1976
by me.

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"Summers here at last and everybody's outside
I'd like to come and join you but I'm staying inside
Call me a recluse - but really, I'm just fine
My muse is back at last, its the only thing on my mind

I'm staring out the window and I see her walk past
My mind starts to race and my heart beats fast
I was going to stay in but I think she's changed my mind
I want to feel the heat and the sunshine in my eyes

New perspective - Maybe I should go, I should go outside
She's selective - Maybe she wants me, maybe she wants me

She's wearing next to nothing and she's got me transfixed
She's hotter than July of 1976
She always looks good, but today she looks divine
Why don't you come inside and show me your tan lines

This weather is infectious and I'm feeling over-dressed
I'm trying to find the courage to openly suggest
The good things - and the bad things - which come to mind
That maybe she, and maybe me, should become entwined 

New perspective - Maybe I should go, I should go outside
She's selective - Maybe she wants me, she wants me inside

I think that some things changing 'cause I've never been this bold
Losing my inhibitions, think I'm getting old
Some things are too important to be left untold
But I'm just a daydreaming nobody when all told

She is divine
And everything is fine
No need to change my design
I just need time, remind myself that she's all mine

She's all mine
In my mind, she's all mine"

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1976

Seasons.
by me.

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"Certainty leaves me, ostensibly grieving
For times when my reasons were clear

Free form and hasty, organically chaste 
In pursuit of ambition so dear

I need reminding, and redefining now

Compromise, on your side
Each to their own
We breeze through the seasons
And pay as we grow

I need reminding, and redefining now

Words have no meaning, but spoken with feeling
Austerity coated with soul

I'm older not wiser, I blindly define
A design which looks homely, but cold

Maybe it's kinder, to let reminders go?

Compromise, on your side
Each to their own
We breeze through the seasons
And pay as we grow

Put it behind me, it can't define me
I'll just pretend I know"

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Seasons

Unselected (the resurrected deselected reselected remix)
by me (sort of)

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"I see you swim around so freely, 
I just wish that you could hear me,
To know that you're there's enough, 
I do not feel the need to touch,
We promised we'd never be parted,
Or at least that's the way it started,
I can't make it on my own,
I need the truth to bring it home

There isn't any way of knowing,
Where we've been or where we're going, 
Open wounds go unattended,
At least now we'll stop pretending,
Stand me up and push me forward,
Do exactly as I'm ordered, 
Too many things still go unspoken, 
There is no promise to be broken,

I know these things seem unrelated,
But see this monster you've created,
You have never been rejected,
I'm just left here unselected,

You're not one to imitate,
You know when it's time to detonate,
You took a chance you brought it to me,
You reeled me in you blew a hole right through me,
Stand me up and push me forward,
Do exactly as I'm ordered, 
I can't make it on my own,
I need the truth to bring it home

I know these things seem unrelated,
But see this monster you've created,
You have never been rejected,
I'm just left here unselected,

Unselected"

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This is a song that I wrote a long loooooooong time ago with my old band Amoeba. Just before we "split" (pun intended), we demo'd a second version of it which we dubbed "Reselected"... It retained the original lyrics and vocal line, but with a complete new tune underneath it. It was a bit of a half-baked effort to be honest, but there was clearly a huge potential for the track.

Alas, the band broke up, and Reselected never saw the light of day... Until now

This is - to my mind, at least - the way the song should have sounded. This isn't a "Remix" per se, but it has gone through several incarnations, and after well over a decade, I think I can finally put this track to bed. So yeah, this version is "by me", but there's quite a history behind it!

Credit where it's due to Steve Fitch and Ivan Weiss for their contributions to the writing & arrangement of this track.

Enjoy :)

Unselected

Another Life
by me.

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"Let's talk about the elephant in the room,
Out in the open now we've nothing left to lose,
Let's reveal our secret identities, 
I'll pretend to be you if you pretend to be me,
I think that I could do without the doom and gloom,
Your paranoia shakes the window like a sonic boom,
You could call it an identity crisis,
But I'll admit that I secretly like this,

I wanna live another life with you,
I'll see you in another life,
Join me in another life,
I'll see you in another when I'm lying to you.

Wrap my brain in cellophane and I present it to you,
Not like I use it, so just see what you can do,
Maybe you could put into a deep-freeze,
Bring it back to the world when the elephant leaves,
Fast forward to a time when you're no longer you,
And I'm no longer me, and we can be something new,
We'll say goodbye to our identity crisis, 
And die of boredom 'cause we secretly liked it,

I wanna live another life with you,
I'll see you in another life,
Join me in another life,
Join me in another lie,
I'll see you in another life,
I'll see you and another, and I'll be lying to you."

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Another Life

Drone (Happiness Awaits You).
by me.

