Good Indie I Found

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LYRICS:
All my life I've been searching for the answer,
You pull me right down,
And I can't sleep till midnight,
'Cos you pull me right down,
All my life I've been searching for the answer,
You pull me right down,
And I can't wait 'till dawn now,
'Cos you pull me right down,
I never thought that I would get away from you,
You pull me right down,
And I can't wait 'till dawn now,
'Cos you pull me right down,
All my life I've been searching for the answer,
To why you're so cruel,
To me and my familia,
You pull us right down,
All my life I've been searching for the answer,
You pull me right down,
You pull me right down,
You pull us right down.

I've had enough now!
I've had enough now!
You pull us right down,
You pull me right down,
I've had enough now!
I've had enough now!
You pull me right down,
You pull us right down,
Time with you is like a cancer,
I don't think I'll find an answer real quick,
I can't keep making excuses,
You pull us right down,
You pull us right down,

They'll welcome you with open arms,
And you'll lie,
You pull me right down,
And I can't wait 'till dawn now,
'Cos you pull me right down.

I've had enough now!
I've had enough now!
You pull us right down,
You pull me right down,
I've had enough now!
I've had enough now!
You pull me right down,
You pull us right down,
Time with you is like a cancer,
I don't think I'll find an answer real quick,
I can't keep making excuses,
You pull us right down,
You pull us right down,

× × × × × × × × ×

Narcissists is a independent electronic music project from Preston, Lancashire. Established in 2022, and releasing their debut album Opening Move the same year.

Opening Move, combines retro influences with an energetic, modern rock sound, not disimilar from Harry Styles or The Strokes. 

Opening Move saw some exposure upon release on Wythenshawe FM Radio, The Amos Madra Show and Amazing Radio Afternoons.

In November 2022, performing live atop an art gallery in Manchester, Narcissists made their live debut at the ABC Building, playing on the roof of the gallery in the glass amphitheatre as part of an event organised by House of Art and Heads Magazine.

Narcissists were also interviewed and featured in an article published by Blossom Magazine, an organisation also based in Manchester.

In December 2022, Narcissists performed at The Ferret, a legendary live music venue in Preston, Lancashire. Supporting popular rock band Sugarstone in a bid to save struggling venues affected by the pandemic.

In 2023, Narcissists released King's Gambit, their second studio album. The album featured a post-modern, electronically woven sound. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of electronic styles.

Dark Skies was used as the official soundtrack to popular Internet soap opera "Skew Bridge," crafted by the team from award winning playwriter Jim Cartwright.

King's Gambit

The Answer

Stop and Go

10 Miles High

Production and Vocals: Lake Adagio 

Lyrics:

Don’t have nowhere to go
But I’m on my way
Ain’t never had a clue
Til’ I found your grace
Maybe I’ve had enough
Just had to wait
Lost in your haze
I knew that shit was laced

Tell me what’s next
I’m undressed
Can’t be no one else

So take my doubts
I don’t wanna be too much
Oh, bring me down
Somewhere there’s a peace of mind

Shaking from head to toe
I need your antidote
I don’t wanna be free
You have control
Oh, just leave me tied and bound
Without a pulse
I can’t be saved
I’ve finally found my place

Thank you my friend
For your grace
And my last request
All that I ask, that you 

Take my doubts
I don’t wanna be too much
Oh, bring me down
Somewhere there’s a peace of mind

peace of mind.

SUPERBAD

She sat and stared
Across the room
For seven years we’d share this place
Where are love did bloom

I held her tight
Loved with all my might

So I cry
For all that we shared
Her memory
Will always be
Dear to me

Out from the world and into my heart
Take a piece from outside the box and hold
That memory will set you free
Darling don't be scared to just let it be
And hold that memory

When you can't stop 
thinking about how you miss 
Everything
that she brought to you
Then hold 
that memory
Replace miss with reminisce
And then think
Of how happy she made everybody

Message

The fourth of the Xuberance series breaks its paradigm slightly, parts of it follow straight Xuber and other parts are a weird Switched-On-Bach style miscellany or potpourri.  Altogether pleasing if not exactly what I initially sat down to construct.

