Edshugeo The GodMoor

I've been watching the fifth season of Alias, and came across this mash-up (but not this video) during a club scene (in episode 13?). I think it's kinda nice.



Never been a huge fan of The Doors (Jim Morrison's overrated), aside from Moon Of Alabama Alabama Song, which is greatness. But Blondie? How could one not love Blondie? Still, I'd a liked to hear more of Riders Of The Storm on that mix and less of Debra Harry's rhyming skillz. Don't think I heard the "killer on the road" line, or did I miss it?



Didn't know this before, but I know it now dept: Alabama Song wasn't written by Jim Morrison, but by Kurt Weill. Well, how about that?

Labels: Awesome, covers, fun, music, music video, remix, Songza, youtube and other video

Thanks Valdermar and Housequake

Labels: covers, Heroes, music, music video, youtube

Did a couple of new things to it, primarily the replacement of the lead vocal. It can be bought at the PsychoVoyager store on top of this page, and/or listened to in its entirety on MySpace (as of this writing) and the Podcast Music Network. The Podcast version is slow due to a weird Flash glitch.

Based on the original, The World They Loved To Hate, performed by Cry For Life, written by Crystal Walters.

My old mix remains free, as well as the instrument tracks, which can be imported into most audio editors/workstations etc.

Labels: covers, Crystal Walters, downloads, my music, PsychoVoyager

More songs on MySpace.

Labels: Awesome, covers, dead links, funny-ass shit, music

This is a bit late, but here 'tis. A remake of a great Chuck D song I found on a Wired Magazine CD back in November 2004.

I go into the process a little bit here.

And posted the song on the Internet Archive. I tried FLAC, but the Creative Commons tool chokes on large files (I still have a mess from January to clean up), so Ogg Vorbis will have to do.

The original's by The Fine Arts Militia (Featuring Chuck D). Get the original and some of the samples here.

My version's here (or click on the title).

The words:

And it goes a little something like this (hit it);

no comeback stories
no corny choruses
no former glories*
no hallehluahs
landcruisers
no drug users
no grins
no trends
no phony ass friends
who begin with ends
and end with no ends
and no estrogen

no gas ups
no soups
no les coups*
no crackers
no backers
no niggers for no blackers
no trips to New Orleans*
no mainstream dreams
no stress beams
no accusations,
cop cases, court cases

no rape charges,
sarges,
no DeBarges
no lightweight
bounce up in the air
shoot-outs and no sellouts
no negroes with egos
no more shows
calling women bitches and hoes
no thoughtless flows
no woes

no singing voices
no Rolls Royces
no wack choices
no volunteers
getting peers or career years
no solutions
no problems
no more final revolving (?)
no happy campers
no offence
no funk samples


the easiest and the hardest word to say is no
only got two letters, (only) takes a second to say it
no meaning no
no conscience, no stress
no second guess
no bodyguards
no questions
(repeat)


no succotash
no girl I gotta cash rap
no sex traps
no Rolexes
no unprotected sex
no false hopes
no hang rope folks
no car notes
no killers
no vanillas
no Big Willies in the wilderness*

no jail time
no fucking little kid rhymes
no studio terrorists
no mirrors
look mom, no spelling errors
no absinthe pop (?)
no sweatshops
no porkchops
no justice, no peace
no Please Please Please

instrumental

no legal freestyles
no comicbook movies**
no Groovy Ghoulies**
no industry rapes
no capes
no suits and no ties
no stars
no overpaid A&Rs
no American Idols**
no gold teeth
no mad cow beef**

no dumb looks
no onesided hooks
no hero crooks*
no finesse
no mess
no struggle, no progress
no hidden fees*
no HIV
no hi-def TVs*
no contacts*
no speeches for no academies


the easiest and the hardest word to say is no
only got two letters, only takes a second to say it
no meaning no
no conscience, no stress
no second guess
no bodyguards
no questions

(repeat)

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Labels: covers, downloads, music, my music, PsychoVoyager, remix

The second song in my attempt to record one cover a month as part of my 2006 agenda. This one comes from the band, Sinister Dexter. Originally latin themed as written by Adam Fong, I've perhaps added a Sisters Of Mercy flavor to it.
I admit it's a bit of a mess, but I like it!

At some point I may add some reverb to soften those higher voices, and perhaps redo the bass.

I attempted to upload the song to Archive.org, but had the same difficulty I had with Above it All. Instead of trying it a million times and having them all show up in about a week, I'll just wait. I also have to clean up the multiple entries of Above It All on that site. In the meantime I've up'd the ogg to my site's server temporarily.

Here it is.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Based on the original by Sinister Dexter, Written By Adam Fong

Labels: covers, downloads, my music, PsychoVoyager

Yes. I know it's February. Some complications got in the way of my finishing on time.

This first cover (with one to come for each month of this year) is a re-recording of The World They Loved To Hate by Cry For Life AKA Crystal Walters. While blindly searching for (Creative Commons) music to play around with at the Internet Archive, I came across two songs that stood out from the rest. One was a song about eating fascists that sounded like fun, but deciphering the lyrics (or writing new ones) would've taken more time than I wanted to spend. The other struck me both with it's sound and a rare sentiment not often found (I think) in pop music. In other words, something I wished I'd written myself.

I simplified the arrangement, approximating what I heard as best as I could and re-arranged a few of the words to make the song more accessable to whatever style of singing I have and went to work on recording. There were some problems reaquainting myself with recording on Linux and then some stuff went wrong at the end. I managed a few mixes (rough as they may be) before that happened and when I got to the end of the month, decided I had enough for now.

I exported the tracks into separate wav files and then FLAC'd them, except for the drum tracks which wouldn't cooperate. Those were ogg'd. I wanted to proved those as well as the (somewhat) finished song.

Uploading then became the problem. ccPublisher kept freezing up after uploading the first track. I had all the files go up together, so I thought maybe it was the size of the upload, but after reducing the number of files (intending to divide them into three or four batches) I still had that problem. I decided that the source files should probably go in a separate batch anyway and attempted those after restarting my computer with success. No go for the mixdowns, though.

After a brief investigation, found out about OurMedia.org and registered there, but their publishing tool is just another version of ccPublisher (uploads go to Archive.org) and I encountered the same problem. Also, I wasn't crazy about the format of the OurMedia publisher. Went back to doing it with ccPublisher and figured maybe the FLAC file is the problem. That made no sense, of course. The source files were almost all FLAC, and I've uploaded that format, at least once before with no problem. But since nothing was making sense anyway, it was worth a try.

Holy shit! It worked. But then I noticed a previous upload showed up as well and when I got home from work today, there were seven separate uploads for Above It All. There may be more coming. I've been at this for a few days. I'll have to take care of that some other time. I need to move on and get this week's song written and pick out this month's cover.

The song can be accessed by clicking the title above or here.

Thankfully, the songwriter has approved of this effort and that clears away one last anxiety.

Labels: covers, Crystal Walters, downloads, my music, PsychoVoyager, Richard O