I finally got to channel my inner Bernard Sumner and scribbled my lyrics on a napkin after a glass of wine.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 19:33 (two months ago) link
A fine approach. (Mine, logically, arrived yesterday morning in the shower when I realized something had to happen for that last track.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 19:36 (two months ago) link
Pretty sure I read that Taylor Swift writes all her lyrics on napkins *in* the shower, then celebrates with a glass of wine after. Different strokes etc.
I'm loving everything on this. I wish more superstars of Swift's stature took risks collaborating with internet randos.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 19:52 (two months ago) link
Why thank you for the compliment but don't sell yourself short by saying you're an internet rando.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 19:55 (two months ago) link
Haha. Swift should call her next album "Internet Randos" and just release this.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 19:56 (two months ago) link
I refuse to believe she could write a better "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" than this "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived".
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 19:58 (two months ago) link
frankly stunned by what Tom D has pulled off here
Oh stop it, it's not that difficult to do. Time consuming though.
I've got to say, the way my track follows kurt's track is so perfect it sounds like a deliberate piece of sequencing instead of a complete accident.
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 19:59 (two months ago) link
...and i'm proud to be internet rando, where at least no one knows mei can make my noise and mock unknown boys where no one else can see
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:00 (two months ago) link
This is dope
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:00 (two months ago) link
Is it sampling TS vocals?
Thank you! Mangled, but yes.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:04 (two months ago) link
This album is amazing. Congratulations to everyone involved.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:10 (two months ago) link
three songs in this is great stuff
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:15 (two months ago) link
our song aims for the fall perhaps ends up early b52s haha (though i came to realize it's really hard to try to sound like the fall and maybe there's not that much distance between those two bands)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:18 (two months ago) link
Is the song “the manuscript”? The Fall was 100% what it sounded like to me but I yeah B52s too now that I think of it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:21 (two months ago) link
I think you nailed it
Ha ha I first thought of the Fall but now I can't un-hear the B-52s!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:24 (two months ago) link
UMS talked me out of doing my Fred Schneider impression, for better or worse
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:26 (two months ago) link
MES or Fred Schneider ... both would be impressed with the results. Well, I'm sure Fred, at least, would offer praise.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:28 (two months ago) link
I should have kept my mouth shut, but glad it pinged as the Fall with everyone!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:34 (two months ago) link
I currently don't have the ability to try to sound like anyone else, so I just made a track and sent it in.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:34 (two months ago) link
yeah yeah that's what Taylor Swift sez too :)
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:34 (two months ago) link
This is amazing so far. I especially love the track La Lechera made, which also sounds like its title in the best way possible.
Thanks everyone, this has been so good.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:36 (two months ago) link
finally finishing this. work took over today.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:40 (two months ago) link
Chris, your track is haunting in a way that fits the title beautifully. <3
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:42 (two months ago) link
loving the mood on "I Can Fix Him", the drums, the guitar washes, the bass....
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:45 (two months ago) link
Aww, thank you. I'm listening to a radio show online right now, but I'll listen to this later on tonight.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:47 (two months ago) link
"lo - m - l" is my new "Fitter Happier"
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:48 (two months ago) link
Roffle. I'll take that compliment!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:48 (two months ago) link
My deathless lyrics (description may not be accurate):
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Lo ML! Why dost thou speak now?Do you crave thine audience so?Why do you take this strangest bow?For your dreams are yet very low.
Lo ML! Wherefore this style?Why then choose these, vividly red?Observe this calendar vileIn the season of the dam-ned
Lo ML! Is it all too much?Will you not brave the day, fearless?The eras call to all, we touch!Eat and drink, but with one beer less!
Lo ML! Evermore the birds cryAs they follow trails narrowDo you not see them greatly flyIn the shape of a great arrow?
Lo ML! Thy reputationPrecedes thee in destructive floodMust you cause all in this nationTo assume you carry bad blood?
Lo ML! Midnight’s call is nighCarry out many plans, o thou must Let the scribes all hear your great cryI will next see you in August
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:49 (two months ago) link
Im gonna have Fresh Out The Slammer stuck in my head for weeks. It’s beautiful. I’m going straight back to criiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime. It’s like The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side, but with porridge.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:51 (two months ago) link
"I Can Do It With a Broken Heart" is some catchy fuzzy pop goodness....plus love the lyrics!
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:52 (two months ago) link
xpost otm. one of my favs as well
"The Alchemy" is entrancing as hell.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:56 (two months ago) link
"Clara Bow" is great! love the ambience and spoken word
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:57 (two months ago) link
lol @ "It's A BONUS TRACK! THE MANUSCRIPT!". love the vocals, the driving beat and post-punky gothy guitars. can't speak about The Fall because (*sheepish*) I don't know them, but this is great.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:00 (two months ago) link
love the abstract, controlled chaos of "The Bolter"!
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:03 (two months ago) link
love everything about "The Albatross" - the lyrics and that chorus is gonna stick w/ me for a while.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:06 (two months ago) link
Oh you’re too kind Neanderthal.
