I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine… to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn’t help when most of them are dead.
Happy 53th birthday, Morrissey!
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I really love this record right now!
It’s the perfect blend of artistic music and meaningful, catchy pop.
You should all go out and buy it!
My Music Blog 80…
Hi everyone!
This blog certainly has been a long time coming!
I can’t really remember what I’ve already written about, so please forgive me if I tell you something that I’ve already mentioned in another blog.
All of the songs on EP 1 are complete, except for Sense Of Morality.
I have only three weeks left at college, so right now I’m working on putting all of the finishing touches on the instrumentals to the songs.
I plan to get the instrumentals for the four complete songs done within the next three weeks so that I can focus on vocals and finishing Sense Of Morality when I finish college.
The instrumental for Are We Right Or Wrong? is complete!
All that I need to do with that now is record the vocals.
The song sounds really beautiful and it’s even better than I expected it to be, I really can’t wait for you to hear it.
It’s a lot more “avant-garde” than anything I’ve released so far, so please listen to it with an open mind.
This EP should hopefully be released in the summer, I’m hoping for a July or August release.
I’m planning to release both EPs that I’m currently working on as digital downloads, but if that doesn’t work out I’ll find another way to release them.
As I have pushed the release of EP 1 back a bit, I’ve decided to record an acoustic version of The Flame In Your Eyes.
I’m currently finishing up vocals for this version.
I’ll put this version up for free download and I’ll hopefully release it within the next few weeks!
I recently wrote two songs that should be include on EP 2.
These songs are called Army Of Hypocrisy and Life In Fear.
Army Of Hypocrisy is a song about a person who turns their back on all of their morals.
Life In Fear is an incredibly personal song, which I don’t really want to discuss the depths of just yet, but I will say that it is a song about revenge.
I really love both songs, but both of them are just piano/voice demos right now so I can’t wait to begin working on them!
I also recently completed my half of a project that I’ve been working on with a friend. I don’t want to say too much about it just yet, but I’m really excited about it!
I’ll let you know more about it soon.
Thank you so much for reading this blog, please be sure to read the other “My Music” blogs and to check out my songs if you haven’t already done so!
Thanks,
Josh :)
One day…
I might re-record all of the free download songs that I’ve released so far!
I still love the songs, but I really don’t feel like I did them justice.
However, I then think to myself “After the re-recordings have been released and available for a while, what if I still haven’t done the songs justice?“
Then it’s just going to be a never ending cycle!
Maybe I should just leave the songs alone and focus on the new stuff?
Ma kitteh katz!
A few weeks ago….
I ordered a new piece of recording equipment online.
This equipment will basically allow me to record multiple instruments simultaneously, as right now I can only record one microphone and one DI.
Shortly after I ordered the equipment, I received an email saying that the item was out of stock and would be back in the next couple of days, then the item would be sent to me.
A few weeks passed and I heard no new information about my order, so this morning I contacted the store asking them about what was going on.
They sent me an email that said “I’m sorry but we don’t know when your item will be in stock, but we’ll post it to you as soon as it becomes available”.
I started to consider cancelling my order and buying it elsewhere, but then several hours later I received an email saying “A miracle has happened and your item is in stock! You should received by this Thursday”.
Hmm… something tells me that they just forgot about my order!
☮ When was the last time you went to a concert ? Which one was it?
✈ Is there any kind of music that you can’t stand?
☠ Do you play a musical instrument? What instrument?
☯ How many CDs do you own? From which artist do you have the most CDs?
✌ Name 3 bands you would most like to meet. Why?
✖ What do your parents think about the music you listen to?
☢ Do you still buy CDs? Which was the last CD you bought?
☤ Do you most pay attention to the melody or the lyrics?
♫ Name your top 3 albums from your favorite band/artist.
★ Is there any music band you liked years ago that you would not like now?
✞ Can you concentrate on other things when you are listening to music?
♛ Name your top 5 music videos.
◔ Put your mp3/ipod on shuffle and name the first 5 songs you stumble upon.
☭ Punk or heavy metal?
ϟ Do you sing in the shower?
☫ How much time do you spend listening to music every day?
ø If you could play any musical instrument, what would it be?
‽ If you could take the place of a band member for one day, who would it be?
✒ If you were a song, what song would you be and why?
☺ What do you think the world would be like without music?
♠ Name one manufactured band (in your opinion).
✦ What musicians did you like 5 years ago? 10 years ago?
♜ If you could invent a new instrument, what would it sound like?
♟ If you could be any musician in the world, who would you be and why?
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My Music Blog 79….
Hi everyone!
I’m sorry that I haven’t written one of these in quite a while, I’ve been really busy over the past couple of weeks.
In my last blog I mentioned that all five songs for EP 1 have been written and demoed, except for “eyes” which is only half complete. Well, I’ve spent these past few weeks working on them.
I’m struggling with “Sense Of Morality”, I currently have four totally different demo versions of the song. Usually, whenever I write a song, I record one rough demo, then the final version. The final mix is never too different from the demo.
I’ve heard of many songwriters/producers who record many different versions of the same song, but I’ve never had to work that way before.
So far, this is what each version is like
- Piano version
- Piano Version with electronic drum beats and synth noises
- Synthpop version
- Minimalistic “drone” inspired version
I really can’t decide which version works best.
I’ll continue to work on each version of the song, and if I still can’t make up my own mind then I may put up portions of each version online and let you choose the best one.
Also, in regards to the EP, I’ve decided to switch “I’m Quite Happy Here” for a song called “Stars”, which I think I’ve mentioned in a previous blog.
”I’m Quite Happy Here” has a kind-of cabaret feel, which didn’t really fit in with the rest of the songs.
Recently, I’ve been working on a little side collaboration with a friend, I don’t want to say too much about it yet, but I’m really excited about it!
