Highlights from songs written and/or produced by Brother Toadstool and recorded in the Odd by Midnight Studio

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Odd by Midnight

Summer 2025 Discoveries.

Many people simply want to hear and enjoy some great new music without having to waste time searching for hours. These Musical Discoveries collections aim to fulfil those needs. At least, we hope so! :)

This playlist is a compilation of the favourite musical discoveries of the Wud Records team from everything they heard at SoundCloud during May, June and July 2025.

Tracks have been arranged according to the number of plays at the moment of publishing, starting with the fewest. Tracks that are early in playlists tend to receive more plays than later tracks, and we feel that the ones with fewer plays need the best chance of exposure.

Why not promote your track on social media and watch it overtake the play counts on later tracks? Now there's a challenge!

These compilations used to be monthly, but with the algorithms becoming ever more squeezed, fewer people are finding and listening to them now. If listenership should increase, we may revert to monthly playlists again. More here: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/wud-records-future-of-musical-discoveries/

This playlist is extremely eclectic, so if the track you are playing isn't quite doing it for you, try the next one. It will probably be completely different.

If you enjoyed listening to something here, please give it a like and a repost. Follow the artist. Give them a shoutout on social media. Check out some of their other tracks. Buy something from them and your support will help them to keep going. Doing any of this will help raise their profile. At the very least you might make their day. :)

Sharing is very, very important !!

Sharing is a massive help for independent artists. They don’t have big corporations and mainstream media saturating every channel with their product. Every independent share counts.

Giving something a ‘like’ is nice, but sharing exposes the artist to your followers. This means that anybody in your community can see and click on what you shared. They can potentially enjoy it as well. It enables somebody new to discover the artist and become their newest fan. You create the chance for that to happen.

If you happen to be on this playlist, please share, and give us a shoutout on your social media feeds - because if we spot it, it gives us another opportunity to repost you and big you up. Please listen to as many tracks by the other great bands as you can - at the very least the one before yours, yours, and the one after yours, to hear how you stack up - and... enjoy!

See also:
* this playlist at Wud Records: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/summer-2025-musical-discoveries
* all Musical Discoveries compilations: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/
* news about this playlist: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/wud-records-summer-2025-musical-discoveries
* find us here: https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Downloads help us! :)

Summer 2025 Discoveries

Black Swan

Black Swan (feat. Tommi Salmela)

You're young
You're in a band.
Touring around
Playing around
But then several years later....................KARMA!

ALL COMING BACK TO HAUNT ME

Wait a minute
Something’s wrong here
Just a little minute
Let it go
You’re coming over
A little strong, dear
Is there some reason 
That I should know

All coming back to haunt me
All coming back to show
All coming back to haunt me
All coming let it go

You say we met up
7 years or so
You said we had a, 
We had a good time
And now you rock up
At my family door
Telling me this is 
This child is mine

All coming back to haunt me
All coming back to show
All coming back to haunt me
All coming let it go

Spoken

"Wait a minute, wait a minute
Keep your voice down, keep your voice down
Are you....?
Are you saying?
Nah. Nah.
Are you, are you telling me that?
Nah.
Are you trying to say that?
What I think you're trying to say?
Nah, nah, nah
You think....?
You're, you're telling me that......?
I'm his daddy?"

All coming back to haunt me
All coming back to show
All coming back to haunt me
All coming let it go

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All Comin' Back To Haunt Me

Lyrics:

"How did this start?
Now it's falling apart.
Everything we built was just weak from the start.
It washed away...

Lost in a day...

I don't know why,
It's got to fall.

You can help everyone,
but you can't help yourself,
year after year,
You keep spinning your wheels,

Is this your fate?

The hour's late...

Another day passes and I hear you complain,
Nothings as you like,
But you're too tired to change,

It's getting old...
What were you sold?

Oh I don't know why, it's got to fall.

