#8 ‘Ricochet’
Number 8 in the list is ‘Ricochet’.
When I decided to try and record and release 52 songs in as many weeks, it was songs like this that I had in mind – shit I’d had lying …
#7 ‘Earth Utopia’
Song number seven of 52 will without doubt one of those which dates back the furthest…
I first wrote ‘Earth Utopia’ in 1998 as a teenager, In early 2001 I rewrote some of the words to …
#4 ‘Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse’
Track #4 in the year-long attempt to record and release 52 songs – one a week! – is ‘Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse’. Yes, only twice – we all know what happens if you say it three times.
Early …
#6 ‘108 Minutes’
Track #6 is ‘108 Minutes’, another song I’m somewhat embarrassed to say was inspired by TV show ‘Lost’…
Probably wouldn’t surprise you to know it was written literally just a few days before ‘Drill Radzinsky, Drill’…
#3 ‘Drill Radzinsky, Drill’
Time for track #3 – an itty-bitty song involving a bomb (that’ll make more sense if you actually listen to it).
I wrote this tune in 2011 as a …
Anecdotes #6 – 1981
I said a few posts back I was just gonna do singles for a while. You know what? I thought I’d be into it, but I’ve found it’s just leaving me a bit unfocused and scattered. So I’ve canned a …
Anecdotes #5 – September 27, 2020 – The Queenmaker
I put out this song ‘The Queenmaker’ a few years ago, but was never happy with the recording. It’s a bit amateur, you know? Recorded a new version that didn’t make the cut for Bunkerland, since it was a …
Anecdotes #2: August 11, 2020 – Wheel in Rain
Was gonna record the vocals for the track I recorded last week, ‘Reversal’, but decided instead to lay down another song in a similar vein, ‘Wheel in Rain’.
Written around the same time, I figured if the mix I’ve got …
Anecdotes #1: August 4, 2020 – Reversal
This is gonna sound real pretentious, especially considering no one’s likely to read it, but I’ve decided to document what I’m writing and recording in real-time, on this here part of the website.
Background: I’ve got this spreadsheet with every …
