Songfighter Album-a-day Thread

Me$$iah · Post by **Me$$iah** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:52 pm

j$ wrote:The Gary Wilmots -
Half-cut Is The Cheapest ]

Im listening now. 2 songs in and decided to reveiw as i listened
sounds great
I love the band name
intense
track 3 ...nice...totall change in mood, nd the lyric....excellent...nice harmonies , and great vox fx
4........happy, upbeat, again great lyric, fantasic devilvery on the better us phrase though...
5.......nice chords....sort of reminiscant of the intensity of the first 2, but with a much mellower groove.......no dude, I thought you like the baby jesus.present rage..heheh.... nice sentiment. I like
6.......excellent start...heavy as ... nice keyboards.....maybe overdone tho.....Hawkwindyish(erm sp?) good end
7....the album track....like MileHighClub..on Prince Charming
8....funky...sparse.....nice piano and panning

Dude.... you recorded this in one day...
all I can say (to quote a very telented and prolific songwriter)
.... BURN[\b]

Its really good tho I think that maybe the order is slightly wrong..7 ealier in the run othere than that
awesome

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:18 am

Thanks, man.

This isn't the order I recorded the songs in - the actual chronological order was 3 & 7 (track 7 was originally the middle 8 for track 1, fact fans) ,1,4,6,8,5,2. Ii just thought this order sounded better, only I mis-named the two Stone Palaces.

Hawkwind, eh?

j$

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:14 pm

Lots of good AAD stuff lately. Bjam's "Metal Didn't Keep Me Down" (which needs a cover showing off the new braces) was very good (as I've already said). Badger Patrol brought the rock. Cake at the Door is my first song to obsess over this year. I'm going to be playing that one ad nauseum. And J$'s newest alter-ego, the Gary Wilmots, was very very good. I liked your work with my lyrics. Hearing you chant about being the new Christ was awesome. I also really liked Barely Human and That's How we like it. I think the two tunes need to be merged like Queen's We will rock you/ We are the Champions.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:42 pm

Niveous wrote: I also really liked Barely Human and That's How we like it. I think the two tunes need to be merged like Queen's We will rock you/ We are the Champions.

Thanks, Niv - this is highly inappropriate but also oddly, very appealing. I shall see what I can do. Maybe I could join them with a 'day-eo' call and response section?

Andy Balham · Post by **Andy Balham** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:08 pm

j$ wrote:The Gary Wilmots -
Half-cut Is The Cheapest
An A.A.D. recorded New Year's Day, 2006

Just listened to it in amazement. I thought you were badly hungover.

Exceptional work, I really enjoyed it and particularly 4, 5 and 8. I have to say 7 made me smile hugely too.

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:33 pm

Heh, thanks. I was. I do believe I do my best stuff when hung-over - and even if I don't it's nice getting to the point where I start to believe!

(ps I wrote 'Fightin' This Christmas' as the Little Smokes' Xmas single for next year

)

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:16 pm

heh, this is cool. When isn't J$ hung over? Probably why he won't respond to my PMs...

*edit* he has responded. He was avoiding me because he felt inadequate...

EightLeggedOedipus · Post by **EightLeggedOedipus** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:12 pm

Gary Wilmots Reviews
1. Five Nights in Britain
+++ A rockin' mess +++

2. Stone Palace
+++ This is also hitting HARD. The double time rap is awesome +++
--- Not so hot on the guitar tone, and also the vocal rhythm of the coda ---

3. Barely Human
/// The off-kilter edits save this from utter dullness. ///

4. That's How We Like It!
+++ Vocalubalary bonus points for 'pedarast'. Self-mockery
bonus points for "Cheesy part!". But you didn't need any
bonus points on this one, it's solid. +++

5. Fightin' This Christmas
+++ Clever, fun, melodic, cynical +++
/// Hard to get into though, maybe the MIDI piano? ///

6. Stone Palace (II)
/// This is also kind of strange in an unappealing way ///

7. Five Nights in Britain (II)
+++ I love that reverb'ed sound, which is probably a
guitar. Not sure. But it makes the track. For sure. Also
foudn the borrowed melody rather welcome , while also
effectively creepy. +++

8. Age Is Nothing But A Number
+++ Also a great track. The piano in the verse MAKES
this one. Oh, and random delayed vocals. +++

You make more songs than the average listener can follow. I must say I like this a lot. It's way better than your February Month album from last year. That's the last I remember. I concur with the BURN comment above. I would even pay to keep this in my permanent collection. Cheers.