You're looking right at me,
But you never quite see,
That all these everyday assumptions
Make you lie through your teeth

No way to be...
What do you see?

Oh I don't know why - it's got to fall.
It's got to fall."

Fall (Demo)

"I've been 2000 miles just to be nowhere
I've seen people big and small inside of their heads,
And all I've learned is just one thing,
It's that...

Everything is everything,
Or at least it can be (with the right eyes)
Everything is everything,
Or at least it can be (with the right eyes)

You can break it down,
And turn it around,
Painting your perception,
Like a piano paints a sound,

But be mindful should you choose to be free,
Because...

Everything is everything,
Or at least it can be (with the right eyes)
Everything is everything,
Or at least it can be (with the right eyes)

Everything is everything,
Or at least it can be...

I hope I make it out alive,
I hope I make it out alive,
I hope I make it out alive,
I hope I make it out alive!!

When I came to you,
You were so confused,
Did not know what to do,

Was I looking for,
An open door,
A place to hide?
I slipped inside...

...these morning sounds..."

Everything is Everything + Morning Sounds Reprise (October 2024 Demo)

Lyrics:

"Back at home ain’t much changed, 
you still ain’t got a thing for me
Maybe I’m the one to blame
All these years and it’s still the same, 
aches and pains nearly every day
Lord I oughta be ashamed

But have I got news for you
I’m getting outta here soon
Am gonna try and never look back

Come Monday, I’ll be on the road, 
losing my load, scratching x’s and o’s
a traveling band, living out a melody
come Tuesday, I’ll be down in Louisiana 
bangin’ on the keys of this ole dusty piano
Living my life through a song that’s in a dream
Aw that’s the only way it’s gonna be

Running hard, dark through light, 
never slow down, day or night
Someday maybe I’ll draw the line
But as long as you’re on my mind, 
peace and ease’ll be hard to find
The miles between us ain’t much of a divide

But they say down in Mexico
Where the ladies and cowboys go
La cantina donde la cerveza fuje,

Come Friday, I’ll be south of the border, 
mind outta order and memory getting shorter
El diablo verde et   tequila driving me
And come Saturday, I’ll be at a bar, strumming away on my ole guitar
Burning your memory down like kerosene
Oh that’s the only way it’s gonna be

Come Monday, I’ll be on the road, losing my load, scratching x’s and o’s
In a traveling band living out a melody
And come Friday, I’ll be at a bar, strumming away on my ole guitar
Burning your memory down like kerosene

Oh that’s the only way
That’s the only way
That’s the only way it’s gonna be
It’s gonna be"

Written by John David Harrison
Produced by Brother Toadstool
Recorded at the humble Odd by Midnight Studio

Performed by the Odd by Midnight band featuring:
Jason Wilson (Brother Toadstool) - Vocals, Guitar, Organ
John David Harrison - Keys, Vocals
Mitchell Phillips - Drums

Vocals Updated and Outro Added on 11/3/2024

The Only Way (Demo)

Re-edit of previously released "Kaleidoscope Window" from Johnny and the Appleseeds' "In The Beginning" EP

Remixed with added vocals and sound effects.

This song is part of a concept album that tells a story about a scientist confronted by a stranger and taken on a journey through the "kaleidoscope window" into a world that challenges his logical pre-conceived notions and beliefs about the world.


Jason Wilson - Guitar, Vocals
John David Harrison - Keys
Josh Gallaspy - Guitar
Mitchell Phillips - Drums
Noel Guess - Bass Guitar
Zac Clarke - Vocals

Written by Jason Wilson
Redux produced by Brother Toadstool at Odd by Midnight studio

Kaleidoscope Window Redux

I Dont Feel the Same - Demo

Hell Dive

This unrealized horror movie theme has been transformed into a tribute to one of the classic horror movies of all time. 

Unrealized Horror Movie Theme (Night of the Living Dead Tribute)

Lessons forgotten on the return back home.