Mud Singing Earveh

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 This song's called Mud Singing Earveh. The picture's supposed to be of singing mud, but it might look like a turd. Whoops. It's the backwards version of next week's song, which is the 2nd of the 3-song grand finale of that death-album I'm working on. Yesiree.

I Threw That Can Of Paint

THREWIT1

This is the first of the 3-song grand finale of the Corky death-album I'm workin' on. In this song, Rudy the Cop climbs up on top of George Washington on Rushmore and throws a can of paint so it'll land on George's face and make it look like he's cryin'. The sample is of him saying "I love you, Mogie," cuz in the movie (and in the album), he's doin' it in his brother's honor. He's also doin' it in honor of the sacred rocks that got carved up to make the stupid statue. There's also this cool singing on the sample cuz the cool singing is in that part of the movie. Woohoo.

Weird i love you mogie

 Here's last week's song when you turn it around backwards.

For anyone new to this blog, the album I'm discussing is based on the movie, Skins. (Spoiler Alert)... It follows this character, Corky Red Tail, into the afterlife cuz he gets murdered in the beginning of the movie. Then he's joined by Mogie and Verdell, who both die of alcoholism in one way or another. The three of them work together to try to get a message to Corky's mom that he's okay in the afterlife. The most likeliest candidate to do that is Rudy, Mogie's brother, because all three of them knew Rudy when they were alive, so they're all connected to him in one way or another.

Stewashit

1OHSHIT1

This song is called Stewashit, which is kind of a German-sounding title. The picture, above, doesn't really have anything to do with the song; I'm just postin' it cuz it's funny and stuff. This is the backwards version of next week's song, yesiree.

Dream-Cat Version of Have Lots of Fun

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I'm taking a brief detour from the Corky album cuz I cain't remember what all songs from it I've posted (and it got all late, and my frontal lobe ain't working well enuff for me to draw a picture to illustrate a song).

This is a different version of the "Have Lots of Fun" song that's on the Corky album. See, I originally got the song from a dream, where I met 2 cats, and they started singing this song to me. This version is about as close as I can get to the actual dream song.

The part about Carl Jung is a reference to the section of The Red Book, where Jung meets the devil, and the devil tells him that he is joy. (Weird fucking shit, man).

Weird version of the cat song

 See, okay, I recorded the backwards version of the song today, but it sucks balls. Oddly enough the turned-back-around version sounds not too bad. But if you really wanna hear what today's recording sounds like, feel free to stick this song in Audacity and turn it around. (But it'll sound like shit).

In A Dream

INADREAM

This is the next song in the Corky Red Tail rock opera/death album-thingy I'm working on. In this song, Rudy is asleep and dreaming, but he doesn't know it at first. When he sees Corky, he's all surprised because Corky's supposed to be dead. Corky, who's actually visiting Rudy in his dream (spirits can do that) explains to him that he's dreaming, and he's just popping in for a visit. They proceed to smoke pot.

Weird in a dream copy

This is last week's song if you turn it around backwards.

For anyone new to this blog, the album I'm discussing is based on the movie, Skins. (Spoiler Alert)... It follows this character, Corky Red Tail, into the afterlife cuz he gets murdered in the beginning of the movie. Then he's joined by Mogie and Verdell, who both die of alcoholism in one way or another. The three of them work together to try to get a message to Corky's mom that he's okay in the afterlife. The most likeliest candidate to do that is Rudy, Mogie's brother, because all three of them knew Rudy when they were alive, so they're all connected to him in one way or another.

"Oh, yeah, he broke it!" "No, it's not; you're being negative."

NEGATIVE

This is next week's song if you perform it backwards. This version has more of a liturgical feel to it than next week's song. The sampled guys sound like they're saying, "Oh, yeah, he broke it," "No, it's not; you're being negative." It almost sounds as if they're arguing, but, as you'll hear next week, they're actually having a friendly exchange.

Oh, Holy Fuck

HOLYFUCK

Here's the 3rd to the last song in the Corky Red Tail album (although I have 3 more songs after this one to post). In this song, Rudy the Cop has this big bucket of paint and he's gonna throw it on the bust of George Washington at Mt. Rushmore. Verdell and Mogie, in the spirit world, are all, "oh holy fuck, he's really gonna do it, he's gonna do it, he's really gonna do it. This is the best thing that I ever saw - Rudy the Cop is gonna break the law."

