Happy Thanksgiving 2008 single

Happy Thanksgiving 2008 single
EYES CEASED YOU - "36 Geese on a Frozen Pond" MP3
this 90 seconds of joy, once a year, is all I'm good for

lyrics, unused:

36 geese on a frozen pond
this year reminds me of you
the icy breeze on the man-made pond
makes me want to rush home & tell you
all about it.
November 26, 2008

EYES CEASED YOU - "Wrongly Quantized" MP3
stuttery, jumpy, just like you & your whiny scary slayer loving

bitchfriend
November 2008

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THESE CHORDS ARE LIKE FAMILY TO ME

Ian C Stewart "These Chords are like Family to Me" MP3 From the 2003 made-to-be-made-not-made-to-be-heard album I Don't Know Why You Think I Won't Kill You .... this is the last song. This was the beginning of my dabbling with intentional randomness in songwriting. The lyrics for the whole album were compiled from albums by other artists that I enjoyed a lot, such as Adrian Belew's Twang Bar King , The Cure's Pornography , Voivod Nothingface , Mercyful Fate Melissa etc. I wrote out entire lines of their phrases and chopped them together. I think at the time I described it as 'sad psychedelic love songs about satan' overall, which is really being too generous. The music was also randomly chosen from tablature found on t'interwebs for favorite songs of mine. In general I played the chords in reverse order to the original songs but I can still kind of tell in a couple of places what the songs were. The titles were my own, obviously. Although I did cho...

ACCOUNTABILITY

Ian C Stewart "Accountability" MP3 Hah, remember those Maxell Capsule tapes? Nice. This mixdown album.... laughingly titled Mama .... which came from one of the XTC live-on-radio 1989 acoustic recordings. At the very very end of one of the songs, Andy Partridge sang "mama," for no apparent reason. Maybe he was trying to tack on a Led Zeppelin-esque effect. Whatever, it was funny as hell at the time & I made it my goal to finish every song on this tape the same way.... anyway, this album features an early appearance by the Boss DR-550 drum machine that I got in August 1991. Mama was the first or second batch of recordings. That's also the time just after Evil Bread disbanded. I answered a Drummer Wanted flier & jammed a few times with a nice but directionless trio of older musicians. The guitarist left all his gear at my place, as was the custom at the time. So between jam sessions I spent hours (no, really) upon hours experimenting with his e-bow (well.....

Industrial Desert

Ian C Stewart "Industrial Desert" MP3 Aggressive New Age was a genre I invented in 1989/90. Combining odd guitar tunings & flanged cymbals, it was space music for the future. I thought. I recorded a bunch of stuff in this style but I'll save the rest for another time. Or never. Drums = Casio SK-5 swing beat, backward clean guitar, forward guitars & one track of bass. Interesting.

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