Best Of 'Good Tunes' #03 [2020-2021]

Vocal version coming soon!

From the upcoming single "Cover Me".
Available soon on all streaming platforms!

Cover Me - Single

Cover Me (Instrumental)

are they still watching us?

lyrics:
I know you’ve been thinking of me
I am more than the eye that you see
We have always lived under the gun
But we’re gone with the rest of the scum

Passing ships in the echoing halls
Too afraid of the eyes on the walls
as you rage at the symbols you see
you were already thinking of me

This is the end
This is the mark
There is no answer you’ll find
standing in the dark
And it’s too late
We’ve run aground
Where we are haunted by
the fury and the sound

Did you hear, I was calling to you?
Oh does it matter, just wait for a few
Do you think they are watching us now
Do you breathe just the way they allow?

We were finally away from the screen
And I can’t keep the memory clean
And the sunlight was gold in your hair
In a room where we felt the free air

This is the end
This is the mark
There is no answer you’ll find
standing in the dark
And it’s too late
We’ve run aground
Where we are haunted by
the fury and the sound

But what we were,
Was something more
Can we go back now
To the place we were before

And we are here
Beneath the glass
A fragile lie
that lies much better in the past

We are breath we are skin and no more
And you can’t make it back to the shore
They may raise up their boot till you blink
But they cannot erase what you think

So I cling to my sweet anodyne
A delusion too frail to define
In the end, you deny what you feel
I am here, I’m alive I am real
I am real

The coral glass is fractured now
There’s no repair
But I will weave the sunlight
In your hair
In a place with no darkness
We will meet again

And I will look for you, my friend

But in the end/They broke you down
And you’ll be haunted by my fury
And the sound

But I am here/ My heart is free
And I won’t let them/Make a liar out of me

So in the end/You’re just a mark
and I’m the whore/
that you left standing in the dark

But I am here/ My heart is free
And I won’t let them/Make a liar out of me

but I am here, my heart is free
and I won't let you make a liar out of me
.

NOTES:
Guess what book this is based on? If you guess wrong, Big Brother will be disappointed in you. 
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I  reread this book a bunch looking for stuff I could include in this song. I could go on a long rant about that process but nobody wants that.  I love the ending where the guy betrays his lover and then they have to look each other in the eye at the weird doomed café. It is such a mood.  
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You can hear a teakettle in the background but I like the vibe so I left it. 
It feels right.  If I try to re-record this song now, it won't have the original passion and perfectly timed tea-kettle...
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... Also, I don't feel like re-recording this song because I slightly forgot a riff.

Siren 1984

Time is everything
Can’t you see how much of it you waste in front of that screen?
So call me out in someone’s else name, boy
Can't you see that none of this is in vain?
I’m following my own ambition.. can you say the same?
Spend all of your time engulfed in somebody else’s flame

So call me delusional behind my back

Time is everything 
It is everything

We’ll See

Neutrals are a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area, channeling a wide range of '70s and '80s punk, post-punk, and indie-pop influences. Their debut album "Kebab Disco" came out in 2019 on Emotional Response Records and garnered universal acclaim as "an excellent collection of terse melodies, unique storytelling, and scraping pop. (AllMusic)". The band followed-up with an excellent five song EP earlier this year on Domestic Departure.

"Personal Computing" b/w "In The Future" is their new single and has the distinction of being the final entry in our SLR30 Singles Series. Both sides were recorded just before the COVID-19 lockdown began and share a bittersweet nostalgia for an imagined rose-tinted future that never was. The mood of thwarted utopian dreams feels all too appropriate right now and the tense, angular songs on this single are an ideal soundtrack for this unsettled moment.

Personal Computing

Neutrals - In The Future

Assumption

Taken from the debut album ‘A Life Extinct’ Recorded at Kluster Rooms, Limehouse, East London. Produced by Rory Attwell.

A Life Extinct is available on 12” Silver Vinyl from crosswires.bandcamp.com

Replicas

"For Daze" by Faux Machismo.

Stand alone single released digitally through MUZAI Records on October 30th 2020.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Chris Mulligan.

VISIT FAUX MACHISMO ON THE WEB:
https://www.facebook.com/fauxmachismo
https://www.instagram.com/fauxmachismo
https://muzairecords.com

Stream on Spotify

Faux Machismo - For Daze

Workout is a tribute to all of the 80s and 90s home workout videos that have been lost to time.

Written and performed by Kalindy Williams and Kurt Eckardt
Mixed and mastered by Mikey Young
Recorded by Kurt Eckardt

Workout

"Self-Theories" album out on the 23rd of November!
SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/selftheories

"Glaring Screens" by Plastic Barricades

Dan Kert - vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards
Paul Love - drums, percussion, backing vocals

Recorded at Shed Studios, London, in 2020
Mixed by Paul Love in Paris, France
Mastering by Andy "Hippy" Baldwin at Metropolis Studios, London, UK

Produced by Plastic Barricades
www.plasticbarricades.eu

P L A S T I C B A R R I C A D E S
Glaring screens

Lie beside me, take my hand
We will feel this planet spinning
Quickly sink into the sand
Where you cannot hear the ringing
Disconnected from this endless stream of hopes and worries
You and I, we could just run away

There’s so many things that escape us when we’re looking down
Glued to those glaring screens in our hands
We think we’ll clear our anxious minds
And walk away on any day
But we’re afraid to disobey
So we’re stuck with this habit
Going down the rabbit hole

What if there’s a simple way to get rid of all distractions
Let’s rewind and then press play
And take charge of all our actions
We’re addicted to this endless stream of information
You and I, we should just run away

There’s so many things that escape us when we’re looking down
Glued to those glaring screens in our hands
We think we’ll clear our anxious minds
And walk away on any day
But we’re afraid to disobey
So we’re stuck with this habit
Going down the rabbit hole

Trapped inside the world wide web
We all keep trying to escape
It’s never easy, but it’s not too late
It’s not too late!

There’s so many things that escape us when we’re looking down
Glued to those glaring screens in our hands
We think we’ll clear our anxious minds
And walk away on any day
But we’re afraid to disobey
So we’re stuck with this habit
Going down the rabbit hole

Self-Theories

Glaring Screens

Written, recorded and mixed by Beige Banquet.
Mastered by Mikey Young.
Artwork by Robin Roche.

Beta

Wired/Weird

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ng3xz2dyz57Z1WpnzM2G7
Bandcamp: https://pogomix.bandcamp.com/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/pogomix
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OfficialPogo
Contact: http://www.pogomix.net/contact

Dash

From 'Miners' (2021) 
https://minersau.bandcamp.com/album/miners

Miners

Life Decline

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advent calendar day 19
https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/my+apostrophe/41299/

my apostrophe

Segunda canción del EP "El errante y las sirenas"

12 De Abril

https://takeyouthere.bandcamp.com/track/promise

promise

A Healthy Future On Earth out now on Kitty Records and Flesh & Bone Records (US)

Records and cassettes available:
https://minersau.bandcamp.com/album/a-healthy-future-on-earth

Miners are:
Blake (guitar/vocals)
Nicholas (bass)
Wilson (drums)

Tunemaking est. 2012

One half of https://soundcloud.com/joymachines

'Good Tunes' Playlist every month(ish)

Contact: maxrutter.music}@{gmail.com

Life Decline

Miners

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