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"Beneath the ebb and flow,
It’s strictly need to know,
The truth behind the eyes,
Is easy to disguise when you’re not really interested,

It’s not unreasonable,
It’s even feasible,
To think that we’re the same,
Or maybe I'm insane and I'm the last to know about it,

Do not do as I do, Do as I say,

Happiness awaits you!
If I don’t first disgrace you,
You’re only as good as I say you are,
And just know how easy you are to discard,

You’ll learn to toe the line,
Your morals realigned,  
So that they mirror mine,
You’ll sacrifice your mind, your thought processes are disconnected

You’re bigger than your skin,
And you lack discipline,
So get your head on straight,
And I will demonstrate my egocentric self-indulgence,

Do not do as I do, Do as I say,

Happiness awaits you!
If I don’t first disgrace you,
You’re only as good as I say you are,
And just know how easy you are to discard,

Happiness awaits you!
If I don’t first replace you,
You’ll never be what you’re led to think you are,
You’ll be disposed of before you can get far,

Happiness awaits you!
But given time I’ll displace you,
You’re only as good as I say you are,
You’ll be disposed of before you can get far,

Apathy embraced you,
And gluttony will debase you,
You are now complicit within this farce,
And know that you’re doomed before you even start."

Video with Lyrics: http://youtu.be/BiCPmZ9qkPk

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Drone (Happiness Awaits You)

Home.
by me.

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"When the epiphany came it seemed familiar
When calculating the risk, results were similar
Establish function and form, and learn the science of art
Wants and needs a million miles-
apart from any other reason, reason has us digging a hole
Does not compute, but it's a binary decision to fold
Or to twist, our differences resolved with a fist
The dichotomy inside will persist

I know that we are alive, and all together alone
And now that I have arrived, I know I wanna come home
Do you see what I am? I am but binary code
And I don't know where I am, but I know I'm not home
Can I come home?

We tried to rinse and repeat the same old formula
Believed that we were the one in several million
Critical thinking abandoned for an irrational heart,
Mind and matter set to-
depart on an intangible path to ambiguity
Final analysis comes and brings uncertainty
A life of zeroes and ones, where choices can't be undone
What are we programmed to become?

I know that we are alive, and all together alone
And now that I have arrived, I know I wanna come home
Do you see what I am? I am but binary code
And I don't know where I am, but I know I'm not home
Can I come home?

When can I come home?
We're all together alone"

Video with lyrics: http://youtu.be/BRQUGv-r_R4

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Home

Let it go.
by me.

[UPDATE: 19/06/13 - I've been tinkering with the mix on this one to try and conquer my compression demons! Let me know if you can hear any improvement!]

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Can I fill this vacancy? 
Count on nobody but me 
Justify my own decisions

Am I in ascendancy? 
Is it just a fallacy? 
I defy my own position

As my self-esteem implodes 
And my senses overload 
Am I obsessed or simply driven?

As I have no self defence 
So I face the consequence 
Nothing taken nothing given

Let it go 
Tell and show 
Thick and thin 
Under my skin 
There's no sense here any more 
Should have ended long before 
No more barricade around us 
The world is waiting, let it in

We have no sense of direction to 
Look ahead and move it forward through
We have no sense of direction

If I acted decently 
Maybe you would notice me 
But I'm not sure it's that easy

There's a vacuum in my soul 
And I need a different goal 
Take it back to the beginning

Let it go 
Tell and show 
Thick and thin 
Under my skin 
There's no sense here any more 
Should have ended long before 
No more barricade around us 
The world is waiting, let it in

True, I guess that we are through 
There can be nothing new 
Now we have no sense of direction to

Somewhere we can glue 
Ourselves together to 
Try to look ahead and move it forward
(x3)

And it's been noted recently 
That I'm acting differently 
Try to understand my reasons

I need you to be my tree 
Create oxygen for me 
Cos without you I'll stop breathing

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Let it go

Where The Wild Things Are
Arranged, Performed and Recorded by me
Written by Brittany Toennies -  a.k.a. Dolll - https://soundcloud.com/cocaineqwack

Inspired by the story of the same name, recorded as a tribute to author Maurice Sendak who would have been 85 years old this week.

Check out the Dolll original version here: https://soundcloud.com/cocaineqwack/where-the-wild-things-are

"In and out of weeks and
almost a year away,
Made a king of
misfits just like he,

Wearing the skin of 
the thing that he'd
slaughtered to become
misfortune made

Name and blameless,
banded, running free,
the earth beneath their
weightless, soundless feet.

Where the wild things are
in a forest very far away…
And innocents do come,
so sweetly led through
night and day...

