I don’t ever download any music off the Internet, legal or otherwise, because we already have about 500 albums and 300 CD’s that we don’t ever listen to. But I do listen to the radio when I’m in my car, and I really like this stupid song that’s a remake of the Gloria Gaynor classic I Will Survive, which I hated, but it’s a little faster and a little more hip-hop, and it’s got a new chorus that goes something like ‘This love has taken its toll on me. You said, “Good-bye,” too many times before,’ and I’ve heard it something like 5 or 6 times, and I’ll be darned if they’ll ever tell me who it’s by.
So here’s a big ol’ clue for the RIAA: Stop suing kids for downloading Eminem bootlegs and try to get the radio stations to tell me who the songs are by so I can go out and buy their records!
While I’m doh!-ing, here’s one for the think tank at the Microsoft campus: It would be really cool if when I get an HTML formatted message in Outlook, the status line would show me the URL for a link in the message body the way IE does. Seems like an easy thing.
By the way, here’s a recycled post with links to some songs that I’ve recorded over the years. I have around 10 times the number of vistors I had when I originally posted this, so maybe someone will find something to enjoy, and please remember, bloggers live for comments.
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I Don’t Love You No More |
A lighthearted country ditty. |
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Why Are We All So Afraid? |
Really cool guitar – good lyrics & good atmosphere provided by my brother Kevin. |
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All I Ever Wanna Do |
Good song – the girl I wrote it for was unimpressed, but that’s OK – I like it. Not a very good recording, though. |
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Couples & Money |
Very nice, bouncy little Beatlesque thing. Actually appears on a commercial audiobook by the same name, in a slightly different studio recording that’s not as good. |
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Go with the Flow |
Major Lennon-ish production number. |
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For Chaaya |
Very real sounding classical guitar piece, but it ain’t live – it’s Memorex. Even when I actually played this many years ago, I used several tracks. |
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Sometimes It’s Hard |
This may well be the best thing I’ve ever come up with. |
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Levi’s 501 Ad |
This was back in the days when Sasson jeans was running an ad where Elton John sang ‘Sassons mean so much.’ I actually sent it to Levi’s via Foote, Cone & Belding, and they sent it back registered mail with a copy of their unsolicited ideas policy. |
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Look Around |
Another Lennon song I tried to write. |
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No Woman Blues |
What it says. |
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Out in the Rain |
This is my first big piano number from when we got my mother-in-law’s old piano a few years ago. |
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Separation |
20-something angst about a long-distance romance. Nice pseudo-classical acoustic solo piece played live. |
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I’m So in Love with You |
This may be my most elaborate production number to date. |
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Ton of Pain |
Another light-hearted country piece. |