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

A nice happy song about walking home drunk

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Walking home alone
Drunk and counting stars
The wind it chills my bones
But the whiskey warms my heart
My friends tell me I'm prone
To cherishing my scars
And though I quite like being alone
That will only get me so far
And I know that I've come so far

Into the unknown
Just me against the dark
Got these two hands and these bones
Got the blood inside my heart
Into the unknown
Just me against the dark
Soon I will be home
But my keys are in the bar
Oh no!

Me Against The Dark

For you son

The shortest "song" I ever wrote, about the inability to write an actual song. So it's more of a sung reflection on songwriting struggles really than a song, but there you go! :)

Lyrics:
No song without a crisis
It’s the only way I know
I’m tortured by my own devices
As I watch frustration grow
Sleep deprivation is the price 
As inspiration fails to show
While I can’t move my weary eyes
Off the blank screen and let it go
It’s pathetic I’m an addict 
Without highs between the lows
The only hope is that inside my head,
As I give up and go to bed
the sorry seed of a new song starts to grow…
Tomorrow’s me will know.

No Song Without A Crisis (demo)

Oooooohhhhhhh can’t you see
This can never be
I belong to me
(and) I won’t go quietly
Into your 
Moulded for your
Boxed inside your
Category

Spoken word part:

Do we really need to allocate everything to neat little groups?
Including ourselves?
What is it about our uniqueness that scares you?
The upside-down fork in the cutlery drawer
That discordant note
The outlier on the graph spoiling the clean line
We are all outliers on different graphs

This Ain’t Love (demo)

LYRICS
Deep in southern Wyoming,
Where he plays the keys.

He fell out of love with Naomi,
He fell out of love with the scene.

He thinks in his mind he might die soon.
So why waste his time?

He keeps an eye on that heirloom,
While he makes up his mind.

20 damn years I’ve been
playing here,

To the sound of my band and the
Smell of beer.

Don’t cower to the crowd
They smell fear

Growing up - my role models,
Now the crowd
Both throw bottles.

It’s so clear now
I need a clear out,

Naomi’s saying I’m acting kinda weird now.

Open tabs for a flat,
I keep an ear out.

I keep my fears in,
She lets her tears out.

Deep in southern Wyoming,
Where he plays the keys.

He fell out of love with Naomi,
He fell out of love with the scene.

He thinks in his mind he might die soon.
So why waste his time?

He keeps an eye on that heirloom,
While he makes up his mind.

I wanna be more
Than digits on a keyboard

Call me Skinner,
Cos I want to see more
Of the world,

Mood up and down
Like a see-saw,

Face like a smacked ass:
Eeyore.

We’d be together forever,
Yeah that’s what she thought.

She sees a peasant, a scumbag,
I’ve got no retort.

I turn to leave and
take the car keys she bought,

I’m off to be more
Tyres screech, she’s floored.

Deep in southern Wyoming,
Where he plays the keys.

He fell out of love with Naomi,
He fell out of love with the scene.

He thinks in his mind he might die soon.
So why waste his time?

He keeps an eye on that heirloom,
While he makes up his mind

Though he goes now,
He’ll stop when he’s found home.

Though he goes now,
He’ll stop when he’s found home.

Though he goes now,
He’ll stop when he’s found home.

Though he goes now,
He’ll stop when he’s found home.

Naomi

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Joy Orbisson - Flight FM (Zero's Brace Position Bootleg) (FREE)

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CARAVAN DANCE (Whiplash Dub) [FREE DOWNLOAD]

A cover song for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori in New Zealand

Purea Nei

It saved my life when I quit that job, cos I've been dying since I was born.

If The Sun Explodes Tomorrow

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

Together, The Grand Old Echo create their affectionately named 'City-Folk' sound - witty and poignant story telling about life, death and everything in between, delivered through triple harmonies and the occasional rap verse, all laid over a variety of traditional folk instruments.

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