EightLeggedOedipus · Post by **EightLeggedOedipus** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:24 pm

OK, well it's not twenty minutes, but I guess you could call it an EP-a-day...

Four songs:

1. You
2. He
3. I
4. She

Go here for download and stream options, plus a little more info.

Praise Satan for broadband connections!

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:42 pm

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:32 pm

This is godly awesome. Way to raise the AAD bar. Now I feel like I have to try and top this

Mind Control is fabulous, Creature of Habit sounds like # produced by Donald Fagan (this is a good thing) and Nothing Better, well, hey, I haven't heard anything better for a while. One level shame you didn't "finish" it, another it feels done as it is. Anything else would be superfluous. Damn Fightmaster for not getting the titles out while you wre on this rich vein of form. 'Never had a job where I had to wear a hat' - you do now, the job being 'pop genius' and the hat being a crown

j$

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:11 pm

Awesome stuff Starfinger.

Anything that makes me grin like a fucking idiot while riding home on the train is alright by me. Mind control blows my mind, especially since I had just been listening to an interview with the hacker Captain Crunch just before hand!

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:20 pm

thanks guys!

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:04 am

hey, don't forget to check out the 8LO E-A-D posted right before me.

Itsa real good.

-craig

slowRodeo · Post by **slowRodeo** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:33 am

I have a question. What constitutes an album are we talking 5-6 or 10+ songs?

I'm really interested in doing this, something to get the stagnant pool that is my songwriting moving. I'm sure this has been delved into at some point but it wasn't done on the first page of the thread so i thought i would just ask.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:43 am

Hey there,

All the info can be found at: the Album-A-Day web page.

But here's a synopsis: in a 24-hour period, you must write, record, and upload an album consisting of at least 20 minutes of music OR 30 songs. There's more to it than that, but not much. Read about it at Crap Art, and check out some of the AADs there. Some favorites of mine:

Feldspar - Welcome To Iceland
Starfinger - Ho!
C Hack - AAD (particularly ambitious: 24 songs in 24 hours)
Glenn Case - Keeping The Doctor Away

slowRodeo · Post by **slowRodeo** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:47 am

that link don't worky.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:22 am

Hey when did Jacob Lynn (ABAR) sneak in a make an AAD?

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:08 am

the link worked for me...
lots of songfighters have done aads. check them out!
-bill

a bebop a rebop · Post by **a bebop a rebop** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:11 am

I had a lot of time over spring break, I guess. I was really pushing it trying to get it over 20 minutes; I ran into a creative dry spell about 8 or 9 hours in, just couldn't come up with anything so I started playing around semi-randomly. That's what Eddie Gaedel came from (which I actually really like) but also what track 6 came from (which is just useless filler).

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:57 am

The first HNiD AAD.

It actually took me less than half a day, and it was surprisingly easy and fun. I expected it to be long and grueling. I think it had a lot to do with the concept. But also, the weird thing is that I wasn't intending to make an album a day. I just decided to start writing some songs and to record them quickly, just like little b-side sort of things. Then I realized I was getting close to album a day length, so I kept going.

Born Again and Again and Again...

This is a concept album about reincarnation. Each song is sung in a different lifetime by the same narrator, just by the narrator's different incarnations.

My favorites are "Deer," "Skunk" and "Whale."

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:10 am

Fodroy - downloading these now. Minor glitch on the main page, the 22nd was Saturday, not Monday.

Charles (KA)