Get What I Want

Get What I Want (192 kbps, 5MB Mp3)

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Little Obsessions

I have done a little bit of cleaning up with this song so I think it is probably worth including with the rest of what I have done. It’s supposed to try and describe how I feel a lot of the time but I’m not sure it does justice to what it’s like. I am continually trying to scrape the best out of my voice, but it’s a tough job as there is only so much that can be done with it.

Little Obsessions (192 kbps, 5.9MB Mp3)

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in my room

Try

I have been working on this song through different versions over a long time. This is another of my best efforts to make it sound like a song. You can get lost in changing tiny little details until nothing means anything any more, so I’m calling this finished for the moment.

Try (192 kbps, 5.4MB Mp3)

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Pointless Exercises

Here is the full version of the song, now mixed as well as I can. Hope you like it. After a few listens I will be able to pick out what needs changed next but for the moment it counts as finished and can go onto the music page. Yey!

Pointless Exercises (192 kbps, 5MB Mp3)

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Pointless Exercises Verse 1

Here is verse 1 of this song. I have tried to mix it a bit different from how it started out (too loud and grating) and take out some of the stuff that was getting in the way. I wanted the splashy drums and the vocal to be the most noticable. I got problems balancing the drums and voice and it won’t go away, but for the moment it is sounding better. Working on the chorus now.

Pointless Exercises (192 kbps, 1MB Mp3)

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what slowworm.net is for

I have decided to re-start and clean out all the old junk to make way for new junk to take its place. I am also reminding myself why I have this page at all. The intention I have is to let every idea I come up with have somewhere to go - every idea that I can be bothered converting to an mp3 file anyway. I want to make random notes to myself here to help sort out what I need to do next. I will try to keep the Music page just for things that I think are more or less finished. This page will be the tip for everything else.

All major changes are like death. You can’t see what is on the other side until you get there.

And we’ll see what is on the other side soon.

Shut Your Eyes

Shut Your Eyes (192 kbps, 5.7MB Mp3)

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Re-discovering Jackson Browne

I have forgotten about a lot of the seventies American Rock I used to listen to, like Jackson Browne and Stephen Stills. I like to think I was fairly discering - Neil Young, not America, The Eagles not R.E.O. Speedwagon, but maybe anyone who listens to Todd Rundgren doesn’t have any musical integrity, I don’t know.

I have realised, listening to ‘Late for the Sky’ that Jackson Browne is one of the artists that have shaped what I try to do. Like everything else it is not easily apparent, not because I am skilled at distilling my musical influences and making them my own, but because I can’t play.

I like the long musical arcs the songs take until they get where they are going. I like the often wistful feeling in the lyrics, the harmonies and the dated instrumentation. Some songs might sound locked into the decade in which they were recorded but that’s why they are so good.

Jackson Browne Radio (Last.fm).

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