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Childhood (1974-90)
1977 Firsts
1978 Seconds
1985 Cacappella
1986 Eye Beater
1987 Guitarded
1988 Kim 1
1988 Kim 2
1988 Kim 3
1988 Kim 4
1988 Kim 5
1988 Kim 6
1988 Kim 7
1988 Kim 8
1988 Kim 9
1988 Kim 10
1988 Kim 11
1988 Kim 12
1989 Kim 13
1989 Five Dollar Drummer
1989 Wino Three Girls
1990 A Caustic Gutter
1996-1999
1996 NoVaSoCa
1996 Fullerton
1997 Soundtracks
1997 Walk Around
1997 Riding the Greyhound
1999 I Mowed
1999 Simulameous
1999 Yikes
1999 Piano Farte
2000-2008
2001 Marathon
2001 Days Like These
2001 Alcan Back
2001 Sleepy Sloppy
2001 Dad Day Jam
2002 Unfit
2002 The Key of G
2003 Daffy Day
2003 Januweary
2003 Post-Key
2003 Fatiguitar
2003 Oh No
2005 Waiting
2005 Sun Strike
2006 Stinky Room
2006 Schtupid
2007 Coy Pun
2007 Post-Ides
2007 Post-Ideas
2007 Post-Ideals
2007 Warble
2007 Another Same Day
2007 And Another
2007 Bald Ballads
2007 Lunch Broken
2007 Mayo
2007 Mayon
2007 Mayonandon
2007 Mayoff
2007 Juneo
2007 Juneon
2007 Juneonandon
2007 Two Song Rule
2007 Cavy Fury
2007 Infinity Daze
2007 Fall Start
2007 False Tart
2007 Fall End
2008 New Ear
2008 Decadend

Track List

# title lyrics time download listen started recorded rating
1 Tad on the Rusty Side lyrics 0:05 download listen locally - 2001-07-23
2 Little Rite lyrics 9:29 download listen locally - 2001-07-23
3 Bigger Rite - 12:03 download listen locally - 2001-07-23
4 Yucky Tan - 2:41 download listen locally - 2001-07-23
5 Yucky Beige - 4:45 download listen locally - 2001-07-23
6 Gentle Waiters - 6:36 download listen locally - 2001-07-23
7 Tragitease - 5:45 download listen locally - 2001-07-23
8 Tragreprise - 1:52 download listen locally - 2001-07-23
9 Vanillame - 19:32 download listen locally - 2001-07-23
10 Different Mood Same Person lyrics 7:49 download listen locally - 2001-07-23
11 Semipeppy - 9:03 download listen locally - 2001-07-23
Total 79:40 play all locally album rating:

Notes

After my third tour through the Pacific Northwest, I returned to Bellingham, this time for good. I arranged a flight back to Charlottesville and a van rental so that I could move.

While awaiting my flight, I frequented the nearby college's piano practice rooms. On one of those occasions, I recorded this long "jam session".

The music tends to be slow and/or sloppy; hence the title. None of the songs has vocals. I guess I was tired from talking and singing in the car.

Songs

Tad on the Rusty Side

It sounds like I had a cold.

Lyrics to "Tad on the Rusty Side":

yes, you can see that i'm a tad on the rusty side
  

Little Rite

This is a long, slow, semi-melodic exercise. It's pretty trancy. Not too bad.

The talking near the start is too faint and muffled for me to understand.

Lyrics to "Little Rite":

???
  

Bigger Rite

This has a decent melody, but is very sloppy. There are lots of bad notes. Lots and lots.

A few minutes in, it changes to a really trancy pattern, which is kinda cool.

Yucky Tan

The title is a pun on "Yucatan"; I thought the song sounded Mexican when I named it. In retrospect, well, umm...

The music's okay. A little blurry and clumbsy. It seems more a stamina test than anything else. On the plus side, it's short.

Yucky Beige

This is slow, sloppy, and heavy-handed. Very clunky. Boo.

The ending is jarring. Horridly jarring. Jarringly horrid.

Gentle Waiters

This is slow and gentle. The title is a pun on "gentle waters", which is an inside joke. "Inside" as in so dumb it's not worth explaining. Really.

Tragitease

I thought this sounded "tragic". It feels a lot longer than it is. Like most tragedies.

Tragreprise

This is a reprise of "Tragitease". Boring, but short. Hooray for short!

Vanillame

Vanilla plus lame plus attention surplus disorder equals this song. It's very, very long. And very, very boring.

Different Mood Same Person

The chords are C and Cm. I later expanded this into "C Cm F Fm". I like the latter song much better.

Lyrics to "Different Mood Same Person":

this is called: different mood same person
  

Semipeppy

Lots of banging. Pretty much an endurance test.