My album, well-aged and re-launched.  Originally imagined (and half-released) as "Splatterhead Jones - Off The Windscreen," this is the mastered version. Mastered by Sage Audio. Three tracks originally included are held back in this version.

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A song about people as possessions. Ownership. Control. It is about hostage-taking, violence, fear and intimidation. It is also about learned helplessness. Sometimes you hear people say "you better not try." You never hear the part hat goes "better I not try." Better, not try.

better not try

ya better not try
to hide your heart
you treat me right
oh if you're smart
don't you try
start acting sly
promise you
cross my heart
hear my words
on my life
hope to die
hope to die

you better not try
run away
cause i'm a spy eye
i know where you stay
your hungry heart
is a burning flame
jealous heart
we'll survive
just as long
aswe both are alive

you belong to me



off the windscreen

better not try

better not buy

06 Better Not Try - Splat - Off The Windscreen

dark and light
left and right
best and worst
a blessing and a curse

Alternating point of view. First from the pov of someone with bipolar personality disorder, then from the partner of said person. Yes, they are a real people and yes, I do know both personally. The song was published with consent.

https://splatmusic.bandcamp.com/track/your-disaster

your disaster

it's times like these that i can come undone
i think i've lost my faith in everyone
i don't wanna ever say "it's over"
and i'll be with you all the way

but i don't wanna sit around and wait for your disaster
in the end a final win was all you were after
i don't wanna make believe in some ever after
i just wanna try and hold on to the laughter

it tears you up the way that i run around
it tears you up when you see that i can't slow down
and when i crash will it be another
another bad one to clean up

i don't wanna sit around and wait for your disaster
in the end a final win was all you were after
i don't wanna make believe in some ever after
i just wanna try and hold on to the laughter

your disaster

Buy your disaster

05 Your Disaster - Splat - Off The Windscreen

My album, well-aged and re-launched.  Originally imagined (and half-released) as "Splatterhead Jones - Off The Windscreen" this is simply "splat - off the windscreen." Same songs, but "mastered by Sage Audio" on this a version. I was going to destroy every last shred of it but ultimately decided to realease it again. This time bigger. With extra fail. Sorry. =j

https://splatmusic.bandcamp.com/track/sometimes

sometimes

sometimes i go elsewhere
i know i feel
time has slipped away

when i can't sleep
shadows cast deep alone
no one hears you cry

tell me that hear me won't you
show me that there is a hand to hold
out here
oh, show me that you know me won't you
give some kind of sign
to show the way
from here

still i'm so glad for you

sometimes i go elsewhere
i know it's real
and i'm not afraid to fly
when i can't see beauty
down deep i fear
that none of this is real

tell me that hear me won't you
show me that there is a hand to hold
out here
oh, show me that you know me won't you
give some kind of sign
to show the way
from here

still i'm so glad for you

sometimes i go elsewhere
i know i feel
time has slipped away

Sometimes

Buy for $0.99

04 Sometimes - Splat - Off The Windscreen

My album, well-aged and re-launched.  Originally imagined (and half-released) as "Splatterhead Jones - Off The Windscreen" this is simply "splat - off the windscreen." Same songs, but "mastered by Sage Audio" on this a version. I was going to destroy every last shred of it but ultimately decided to realease it again. This time bigger. With extra fail. Sorry. =j

This song was a gift from my dead friend Jeff. I was playing one of his songs and it just bloomed out of that goddamn Eb chord. I dunno. Weird. Anyway, it's one of the few songs on otw that is even worth listening to. Buy the album anyway, even if only for the super-douchy usb. You can always just listen for free.

timestar

farther falling ever faster
glowing time gravity master
time ticks slow the starry snow
in cold expression bold alone

blue green burning spinning churning
pouring gasses brilliant turning
dark envelope deadly spinning
dust igniting atoms whirling

intersection energy
bursting rays empty yearning

molten frozen function grinding
time stop solid mass evolving
pandimension motion stopping
gliding gassing bursting popping

knowing being outward breaching
being knowing stretching reaching
time collecting space exploding
molten motion seconds glowing

cosmic god imperfect mind
power infinite in time 

Timestar

03 Timestar - Splat - Off The Windscreen

My album, well-aged and re-launched.  Originally imagined (and half-released) as "Splatterhead Jones - Off The Windscreen" this is simply "splat - off the windscreen." Same songs, but "mastered by Sage Audio" on this a version. I was going to destroy every last shred of it but ultimately decided to realease it again. This time bigger. With extra fail. Sorry. =j

https://splatmusic.bandcamp.com/track/maybe

This is nonsense. True to form, these lyrics are complete nonsense. Random nonsense, alternating negative tone, positive tone, then negative again and so on. It started out as a "practice project" that I used to learn recording, mixing, mastering. But, I got a little attached to it, probably because of the ebow parts. I dunno. I kinda hate it now.

