Name: Sail On (demo) by OddBox Eric in TMC Records - July 2023 playlist
Duration: 3 min 24 s
Description: Written on a boat in Turkey. Sailing with my musical friends. Recorded live on a mobile phone so not the best quality! studio version will come along soon.

A playlist full of tracks created by the writers, musicians and producers of our music community, "The MusiCollective" - this is the July 2023 edition, featuring both new songs and some old hits from last year's July list!

A huge congratulations to everyone involved in this. We have a mix of complete recording newbies, seasoned pros and everything in between. All as incredible as each other.

The MusiCollective is a community of people that get behind each others' projects, for example by helping with songwriting, arrangements, recording and production. It is a continuation of TGS Records (@tgs-records) which started as a lockdown project and has been snowballing new members in ever since. If you'd like to join us, get in touch by emailing themusicollective21@gmail.com or filling in this short form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQL…wform?usp=sf_link

TMC Records - July 2023 playlist

Losing my invisibility outside The Landsdowne in Primrose Hill

Cool Old Man

Written on a boat in Turkey. Sailing with my musical friends. Recorded live on a mobile phone so not the best quality! studio version will come along soon.

Sail On (demo)

A song about longing and obsession in the age of social media. About falling in love with someone through a screen. Someone who may or may not be real

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I can hear the sound of dreams
The cigarettes and faded blue jeans
The photographs and played back scenes
Never knowing what they mean

I can see your days collides
The indecision codified
The fantasies and rising tide
History happens in real time

ooh ooh ooh

You could be my daydream
My landslide, my slipstream
My devil chasing moonbeams
Intention lost to the mainstream

I could be your joyride
Your agent on the outside
Your lowest low and highest tide
Watch as I revert to type

ooh ooh ooh

Daydreams And Algorithms

Demo 12 of songs I wrote in my songwriting group. The prompt for this song was to write a recipe in song form. This was a fun/silly write….but also, it’s pretty accurate, so if you want to make some delicious soup just follow along (who needs measurements…)!

photo by Jenn Seguinot (Thru Jenn’s Frames Photography)

The Soup I Was Planning to Make for Dinner

Tomato paste
Tomato paste
Not to be put in with haste 

Tomato paste
Tomato paste
Oh you have to wait

We start with the onions 
The garlic and the ginger					
We think of the feast 
We are having for dinner

Then we add the vegetables
Vegetables, it’s time
I like zucchini and potatoes but use what you have
Anything is fine

And now…tomato paste
Tomato paste
Not a minute more to waste

Stir in tomato paste 
Tomato paste 
Stir once more just in case

Now grab your spices
Garlic powder, cayenne pepper 			
Paprika, salt, oregano 
It all makes it taste better 

Now a can of diced tomatoes
And a lot of olive oil 
And some broth, fill up the pot
It’s time for it to boil 

Tomato paste 
Tomato paste
It’s almost ready to taste

Add more olive oil 
Now the time is up
Fill your bowl and your cup

The Soup I Was Planning to Make for Dinner (demo)

A song that came out of an atrocious songwriting challenge to write a tune with less than 20 words. So, not my usual wordy rhyme galore style (and makes me cringe a bit still) but a lot of repeating and stretching words out as long as possible, so I hope the extra harmonies somewhat offset the lack of substance... very rough mix at this stage as well because I was in a rush, so the levels and panning are probably a bit dodgy.

Verse 1
Wide awake, awake, awake now
I’m wide awake
The demons inside inside inside
Wanna play

Chorus
I wanna let (it) go
Let it go, let it float away

Verse 2 (6)
I’m holding on and on and on
I’m holding on 
To the devil I hide I hide I hide
I hide away

Chorus
I wanna let (it) go
Let it go, let it float away

Bridge
Wide awake, awake, awake now
Wide awake
Float away, away, away
Float away

Chorus
I wanna let (it) go
Let it go, let it float away

Verse 3
I’m wide awake awake awake now
I’m wide awake

Wide Awake (demo)

Crash Test Dummy

I'm Down

Written whilst crossing the Atlantic on a tall ship - we were quite literally a thousand miles from anywhere

A Thousand Miles From Anywhere - 01:03:2019, 16.19

Waltz #2 (Elliott Smith cover)

This is part of the album/playlist "Hindsight" https://soundcloud.com/jenni-grossmann/sets/hindsight 

A song about a crush that dragged on forever but was never resolved - and an attempt to write a sort of Taylor Swift-esque song.

Many thanks to Thomas and Doug for their useful feedback on the various stages of this track (and in Doug's case, for his epic bass contribution!)!

Lyrics:

Verse 1
I saw you - right at the start I still know I thought
I hope this one’s more-than-easy-on the eye but funny kind honest and smart
And time flies, I feel kinda creepy watching you and the guys,
I’m clearly trying way too hard to be all casual when I’m not

And I - hear my pulse pounding loudly, in my ears whenever someone says your name, or I see someone who kinda moves like you
And I - feel the blood rush right into - my cheeks when you get on the same train, or glance at me from the back of the room.

Verse 2
I look around - no one I know, the music’s way too loud, I’m all alone in a faceless crowd of 40000, that’s what they call fun
But suddenly - I spot you there right of me, 
I shout your name feeling pretty dumb but you grab my hand and the damage is done!

And I - can’t believe that you really pulled me into this magnificent scene someone plucked straight out of my silliest dreams
And I - am relieved that you seem to be grinning just as widely as me, my head is spinning round working out what this means.

Chorus
I’m thinking...
We coulda been something or maybe something more and
I coulda said this and that, if I’d been there before her... 
It woulda been coulda been ... maybe it shoulda been the beginning ... of something more... of something more... of anything... anything other than this.

Verse 3
We’re out in town - I message you to see if you are around
I guess I’m a fool, shooting into the dark 
But then out of the blue suddenly there you are.
The night goes on, I worry you might not be having fun 
So I take a leap into the river of fear, 
My heart is skipping a beat, I say let’s get out of here.

So now - we’re alone in the crowd and I know one of us should make a move, I can hear the clock ticking past the moment of truth
And how - have we both not gone home yet but keep tryin’ to stay awake for sign, the brakes are kicking in this is the end of the line.

Chorus

Verse 4
And there she goes, straight from the cover of a magazine,
I hear the choir in my head just singing... Jolene, Jolene
And here we are, I’m showing you how to play guitar
and you make me dinner in return,
But I guess these songs are all for her.

And I - guess the friend zone‘s the best place for me to be, so I can sit here looking at you waiting for you to look at me
And I - can’t help but read into everything you do, everything you say, every little look you throw my way.

Chorus

Hindsight

Coulda Been

The MusiCollective is a community of musicians that get behind each others' projects, for example by helping with songwriting, arrangements, recording and production. It is a continuation of TGS Records (https://soundcloud.com/tgs-records) which started as a lockdown project and has been snowballing new members in ever since. If you'd like to join us, get in touch by emailing themusicollective21@gmail.com or filling in this short form: https://forms.gle/yhyjNKzWGidVCZgN9

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Sail On (demo)

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