Everytime I'm sitting down to the computer, on days off, I'm getting tones done. I again, had another Saturday to use, and use it I did. I started very early and continued continously to mid afternoon. I got so many things finished and near finished. Here goes:
I began by recording music because it was so early that I didn't want to bother the neighbours with singing. I was dying to finish Honey-trap, because the music is sounding so shit hot. So I began working on a tune I had written the day before. It is a cool rock riff, with a few different wee sections to it. I recorded it initially on my blackberry, then looked at lyrics I had, matched them up, wrote them down, and recorded the guitar and vocals together. So that day I began recording. It actually just came together so easily. There are maybe four separate guitar parts, a bass riff, had to get some drums together for it. Added more in as the song came together; took some out. Edited, copied, cut, pasted, edited, etc. By the end, and only a few hours from starting I had the song essentially recorded. All I needed was the vocals. There were no reall big issues with the song. No great obstacles. Just naturally came together. The song is called Plum_boy03, which is about internet chatrooms, and those envirnoments and the people who use them. Plum_boy03 is me; this was my internet chat room name way back when chatrooms were the new rage. I question myself in the song.
Plum_Boy03
Walking into a dark room
full of strangers,
Watching each converse,
Their names surround a faceless persona,
Lost in translation
amongst fibre-optic jargon,
Pink, green, and yellow, illuminous as it scrolls across the screen
An alter ego,
The perfect environment,
No imperfections,
Ignornance is bliss,
Until her anonymous nature
surrounds you,
And you don't know who that bimbogirl is
So plumboy
03
What's going on
in that little head of yours?
Why do you have to rely on
the virtual world so much?
Were you ignorant?
Where you make
The worst enemies
So plumboy
03
What's going on?
Written whilst on buses from Jan 2011. Complete March 2011
So I had to wait until I could record the vocals. So I began work on a brand new version of 'The Blood that Runs through the Wire Transfer'. I want to rock up the ending. I recorded the tune to a beat, added guitar, keyboard effects, and other stuff. By this point I could record vocals (as I could hear the neighbour hoovering!). So I abandoned this and went to record Honey-trap.
So I recorded these vocals, and at the time I was very much aware of the neighbours hearing me so I didn't record very good vocals. Also the vocals are very hissy. This is a problem I have been having more the last few times. The vocals are consistently having a hissing behind them. It is annoying me. I think I know how to change that from now on, but a part of that is that I am not singing loud enough into the mic. Which is largely due to me not wanting to bother neighbours. It's annoying as fuck. Anyway. So in retrospect at listening to the song on my ipod, I don't think the vocals are good at all with the song; or should I say the recording of the vocals.
So I then moved onto the vocals for Plum_boy03. I thought 'fuck it!' and decided to record the vocals loudly after several dud attempts. I stood up for it, to a) be further away from the floor and b) to give some fucking welly. So I sang, not as loudly as I still would like to have, but I sang better and louder than usual. I fucked up the chorus so had to edit it and cut it up a little. But it all worked out well in the end. I am happy with these vocals. I always think the vocals could be better but I'm happy at present with them.
So I still had a few hours left, and nothing new apart from lyrics. As I twiddled my thumbs thinking, it just came to me. Why don't I use the old 'Psychopathamatics' riff, make it new and shiny, and put some new lyrics to it! It was always a cool and simple rock tune. So that's what I did. I recorded the first guitar. Clean rock tone. Then a distorted one. Going simple enough. And that's how it continued. Had put it to a fucked up cut up dance beat. Put bass, another guitar riff, and though about the vocals. Clearly I didn't want to shout anymore incase the neighbours called the police, thinking I was being tortured. Or just cause I was being a loud shite. So, thinking of how psychopath was sung, it was a low, deep tone. Almost spoken. So that's what I did. Recorded a distorted vocal, and then a clean one to compliment it. I edited them, cut them up, and then tried to find some kind of rock drum beat to put in. Nothing...nothing...nothing, then boobam! One beat, fit perfectly! And it sounded shit hot. Made the song really come alive. So added it, edited it, and it makes this tune sound amazing. The vocals were sung to a set of lyrics I have called 'Video Nasty', the first set of lyrics I wrote for 'Anonymous', about youtube, and video sites in general and how anyone can access anything.
Video Nasty
The tube killed the T.V star,
Pixelated, inebreated, mr nobody,
The search bar: type dirt, filth, adult themes,
Accessable to all, and your children
Enter the world of the video nasty (carry on nasty into next line but with delays and jerks in vocals),
Tasteless, vile and pointless,
The monotony of the random,
A million viewings boo bam, of what?
An endless selection of nothing,
Reality can be so disgusting,
Enter the world of the video nasty,
Tasteless, vile and pointless,
Vast amount of disturbing material,
The next generations eyes wonder over,
As their parents read their papers
They learn to make bombs, and die
Written in Jan 2011, edited since. Complete March 2011.
I am actually very very happy with both new songs and they add a whole new dimension to the songs I have. Plum_boy03 sounds like a proper rock song by a band; and Video Nasty is a short but full and deep dark rock song. The only thing that annoys me about the recording session is that I still haven't complete Honey-trap which sounds amazing. So next time, Honey-trap will get finished once and for all.
Watch this space,
Wullae
Song will soon be up on youtube (search: wullaewrightmusic)
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