maybe

baby when i think that i've known that i've seen
i must have been alone for so long so for me
and don't it feel so bad when i see how it goes
it goes like melting snow, like a rose, to the sea

oooo yeah x 4

i may be tired i may be small i may be scared
i may be bigger i may be tall i may be fear
it may be that i don't know why i bring you here with me
it may be that i never knew to set you free

oooo yeah x 4

you don't begin you don't belong you don't deserve
the naked lie the separate the spoken word
the longing for release in the quiet kill the nerve
the price you pay will never be what you deserve

oooo yeah x 4
(guitar)
oooo yeah x 4 



Off the Windscreen

Maybe

maybe buy?

02 Maybe - Splat - Off The Windscreen

This song is about political predation I started to see, beginning in the US, around 2000. It got far worse, in my estimation, around 2010. It's a song I had bouncing around in my cluttered mind for years, but never actually sat down and flushed out until 2010. Or so? I dunno. The final lines "don't place blind faith in black snake politicians" is an overt reference to fossil fuel corporations, their corrupt relationships with politicians in the US and abroad, and corporate capture of the US government. I got the idea from the indigenous legend "Prophesy of the black snake." Pipelines and oil trains, the visible signs as literal power is amassed and America literally divided. Americans, literally divided. Political power isn't as easy to see, but t's just as destructive. More so.

at any cost

they will prey upon your sympathy
they will tear our bands apart
and they will break your back, your will, your brain
so they can take whatever they can gain

they'll see you dead to keep in power
you're just opposition to devour
why are you loyal to the cowards?
sweet liberty turned bitter, sour

is that the cost? (x3)
is that too high?
too high now

it doesn't matter much what happened here today
cause if it don't make the cover page...
they want you to forget the things they did and said
so they can do it all again another day

when blood is spilled for their desire
and they have all that they require
they'll tell you "freedom's cost" is higher
take honest words back from the liars

is that the cost? (x3)
is that too high?
too high now

don't place blind faith in black snake politicians
they'll make you so afraid, can't even pay, pay attention

https://splatmusic.bandcamp.com/track/at-any-cost

At Any Cost

Buy at any cost

01 At Any Cost - Splat - Off The Windscreen

Improvised funky fun. Started out a loop. for practicing. Mixolydian mode fraktice. 

one conversation

"Heroic duck rescue by mi esposa" inspired music. She discovered the fowl beast on it's back, squawking and squrming in the late spring sun at the "Dollars Tree," in the parkng lot. Hot asphalt. We didn't think there was any chance. 

watch the story video here (4min±)
https://youtu.be/TNsvvnhEFzM

chintimini wildlife center
https://chintiminiwildlife.org/donate/



sweet release

a lz cover, a song for my friend, a song i wouldn't take the time to play the very last time i would ever see him. a song i never finish, just as he wasn't finished. rest in peace. i'm really sorry.

Lilac Wine
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/jQW7w

The Battle Of Evermore (led zeppelin cover)

"Got up this AM.  After 96° heat yesterday, at first light, it must have been 70° and it was pouring.  Perfectly framed, in the only part of the sky I could possibly see on my way into the kitchen in the house, was an impossibly enormous, vibrant rainbow.  It nearly ate up the whole sky.  I swallowed hard and went back for my phone so I could get a picture.  Oatmeal, aplles and walnuts.  Then, back to the studio.  It's apart from the house; a studio apartment.  There was a notification.  It's going to be one of those days."

*A video diary entry from my YouTube experiment.  I wasn't very good about regular entries.  Sometime, one time, a time, a few years back, it had been a grueling summer.  Sweltering heat.  Humidity.  Climate.  Politics.  All bad news.  News getting olds.  Family.  Wife.  Children, now adults.  Mental health.  Deep-rest.