Corky's all excited, too, because when his mom sees old George with paint on his face, she'll know it's a sign from him that he's okay in the spirit world. So, in his stoked-ness, he sings his death song, just for good measure.

The sample is of Rudy sayin' "son of a bitch! Iktomi!" See, he sees a spider on the can o' paint and that's what makes him decide to throw it cuz he's been havin' that old Iktomi-Trickster-Spider following him around for the whole movie. He's ready to throw that trickster spider along with that bucket of paint, and all that.

Weird holy fuck

 This is what last week's song sounds like when you play it backwards.

I'm gonna post this link again to the Winona's Hemp page. See, she got to the 100 grand goal (yay), and it would be even cooler if she exceeded that by 25 grand, because she needs to buy farm equipment. Yesiree.


For anyone new to this blog, the album I'm discussing is based on the movie, Skins. (Spoiler Alert)... It follows this character, Corky Red Tail, into the afterlife cuz he gets murdered in the beginning of the movie. Then he's joined by Mogie and Verdell, who both die of alcoholism in one way or another. The three of them work together to try to get a message to Corky's mom that he's okay in the afterlife. The most likeliest candidate to do that is Rudy, Mogie's brother, because all three of them knew Rudy when they were alive, so they're all connected to him in one way or another.

Room C

ROOMCTCK

 Here's another one of those backwards songs. I'm calling this one Room C. It also has oatmeal in it.


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Linkin Park Cover (Shadow of the Day)

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I'm posting this on an off-day because it's a cover song. See, I wanted to do something in honor of Chester Bennington, so I learned how to perform "Shadow of the Day" backwards. (It's on Linkin Park's album, Minutes to Midnight). It's one of my favoritest Linkin Park songs in the whole world.

Weird version of shadow of the day

 Here's how it sounds if you turn it around. I had to omit the drums because they didn't work when I turned 'em around. I also realized I kept on singing one of the notes wrong, so I layered me singing that note right, ontop of the regular vocals. I dunno, I think I'm happy with how close I got to the actual song, but if you were to just listen to this by itself, it's probably a pretty crappy cover. (Sorry, Linkin Park!)

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 I'd recorded me performing the actual song so I could turn it around backwards in my computer and figure out how to perform it backwards. This is an excerpt from that recording - it's the one part that doesn't suck.

Shit, I hope I'm not violating any copyright stuff. I guess if Linkin Park gets wind of this here recording, they can rest, assured that I'm not making any $$$$ offa this.

I'm the Ghost of Murdered Corky

GHOSTOFC

In this song, Rudy has found out who Corky's murderers are, so he gets revenge on them by whacking their knees with a baseball bat. See, the picture is of Rudy with a nylon on his head so he won't be recognized. In the song, Corky is freaking out a little bit because he's worried that he might have inadvertently influenced Rudy to do that deed. But then, in the end, he realizes it probably doesn't matter all that much.

Weird ghost of murdered cor

 This is last week's song if you play it backwards.

For anyone new to this blog, the album I'm discussing is based on the movie, Skins. (Spoiler Alert)... It follows this character, Corky Red Tail, into the afterlife cuz he gets murdered in the beginning of the movie. Then he's joined by Mogie and Verdell, who both die of alcoholism in one way or another. The three of them work together to try to get a message to Corky's mom that he's okay in the afterlife. The most likeliest candidate to do that is Rudy, Mogie's brother, because all three of them knew Rudy when they were alive, so they're all connected to him in one way or another.

Sorghum and Leaf Blower

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Here's the backwards version of next week's song. I think next week's one is darker'n this week's one, but maybe it's cuz the lyrics are dark in that one.

LEAFBLOW

 The leaf blowers showed up again right before I wanted to record something with a live mike. (It was drums this time - they usually show up when I'm about to record vocals). So here's this week's leaf blower song.

This is a Stupid Idea Mogie; Leaf Blower (Bonus Track)

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This is last week's song if you play it backwards. In this song, Rudy the cop is receiving psychic transmissions from the spirits of his brother, Mogie; Mogie's best friend, Verdell; and Corky. They're all tellin' Rudy to vandalize the George Washington bust on Mount Rushmore to make it look like he's crying. Rudy's all, "this is a stupid idea, Mogie," because he thinks it's a stupid idea.

I didn't realize, until after I recorded the song, that it sounds kind of innuendo-ish. There's a lot of innuendo-ish sounding stuff in it.

