Fun, party dance song for the whole family.   This is what happens over the Thanksgiving holidays when your 6-year-old granddaughter picks up the maracas in your music studio and says to you on her birthday: "Hey Pops, let's make a song."....and you respond: "What's the name of the song Shannon?"....and she says: "Shake-a-Dake-a-Dake!"

Music Iz Medisin

Shake-a-Dake-a-Dake

Grungy, heavier sounding rock song about being overwhelmed, surrounded by distractions, and trying to rise above it all.

Lyrics:

Verse 1
The wolf is hungry; I throw him a bone.
 I find it buried in a shallow hole.
Crowd is angry I want to go home 
To a useful life and a peaceful role.

Verse 2
Kettle's boiling as the whistle blows 
With a piercing cadence while I'm on the phone.
The tempest in the teapot dulls to drone.
My calm, exuberant balance goes

Chorus 1
But I can't escape the feeling
When I'm slammed with spies and moles
So I try to run for cover
From high anxiety pills and trolls.


Verse 3
Now we're talking about who's indicted.
The cynosure turns to the latest rift
I try to focus but can't get excited
About a media frenzy and a facelift.

Chorus 2
And I'm slammed with tough decisions
I can't clear my head
The trees block my view of the forest
I see spots when I go to bed.

Chorus 3
I can't escape the feeling. 
Here comes another squall.
No ice cream or idle dreaming
I'm slammed against a wall.

Chorus 4
And now my psyche’s screaming
Ideas in torrents, waterfalls
My day has lost its meaning
Dark fears palpable

Instrumental

Verse 4
Spider's dangling from a thread
Lions roar, hyenas moan.
I can’t explain what's in my head.
The die is cast, my body's done

Chorus 5
Now I will rise above it
I'm buoyant, right as rain
Hot damn I'm riding a wave.
Caught a wall of water while the surfers gaze

Repeat Chorus 2
And I'm slammed with tough decisions
I can't clear my head
The trees block my view of the forest
I see spots when I go to bed.

Repeat Verse 1
The wolf is hungry; I throw him a bone.
 I find it buried in a shallow hole.
Crowd is angry I want to go home 
To a useful life and a peaceful role.

Slammed

This track is from the album Plastics, Alcohol, and Misfits and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/newrhetoric3

Miniver Cheevy (Extended Version)

A song paying tribute to many famous and some not-so-famous rock legends...the numerous rock stars who died before their time from drug overdoses, accidents, or other ailments, along with their aging counterparts who carry on today...last updated to include Prince....over 100 artists, bands, song lines or rock songs are referenced in this classic littany of who's who in rock.

Punks & Poets (long version)

Cynical, biting song aimed at the faceless bankers and money power brokers who exploited the american and world banking systems, caused the financial meltdown in 2008, and were never caught or prosecuted...come out of hiding, Mr. Bowtie! (...for some unknown reason, I always picture the b***tards in bowties)

Nothing Flat

Mr Bowtie

dark, brooding, ballad about humiliation and banishment with a driving acoustical rhythm in A and D minor

Crawl

Besides capturing the soothing magic of music in general, this song is about the invention of the phonograph...in 1877..by none other than Thomas Edison

Music Is Medicine

This is a fun song is about daydreaming...or maybe just A.D.D
...think whimsical

I Lost Myself

Pensive song about the conflict over race relations and the state of affairs in America 2020

Breathe Deep

Sails & Horses


Lyrics

Music is medicine
So I hear
Music is medicine
Thank Thomas Edison
Music is medicine
In my ear

A scientist put sound to glass
And everybody laughed
They called it a phonautograph
It had its time
It did not last

Enter Thomas Edison
At Alexander Bell's lab
A paper cone
The telegraph
Some foil, cylinders
A phonograph

Music is medicine
So I hear
Music is medicine
Thank Thomas Edison
Music is medicine
In my ear

The time had come
To change the world
Record and play it back
The aftermath inspired Jazz
Creative spark
In Menlo Park

Music is medicine
So I hear
Music is medicine
Thank Thomas Edison
Music is medicine
In my ear

Music is medicine
So I hear
Music is medicine
Thank Thomas Edison
Music is medicine
In my ear

ITalkToMyself2

Breathe Deep (Mastered With Clear Sky At 50pct)

New Rhetoric is an American "studio only" Indie/Alternative rock band formed in Barrington, RI and Boston, MA in 2008.  The primary songwriter is Paul Oristaglio (Barrington, RI).  Paul connects with various local (New England-based) musicians for arranging and recording his songs.  Many of the musicians have been associated with the Berklee School of Music in Boston.  Paul's style influences for songwriting are fairly eclectic. They have come from rock, grunge, punk, pop, English folk and even classical music. His inspirations come from everyday ordinary events, and usually contain an element of humor or entertainment value lyrically (via word play, parody or poignancy) beyond just the music itself. New Rhetoric completed a private release of a CD containing 9 songs in 2010 entitled "Let's Go For A Ride".  It included a song, Dear Mr. President, for which a You Tube video is available that parodied the financial/banking meltdown that started in 2008. In early October 2014 New Rhetoric digitally released 5 remixes of songs from the Let's Go From A Ride CD, on which some new vocals, harmonies, drums and guitar were added. On October 31, 2014 (Halloween) New Rhetoric released a new collection of 14 songs entitled "Plastics, Alcohol, and Misfits".  It is a diverse collection of music (mostly about dysfunctional characters) that is quirky, eclectic and lyrically entertaining.  New Rhetoric's last full CD was a private release of a 14 song effort completed in December 2016 entitled "Nothing Flat".  Songs like "It's Not Coldplay", "Mr. Bowtie", "Crawl", "Don The Sociopath", and "Punks and Poets" continue to reveal a wide songwriting range for this artist.  Songs from all these past efforts plus several new singles (including the title track "Music Is Medicine", folky "Sails & Horses", whimsical "I Lost Myself", pensive "Breathe Deep", grungy "Slammed", and crazy-fun "Shake-a-Dake-a-Dake") from the forthcoming next release "Music Iz Medisin" are all featured here on Sound Cloud.

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