I had seen a video on one of those poetry slam channels.  It ripped my heart right out.  There was another upload from the same artist.  It was going to be one of "those days."
Original video is here --->   https://youtu.be/3453qXd7plY


deep green audio "green about the gills"

one of those days

I love this song two x too 💙🎵💙

When my son was a baby, a toddler, he loved to listen to the Great Expectations soundtrack, this song in particular. and dance. We would always dance with him.   
Naturally. So this song is really special for me. A bit sad. 

My son is a Physics/Math double-major and makes us very proud.  

Original song is hear here 👂->
https://youtu.be/FXm3PlRVuDc

I kept 2 of the 5 or so "takes" and chose this pne to share. The other one is here 
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/dVqRr

LifeInMonoV2(GreatExpectationsSoundtrackCover)

LifeInMono(GreatExpectationsSoundtrackCover)

I hate that I love this song 💙🎵💙
elicits profound sadness
ruined
everything


NoSurprises(RadioheadCover)

Featuring myself on P-bass, V-drums and A guitar, is nine minutes of Cmi blues, separated into three parts so you don't have to sit through nine minutes of me playing with myself. That would be weird.

Picture (part I) Brian-melt – Sea-blue-green-forest-blues-part-i-of-iii-parts is of the Calapooia River, taken from a video I shot with my old scandroid phone. Titled "Reflection - Calapooia River Spirit." You may be able to just make out the River Goddess. 😉🤨😉

Video will go up on eewtube soon. For now, pirated (by me) here...
(sorry for the long link)
www.reddit.com/user/BrianMelt/co…ooia_river_spirit

shReddit is my por man's backup coms. I don't really "reddit" but I do read... it.. that.. you know; stuff, on reddit. And if you don't get involved in the gossipy, judgy, commentizing and rebutting, opinionizizing and spiel-atizing... people petty much leave you tf alone. Now what could be more better than that? PS frak fazebuuk snd frak twigger. What a bunch of deth by a thousand cults. Anyway...
tbc...
This is the last installment.  I'll put all three in a playlist sooner or later. Until then, the other parts are here....
https://soundcloud.com/brian-melt/sea-blue-green-forest-blues-part-ii-of-3-parts
https://soundcloud.com/brian-melt/sea-blue-green-forest-blues-part-i-of-iii-parts
☝😑

Sea Blue Green Forest Blues, part iii of iii parts

lilac wine. rest ing peace. i'm really sorry.

Lilac Wine

half finished.  many versions exist.  music is better on some, vocals... none are perfect, and most are missing vocals on the bridge...
♫never in a lifetime♫
♫have you seen so many people♫
♫deserving love♫
♫deserting love♫
♫why can''t some one tell me♫
♫why is this the best that we can do♫
♫i thought that we could do so much♫
♫so much♫
♫so much for that♫

♫you're not alone etc etc ♫

you're not alone

You'reNotAlone (atcually, you are ;)

The first song I recorded on my tasscam portastudio, maybe 2008 or so. It's a jazz standard I used to love to play with some guys and gals back in CA.  We did it kinda funky.  Impressions by John Coltrane.

Impressions(CoverOfImpressionsByJohnColtrane)

"Remasterd...." for my own practice.
Feedback on the mix welcome, appreciated.
Myself on v-drums, p-bass and a-guitar.
Very much a favorite song.
The video see here, the "unmastered" version hear..
https://youtu.be/tQdRtvbjcA0

Windows(ChickCoreaCoverBrianmelt)

https://youtu.be/aPa6UdvVpmo
https://soundcloud.com/brian-melt/climate-comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbAeTywPiP4&list=OLAK5uy_nieC1SNTTM3E4bQZi1skcHCuNlQ1NhZLM






https://soundcloud.com/brian-melt/lilac-wine/s-UXejG3d6ErW

paul climant comet

daily progress... slow af
proof of life
A work in progress.  Probably I'll leave it up so I remember... the... feeling.   Never love.  Love is a lie.  A big, fat, fangy lie.

from the inside

i think you been there
i know you have
like you won anything
you lost your...
faith

you can't fight 'em from the inside
oh no
i really mean it 
you can't fight 'em from the inside
oh no

i think you made it
into their world
i know you hate 'em
you lost your....
nerve

you can't fight 'em from the inside
oh no
i really mean it
you can't fight 'em from the inside
oh no (etc)
--musics--
you can't fight 'em from the inside
oh no
i really mean it
you can't fight 'em from the inside
oh no (etc)

from the inside

Practice recorded "straight from the bored." Board. af. Will someone please come see me??? No? I thought naught. 
ExcusiveAccessToSpecialEditionVideo
https://youtu.be/nzmOD9-Z7Fk


Killed By Death


Show on!