Weird this isastupid idea m

This is last week's song if you actually play it backwards.

LEAFBL0W

This week, I included a bonus track about how much I hate the sound of leaf-blowers. See, I was just about to record the vocals to the song I did today, when the stupid leaf blowers started going outside. That always happens - it's always either a leaf blower or a garbage truck that shows up when I'm about to record vocals. So I gotta wait cuz they would invariably bleed through onto the recording. Poopity pooop.

For anyone new to this blog, the album I'm discussing is based on the movie, Skins. (Spoiler Alert)... It follows this character, Corky Red Tail, into the afterlife cuz he gets murdered in the beginning of the movie. Then he's joined by Mogie and Verdell, who both die of alcoholism in one way or another. The three of them work together to try to get a message to Corky's mom that he's okay in the afterlife. The most likeliest candidate to do that is Rudy, Mogie's brother, because all three of them knew Rudy when they were alive, so they're all connected to him in one way or another.

Jrove Relax - Sick Yahm, We Are Drinking

WERDRINK

Here's the backwards version of next week's song. It's, like, the narrator is tellin' someone to relax cuz the narrator is drinking. The forwards version isn't about drinking, though.

We're Gonna Get High Tonight

HITONITE

This week's entry is unusual in the sense that I don't have a backwards version for it yet; I just sort of felt like posting it. It's a weird entry, too, because, although I haven't posted all the songs to the death-album I've been working on, I'm jumping ahead to a song from the next album. 

It's hard to describe what this next album is. See, these're gonna be the songs that go between the songs of the previous album. You know how operas have arias, and musicals have those really good songs that everyone remembers? And then there's the singing in between the main songs? Y'know, that stuff that moves the plot along, but they aren't the memorable songs? (They usually sound like shit, but that might just be me being a big jerk, saying that). 

The new album is gonna be those in-between songs. I'm gonna aspire to have them not sound like shit, but I don't know how successful I'll be at that. Anyway, in this song, Corky is planning on smoking pot with his friends, but when he gets to the place where they were supposed to meet, there're mean guys there instead. This is the song that leads up to the previously posted song called "I Am Dead" (posted on March 24 of this year). Since I sing this here new song real fast, I decided to write out the lyrics, so you can follow along with it.

Me and my friends, we like to smoke pot/ We like to smoke it an ever lovin' lot

It is a plant that comes from a seed/ We like to smoke that ever lovin' weed

We're gonna get high tonight

We're s'posed to meet at that stupid little shack/ Once upon a time it was a place for smoking crack

And then I'm coming toward the house but something looks wrong/ Where are my friends? I do not know - they were supposed to bring the bong

 We're gonna get high tonight
I think they skeedaddled and are hiding in the weeds/ I should have come with them; oh fuck, what can this be?
They were meeting earlier but I could not go/ I had to work that day to make my money grow
It is not my friends in there - it's Mean Guys 1 and 2/ Oh, shit, they see me! There's nothing I can do!
"Hey, you owe us money!"/ "Wait, I do not! I paid you months ago; at least that's what I thought."
We're gonna get high tonight. Oh, shit, maybe not.

Next week, I'll get back to posting the main songs from the Corky album.

For anyone new to this blog, the album I'm discussing is based on the movie, Skins. (Spoiler Alert)... It follows this character, Corky Red Tail, into the afterlife cuz he gets murdered in the beginning of the movie. Then he's joined by Mogie and Verdell, who both die of alcoholism in one way or another. The three of them work together to try to get a message to Corky's mom that he's okay in the afterlife. The most likeliest candidate to do that is Rudy, Mogie's brother, because all three of them knew Rudy when they were alive, so they're all connected to him in one way or another.

I'd Like the Great White Father in Washington to Look Like He is Crying

GREATWHT

 As usual, here's the forwards-version of last week's backwards-song, which is another part of that rock opera/death-album thingy I'm working on.

This song is sung from the point of view of Mogie after he's in the spirit world. He's tryin' to convince his brother, Rudy, to do graffiti on the George Washington statue-thingy at Mt. Rushmore. See, he wants Rudy to make it look like George Washington's crying cuz the picture, above, is a picture Corky drew when he was in the 3rd grade. It's one of Corky's mom's favorite pictures; as such, if she sees the Mt. Rushmore George Washington looking like that picture, she'll know it's a sign from Corky that he's okay in the afterlife.

