Lovin It! Has a Led Zep vibe at the start I dig too but still original

Semen

I make the best paper planes.
I use science to design them.
I make the strangest paper planes.
It may be impossible to explain my style.

Paper Planes

This is a new-ish version of one of the earliest songs I ever wrote. It's nice.
Like all these recent bedroom-studio recordings, it's mostly single takes, beautifully underproduced, and wonderfully low-fi, just how I like them.
Big thanks to Ben Nicholls on keys and synth, and also to Simone Lobbia on the violin, the very first time he'd ever heard the song!

Twitch Armageddon

One of the earliest lost love songs. Acoustic guitar and vocals. Softly sorrowful and unembellished.

Lost Love Songs

The Flea King - Rough Acoustic Version

The Mythological Knife Fight
by Joelmageddon (c) 2012

Don't trust the wayward leaders to save a dying species.
In fact, as well as fiction: 
We are all but kiffle in the mischievous wind.

When situations escalate, and fate begs the question
(addressing each letter with fox-baited breathlessness);
"Why waste the weighted dice 
in the mythological knife-fight for survival?"

In fact as well as fiction:
We are all but kiffle in the mischievous wind.
(...mind like a windmill in the wet season.)
We are all but kiffle in the mystical wind.
(...mind like an emu in the wet seasoning.)

In the flurry of thunder, as the Great Stone is cleft in twain,
a tattered group of wayward believers,
from the vast continents displaced;
shifting plates lost within the dishwasher of consciousness.

In fact, as well as fixing things:
We are all but drifters in the mystical wind.
(...mind like an emu in the wet seasoning.)
We are all but drifting in the mischievous wind.
(...eyes like a dingo, watching my baby.)

Why waste the weighted dice in the mythological knife-fight, 
and the mischie-vious wind?

The Mythological Knife Fight

This track can only describe itself. 
Congratulations and enjoy!

First Rays of Daylight

Whalebonus

Written by Joelmageddon & the amazing Aśka.
...for Aśka, because you're The Greatest!
Thanks for walking with me in the rain. ;*

Raspberry and Rhubarb Slice

This was the 4th track from the live recording: "The Authentic Original Acoustic Stylings of Matthew & Joel"
Written by me in around 1996, performed here by me and Matt Watters in 2002.

The Authentic Original Acoustic Stylings of Matthew & Joel

Astrid

This track was written around 1999, during my days working at Action Blast, under the harsh and continuously threatening rule of Steve and Ray, sweeping a 1000m2 heavy diesel fitters' workshop floor for days alone with a small broom in the quiet times, crawling through massive heavy industrial machines wrapped in rags and gaffa tape, clutching the shotgun handle of a degreaser-armed high pressure cleaner with 3-fingered Theo, perfectly masking the windows of the clean machines for the thinners inebriated painters, while the entirely male workforce waited desperately for the day that the "Sticker Girl" would arrive, like ray of light, to put the decal stickers on the results of our gruelling labour...

The White Eye Album

Unreleased

The Action Blast Medley

Hideaway (demo 3 mp3)

Welcome! 
...to a very rare and elusive location, with many great moments for real music lovers who dare to venture deeper and thus discover.

These are just a small taste of the secret, hidden, epic songs that no one really knows. I recommend giving each track at least a second and third listen. They are not mainstream and take a small, but worthwhile, amount of reacclimatisation.

They were written in the strange passages of my troubled mind, and recorded in various places (which were decidedly non-"professional"), with the help of some amazing musicians who insightfully saw the potential of the creations.

Primarily, in the earliest years, my truely talented younger cousin and closest friend, Matthew Watters.
He was the first person to show me how to play chords on the guitar, shared with me the magic of singing vocal harmonies with someone who actually gets it, intrinsically!
He challenged me to always push myself to write better songs than his latest creation, and it was with him I started my first band, 'Sometimes' in 1993.
I continued writing and performing beautiful songs with Matt, up until he left the planet, back in 2004. 

I have never found his equal, and will never stop missing the joy of playing our songs together.

More recently, and most notably, my excellent friend, Ben Nicholls, who plays all the keyboards and synth tracks when they appear on these songs, programmed some of the drums, recorded and mixed many of the tracks, and helped shape them (and me) into more acceptable creatures, when they/we veered too far towards insanity.

There are also other amazing musicians on these recordings (and the songs not yet posted) to whom I will always be extremely grateful, and will attempt to credit explicitly in the coming weeks, months and years.

I have realised that life is short, and there's only so long you should keep hiding dark but shiny things in your bedroom.

Thank you for taking these ones off my hands and out into the world, through your ear holes. 
Please enjoy, with my blessings. :)

Joelmageddon. 2024

Semen

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