If you squeeze my lizard
I'll put my snake on you
I'm a romantic adventure
And I'm a reptile too

But it don't make no difference
Cause I ain't gonna be easy, easy
The only time I'm easy's when I'm

Killed by death
Killed by death
Killed by death
Someone


I'm a lone wolf ligger
But I ain't no pretty boy
I'm a backbone shiver
And I'm a bundle of joy

But it don't make no difference
Cause I ain't gonna be easy, easy
The only time I'm easy's when I'm

Killed by death
Killed by death
Killed by death
Someone

https://youtu.be/LZ5fIKmn1ok

Killed by death

Killed by death

Killed by death

Someone's gonna killed by death, someone

Someone

Killed by death

Killed by death

Killed by death

Ahahahahahahaha

Killed by death

Killed by death

Killed by death

Ahhhhhh!

Killed by death

Killed by death

Killed by death

(Killed by a bunch of death)

Killed by death

Killed by death

Killed by death

(Shut out your mouth, shut out your mouth!)

Killed by death

Killed by death

Killed by death

I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead

I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead

Killed by death

Killed by death

Ahhhhhhh!



KilledByDeath(MotorheadCover)

is long distance improv for a long distance relationship.  I'm on the clean electric while Christian dose everything else; acoustic... recording etc. 

Git6point3

Improv with my son (14 then) & pic of the 2017 calif fires from an aeroplane over the searing hot inferno. I would genre this as "beautiful noise" but it not exist. Probably my all-time favorite. 💙

3minjamwithsol

Suprise song "out of the blue" as I struggled to record "windscreen."  I'd been so looking forward to the 2016 eclipse, I'd read a s#!t-ton of internets stuff and watched a lifetime worth of documentaries.  Planet was burning. Germinating idea was that Eb chord from the chorus of Jeff Buckley's "Grace.."💙  And I think I remember something about magnetars, supernovae and black holes.  Wormholes or something?  Time warp?  I dunno. No tellin'.  It sat and aged for a long time. Anyway. =j

timestar

Timestar - splat - off the windscreen

Hard to put into words so I'd better not try. It speaks for itself.

Better Not Try - Splat - Off The Windscreen

I'll follow you back when I can.

Musics, dooms, whatvers. =j

"I'm plays all the instruments and screams."

https://brianmelt.bandcamp.com/merch/tie-dye-t-shirt

Your basic, dopy guitarist, I've been playing all my life. Released 1st album, recorded in 2010, half-ass released and haphazardly introduced on fazebuuk and twigger in 2013.  It was a disaster.  Another.  See link for archived bannedcamp squat "splat - off the windscreen" below.  Eco-friendly "bamboo" 15gb USB also available at bandcamp.  I know.  "Laaame."  Again, link below.  I plays all instruments, sings, do my own recordings and productions, but I use outside helps with masterings.  I thinks I likes Sage Audio.  Anyway...


Playing live regularly isn't really feasible for me at this point in time, but I still love making musics. Leveraging pt8 & w^vista installed on a rusty boat anchor, Tapatíos, pet hairs, superglues and duct tapes, I'm working on a 2nd album. But, I need fund for copyrights, publishings and "all that jazz."  So buy somethings if you can.  Limited quantity. Rare. Unique.  Maybe a "splat - off the windscreen"  15gb bamboo (66% less ecocides) USB with album art.  Great for sampls, other musics, pictures or works... just don't use it for espionages.  ;)  (coming soon to a Bannedcamps near EU) Or just slip me a tips through paypals. 

My album is also available for download (I think) at CD Baby (seedy-baby to me) but, honestly, I have trouble with CD Baby and Bandcamp due to the multiple sign-ins and various accounts required.  I just get fed up and say "aw forget it." But the people at CD Baby are super nice and try really hard to help. I tell them "no, it's me. really."  I'm hopeless. =D


I appreciate you listening and checking out my soundsclouds. Very much. Thank you!!


Laugh, even if through the tears.


Collaborations warmly welcome.


I am a goof. =j

I love to hear from people  =j

BrianMelt  =j

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1zIMMR4UaDEISHbVVcbmJR?si=Iw5tqxYnSVihZO4Pre000Q

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