Okay...bastard-son-of-a-bitch...the song up there, it keeps on crapping out half-way through, and I don't know if it's because of my slow internet connection, or if there's something wrong with the poopy website I use to host these songs. So, here's an embedded player from another site I use...hopefully, this'll work. (If it sounds all bolloxed up, you can go to the podcast, itself, where it might work better).

Weird great white father

Here's last week's song if you play it backwards.

For anyone new to this blog, this album's based on the movie, Skins. (Spoiler Alert)... It follows this character, Corky Red Tail, into the afterlife cuz he gets murdered in the beginning of the movie. Then he's joined by Mogie and Verdell, who both die of alcoholism in one way or another. The three of them work together to try to get a message to Corky's mom that he's okay in the afterlife. The most likeliest candidate to do that is Rudy, Mogie's brother, because all three of them knew Rudy when they were alive, so they're all connected to him in one way or another.

Nut N(g)ishaw Nih Earth Off Tyaw Tyearg Uth Kyall Dyah

NUTNGISH

This is the backwards version of next week's song. The picture of the guys crying has to do with the fact that next week's song has crying-ness in it. I mean, these guys aren't in the actual song cuz it's about another guy.  Sort of. I went ahead and scanned some of the rest of the page that the crying guys are on, cuz I happened to draw them on the piece of paper where I printed up the lyrics of this here song.

Have Lots of Fun

LOTSAFUN

Yeah, I actually got this song from a dream. Corky and Verdell are hanging out in the spirit world, when Mogie suddenly appears. Verdell's all confused because he didn't know Mogie had died. Mogie admits that he died of alcoholism, but that's okay cuz now the three of them are together and they can have lots of fun. In the song, Verdell tells Mogie that he wants them to help Corky get a message to his mom that he's okay.

The sampled guys are Mogie (saying "hey, you rank old bugger") and Verdell laughing. I guess that's how they greet each other in Heaven.

Weird have lots of fun

As usual, here's the song from last week if you play it backwards.

For anyone new to this blog, this album's based on the movie, Skins. (Spoiler Alert). It follows this character, Corky Red Tail, into the afterlife (cuz he gets murdered in the beginning of the movie). Then he's joined by Mogie and Verdell, who both die of alcoholism in one way or another. The three of them work together to try to get a message to Corky's mom that he's okay in the afterlife.

Nuff Fuh Stall Vah

NUFUSTAL

Here's the backwards version of next week's song. The picture kinda sorta doesn't necessarily apply directly to this here song, though. See, when I listen to next week's song, I imagine the 3 narrators of it marching in place, as they sing. It's one of those happy, marching-in-place sorts of songs. 

Message

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In short: this is a song sung from the point of view of a dead guy. He wants to get a message to his mom that he's okay in the spirit world.

This is the song where I found out what the Corky Red Tail album is about*. See, when I wrote this song, I'd written the first couple songs, and I knew the album was basically about a dead guy who was trying to communicate with living people to get them to do something for him. But before writing this song, I hadn't known yet what the dead guy (Corky) wanted the living to do for him. Then this song told me what the album was about. It's about how Corky wants to get a message to his mom that he's okay in the spirit world.

He starts trying to communicate with Rudy, the cop, cuz old Rudy's a reliable man. See, the sampled dude talking, he's telling Rudy, "Maybe he entered your brain" meaning, he thinks Iktomi the trickster spider was tryin' to enter Rudy's brain when he got hit on the head with a rock. But in the weird universe of this death-album, it's actually Corky tryin' to communicate with old Rudy. But he doesn't know how to talk to Rudy, so he tries hitting him with a rock.

Actually, I'm not sure why he hits him with a rock. I think I'd have to ask Corky why he thought that hitting Rudy with a rock would get a message to his mom that he's okay. I'm guessing he thought that if he yelled the message while hitting Rudy with the rock, the weird lapse in consciousness caused by him getting hit on the head with the rock would open his brain to communications from the spirit world, which often to require an altered state of consciousness. That's probably what Corky had in mind. It didn't work.

Weird message for my mom

As usual, this is what last week's song would sound like if you turned it around backwards (and dorked with the timing of the tracks to make the rhythm match up with the vocals/guitars/etc).

