas-for-you,” to quote Eddie Izzard. This one is one of the few things that I have done on the powerbook, aside from a few false starts with some of Eric’s stuff. this is actually the first time this has been made available to anyone. World-fucking-premiere, this is!

I also did covers of Prince’s The Beautiful Ones and George Michael’s Freedom 90 but both turned out exactly like the originals, strange. I don’t think I am going to work on these anymore, nor will I do any new covers… not for awhile at least.

There is more yet… stay tuned.