Some years ago, I posted a couple of Wondermints tabs here and here. Recently, a reader asked me to post any additional Wondermints tabs I had worked out. It turns out I do have one more song: "Shine on Me", also from their album Mind If We Make Love to You.
( Tab behind the cut. )
(Yes, I'm spending Saturday night sitting around the house & writing blog entries. Shaddap.)
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Boilerplate bit: with merciful rarity, I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my home-recording setup, and post it to the blog. You can see earlier entries here, or subscribe to these as a podcast (click here if you use iTunes).
If I ever had any music cred (and no, I didn't), now's the time I get to watch it all go up in flames:
#46. Hall and Oates - You Make My Dreams
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jefpeanutbutter:
( Twelve songs. )
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Boilerplate bit: occasionally I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my home-recording setup, and post it to the blog. You can see earlier entries here, or subscribe to these as a podcast (click here if you use iTunes).
I did some experiments with the teensy recording rig this weekend. First off, I re-aimed the microphones to try to get a better vocal/guitar balance (still not quite there yet). Second, I verified that I can record to my little netbook instead of using a proper laptop. This was the result:
#45. The BoDeans - Lookin' for Me Somewhere
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Boilerplate bit: occasionally I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my home-recording setup, and post it to the blog. You can see earlier entries here, or subscribe to these as a podcast (click here if you use iTunes).
Figured I'd dust off the teensy recording rig today:
#44. Michael Jackson - Human Nature
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I couldn't make myself do anything productive today, so I figured I'd record another song.
Boilerplate bit: occasionally I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my home-recording setup, and post it to the blog. You can see earlier entries here, or subscribe to these as a podcast (click here if you use iTunes).
I couldn't believe I hadn't yet recorded this one:
#43. The Velvet Crush - Forever, For Now
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Mood: satisfied · Music: none |
Over two months go by, and I again dust off ye olde recordinge rigge....
Boilerplate bit: occasionally I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my home-recording setup, and post it to the blog. You can see earlier entries here, or subscribe to these as a podcast (click here if you use iTunes).
Ah, Valentine's Day. Time for a good old-fashioned love song:
#42. Tom Waits - Picture in a Frame
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Over two months go by, and I again dust off ye olde recordinge rigge....
Boilerplate bit: occasionally I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my home-recording setup, and post it to the blog. You can see earlier entries here, or subscribe to these as a podcast (click here if you use iTunes).
Figured I'd record a song I play all the time:
#41. Son Volt - Windfall
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Mood: contemplative · Music: none |
Fun with twitter:
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Two months go by, and then I finally dust off ye olde recordinge rigge....
Boilerplate bit: occasionally I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my home-recording setup, and post it to the blog. You can see earlier entries here, or subscribe to these as a podcast (click here if you use iTunes).
Still stuck in the 80s, I'm afraid:
#40. Paul Simon - Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War
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Hi all --
I'm finally unloading my box'o'audiocourses that's been sitting in the corner and gathering dust. I'll put them up on ebay pretty soon, but I figured I'd offer them to ze friendslist first:
( List of audiobooks I'm selling. )
I figure I'll start ebaying them next week. If you'd like to buy any of 'em, comment below.
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Two in one month! I am a recording *fiend*!
*sigh*
Boilerplate bit: occasionally I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my home-recording setup, and post it to the blog. You can see earlier entries here, or subscribe to these as a podcast (click here if you use iTunes).
Picking off another 80s song:
#39. John Waite - Missing You
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Another month rolls by, and I finally meander back to home recording.
Boilerplate bit: occasionally I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my home-recording setup, and post it to the blog. You can see earlier entries here, or subscribe to these as a podcast (click here if you use iTunes).
Finally, a song from this decade:
#38. The New Pornographers - Letter from an Occupant
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Between the Shakespeare show, dancing, and being sick, there's been precious little time to record lately. But now I think I'm back in the proverbial saddle.
Again, for people who are new to the blog, occasionally I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my dinky recording setup, and post it here. You can see earlier entries here, or subscribe to these as a podcast (click here if you use iTunes).
There are a few more 80s songs in the hopper; this is the first of them:
#37. Men at Work - Overkill
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My oh my it's been a long time since I recorded anything... for folks who are new to the blog, occasionally I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my dinky recording setup, and post it to the blog. (Previous entries are here; one fine day I'll work out how to automatically reprocess that link into a podcast feed.)
Anyway, here's the latest song:
#36. The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
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Another 80s song this time:
#35. The Promise - When in Rome
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Another month and a half has (have?) gone by, so: time for another song.
I'd been toying with recording this one for a while:
#34. Lost - The Mary Onettes
I'm surprisingly happy with this. Sure, I have the usual accelerando problems, but I can listen to it without wincing, and I feel like I did something slightly different with the song without being silly and gimmicky. Some of the low notes are a little dodgy, but I'm pleased with the higher notes at the end.
Side note: the lyrics are a bit nonsensical to me, which made them damn difficult to learn.
As always, YouTube comes through with the original, in live performance.
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Wow, it's been a month and a half since I recorded anything? Sad, sad, sad.
Given my vocal register, it was only a matter of time before I put up a Magnetic Fields song:
#33. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side - The Magnetic Fields
I admit, I'm mainly putting this song up so that I put *something* up before I (say) forget how the recording equipment works. Maybe I can get back to a regular schedule after this.
I'm painfully pitchy on some of the low notes -- listening to it, I wince as it takes a fraction of a second for me to locate the next pitch on the entrances towards the end. And the guitar feels rushed throughout; I need to relax. But then again, I was only able to do a couple of takes of this before I ran out of voice, so that sends perfectionism right out the window.
As always, YouTube comes through with the original.
Mood: disappointed · Music: Bishop Allen - Click, Click, Click, Click |
Just thought I'd post a couple of fun Christmas tunes:
"Joy to the World" by The Fab Four -- a Beatles cover band notes the similarity between "Joy to the World" and "Please Please Me", with amusing results.
"Super Mario's Sleigh Ride" by The One Ups -- a Nintendo-music cover band manages to weave a half-dozen 8-bit tunes into Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride".
Happy $HOLIDAY, all!
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I've owned this ukulele for several years now. When I first bought it, I couldn't event get the thing tuned, so I figured it was just a stupid, cheap toy, and I set it aside to gather dust among the unused recording equipment. Then the other day I listened to this episode of coverville -- their annual Thanksgiving all-Beatles show -- and it included Paul McCartney playing "Something" on a ukulele. I figured I could learn that, so I dusted the instrument off, and realized oh, right, it's untuneable.
I idly checked out its product page on musiciansfriend, and saw a bunch of other customers chiming in that, yes, out of the box it's awful. But they also said all you have to do to fix it is tighten the tuning pegs with a screwdriver. Lo and behold, they were right, and I now have a functional ukulele.
So I figured I'd play a song on that instrument this week (we can call it "Peterokelele", I suppose), and what better song to adapt than a massively-orchestrated tune from E. L. O.?
#32. Telephone Line - E. L. O.
As always, YouTube comes through with the original.
I dunno if I'd call this 'good' (especially since I'm singing through the tail end of this interminable sinusitis), but it is an amusing little novelty, and it was fun to learn all the new chord shapes for the soprano uke.
Mood: amused · Music: L. E. O. - Ya Had Me Goin |
