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Sort of a pathological sibling rivalry. Not autobiographical.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 7:22 AM on October 2, 2008
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Water as escapism.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 9:52 PM on August 28, 2008
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I love seeing how people take the germ of an idea they've had and mold it into a song. I'd be really interested in seeing peoples' processes, illustrated with before and after recordings.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 9:22 PM on August 14, 2008
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I was in a band called gleaner in the late 90's and we recorded four songs at a "real" studio.
This was an attempt to make a (power)poppy, happy thing about a stalker-y kind of person.
This is the second of the two songs from this session that were mine. The
first is here.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 12:29 AM on August 4, 2008
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What is the deal with B strings on guitars? Is it just my ears?
Doesn't matter which guitar I'm tuning, when I tune by ear it NEVER sounds right. And then, even with a tuner, I have to adjust it a bit after, I'm never satisfied. Finally sounds good with an Am chord, then you play a C and it's fucked up.
Am I insane?
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 7:35 PM on August 1, 2008
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Grand Rapids impromptu drink?
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at 9:04 PM on July 19, 2008
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For this month's challenge, in the "Spy Music" category.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 10:54 PM on July 18, 2008
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You won't care tomorrow.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 12:38 AM on July 15, 2008
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We're finally free and clear.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 5:21 PM on June 27, 2008
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Because it's new.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 4:07 PM on June 10, 2008
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Dirty, crusty demo recorded at the turn of the century.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 8:33 PM on February 7, 2008
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New recording. Older song.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 3:56 PM on January 23, 2008
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I need a large sheet of thin but durable, mylar-ish translucent material in Toronto.
posted to Ask Metafilter by chococat
at 6:31 PM on January 14, 2008
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Nostalgia x 2. Recorded in the mid-'90's as nostalgia for the '80's.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 10:23 PM on January 4, 2008
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Yes, that one.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 11:45 PM on November 7, 2007
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In the mid-to-late '90's I was in a band called Gleaner.
Kind of a "Power Pop" thing, which I always hated calling us as it was such a buzz-term of the time.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 7:42 PM on October 24, 2007
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We recently moved into our new old house which has some scary 1980's renovations in it. In the living room there is track lighting which I have determined to be the "Halo" style of track. I want to buy new fixtures for it, so I took the old fixtures off to identify what kind of system it is. When I put the fixtures back on, I think I must have damaged the track by twisting the fixture the wrong way or something (I'm stupid and didn't understand how it connected...now I do...) because now neither light works on this track. It's not the fixtures themselves, as they work fine on the other track. Did I wreck the track? Can I fix it somehow?
posted to Ask Metafilter by chococat
at 10:08 PM on October 12, 2007
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is turning 8 today and I can't believe it.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 10:30 PM on October 5, 2007
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At our local supermarket there's a really happy guy that wrangles the shopping carts. He's really, really tall and kind of looks like Lurch. He is always smiling and so into his work that I always wonder what's going on in his head.
He's
my superhero.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 1:28 AM on September 30, 2007
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This is about the dumbest piece of dumbness ever. I was goofing around on my 7 and 9 year old daughters' keyboard and noticed the "Clav" setting. Ha! I discovered that if I put it through the Crybaby Wah pedal and then through the tube amp that it actually DIDN'T SOUND AT ALL like
Songs in the Key of Life-era Stevie Wonder. Instead it sounded like me acting stupid and then I sang some high-assed background vocals like a fucking idiot and did my whitest ever white-guy impersonation at the beginning.
But it makes me laugh and it's my kids' favourite, go figure.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 11:35 PM on August 28, 2007
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We are moving in 2 weeks and a while ago we "fluffed" our house to make it look pretty so we could sell it and that entailed removing any trace of human habitation. As a result, all our stuff has been packed away for weeks and I've been going insane in our neatly arranged, showy house in which no one could possibly live a normal life.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 12:37 AM on July 17, 2007
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A jokey, sloppy kind of thing recorded in 2005 for a web project that never got off the ground. As in many of my songs, I seem to be suffering from some type of sinus issue here. Perhaps the flipside of
buriednexttoyou's awesome
Arboretum from last year, this song tries to be positive about the milestones, the things you
can do once nineteen, in Ontario, Canada. Yes, I know the Paul Hardcastle tune.
why am I posting this?
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 8:39 PM on May 25, 2007
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Recorded quick, titled in a hurry. Kind of sappy with an out-of-tune piano.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 9:34 PM on May 12, 2007
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Sort of a flipside to
Sleepover. Same childhood.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 8:39 AM on April 5, 2007
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A demo from about six years ago. In Canada, the norm is that we don't tend toward the big rah-rah kind of Patriotism that our neighbours to the south are prone to. Ours is a polite, reserved, (Canadian), skeptical patriotism.
There's an F-word in this one, if that sort of thing worries you.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 11:27 AM on March 20, 2007
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A slice of 13.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 9:57 AM on March 8, 2007
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I have a Tascam Porta05 Ministudio that's at least 10 years old. I powered it up a few weeks ago to play some old tapes and noticed that it's frozen into the "play" position.
