An out-take from a film music recording session on 19 September 2014, this track is played on a ukelin, a 32-string bowed zither overdubbed several times for an infernal ukelin orchestra.

08 Lungs

An out-take from a film music recording session on 19 September 2014, this is played on ukelin (a 32-stringed bowed zither) and piano.

11 Ptaszek

Sun Day Sun

Stille Nacht

From "!", the 1992 debut album by Heavens to Murgatroid.
Tim Nelson: Lead vocal, Stratocaster, Rickenbacker 360-12
Rick Twombly: Vocal, ES-335
Tim McCoy: Bass guitar
Alan Jordan: Drums

Close My Eyes

Circa 1997, I had written the chord progression for this tune and asked my then-four-year-old daughter Chloë "What should this song be about?" She answered, without hesitation, "A ladybug." Lullabyes are supposed to be slow and relaxing, but this one breaks the rules.

Ladybug

Played on a discarded 1940's Beltone parlor guitar that I rescued from the trash and restored.

One Mans Trash

Barrett McDevitt: guitar, Keith Stephens: drums, Tim Nelson: bass & vocal, recorded on glorious cassette tape September 3rd, 1983 at the University of New Hampshire

21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson cover)

In late 1970 I’d just turned 8 and after having learned all the chords in the little book that came with the plastic Carnival “Mod-Style” guitar I’d gotten the previous Christmas, my father saw that I was serious about it and gave me his Kingston acoustic.  I decided to try my hand at writing some songs of my own.

This (then-untitled) instrumental was my first attempt.

My second song hasn’t survived and that’s probably for the best. It was called “Mister Clyde” and it went like this:

“Mister Clyde lived a life of crime.
Mister Clyde was a real sly guy.
Mister Clyde, ev’rything he owned he’d steal, not buy.

Mister Clyde stole a pill.
Mister Clyde shoots to kill.
Mister Clyde walks so far
Then he gets back home in a getaway car.”

I played both songs for my father and when I finished the second one, he looked at me and said “He stole a pill? What does that mean?”

“He’s on drugs. And he steals.”

“This is the hero of your song?”

“No! He’s a bad guy! He steals and shoots people!”

“I liked the first one better.”


Tim Nelson

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