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Oxygen

By blighters_rock on April 24, 2022 11:52 pm

Sunday afternoon special. Really pushing my luck, here.

Whenever I'm really dreading writing my weekly song, I write a song about dreading writing my weekly song. I was working on something else this morning. It wasn't working, and got super frustrated and picked up a guitar to noodle on something else. This idea popped out, and I abandoned the other song with prejudice. Pretty happy with the performances considering the compressed schedule.


› Lyrics

Super relatable haha. This came out really awesome! The bass and drums sound great and I like the acoustic riffage. The drum performance is really great, digging all the fills you played. I like the vocal melody a lot. Nice job! It's pretty great what you put together in so little time. I also just realized that you put together lyrics last minute, I can't even imagine! 36 weeks to go indeed...

Other than the immediate influence I pointed out in the weeklymeets chat, the rest of the goes in a completely vibe and direction and I really like the approach to the vocal melody. There's a lot of nice little melodic extensions like on "Hello to you-ooo-ooooo". It's nice that the bass guitar line outlines the melodies as well. Also, this is the song of our people.

Solid track. Like the drum sound, acoustic strummed guitar, bass line and your vocals are great. Great harmonies.

Don't worry there are tough weeks, and there are some easy ones. So far you did release great stuff. I am not too much into it those weeks, but I am still able to release a little something for you guys. smile

Rock on!

Hey this is a good idea, i am not really into this style but had to stop and say good idea for such a short time period, good execution.

Saguaro Gigante wrote:

Super relatable haha. This came out really awesome! The bass and drums sound great and I like the acoustic riffage. The drum performance is really great, digging all the fills you played. I like the vocal melody a lot. Nice job! It's pretty great what you put together in so little time. I also just realized that you put together lyrics last minute, I can't even imagine! 36 weeks to go indeed...

big_smile Thanks, mang. I think this might be the first time I've stuck with a single drum take without any edits or tweaks this year. Take 5 had the magic! This year has definitely helped me learn to let the lyrics flow.

ViridianLoom wrote:

Other than the immediate influence I pointed out in the weeklymeets chat, the rest of the goes in a completely vibe and direction and I really like the approach to the vocal melody. There's a lot of nice little melodic extensions like on "Hello to you-ooo-ooooo". It's nice that the bass guitar line outlines the melodies as well. Also, this is the song of our people.

Song of our people! Love it! Glad you dug it.

djippy wrote:

Solid track. Like the drum sound, acoustic strummed guitar, bass line and your vocals are great. Great harmonies.

Don't worry there are tough weeks, and there are some easy ones. So far you did release great stuff. I am not too much into it those weeks, but I am still able to release a little something for you guys. smile

Rock on!

Thanks djippy! I appreciate all the feedback, and you coming back week after week. Glad you're still making it happen too.

gesceap wrote:

Hey this is a good idea, i am not really into this style but had to stop and say good idea for such a short time period, good execution.

Thanks much! I appreciate the recognition, esp since outside of your normal scope.

Very meta, I love it when songs get meta, especially with these rocking instruments.
- Spider

haha I loved the lyrics of this one. "The weekly beats will beat the weak" - boy oh boy do I feel this one! I loved it!

iHz wrote:

haha I loved the lyrics of this one. "The weekly beats will beat the weak" - boy oh boy do I feel this one! I loved it!

Apparently I loved it twice!

Loved the BR special when you did "weekly beats will beat the weak"  yasssssss

love it.  amazing how quickly you did this, congrats on tossing the other idea, that's so hard, but so important.

Interviewer: "This album is winning all sorts of awards, what's your inspiration?"

Blighters_Rock: "My fear of winning awards."

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