I recently bought a Kaoss Pad Quad, which is this really cool effects processor.
I haven’t used it on any recordings yet, but I have many plans for it!
As it was my birthday on Sunday, my Uncle bought me a set of cards called “Oblique Strategies” for my studio.
For those of you who my not know what they are, they’re cards that were created by Brian Eno (one of my favourite musicians and producers) that are designed to help people make decisions when faced with a dilemma whilst working.
Apparently, many professional music studios have them, and people like David Bowie have used them in the studio, so I can’t wait to start using them!
Thank you so much for reading this blog, please be sure to check out the other “My Music” blogs and to listen to my songs if you haven’t already done so!
Thanks,
Josh :)
In a way, I believe that all those things like love, sex, sharing a life with somebody, are actually quite vague. Being only with yourself can be much more intense. I personally have always felt trapped within the feeling of being constantly disappointed with people. In a way I do feel things that are conceivably better and more important than sexual situations. I mean, sex is presumably the final point one reaches, I don’t know. It doesn’t matter to me. All the emotions I need to express come from within me. They don’t really come from other people. I seem to feel things far more intensely and precisely than people who express a rag-bag of emotions and survive, just, loads of relationships. I see all situations, even when I’m not involved and it’s nothing to do with me, in a very dramatic way.
My Music Blog 78….
Hi everyone!
It seems like forever since I wrote one of these, I’ve had way too much going on lately.
I’VE GOT MY FIVE SONGS FOR EP NUMBER 1!!!!!
The working titles and working track list of these songs is…
- Are we right or wrong?
- eyes
- Sense of morality
- Waiting on the park bench
- I’m quite happy here
All of these songs have been written and demoed, but I may change some of the lyrics in Waiting On The Park Bench and I’m contemplating writing an extra verse to Glass Eyes.
Glass Eyes is a song I wrote the lyrics to recently, whilst sat on a bench by a pond in a park. I find that quite strange since I wrote the song Waiting On The Park Bench in my bedroom, yet Glass Eyes was actually written whilst waiting on a park bench but the songs have no connection.
Anyway, Glass Eyes is quite an ambiguous song. To be honest, I’m not entirely sure what caused me to write the song and I’m not too sure what it’s exactly about. I think it’s about being physically attracted to someone, but hating who they are personally. I could be wrong, so I’ll leave it open to interpretation.
I’m really excited about this song, and I can imagine it’ll be the first song I release from the EP. The only problem is that it’s a bit shorter than I’d hoped it would be, which is why I’m contemplating an extra verse.
I’ve written a second song for EP 2, which has the working title of My Life Is Not Easy.
I’m really excited about this song, it has a kind of bluesy feel to the melody and it’s very different to my usual stuff.
Both songs are still in the early stages, so I’ll let you know how the progress.
I’m sort of keeping to the schedule I set at the beginning of the year.
It’s unlikely that I’ll be able to have EP 1 out by May like I’d hoped, but I’m confident that it will be out by summertime.
EP 2 is coming along slightly ahead of schedule so I’m hoping that’s a good thing.
I haven’t decided on a name for either EP just yet.
I’m thinking of calling EP1 Morality,as that is a running theme throughout the five songs, but I’m not too sure about that yet.
I also have an idea for the EP artwork, but I’ll discuss that further another time
Thank you so much for reading this blog, please be sure to check out the other “My Music” blogs and to listen to my songs if you haven’t already done so!
Thanks,
Josh :)
I set up a little area in my room where I can demo songs!
This guy is incredibly innovative!
His albums are incredible!
My Music Blog 77…
Hi everybody!
Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on a couple of new songs.
Last week I wrote this instrumental piece, which has the working title of “Apart”.
I’m really excited for it, it’s kind of a hypnotic electronic dance track with a chord progression that I really love. The structure of it is different to most of my other stuff, as it’s mainly centred around three verses. Most of my songs have a standard verse, chorus, verse, chorus structure. However, I’ve had no ideas for lyrics yet.
I’ve been feeling very frustrated with my self over these past few weeks as I’ve had very little ideas for lyrics. Usually I write lyrics very regularly, at least one song every couple of days, but lately I’ve been lucky if I can write one song in a month!
I usually write my lyrics based on feelings and situations I’ve experienced, but nothing really seems to have happened lately that I’ve thought would make a good topic for a song.
I hope I can write something soon, as I really can’t wait to hear this song when it’s finished.
I’m going to try and fit it in with the theme of my upcoming EP so it can be included on that.
I mentioned very briefly in my last blog that theme of my EP will be Morality.
I’ve always been very interested in the reasons behind why people do the things they do. Whenever we’re placed in a situation which requires us to choose the way we act towards it, we almost always seem to think that we’ve done the right thing and we often don’t realise that our choice was a mistake until a long time after the event. I’ve always been curious about why that is and why we choose the morals we have. The main focus of the EP will the way we act towards other people.
So far I have written two songs for the EP. One of them is called “Sense Of Morality” which will be the centrepiece of the record, and the other is called “Waiting On The Park Bench”. “Waiting On The Park Bench” is already complete, but it may not be included on the EP as the style of the song is quite different to my other ideas. I’ll let you know what happens with that, but if I choose not to include it then it will be released for free download.
If you have liked my Facebook page then you may have seen that yesterday was the one year anniversary of the release of my songs!
I just want to say thank you so much to everybody who has listened to and downloaded my music, and anybody who has followed these blogs and kept up to date with everything that I’m doing.
Thank you all so much for the support!!!
It really means the world to me!
That’s all I’ve got to say this week, thank you for reading this blog.
Please be sure to read the other “my music” blogs and to check out my music if you haven’t already done so!
Thanks,
Josh :)
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I'm an 18 year old student studying Media and Music Technology at college. 