*For any newcomers to this blog, this song's part of a weird rock opera thingy based on the movie, Skins. [Spoiler Alert]: There's a character, Corky Red Tail, who dies early on in the movie, and this album follows him into the afterlife, where he ends up teaming up with the spirits of 2 guys who also die in the movie (Verdell and Mogie) (they both die of alcohol dependence in one way or another). Corky, Verdell, and Mogie work on gettin' the message to Corky's mom that he's okay in the spirit world.

Take The Dog Out

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This is the backwards version of next week's song. It's another one of those backwards songs that has words in English (in this case: "take the dog out.") It's actually odd that I haven't posted next week's song yet, because it's one of the more important songs on the Corky album. It's the song that spells out, for the listener, just what this Death Album is all about. Yesiree.

Geez, You Can Trust Me

GEEZUCAN

Just in case there're any newcomers to this here blog: This is another one of those rock opera/death album songs. The album's based on the movie Skins, and it follows this character, Corky, who dies in the beginning of the movie, into the afterlife.

This week's song is about Verdell, the alcoholic guy who dies and joins Corky in the afterlife. He's tellin' Corky that he can get his friend, Mogie (who's still alive) to help them make a sign to show Corky's mother that he's alright. He's all explainin' how Mogie's a joker, and Verdell can influence him to play a big old practical joke that'll end up being that sign. (The samples are Verdell sayin' "geez, you can trust me," and Corky thanking him for bein' trustworthy ("alright, thanks").

Verdell's plan is to get Mogie to vandalize the George Washington bust on Rushmore, like, painting him so he looks like he's crying (which will remind Corky's mother of a picture of George Washington crying that Corky drew when he was a kid). That'll be the sign that Corky's alright.

Weird geez u can trust me
Here's last week's song played backwards, which makes a weird version of this week's song.

Snake Y'rold

SNAKEYRL2

As usual, this is the backwards version of next week's song. Next week's one is a Corky death album song from a while back; I'm not sure why it took me so long to backwards it. This backwards song is 1. really different from the forwards one, mood-wise and 2. one of those backwards songs I wouldn't've been able to think of, if I was just trying to make up a song.

Chester Bennington, Part II

GONEAGEN

AFTERMYD

UWERESCD

It was 2 weeks ago that I woke up in the morning with a song from a dream and wrote it down. I thought, cool, this'll be my next song on the Corky Red Tail album. Then that afternoon, I found out about Chester Bennington dying, and I got all sad. So I recorded that first song of the 3 up there - the first part of it is the stuff I got from the dream that was supposed to go on the Corky album, and the second is that general death-related theme I've done a bunch in the past. I wanted to sing that second part, in order to mark the sadness of the occasion. I guess that song is the first song of the next album I'm gonna work on, which'll be a requiem album for Chester Bennington.

The next 2 songs are samples from "Leave Out All The Rest" with the death song from the Corky album layered on top. I got Chester Bennington in there singing, cuz I wanted to pay tribute to him. I just hope it doesn't look like I'm stealing that song or appropriating it or anything. I just wanted to pay tribute to Chester Bennington. But, in any event, I won't make any money offa these songs, so maybe it doesn't matter all that much.

Actually, the the AFTERMYD one has a sample from Skins along with the Chester/LP one; it sounded kind of nifty, how the Native American guys singing in the movie go well with the Linkin Park sample.

As the picture suggests, these songs are the result of the 2 albums I'm workin' on crashing into each other and creating these weird, hybrid songs. Or something along those lines. But I"ll get back to doing backwards songs next week. And workin' on that Corky album, too. Alongside the new one. Yesiree.

Please Help Us

WONDERWYnew mix

Here's the next song in the rock opera/death-album thingy I'm working on. In it, Corky, Verdell, and Mogie are all up in Heaven telling Rudy he's gotta do something for them. Like I said last week, I got this here song from a dream, yesiree.

Weird wonder why

 This is last week's song if you played it backwards, which makes a weird version of this week's song.

Chester Bennington / Urrdknow

I'm posting a picture of really sad guys because I found out about Chester Bennington dying today. Oh, holy fuck, I'm sad. Linkin Park has been my favorite band since 2013. Fuckity fuck. This new album I'm working on? All the songs on it have samples from Linkin Park songs in the little electronic loop thingies I make. I've been thinking it was kind of funny that this album employs a combination of samples from the movie, Skins, and from the band, Linkin Park, because the 2 seem unrelated. The only relationship between the 2 is that one's my favorite band and the other's my favorite movie.

