A lot of snow fell the other day. So this mp3 will happen now.
This is just a cool (pun intended) atmospheric piece, almost threatening to be techno, but not quite getting there.
I really love this one mainly for the title fitting the music. I just really see a night time blizzard with a hooded man in the snow in the distance fighting the wind, drudging along. It was so clear to me when I listened, that coming up with the title was effortless.
It's a pretty old piece (2002), so the sound quality isn't great and there's a lot of awkward mixing (I wish those cymbals crashes weren't in it), but I still love this.
This week's song is a real rarity. I've only played it live...twice? And like 5 years ago.
In early 2005, I had a subconscious sense that my girlfriend of 2 years was about to break up with me. I didn't even want to realize it, but it was coming out in all of the songs I was writing.
In February 2005 I debuted "I Know How To Cry", with her in the audience. A week later she dumped me. And right on Valentines Day too, isn't that nice? Here is a version from later that year, in December (keep listening to the MP3 to hear a joke at the end about the whole debacle.)
Technically this is a really complicated song, and I'm pretty damn proud of my vocal range and performance in this MP3. So hey!
The song is pretty clear. It's about being able to withstand so much pain because you've done it 100 times before. Unfortunately this song just keeps getting more and more relevant. Here are the lyrics. I think the line that tears me up the most is the last verse. Love is when you're smiling and for a brief second you're not thinking about WHY.
Where once you said you love me Now you say "that's enough" Where once we'd go to celebrate Now we walk by and let out a cough
A million things were said that never meant not a thing
A lot has changed But that's OK If another one gets away I'm fine this time Cause I know how to cry I know how to cry
There's a lot of real anxieties Just hanging out by your side And they may make you nervous They may make you wonder why
A girl once through the haze of love would ever want to stay
chorus
Cry all night And then again in the morning In between yawning
For a long time I would smile And I wouldn't even know why For a long time you'd be smiling and you wouldn't even know why
This MP3 is a really nice little guitar instrumental I made back in February 2004. I hadn't even heard this one in years but discovered it just now.
It's almost all real instruments, no synth (except the clickety clackety percussion that comes in about halfway through.)
I count about 6 acoustic guitars (the riff, a bass line, the hitting percussion, the little noodling in the left and then in the right ears, and also a repeating pattern in the left ear), plus an accordion. All together a very calming and sweet sounding instrumental. Not something I can always tap into.
