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Smoking Weird

By Cosmic Cairns on October 13, 2022 8:22 pm

A while back I had a dream where I got stopped by some random guy on the street who told me he was a fan and that he especially enjoyed my song "Smoking Weird."  I was flattered since this sort of thing never actually happens, but then even in the dream I realized I didn't have a song called "Smoking Weird."  I wondered if maybe he had me mistaken for somebody else.  But then I decided perhaps maybe it was a vision from the future and I needed to make a song called "Smoking Weird."  So I am. 

I have no idea what my subconscious meant when it came up with that title.  Is it about somebody who has a weird technique when they smoke?  Is weird a slang term for some new drug the kids are smoking these days?  Or is smoking like a level of weirdness... as in that was so weird it was smoking weird! 

I'm still not sure, but I decided to do something that utilized some weird sounds, but hopefully also has a bit of a groove to it.  I'm feeling better from the head cold I had, but still kind of have a lingering cough and I semi-lost my voice so I'm keeping this as an instrumental.  Hopefully the weird has a little smoke coming off of it.

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the backstory to this track is fabulous - i think uma approves she's smoking weird to it

I love the premise of the track, this could be the start of a David Lynch movie. I have no idea what your dream means (and anyway only the dreamer can ever really interpret their own dreams, we all have our super unique subconscious with its language). This track is quite a trip! So many weird sounds, this is like a crazy festival! I love the ambient recordings at 2:40 and how the track changes fully after that, as if we just stepped into a twilight dimension portal. What a fantastically strange track, congratulations!

HAHA! That’s the best description i’ve ever read! It’s as if you wrote this song in your dream, or maybe your dream wrote you in the past and the song dreamt you(? …i think i just drained my bamage)… glad to hear you’re feeling better, too! This song is ace with the creativity and the weird, so good! big_smile

emily wrote:

the backstory to this track is fabulous - i think uma approves she's smoking weird to it

Uma totally gets it.  Thanks!



Kedbreak136 wrote:

I love the premise of the track, this could be the start of a David Lynch movie. I have no idea what your dream means (and anyway only the dreamer can ever really interpret their own dreams, we all have our super unique subconscious with its language). This track is quite a trip! So many weird sounds, this is like a crazy festival! I love the ambient recordings at 2:40 and how the track changes fully after that, as if we just stepped into a twilight dimension portal. What a fantastically strange track, congratulations!

Thanks!  I used a couple of recordings I made on my phone at the Boston Museum of Science to get those ambient sounds.  Every once in a while I understand what my dreams are trying to tell me, but most of the time I have no clue.  My subconscious is a strange place.  You could almost say that it's smoking weird. 



RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

HAHA! That’s the best description i’ve ever read! It’s as if you wrote this song in your dream, or maybe your dream wrote you in the past and the song dreamt you(? …i think i just drained my bamage)… glad to hear you’re feeling better, too! This song is ace with the creativity and the weird, so good! big_smile

Very possible that the song has dreamt me.  It would explain a lot. 

We can smoke weirdly to this song. I don't smoke, but I'll be weird and pretend. I love that story. Congrats on dreaming the future. Level up! Love the weird bits in here, but a groove that says this is relatable too.

That's weird, I had a dream where I paid a guy $100 to tell you to make a song called "Smokin' Weird" (with an apostrophe) but I see how the detail did no transfer...

This goes hard AND weird, love the uniquely psychedelic vibe here -- fav smile

(And jokes aside, jealous of the making of in the description, fans for music to be written are hard to come by and worth dreaming about.)


of course this song is psychedilic like hell, but it makes me also overthink my smoking habbits.

the weird is definitely still smokin', hot off the press. hot diggity dang.

Maybe that get was me, probably not, but if it was, I'd say it's the last one.
I doubt it was me since I'd say Combustion Engine is still me favorite over this (it's been with me through very tough times, I might just cover it or make a tribute someday), but it's still nice.
- Devieus

Awesome creative backstory!  There are some awesome pieces of synth candy in this one.  Especially around the 1:15ish mark.  Oooh and alien like turntable scratching on the right side.  Excellent work!

miraclemiles wrote:

We can smoke weirdly to this song. I don't smoke, but I'll be weird and pretend. I love that story. Congrats on dreaming the future. Level up! Love the weird bits in here, but a groove that says this is relatable too.

If you do anything weirdly enough apparently smoke comes off of it.  No actual smoking required.  Thanks for listening!



ilzxc wrote:

That's weird, I had a dream where I paid a guy $100 to tell you to make a song called "Smokin' Weird" (with an apostrophe) but I see how the detail did no transfer...

This goes hard AND weird, love the uniquely psychedelic vibe here -- fav smile

(And jokes aside, jealous of the making of in the description, fans for music to be written are hard to come by and worth dreaming about.)

Oh, well in that case this clearly isn't the track that guy was talking about and I now need to make another one called Smokin' Weird.  smile  It was cool to have a fan of a yet-to-be-written song, but at the same time it creates a bit of pressure to have to try to write someone's favorite song.  I put off making this track for a while just because of that!



Q-Rosh wrote:


of course this song is psychedilic like hell, but it makes me also overthink my smoking habbits.

Well, if that gif doesn't define smoking weird, I don't know what does.



license wrote:

the weird is definitely still smokin', hot off the press. hot diggity dang.

You can smell the weird smoke coming off of it.  Thanks for listening!



Devieus wrote:

Maybe that get was me, probably not, but if it was, I'd say it's the last one.
I doubt it was me since I'd say Combustion Engine is still me favorite over this (it's been with me through very tough times, I might just cover it or make a tribute someday), but it's still nice.
- Devieus

Thanks!  I actually had kind of forgotten I remade Combustion Engine for WB until you mentioned it just now.  Please let me know if you ever decide to do anything with it.  I'd love to hear it.



Tone Matrix wrote:

Awesome creative backstory!  There are some awesome pieces of synth candy in this one.  Especially around the 1:15ish mark.  Oooh and alien like turntable scratching on the right side.  Excellent work!

It was fun assembling the sounds for this.  I always love good synth candy.

Great track!  I read it as 'weird' meaning a different word for 'weed'.  Maybe a heavy Scottish accent?  Haha.

Stay weird.  big_smile

rdomain wrote:

Great track!  I read it as 'weird' meaning a different word for 'weed'.  Maybe a heavy Scottish accent?  Haha.

Stay weird.  big_smile

When I saw the title written out, I couldn't help but notice how close it looks to Smoking Weed.  Maybe the guy in the dream did have an accent!  Or my sub-conscious just mangled the word.

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