Now I'm all sad. I mean, ever since I started listening to Linkin Park, I've always thought, "I wonder what their next album is going to sound like." It's so fucked up to think that there're not going to be any more albums with Chester Bennington singing on them. It's so fucked up to think about Chester Bennington not being here any more. I'm still in a state of stunned disbelief because I only found out an hour and a half ago.

So I got a picture of sad dudes. They're the characters in one of the graphic novels I'm working on. Shit, I was going to say that the only connection between the dudes in the picture and Chester Bennington's death is the fact that the dudes are sad. But now that I'm thinking of it...guess what music I listen to when I'm working on those graphic novels? Linkin Park. I put 'em on my itunes and let it scramble the music up, so I hear Linkin Park songs all day long in random order.

Shit, it's so fucked up. I mean, really? It's always sad to find out about some great musician dying. But it's extra special fucked up to find out that it's the lead singer in your favorite band in all the world. Fuckity fuck.

URRDKNOW

Anyway, here's the song for this week. As usual, it's me performing next week's song backwards. Yup, the loop thingy on it is Linkin Park. I think it was from one of the songs on Recharged. I took that sample and played around with the pitch so it made a weird melody. Actually, the sample is backwards because this is a backwards song week. But next week, you'll get to hear the forwards version.

Someone who seems so classeek

 I took an excerpt from the original song I derived this song from (but played backwards). (Or, like, this is a snippet of next week's song, played backwards). Here's why. Every once in a while, when I turn my songs around backwards in Audacity or Sound Edit, in order to figure out how to perform 'em backwards, some of the vocals sound like they're in English. There's a bit of that taking place in this excerpt.

See, I got the original song from a dream. In the dream, I was playing one of my regular songs that had been turned around backwards in Audacity or SoundEdit. And it had these haunting-sounding words in English comin' out. I woke up and wrote down the song. It was wild, because when I played the regular song backwards, I found that this stretch had the same feeling as that dream. It's like the dream sorta came true.

You Don't Look Yourself

LOOKSELF

Here's what last week's song would sound like if you played it backwards. As I mentioned last week, this one has that recurring theme from the other death album - it's that "He Sees That It's Gone" theme. This song's from the point of view of Rudy, the cop guy, who's all sad about Corky dyin' and all. This song's all about how Rudy ain't feelin' like himself; and this medicine-man dude makes an observation that Rudy doesn't look like himself because of that.

The reason Rudy is feelin' all funky and weird is cuz Corky's spirit is trying to communicate with him. It's like Rudy has an inkling that something like that might be happening because he sez "I don't know what proportion of the variance of my mind is me." As in, he's not sure which of his thoughts actually belong to him, and which thoughts are being inserted by some spirit.

Weird you dont look yoursel

Here's last week's song when you play it backwards, which makes a weird version of this week' song.

Weird version of nosmatterf

Okie dokie - here's the song I meant to post 2 weeks ago. It's the backwards version of the song from 3 weeks ago, and the weird version of the song from 2 weeks ago.

Flessree Coat No Dwee

FLESSREE

Crap, I'll probably have to wait till next week to publish the weird version of last week's song. But here's this week's one. That recurring theme from 2015's death-album recurs in this song. I figured I'd stick it in there cuz this song involves one of the main characters from the previous death-album. It's sorta like Death Album 2017 is shaking hands with Death Album 2015. I actually recorded the original song a few months ago (but this is the backwards version, which I recorded a week ago). The picture is of the 2 talking guys - it sounds like they're saying "you redneck" and "a sweet memory."

No As a Matter of Fact He Did Not

NOHEDINT

Here's the forwards version of last week's song. It's actually the general introduction to the rock opera/death-album thingy I'm working on. The sampled guys are the police chief dude asking Rudy if Corky hung around with trouble makers (this is cuz they're trying to figure out who murdered Corky).

The person singing is good old Corky. Like, he's singing about how nice it would be to go to a place with certain characteristics (singing cats and people smoking pot). Then he alludes to how later on he dies and actually does go that place (the spirit world/Heaven/the afterlife).

I got this one from a dream; a lot of these album songs are from dreams. That's why the lyrics are kinda weird ("I'd like to be a place" rather than "I'd like to be in a place"). But I thought the dream lyrics sounded cool cuz they were dream-like.