198: Xuberance 4, released December 9, 2023

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Douglas P Stoothoff main site:
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DoDeka

Xuberance 4

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Ready For The Country

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ORENT - AVA

The third rather experimental vocal track.  A lot of compressing sections to go faster and match instrumentals.

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itch.io page:
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Lyrics:


And if it isn't too much trouble
I would like to know just what you were angling for
For the time... grows...short
To search for redress, tidy the mess

Riddle me this

As we sit here treading water
Why is it that you keep dodging the issue
Are the terms... too... steep
To broker a deal
What is it you feel

I didn't want, to be cruel
But there comes a time
Begging validation
Plays me for the fool

SexDeka

Why Are You Malfunctioning / Whimsy Number 2 (Lyrical)

Buy on Bandcamp

I liked the technical challenge of this song.  A lot of moving vocal segments around and the first time that I sang harmonies against myself.

Looking at it a day later: it's like theres an extra measure in the verses where Bill shortened once he got to the 2nd-and-later, and I didn't because I cut and pasted, so it explains why I have to idle extra time each verse to deal with that.

But it does inadvertently fill the requirement that "cover songs should have their own weird signature that doesn't match the original too closely"

I very consciously did -not- read the spoilers for who Laura was really about before cutting the cover.  One fun way to interpret who Laura is, if you didn't know it's Joel's mother, is not an ex-wife or an ex-gf, like some are saying, but let's say a niece or a biological daughter that he never sees until Laura is an adult, but what hurts is they're cut from the same cloth, they're -so- similar but Laura's karma is different and gets her in trouble and he always has to financially bail her out etc.  Be a fixer.
She's genius-level but does substances way harder than him and routinely almost gets killed.  Loose cannon.  The 'umbilical cord' in this sense is then the aid he has to give, she -never- shows signs of growing up or out of this phase.

my main website:
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itch.io page:
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OctoDeka

Laura

Laura (Billy Joel Cover)

My fifth cover song so far.  It sorts very well with my personality which is generally how I am choosing which songs to cover anyway.

my main website:
http://exedexes1.com

itch.io page:
http://exedexes1.itch.io

Silence and I

Silence And I (The Alan Parsons Project Cover)

2024 needs some kind of answer to Sting's "Russians" from forty years earlier.  I gave it a decent try.
First thought is "why did you not put an instrumental intro"
But if you hear this thing about 3x then it grows on you

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itch.io page:
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Lyrics:

Give me an abstraction
And I will show you that it's a mistake
A mirage in the desert, a trick of the mind that we make.
Possession being nine-tenths of the law
was bound to stick in someone's craw

The terms do well as a matter of course
Until they hit a counter-force
Legalisms tend to pall
When speciousness smacks into a wall

When the tables turn,
And the balance shifts,
The rules that once seemed solid,
Begin to drift.

The unruly state of nature
In which nations chart their course
Born of cold calculation
Without compassion or remorse

So we must be wary,
And we must be wise,
For what we think we safely hold,
Can quickly turn to lies.

298 : Geopolitical Quicksand released May 29, 2024

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Douglas P Stoothoff main site:
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Master Track List on SC:
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Artist page on Spotify:
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NovemDeka

Geopolitical Quicksand

1995

Website

kolkhorst 2025

inspired by "derrick" german crime story.

ready

Sort of an odd current events vocal around some conversations on Twitter/X

knowyourmeme says of the Breakfast Question or Breakfast Test:

"The Breakfast Question or How Would You Have Felt If You Hadn't Eaten Breakfast? is a bait question and a counterfactual conditional that references a 4chan story of a grad student who allegedly performed IQ research on convicts at San Quentin State Prison. During the research, individuals with low IQ struggled to simulate the hypothetical situation in their minds, instead answering that they did have breakfast. Online, the question has been used in internet arguments as a conspicuous way to indicate that one's opponent is unintelligent, while the posts have often been referenced in memes."

lyrics:

If you overuse an em-dash
Does it make you an elocutionary punctuationist

The goodly man didn't set out to besmirch 
The devices of deep research
But while he was searching for a solution
He walked a subtly distorted hall of mirrors
Wading through epistemic pollution

They warned him in the olden times
Before you get to rolling in the hay
The more helpless the animal she identifies with is, 
The more evil she is by the way

Long after the mome raths outgribe
The fellow emerged from his gooncave
And happened upon the fate's scribe
He wavered like a legless tree
Propped up by her inosculation
Long after the stars did prevaricate
A man from his lair did elevate  

To the dehibernating engineer with the big brain
The fortune teller said while popping the kettle
I don't mean to cause you undue distress
Or general feelings of dread
Unfortunately when the dust settles
You will be arcane
But you will be powerless  

There hasn't lately been effusive gore
Because we're still in the phony war  

She was one of those chicks
Who said I lied I don't have Netflix
She said she was at the end of her rope
Battling appointments from a communist pope
And when she really had me at her mercy
She opened the car door and said
Get in loser we're going to restart the investiture controversy  

Squinting her eyes at the horizon as if trying to see
She capered like a bird before an earthquake
Waiting for the first sounds of the iron catastrophe  

As she drove her paramour in the back seat
Was slumming and chewing the cud and furrowing his brow
He went on to relate
There's an awful lot of endogenous FUD right now
I don't know much about the occult astronomy
But the distribution is shifting
It's the kurtosis economy
Not to get excessively knobbly
I just mean potential for an escalation in instability
In a system that seems like it's already wobbly  

Hey babe i don't mean to be a grimsy
But how much cyproheptadine do I need to take
To completely eliminate my boyish whimsy  

And like hobbits, in the shadow's gloom
Yearning for another bite to consume
We seek the steadiness that's now entombed
In an epoch where darkness might assume  

To gauge the dawn with morning's bite
Throwing shade on our sanctuaries
Beneath the reign of he who was once king
A toss of fate, a sign to bring
A whisper of a bygone era's ring
Where woke destiny's whims do cling

Yet the economy, with its cryptic wile
Plays its game, a trickster's style
Not bound by ancient laws, but by vibe's guile
In a dance of mystery, it does beguile 

We stand, we watch, in this modern murk
For the roll of dice, the next big lurk
And query, with wisdom old and bold
If a second breakfast might the truth unroll
A sudden clarity, a meal's theophany
A veritable crepuscular epiphany

Douglas P Stoothoff main site: exedexes1.com/

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SebēšEšrā

What About Second-Breakfast Test?

thats a song for my boo
inspired from her lips on mine
now im in the mood,
my feelings wanna come out

when im with you, everything is so right
when i walk with you, baby baby i feel proud
just cause of you, i feel so
scoubidoubidoubidoubidapapeye
oh i feel so scoubidoubidoubidoubidapapeye

and i just cant let you go out
out of my mind!
and i just cant think of leaving
you behind
and i just cant ever imagine
telling you lies
oh baby baby please just kiss me
one more time

when im with you, everything is so right
when i walk with you, baby baby i feel proud
just cause of you, i feel so
scoubidoubidoubidoubidapapeye
oh i feel so scoubidoubidoubidoubidapapeye

Scoubidoubidapapeye

Scoubidoubidapapeye (Acoustic version)

All Music By Me

Green Jello and Animal Control  written by Me and HBIC... Everything else written by just Me

Special Thanks to HBIC, Whitney Porter, Toxic Bros., John Moreland, Joe Marion, Jerk Mama 

Art by kiberstalker (PixaBay)

Green Jello

"Babel" is the 2nd full length album by Greece world pop music ambassador Ulisseus.

Ulisseus: Babel
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/ulisseus12

Babel

The Recipe - Η ΣΥΝΤΑΓΗ

Alex in Wonderland

Chemical Kids

A therapeutic journey into a mix of jazz, classical, and a blend of types of electronica.  And a wry, gradual observation that promotion tends to only go as far as you push it.  At least I make my fellow musicians laugh a little.

Good Indie I Found

Doug Stoothoff