Sunday, October 11, 2009

Music and Me


Ever since the release of MGMTs album i have been really into electronic style music. I love how it goes back to the 80s and uses synth driven styles that had long been forgotten. Many bands spawned from this 80s revival and I love almost all of them. This inspired me and a friend (who had previously been in an alternative rock band together) to make two songs right before the end of the summer that were really different and interesting. We did all of this on a cheap keyboard and garage band; we had no other recording devices. One song was about getting stuck in the stomach of “metal alligator” (not my idea) and the other is a somewhat comical portrayal of the apocalypse. I also wrote some fun lyrics regarding based on a crash in the Bermuda Triangle and enjoying. The thing I love about all of this music is the quirky persepctive it gives life. When writing I try to uphold this tradition. Below is a sample of what i have written. Its pretty rough but I hope you enjoy it:


Come crash with me

find yourself washed up on the beach


hide the wreckage beneath the trees

I can see it now on the TV


Wake up and feel the breeze

We are trapped ive never felt so free


When the world brings you to your knees

turn your back, stand up, and do as you please


Taste the salt and feel the breeze

Hear the waves crash down upon the beach

Smell the ocean smell the see

I see you and I see me

We keep on living you are all I need


Lay with me on a bed of leaves

oh lord ive never been so at peace


What happens here well it stays

we're staying here till the end of our days


take this ring its all i have

I hope it sticks on you like a leech

we wont have to plan our honeymoon

we are already on the beach

no our big day it wont be much

you play the organ i'll play the priest

you play the organ and i'll play the priest


If you enjoyed this tell me, also I can let you listen to the two songs me and my friend made, he is a very talented singer. We didn’t even bother to come up with a band name so expect a myspace or anything.

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