Well, probably the saddest I’ll ever write.  This is the song I alluded to in this tweet.  I wrote the words while driving to Charleston two weekend ago and the music while I was on the phone with a friend. A true multi-tasker at hand. This is about a pretty specific situation and there’s not much depth here. These 40 words (or so) clock in at just over 4 minutes and that’s seems just about right. Listen if you will. ::surely i do:: i do, i do i do, i do i’m sorry it took this long to understand what [...]

I wanted to take a few moments and list my favorite songs from last year. Most of these songs found a niche in my Walkman and never left.  These are songs that mean something to me. These are songs that are so infectious that I can’t get them out of my head. These are songs that rock my face off. These are songs that pull on my heart like a marionette. These are songs I want to sing from the bottom of my lungs. These are songs I want to share with you. In addition to running down the top [...]

Janauary was named for Janus, the Roman god of two faces, one looking forward and one looking backward.  This should be a time to reflect, but to keep moving forward. “New Year’s Project” by Further Seems Forever (the best incarnation of the band with Chris Carrabba on vocals) is a powerful song, especially at this time of year. [pro-player width='500' height='253' type='video']http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlNomVu3uW4[/pro-player] I wrote the following song a long time ago and under very different circumstances. I’ve associated a lot of songs with a particular month. This one is no different. This is my January song, my new year’s declaration.  [...]

Following up on two previous posts about the best albums of the year and the best versions of “O Holy Night,” today I will focus on the best renditions of the other Christmas Carols I enjoy. A carol is traditionally a song of praise and that’s what these songs are. I’ve listened to over 1000 Christmas songs (proof) over the past few weeks and have been keeping notes, both mentally and using Sticky Notes, which is just on of the great new features in Windows 7.  When I envisioned this idea, I thought it was going to be just one [...]

I’ll cut right to the chase on this post: music up front; explanation in the back,or after the non-existent jump, if you will.  Listen to the 7 best version of “O Holy Night” below with the Grooveshark widget. I signed up for this site a long time along when it was invite only and never did much with it. Now it’s public and better than ever and thanks to this Zepfanman post, I became aware of it again. Stream and read away. “O Holy Night” is probably my favorite Christmas hymn. I’ve always liked the song. The simple arpeggio open [...]

Much like the Best of 2009 post I am also writing , this  reflects the best media I have been exposed to during the year.  A few of these came out a year or two ago, but I first heard them this holiday season. Some will be renditions of the traditional carols we all grew up with and some will be more modern originals. The challenge with a lot of Christmas music is there is a plethora (in the correct sense of the word) of it and most of it is old and sounds like it. A lot of these [...]

Yesterday my uncle passed away after a short bout with cancer. I hadn’t really seen him much over the past few years, but I’ll always remember fondly our shared bond of professional wrestling. Back then one had to use a satellite dish with a descrambler to watch the pay-for-view’s for free. Immediately I was reminded of a song I wrote for my aunt who passed away in 2000. You can read about the inspiration here from a website I had many years ago (before I learned one should never use their ISP’s email address). The song talks about the hope [...]

So apparently in my stream of consciousness I am a Nazarite. I was just messing around with a new chord progression and this came out.  I had just read the quote about when the wine goes in, strange things comes out. cause i will not cut my hair or shave my beard nor will i touch anything unclean or let a strong drink leave my hand I have no idea where the song is going.  I have several more musical parts for it and some mind-mapping to do to figure this out.

I just recorded this a few minutes ago.  It sounds decent to me, but I think I think I  sound better to me than I really am.  This is one of my favorite songs and it’s by an incredible band called Thrice. ::the image of the invisible:: we’re more than carbon and chemicals free will is ours and we can’t let go we can’t allow this, the quiet cull so we sing out this, our canticle we are the image of the invisible we all were lost now we are found no one can stop us or slow us down [...]

Happy Easter! This is a first person account of what I imagine to be the thoughts going through the mind of Barabbas after being released from jail and watching Jesus take his place and then being executed.  I originally penned the song about 10 years ago but felt it was rather trite and contrived and I never really liked the music.  So last year, I completely rewrote the music rearranged the song. so how did all this come to be this dark cloud that’s hanging over me it wasn’t supposed to be like this i just wanted to make a [...]