Great guitar arrangements in all your songs !!..

You are so creative..like all music very much..!!!

Would love to hear this live.. loving your work

Unselected (the resurrected deselected reselected remix)
by me (sort of)

Follow me for more Bob type stuff :)
http://www.facebook.com/AllThingsBob

"I see you swim around so freely, 
I just wish that you could hear me,
To know that you're there's enough, 
I do not feel the need to touch,
We promised we'd never be parted,
Or at least that's the way it started,
I can't make it on my own,
I need the truth to bring it home

There isn't any way of knowing,
Where we've been or where we're going, 
Open wounds go unattended,
At least now we'll stop pretending,
Stand me up and push me forward,
Do exactly as I'm ordered, 
Too many things still go unspoken, 
There is no promise to be broken,

I know these things seem unrelated,
But see this monster you've created,
You have never been rejected,
I'm just left here unselected,

You're not one to imitate,
You know when it's time to detonate,
You took a chance you brought it to me,
You reeled me in you blew a hole right through me,
Stand me up and push me forward,
Do exactly as I'm ordered, 
I can't make it on my own,
I need the truth to bring it home

I know these things seem unrelated,
But see this monster you've created,
You have never been rejected,
I'm just left here unselected,

Unselected"

Love this track? Download it from AmazingTunes for free @ www.allthingsbob.amazingtunes.com/
(each download increases my chances of getting air-play on AmazingRadio, so your support is hugely appreciated!)

This is a song that I wrote a long loooooooong time ago with my old band Amoeba. Just before we "split" (pun intended), we demo'd a second version of it which we dubbed "Reselected"... It retained the original lyrics and vocal line, but with a complete new tune underneath it. It was a bit of a half-baked effort to be honest, but there was clearly a huge potential for the track.

Alas, the band broke up, and Reselected never saw the light of day... Until now

This is - to my mind, at least - the way the song should have sounded. This isn't a "Remix" per se, but it has gone through several incarnations, and after well over a decade, I think I can finally put this track to bed. So yeah, this version is "by me", but there's quite a history behind it!

Credit where it's due to Steve Fitch and Ivan Weiss for their contributions to the writing & arrangement of this track.

Enjoy :)

Download FREE!

Unselected

All of the stuff below was written a decade ago so none of it is really relevant any more.
~Bob (2023)

Geek. Miserable so-and-so. Square peg in a round hole with daydreams of living happily ever after by the sea.

After almost a decade as songwriter, bassplayer and singer with the band Betamax, with all it's highs and lows, I found myself suffering a severe case of writers block. All Things Bob is my attempt to find a cure with an ongoing and growing collection of musical experiments. All music, instrumentation, lyrics, recording and production is done by me. My techniques, both from a song-writing and production point of view, are constantly evolving and improving. I started with a four-track iPhone app and an acoustic guitar in March 2012. 

Hopefully, you'll like like what you hear on my page, and enjoy listening to my journey from just a year ago when I was genuinely unsure if I would ever be able to write another song....

Follow me for more Bob type stuff :)
http://www.facebook.com/AllThingsBob

Oh and it should go without saying, but just to be clear - All songs are written, performed and produced by me (unless otherwise stated).

Below are some reviews of my work to date:

"(All Things Bob) is now trying his hand at a solo career and with his new single ‘Home‘, he proves he’s on to a winner.

Having already reached the summit of the MRU charts, this infectiously catchy, up tempo electronically-generated tune has all the makings of a great pop song that could very well take the charts by storm, particularly with summer approaching. With an interesting fusion of musical styles based around a standard guitar/drum/keyboard backing section it is brilliantly enhanced with a deliciously bubblegum pop electronic melody. ‘Home‘ has echoes of recently successful indie-pop acts such as Yeasayer, Cut Copy or Miike Snow, and will no doubt generate similar levels of appeal.

The song’s technological age-inspired lyrics are ironically geeky, adding a bit of tongue-in-cheek charm to proceedings, while the memorable chorus hook together with Bob's David Byrne-esque vocal delivery both add to the like-ability factor. Perfectly timed, perfectly weighted and without an irritating over-reliance on electronic after effects, it is very difficult not to like a song like ‘Home.

This single will almost certainly be a massive hit and a great springboard for his All Things Bob solo-project."
~James Glynn, Music Review Unsigned

"Former Bass player and songwriter of Betamax, All Things Bob offers some catchy melodies that are fused with some enjoyable electronic undertones."
~ Outskirt Noise

"Writing, playing, singing and recording everything himself, his music ranges from classic British guitar-pop to bedroom-electro oddness and grungy guitar rage, mixing it all into an astonishingly accomplished and melodic pure pop whole"
~ Rich Morris, Soundblab.com

"...the New Wave genre is blown wide apart by his streamlined Power-Pop and Punk diversity" 
~ Andy Woodcraft, Mojophenia

"There's no sign of a struggle for material; these tracks sound fully-formed and well though out. Most recent track 'Drone (Happiness Awaits You)' could have graced a Graham Coxon album, in fact many songs here have a touch of Blur about them. The sound is still punky (see 'Turn The Tide' or 'Another Life') but includes a few sonic experiments in the background. As far as highlights go then 'Unselected' stands out, sounding at points like it could be the work of Bob Mould; when he does slow things down for 'Seasons' the standard is the same, proving this is no one-trick pony. With the writers block banished (are we reassured of this on the excellent 'I'm Fine Now'?) we can surely now look forward to more things Bob."
~ soundofconfusion.co.uk

"....split up new wave with punk, and a bit of pop, it would sound like this"
Aaron Phillips, Amazing Radio

"...a really versatile artist"
Dana McKeon, Explosive Unsigned Radio

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