Jun 24 2010
In those dark pre-Christina-Hendricks-on-MAD-MEN days of 2006, I spat this song out of frustration with a culture that seemed to be literally starving out a generation of the young and talented. But... a straight guy ranting about female body image…
Jun 23 2010
The 32nd piece I worked on with my digital 16-track is an instrumental using the Moog MG-1 into the Boss GT-3 "riff" setting, while also recording a raging thunderstorm through the window. "32" is also the title because of a…
Jun 20 2010
This song came quickly and in a single piece, as if straight from the hangover of Athena. For those of you that don't like puns, here are some puns... with booze!
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Water From a Bourbon Glass
Over, hung over…
Jun 17 2010
"Break" is another in a long line of cases where a lyric gimmick tricks me into revealing my state of mind. I'm grateful that I'm still this subconsciously gullible after 23 years of writing songs -- many of my favorites…
Apr 14 2010
This song started when I realized I'd never written a song that prominently featured me singing "ooooooo." So I decided I would, and what would be good to rhyme with "ooooo"? "Papathanassiou," the surname of Aphrodite's Child keyboardist, Jon Anderson…
Apr 14 2010
Drum solo!!! Err, not really, just a beat that I never ended up using for anything else, repurposed as a transition to "side 2" of the album. In my dreams, this will end up sampled and tweezed by some famous…
Apr 5 2010
I've been writing songs about various holidays for many years -- some day it's likely that my Greatest Hits album will be a calendar...
This is the first song I've ever written starting from a Facebook status update. "Dolph…
Mar 3 2010
Here's me trying to laugh through my anxiety attacks. Most of my immediate family has dealt with anxiety disorders; I've fought them since I was 13. At the most anxious periods in my life, I have experienced hallucinations, many involving…
Feb 8 2010
It started as a joke. I just couldn't resist the idea of singing a love song about refusing to sing love songs because of love-song phobia. Then I fleshed it out with references to other phobias and superstitions, and in…
Feb 4 2010
One of 3 short interstitial instrumentals I used to break the album into sections. Telecaster --> Boss GT-3 --> board. Basically one marching chord, with a couple of mutations. The title is because this was the 37th song recorded on…
Feb 3 2010
Did you think I'd forgotten you? Never fear. Just dealt with a mind-fogging cold and some other energy drains for a few weeks. Back to comments about the tracks on GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA.
"Queen For A Day" started with the…
Jan 24 2010
Eccentric, gooey, rhythmically-challenged wanker/baby or witty, funny, clever, nicely sentimental king-to-be? You be the judge...
http://popdose.com/rob-smith-cant-say-no-dolph-chaney/