I'll get back to you either next week or the week after with the weird version of this song (the backwards one turned around). I need to do that thingy where I sync up the vocal/guitar/bass tracks with the rhythm ones. I forgot to do that, and then I turned off the computer I do that on. Poop.

(For new comers to this here blog - this rock opera thingy is derived from the movie, Skins - it follows this dude who died into the afterlife). (There's a better description a few entries ago).

Ton Did Eat Caffert Amazoin

AMAZOIN2

This here song is the backwards version of the first song on the death album thingy I'm working on. The forwards version of this song makes me think of a sunrise, so that's why there's that picture there. I wanted it to have those pretty sunrise types of colors, but my drawling program doesn't have those colors.

Help Me Blow The Nose Off George Washington At Rushmore

RUSHMORE

Oh, dear, how do I explain this one? In the rock opera/death-album thingy I'm working on, Corky and Verdell, up in Heaven, are trying to communicate with Mogie, who's Verdell's best friend. (Mogie's still alive at this point). They're trying to tell Mogie to vandalize the giant George Washington statue at Mount Rushmore. Like, they just want him to paint something weird on his face (you'll find out what it is at the end). But Mogie mis-interprets the message and thinks it's about blowing off George Washington's nose with dynamite or something like that.

Let'see here...the first part of the song is from Mogie's point of view, and the second is Corky talkin' to Mogie. Like, Mogie wants to know what spirit is talking to him, and then Corky answers by singing his death-song.

EGROEG01

I thought my performance sucked in the backwards version, so I'm gonna go ahead and post it here along with the forwards version. That way, you don't have to hear something that sucks all by itself, and have nothing else to go with it.

Weird rushmore

 This is what the backwards one sounds like when it's turned around (although I had to mess with the timing of the rhythm track, relative to the rest of 'em to make it match up).

Verdell's Song

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Here's the next song from that weird rock opera/death-album thingy I'm working on. This one's from the point of view of that character, Verdell, who was the drunk guy in "Spirit of the Bottle." When old Verdell dies and goes to Heaven (or the afterlife or whatever you wanna call it), and he tells Corky all about his life. He admits that the first time he took a drink, he immediately fell into alcoholism and it screwed up his life.

Weird Verdell's Song

Heres's last week's song when you play it backwards.

Meow

MEOWMEOW

This is the backwards version of next week's song. My favorite part is the part with the meows in it. I think this song has a more Germanic Oom-Pah-Pah feel to it than the forwards one. But I might be wrong about that.

I'll Be In Tomorrow

INTOM0RO

(Update: the mix I originally posted of this song sounded like ass, so I just replaced it with a different mix.)

This is the front-wards version of last week's song. Just to refresh y'all, I'm writin' a rock opera thingy about this character in the movie, Skins, who dies at the beginning of the movie. Most of the story I'm writin' is all made up; it's, like, I'm guessing what happens to the character (his name is Corky) in the afterlife. (In the movie, you just see him dead - you don't see anything about him being in the afterlife).

In this song, Corky's trying to communicate to this character named Rudy, who is debating whether or not he wants to go to work the next day. In the song, Corky tries to get him to go to work because his mom's house is on the way to Rudy's work, and Corky wants to get him to stop by and cheer up his mom, cuz his mom's all sad and stuff.

This song sorta demonstrates how when spirits communicate with living beings, often the living beings confuse the messages from the spirits for their own thoughts. As such, Rudy thinks he's deciding to go to work, when really it's Corky telling him to go to work.

I mean, Rudy doesn't stop by Corky's mom's house in the movie (although he could have). This is a song about something I made up in my head. This is probably one of the weirder albums I've done, in that I'm making up stuff that could have happened behind the scenes of an actual movie.

One thing I like about this track is that it starts with me saying "shut up," and it's all in tune with the song, so it sounds like I'm singing it. I'm saying shut up cuz there's this annoying dog that lives downstairs, and sometimes his dumb barks end up on my vocal tracks. So I was sayin' shut up cuz that dog was barking before I hit "record."

Weird ill be in tomorrow

Oops - I forgot to post the version where I take last week's song and play it backwards when I posted this yesterday. Here it is!

Reepasid / Singing Yard

SINGYARD

Here's the backwards version of the song I'm planning on posting next week. It's kind of wild when some of the words of these backwards tunes turn out to be in English. My favorite line from this one is: "Eat slowly - we take care with singing yard." Ha ha ha.  But, now that I think about it, it is good advice to eat slowly, and to take care with a singing yard. I mean, if a yard was gonna sing to you, it would be a good idea to take care of yourself, while you listened to it sing.

