Submissions — Week 37 (Theme: Minor)

I Feel The Lift Off

Reddit Song a Week, for week 6. Theme: Samples

Finally! I was able to devote a little more time than 2 hours to a song for the song-a-week project. This week's theme was samples so that's what I did. I used to work in aerospace (hence the Critical Space Item sticker on my bass case) and found a repository of space sounds at the NASA website. Good place to start.

In addition to the obvious samples in the song, I also recorded the bass lines by tracking them at 120 bpm and bumping them to 177 to give them a crisp, artificial sound. I also pushed the EZ Drummer grooves well past their bpm comfort zones for a sampled feel. 

One other sample is a "tsk!" noise created by holding a flat-springed slinky made out of plastic in a certain way and playing so the flats of plastic all smacked together. That was fun!

Get your ass to Mars, kids! Er, I mean, the Moon!

I Feel The Lift Off

If you only do one thing today, find a person with a coexist bumper sticker and punch them in the face
I have no tolerance for the tolerant
Their self-righteous hollering will give your ears will get cholera

OOOO i hate your guts
OOOO i hate your guts
OOOO i hate my guts

I read Dostoyevsky in public and Hunter x Hunter in my bed
I regurgitate quotes from large books I’ve never read
Come on, deep thoughts, impress the ones I love and the ones I want
I extract my identity from the media I consume
I’m shallow as a kiddie pool and empty as a tomb
Your words are sperm
My mind is a barren womb


Coexist

Lesser Evil - 2016 Week 46

Mouth Moods

Walls - 2018 Week 37

From the /r/songaweek theme "Minor."

Lyrics:

Let's go to war
I think you'd like it
It's just the perfect thing
To feed your insanity

Lets go to war
I think you want it
Just by listening to
The way you talk to me

Heaven forbid I'm the one who wanted to love you
To actually forget the things that you did to shame you
Thankfully words aren't bullets or I'd be dead
But years full of memories are something I won't forget

Lets go to war
Lets tear each other apart
Lets go to hell
Lets give into the madness
Lets live in fear
With the corpse of that which we call love
Lets stay right here
Since the future requires us to grow

What's this fight really all about? 
Whats the pain that led to all your doubt? 
Why do you try and fight me 
When all I want is to give you peace? 

What the hell is wrong with me?

Let's Go To War

Wrote this song with my wife

Lyrics:
The smell of your pillow reminds me I’m alone
The socks by my door won’t upset you anymore
The very last sip at the bottom of your cup
You might come back for it I’m not gonna clean up

You’re still around but didn’t mean to be
This was for us 
This was for us
This was all for us
This was for us 
This was for us
This was all for us

The cookies are less sweet without you by my side
Fixing the towels, I feel you are right behind
That oversized shirt that you wore to sleep at night 
The ring on the counter, I gave to hold you tight

You’re still around but didn’t mean to be
This was for us 
This was for us
This was all for us
This was for us 
This was for us
This was all for us

I love you but we still don’t belong
You were here but now you’re gone

This was for us 
This was for us
This was all for us
This was for us 
This was for us
This was all for us

This Was For Us

Ahhhh it's been forever since I recorded anything. This is so rough but, hey, it's something new!

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Two kids wandering down an overgrown road
Both with sweaters on to ward off the evening cold
Oh the cold, do you feel it grow?
I don’t know, I don’t know, there’s not far to go

Ooooh what will we find down in the pines
Or will we say never mind

Tiny mushrooms springing from the rotting earth
Little whisperings as the leaves shake off the birds
Oh the birds, what have they heard?
I don’t know, I don’t know, but time will soon show

Ooooohhh what we will find down in the pines
Or will we say never mind

A clearing, some pines up ahead
Or should we turn back instead?
A sharp glint of silver in your hand
Wait oh wait I don’t understand 

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At the bottom of the hill, a thick patch of mud
Are these pine needles enough to cover the blood?

Oh the blood, why must it flood
I don’t know, I don’t know, where else can it go?

Ohhhhh don’t leave me behind down in the pines
Or will we say nevermind

Ohhhhh don't leave me behind down in the pines
I should have said nevermind

Walls - 2018 Week 37

Reese Wadley

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