Home did twine like
whispers while he'd sleep,
and, one night he tried,
to find he could not leave,

Yellow-eyed and 
jealous brothers 
bared their teeth
most frighteningly

With desperation, "Stop!"
he cried, now trapped
for they would not
renounce their king

Where the wild things are
in a forest very far away…
And innocents do come,
so sweetly led through
night and day"

Where The Wild Things Are

I'm pleased to present a new interpretation of my track "Let It Go", put together by dance music artist/producer Steve Peck - aka "digitalmisfits". Steve is a very talented guy with some fantastic off-the-wall ideas, and I've really enjoyed our on-line collaboration over the last few weeks. 

And when I say "collaboration", I must say that all the hard work has been done by Steve! All I've really done is mail him occasionally with the odd comment like "ooh I like that bit", and "this bit reminds me of Aphex Twin - Cool!".

Be sure to check out his soundcloud page: http://soundcloud.com/stevepeck, and if you haven't heard the original of this track you will find it here: http://soundcloud.com/allthingsbob/let-it-go

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Let it go (digitialmisfits remix)

Online collaboration with talented artist All Things Bob , edm remix of his alternative rock tune "let it go", it was great working with Bob, enjoyed it a lot 
His soundcloud site is https://soundcloud.com/#allthingsbob
and you can hear the original on this link https://soundcloud.com/#allthingsbob/let-it-go 

Lyrics and original arrangement by Bob Sharman

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All Things Bob "Let it go" digitalmisfits remix

Artist & producer 
Remixing, producing and writing
Anything with a groove>>

All of the stuff below was written a decade ago so none of it is really relevant any more.
~Bob (2023)

Geek. Miserable so-and-so. Square peg in a round hole with daydreams of living happily ever after by the sea.

After almost a decade as songwriter, bassplayer and singer with the band Betamax, with all it's highs and lows, I found myself suffering a severe case of writers block. All Things Bob is my attempt to find a cure with an ongoing and growing collection of musical experiments. All music, instrumentation, lyrics, recording and production is done by me. My techniques, both from a song-writing and production point of view, are constantly evolving and improving. I started with a four-track iPhone app and an acoustic guitar in March 2012. 

Hopefully, you'll like like what you hear on my page, and enjoy listening to my journey from just a year ago when I was genuinely unsure if I would ever be able to write another song....

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Oh and it should go without saying, but just to be clear - All songs are written, performed and produced by me (unless otherwise stated).

Below are some reviews of my work to date:

"(All Things Bob) is now trying his hand at a solo career and with his new single ‘Home‘, he proves he’s on to a winner.

Having already reached the summit of the MRU charts, this infectiously catchy, up tempo electronically-generated tune has all the makings of a great pop song that could very well take the charts by storm, particularly with summer approaching. With an interesting fusion of musical styles based around a standard guitar/drum/keyboard backing section it is brilliantly enhanced with a deliciously bubblegum pop electronic melody. ‘Home‘ has echoes of recently successful indie-pop acts such as Yeasayer, Cut Copy or Miike Snow, and will no doubt generate similar levels of appeal.

The song’s technological age-inspired lyrics are ironically geeky, adding a bit of tongue-in-cheek charm to proceedings, while the memorable chorus hook together with Bob's David Byrne-esque vocal delivery both add to the like-ability factor. Perfectly timed, perfectly weighted and without an irritating over-reliance on electronic after effects, it is very difficult not to like a song like ‘Home.

This single will almost certainly be a massive hit and a great springboard for his All Things Bob solo-project."
~James Glynn, Music Review Unsigned

"Former Bass player and songwriter of Betamax, All Things Bob offers some catchy melodies that are fused with some enjoyable electronic undertones."
~ Outskirt Noise

"Writing, playing, singing and recording everything himself, his music ranges from classic British guitar-pop to bedroom-electro oddness and grungy guitar rage, mixing it all into an astonishingly accomplished and melodic pure pop whole"
~ Rich Morris, Soundblab.com

"...the New Wave genre is blown wide apart by his streamlined Power-Pop and Punk diversity" 
~ Andy Woodcraft, Mojophenia

"There's no sign of a struggle for material; these tracks sound fully-formed and well though out. Most recent track 'Drone (Happiness Awaits You)' could have graced a Graham Coxon album, in fact many songs here have a touch of Blur about them. The sound is still punky (see 'Turn The Tide' or 'Another Life') but includes a few sonic experiments in the background. As far as highlights go then 'Unselected' stands out, sounding at points like it could be the work of Bob Mould; when he does slow things down for 'Seasons' the standard is the same, proving this is no one-trick pony. With the writers block banished (are we reassured of this on the excellent 'I'm Fine Now'?) we can surely now look forward to more things Bob."
~ soundofconfusion.co.uk

"....split up new wave with punk, and a bit of pop, it would sound like this"
Aaron Phillips, Amazing Radio

"...a really versatile artist"
Dana McKeon, Explosive Unsigned Radio

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