Letterbomb Music - Solo albums (So low you can't hear it!)
Since we have some recording equipment, I recorded a few songs that I wrote.
After laying down the drums, I attempted to play all the other stuff too.
(And against my better judgement, I even included a Rush cover!)
Click a song to get the MP3.
Wooden Leg to Stand On
Sunday Suit
BADGE
Fallen Star
Gimmee Something
Subtle Neurotic
Distant Early Warning
Miss It When It's Gone
A Kiss Goodnight
Song annotation:
Sunday Suit
This song is about that uncomfortable or phoney feeling of appearing to be something your not. Like when you had to dress up nice for church on Sunday as a kid. So you (or more likely "they") put up this front to get by. Either to get what you want or to satisfy someone else. But we all need to do this from time to time, so keep your suit cleaned.
BADGE
This is an instrumental, so all we have is a title. The guitar riff played throughout uses the notes E G A B D. Run through the anagramerizer and Voila.
Fallen Star
A song about choosing the wrong relationship and wishing it could be different. Verse one warns of when you first meet. Verse two tells of a loveless marriage. In verse three we realize too late that we went down the wrong path. Wishing in vain at each step that things will change.
Gimmee Something
A fun little ditty. The three versus are loosely base on the unholy trinity: Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll. And the lines in the verses are borrowed (Gimmee!) from other songs.
Sex (well, love)
Peace love and understanding (P, L and U – Elvis Costello)
Real strong gimmee security (Another Thing Comin' – Judas Priest)
Forever make time stand still (Time Stand Still – Rush)
Drugs (uh, drugs)
Show me around (Sweet Leaf – Black Sabbath)
Only stop for the best (Passage to Bangkok – Rush)
Grow incredibly high (Lucy in the Sky w/ Diamonds – Beatles)
Rock n Roll (fame)
Fortune and fame (Memory Remains – Metallica)
Chicks for free (Money for Nothing – Dire Straits)
Big money take control (Big Money – Rush)
Subtle Neurotic
Every neighborhood seems to have a local nutjob. This song is loosely based on a crazy dude from my childhood. The "two TVs one for each eye" for example, came from him. I always thought the line "crazy man your mind is deep / one step too far you fell in" was pretty good. I wrote this thing decades ago and kept messing with it – now it's done. (I wonder about "crazy man".)
Distant Early Warning
Yep, the Rush song. I always thought it would sound cool in straight 4/4 time throughout. But I'm not really happy with how it turned out. Much harder to sing than I thought. I like the drumming though.
Miss It When It's Gone
This song isn't really about anything. It's more about the music. I was inspired by two unlikely performances. Sheryl Crow had done Safe And Sound on the Grammys or something, and it was a really great performance. A haunting restrained melody that built and repeated until it it was just all encompassing. The other is the ending of Black Sabbath's Dirty Women. I love the drumming - how it builds and keeps doubling the beat. For the lyrics, I wrote down a few two word phrases (blind faith, true love…) and then mixed them up until they made some sense.
A Kiss Goodnight
This is just a short little thing I made up on the keyboard. A goodnight to close the CD. I realized it sounds a lot like the intro to Kiss' Black Diamond, hence the title.