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at 3:16 PM on March 6, 2007
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I had this vague melody a year or so ago, and at the time it was starting to become a song about riding my bike at night, drunk. I stuck it on the backburner until after I saw that Johnny Cash bio-pic, where they sing that June Carter duet "Time's a Wastin'" together, (which they never did in real life.) So then I got this idea to write a nice country duet like that, but instead of it being all happy and fresh-new-relationship-let's-consummate-it kinda thing, I wanted it to be about people that hated each other intensely. People that were sick and tired of seeing each other everyday for years and years. Then, for an added twist, I forced my lovely wife to sing the harmony part. We actually do like each other, though.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 12:25 AM on March 1, 2007
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A second pretty much complete song for the RPM Challenge.
Fancy ears will be able to pick out my attempt at learning to play the Cuatro that was hand-delivered to my front door from the awesome and amazing
Micayetoca in Venezuela.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 2:28 PM on February 23, 2007
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A song I did for
that RPM thing, the first kinda finished one. 9 more to go.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 12:01 AM on February 13, 2007
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Just wondering if there's been any change to the format of the streaming versions of the songs uploaded to Music. Lately they seem extra-specially compressed sounding to me, so I was wondering if it's something on my end. Not bitchin', just wonderin'.
posted to MetaTalk by chococat
at 7:55 PM on October 31, 2006
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I think this'll be my last music post for a while, until I get my shit together, as it were. Thought I'd round it off at a nice even 10.
And, I thought it fitting to post this super-old song, ('98 or '99), which was my first attempt at "multitrack hard disk recording," with one Sure SM58 mic, some crappy Mac software on an old biege G3, handclaps and a LittleTikes™ toy piano. I used what I had.
Way back when, I posted it on sites like the old mp3.com and it got some nice feedback which felt awesome and immediate and kind of weird and new. After a while I got sort of jaded with all the online music site stuff because it was clearly becoming the "So You Think You Can Dance" of the Internet, at the time.
Posting stuff recently to music.metafilter has rekindled a lot of that fun, immediate kind of vibe for me, so I thought this was a good way to complete the circle.
At the time I called this "a happy song about sad people," which I guess it is. It was written after leaving a shitty job. It sounds kind of corny and twee now, and the recording quality is pretty shite, but it was sincere at the time. Cheers everyone.
In preview this seems like way too much information. Oh well.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 7:24 PM on August 2, 2006
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Another discarded demo that would otherwise never have seen the light of day.
It's too long, the drum machine is just a placeholder, the guitars are sloppy (DEMO!) and the lyrics are sort of goofy.
Those aren't excuses, they are reasons. It was kind of thrown onto the scrapheap.
But why would I post it? Because I'm addicted to this now.
This one's about a nervous breakdown.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 5:19 PM on July 26, 2006
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the 'story of my life,' reduced into 2 verses.
the tabla is a loop. i don't know anyone in my neighbourhood who plays tabla. wish i did.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 12:06 AM on July 16, 2006
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Some stuff that happened. A mild case of OCD.
A neighbourhood mom played the violin.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 9:33 PM on July 10, 2006
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Written last year for the sole purpose of having an easy, super-poppy song to learn to play the crappy used drum kit I had just bought in Kensington Market.
This song wanted to go in a Beatle-y direction, but sadly I think it came out sounding more like The Oneders.
It is what it is.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 2:16 PM on July 7, 2006
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I stayed up way too late recording this song the night before my daughter's fifth birthday party last year. When all her friends came over for the party, we had them all sing the chorus part and then each of them got to sing the lead part solo. Then we feverishly burned a bunch of discs and each kid got a CD of their performance in their loot bag.
Neighbourhood moms are still coming up to me and singing this, which I'm intitially flattered about but then notice the look on their faces which says that they've heard it over and over and over and over...
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 8:57 PM on July 4, 2006
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In Toronto, around February/March, being at home with kids 24/7 can make an embittered ex-film student feel sorry for himself.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 5:47 PM on July 3, 2006
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I was a boom operator for a while. Working in "the industry" killed, burned and shit on any happy pipe dreams I had of actually being creative and making my own films. Funny how that happens.
Kind of sad 'n' whiny.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 9:25 PM on July 2, 2006
(3 comments)
As you stood there with your helmet off, I remembered getting hit with frozen tennis balls (because they always forced me to play goal.)
kind of a song about being scared...of a violent helmetted guy.
really a demo, but when i tried to do it 'for real' it sucked. so i like this one despite the faults.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 10:53 PM on June 30, 2006
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Someone is reliable but grouchy. Something very bad might have happened.
I got my neighbour to play the accordian.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 7:46 PM on June 30, 2006
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Is there some new lo-fi wheel style going on that I'm not aware of?
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at 9:35 AM on February 24, 2006
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We're having a "Disco Party" for my daughter's 6th birthday tomorrow.
I've got the music covered, but I was looking for some VIDEO I can burn onto a DVD and just have playing in the background.
posted to Ask Metafilter by chococat
at 2:45 PM on November 17, 2005
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We have old, old grape vines in our backyard, growing on a pergola-type structure that is completely rotten and is falling down. It is an overhead structure which gives awesome shade in the summer, but it isn't safe and needs to go.
How do I save the vines?
posted to Ask Metafilter by chococat
at 2:04 PM on November 10, 2005
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I have a laptop (Powerbook G4 12") that I want to use in our tiny (Mazda Protege5) car for showing DVD's to my kids on long drives.
posted to Ask Metafilter by chococat
at 3:01 PM on August 25, 2005
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