Also you have to listen to The Fall!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:06 (two months ago) link
and we come home with the David Lynchian "The Black Dog". love the radio-dial turning intro.
that was a swell listen and won't be my last. this was fun to be a part of!
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:09 (two months ago) link
"The Manuscript" is great... it sounds like what late-period Parquet Courts should be (bad sadly isn't)!
― Malicious Complier (morrisp), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:29 (two months ago) link
“Fresh out the slammer” synth melody is reminding me of another thing. I love it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:55 (two months ago) link
Too difficult to choose a favourite, so I won't, but very good job to everyone.
I kept hearing Heez's lyrics as "hanging around my dick like an albatross" -> petition to get My Dick to cover this pre-cover?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:15 (one month ago) link
settling in for this right now. here's play-by-play thoughts. i'm listening on headphones―
01 sund4r - fortnightgreat mood setter, when does taylor come in?
02 matthew - tortured poetscatchy + confusing. i love it.
03 la lechera - my boythis should be taylor's real entrance music for the tortured poets tour. have a gong-laced synth vamp to tide your anticipation, friends.
04 acoleuthic - down badlol this beat! vocals good, yes. but this beat is... making fun of me or something?? i have no clue, but how much i'm enjoying it seems inappropriate. well done.
05 mfktz - so long, londonidk how else to follow "down bad" than with a paranoid dark ambient collage.
06 kurt - daddy i love himmoar fuzz!
07 tom d feat nfs - fresh out the slammeromg, this is great! you taught me about porridge just now!
08 mares feat alfred - floridano clue what's going on here, but it sure does sound nice.
09 a hoy hoy - sinwalkin around in alligators, indeed. great samples!
10 chris i - who's afraidyeah, this goes exactly with the title.
11 josh - i can fix himthis is legitimately great. i want to hear taylor write a rap for it.
12 josh feat ned - lomli mean this as a really high compliment: this has mc 900 ft jesus vibes. bravo at including the audible mouse click at the end of the vocal track. love.
13 hi dere - broken heartthis went in a direction. i was not expecting that turn. that big middle eight! lol! 'everyone that i proved wrong gets to listen to this song.' lol nailed it.
14 bo jacks - smallest manneeds more jordanaires. ace narrative tho. feel like this is way more effort than was necessary lol. really good.
15 shari - alchemyi think this is the exact sort of music that would get me to start taking ts seriously.
16 moka - clara bowthis beat is legit! nice!
17 renegade priests - manuscripti did not expect something this well-produced. "IT'S A HOLOGRAPH!!!" is awesome.
18 misunderstudd - bolterlol have you ever heard the trypes? this is great!
19 heez - albatrossthis is the start of something beautiful. i'm with neanderthal: you hit something special in this chorus.
20 tea - black dog perfect outro.
always a blast, ya'll.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:25 (one month ago) link
bravo at including the audible mouse click at the end of the vocal track.
Unintentional but I am glad for the fates.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:31 (one month ago) link
Lol back in my home studio a capella recording days, just about all my tracks ended with one
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:10 (one month ago) link
This is far better than Taylor's version could ever be.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:13 (one month ago) link
Emily did you notice the line the “I could live off penis”?
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:14 (one month ago) link
a hoy hoy reaching Bush of Ghosts levels of found sound brilliance.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:32 (one month ago) link
Okay I'm up to a hoy hoy and a boy boy is this great
― H.P, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:42 (one month ago) link
Down, Bad also still stuck in my head
The matthew mathieu track is a favourite so far. Aside from "Down Bad" and "Manuscript", which I had praised before elsewhere, La Lechera's track is also a standout for me.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 8 April 2024 01:05 (one month ago) link
hey is 'the manuscript' part of the main album?
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 April 2024 04:14 (one month ago) link
xp to sund4r, that is very kind and gracious of you to say! i was nervous about following your track because you always do such cool guitar work (and your track is no exception!) but im glad you liked it
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Monday, 8 April 2024 04:44 (one month ago) link
Enormous thanks to Ned for getting this all organised and great job all.
― ShariVari, Monday, 8 April 2024 08:57 (one month ago) link
Copy maresn3st on the illuminating peek into the minds of usernames. And conversely allowing ppl to peek inside mine. Xp to sund4r — thank you!! It feels so good to be heard!!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 8 April 2024 14:15 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/L38p5cX.jpeg
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 April 2024 21:43 (one month ago) link
What's a scrobble? More importantly, where is my money!?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 April 2024 22:18 (one month ago) link
ain't been scrobbled since the Great War
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 April 2024 22:38 (one month ago) link
oh there will be no money
but on your deathbed you will receive admin privileges
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2024 03:41 (one month ago) link
but not sitewide
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 April 2024 03:47 (one month ago) link
Just the one board?
― Mark G, Saturday, 13 April 2024 07:36 (one month ago) link
so are we doing a post-covers album of the bonus disc
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 April 2024 20:10 (one month ago) link