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travelling_riverside.mp3 (5.16M) - travelling_riverside_sample.mp3 (0.36M) - there is an unhealthy amount of riffage in this one. it is a museum to all of my best blues riffs, so noone had better steal any of them. its only got guitar, bass, and drums at the mo, but i'll put some harmonica, and singing on it at some point. its got a mint bass solo all the way through as well.
belgium.mp3 (0.76M) - my only experimentation with computer based music, includes rather psychedelic drum loops.
hillbilly_blues.mp3 (1.97M) - hillbilly_blues_sample.mp3 (0.24M) - a cookin bluesy tune telling the ballad of a geeza on the run from the law after stealing the whiskey off the girl of ol' big joe (co-written with rob).
intro.mp3 (1.86M) - mellow acoustic instrumental.
summertime.mp3 (2.21M) - acoustic-happy-sun-is-shining-kind-of-a-tune.
nanaue.mp3 (3.59M) - nanaue_sample.mp3 (0.40M) - this was my "expressive arts gcse" coursework, it wasn't summer 2002, but i didn't have anywhere else to put it. it is some hardcore rocking shit. it was inspired by the ancient hawaiian tale of nanaue, the sharkman. it's a bit of a gruesome tale: basically there's this half man half shark dude and he likes to eat children then the villagers gang up on him and burn him alive.
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RANDOM THOUGHTS - i recorded 6 songs over summer 2001, and even though i've never seen an album with 6 songs on before, i'd like to claim that this is my first album. some of them are a bit soppy and depressing (you can probably tell by the titles), and the singing isn't amazing, but there's some phat bass solos. innit.
pyromania.mp3 (4.46M) - pyromania_sample.mp3 (0.24M) - piano music. i think that the lyrics are fantastic. and its got this crazy key change chorus thing.
life_stinks.mp3 (3.24M) - life_stinks_sample.mp3 (0.24M) - sad acoustic folky tune. there's a film called "life stinks" and there's one scene where a whole bunch of people start chanting, "life stinks" for no particular reason. (picking pattern courtesy of rob).
the_walls_of_my_life.mp3 (3.93M) - the_walls_of_my_life_sample.mp3 (0.23M) - i think that this song is a protest against losing our freedom, whether it some oppressive regime, or getting married etc.. some might say that the bass here "is wanking too much" or is "going off on one", but i'd like to say that it is "enjoying and exploring its freedom". there are some pretty crazy chords as well.
monday_mourning_blues.mp3 (3.38M) - monday_mourning_blues_sample.mp3 (0.24M) - this one started off as just a jamming track, some 12 bar blues with dodgy bass and keyboard drums, but it's got a phat guitar solo. admittedly its a bit indulgent, but i was listening to lynyrd skynyrd and zakk wylde quite a lot at the time.
blue_star.mp3 (3.60M) - blue_star_sample.mp3 (0.37M) - the rhythm in the chorus is pretty far out. and later in the song there is a crazy bass solo, and then an even crazier "ocarina" solo. i put this in inverted commas, because it is a keyboard ocarina, and sounds more like a chicken than an ocarina, but its cool to say i've got an ocarina solo in one of my songs.
another_depressing_spring.mp3 (6.46M) - another_depressing_spring_sample.mp3 (0.28M) - this was my first and last attempt at writing a sonnet. i think it summarises my hatred of daffodils. it's a bit of a long piano song, but the chords are nice, and its got a funky "classical epilogue".
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+BANDS THAT I'VE BEEN IN - i've started uploading the legacy of my rock n roll childhood onto the internet. i've been in a few bands, mainly playing the bass, and eventually, i think it would be nice to have a little corner of cyberspace for each of them, but it takes a while to upload a bunch of songs.
THE RATTLESNAKES were around from about 1999 to 2001. we were a true rock band and our influences included guns n roses, aerosmith, led zeppelin, black sabbath, ozzy, zakk wylde, jimi hendrix. i think the spirit of those bands comes through the music.
THE RATTLESNAKES (PHASE 2) were the rattlesnakes, but with two new guitarists. it was the same kind of heaviness.
THE CLUSTERBOMB FAIRIES is my most recent band. i think that it's a cross between queen, radiohead and system of a down (if you can imagine that).
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+SIMON TOP 10 COUNTDOWN
i've listed all of the songs currently on the web page (including on all the band pages). please vote for your favourite tunes by clicking on them. you can vote for as many as you want. if you don't see the one you want, then click on "more links" and it will list the rest of them.