Supermarket

SUPERMKT

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This is the forwards-version of the song from last week. I'm posting 2 mixes, cuz "SUPERMKT" sounds good in headphones and on these little speakers I have; but it sounds like ass on my car stereo. The second mix - well, I dunno how it sounds on my car stereo, but it sounds like ass in my headphones.

Anyway, this is the song that sorta establishes the milieu of this rock opera/death-album thingy. The main character, Corky, he works at a supermarket, and he likes workin' there. He also likes to smoke lots of weed.

When I listened to the song after recording it, I realized in retrospect, that out of context, it might sound like it's making fun of people who work at supermarkets. I would be a real jerk if I wrote a song like that. I'd go to hell when I died, if I wrote a song making fun of people who work at supermarkets - so I just wanted to provide that bit o' clarification, so that people wouldn't misinterpret this here song.

Nope, it's just a song about a dude who works at a supermarket and he likes working there, an he also likes smoking weed.  (That's his voice, saying "find everything okay?")

Weird supermarket

This is last week's song when you turn it around backwards. Yesiree.

Tekram

TEKKRAMM

This is another backwards version of a song from that new death album I'm working on. In this case, I took a sample of a weird sounding drone-y thing from this soundtrack Linkin Park did called Mall. And then there's a sample of the main character of that very same death-album I'm workin' on, talking. He's just talking about regular stuff. But it's all backwards. Next week, I'll post the forwards version of this very same song.

What'Ja Stop By For/Spirit of the Bottle

STOPBY44

Alrighty, this week's song is what last week's song would sound like if you performed it backwards. Like, it's another one of those songs in the new death-album I'm working on. I'm finding that it's easier for me to get my nerves up to publish these songs if I perform 'em backwards first and post the backwards versions first.

In this song, Corky, that kid who got killed, he's in the spirit world, and he's, like, trying to communicate with people in the land of the living. See, there's this drunk guy, (the one in the sample who sez "what'ja stop by for?") He's just this regular old drunk guy. And, well, y'know how some people think there're spirits in alcoholic beverages? Which is why they're called "spirits?" Y'know? Well, Corky decides to pretend to be one of those alcohol-spirits in an attempt to communicate with Verdell (that's the name of the drunk guy).

Weird spirit of the bottle

Oh, yeah, and here's last week's song, if you literally turn it around backwards. I cain't recall if I had to cheat an mess around the timing to make the tracks sync up or not. Nope, cain't remember.

Oregano

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 In honor of yesterday, which was 420-day, here's a song called Oregano. Cuz, y'know, sometimes people get oregano and pot mixed up. Next week, I'll post the song that this one sounds like when you turn it backwards.

Weird corky red tail 2

 ...and oh, heck, I mean to post this one last week. It's the song from week-before-last, when you turn it around. (Which ends up being a weird version of last week's song). Sorry 'bout the bridge, though. I sorta messed that up, cuz it was all perfect, but when I messed with the timing of the vocal/guitar/bass tracks to make 'em match up with the rhythm, the bridge vocals got all outta sync.

Corky Red Tail's Death Song

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Alrighty, I got my nerve up to post this here song. (It's the forwards version of last week's song). It's another one of those songs from the new Rock Opera/Death Album that I'm workin' on.

Basically, the synopsis is: there's this character named Corky Red Tail who dies in the beginning of the movie, Skins. This rock opera-thingy basically follows the dude into the afterlife (which ain't covered in the movie, itself). It's all about poor Corky's adventures in the afterlife and all that.

Basically, in this song, Corky got killed so fast that he didn't have time to sing his Death Song.

I learned about death songs from reading Louise Erdrich, who sez Ojibwe people have death songs - songs you're supposed to sing right before you die. A death song is sorta like a calling card so folks in the spirit world know you're comin'. (I hope I said that accurately). Anyway, Corky, well, he's Sioux and not Ojibwe, but I'm almost certain that Sioux people have death songs, too. (Or at least I've heard of Sioux people singing death songs).

Anyway, Corky gets to the spirit world and is all bummed out that he didn't get to sing his death song before he died. But then he realizes the spirits can hear him just fine, so he decides to sing it. The last part of the song is his death song. Cool-beans.