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Bad Dreams

By roboctopus on March 10, 2012 3:52 am

I'd like to apologize for this.  Busy at work, going out of town for the weekend to visit family.  So this is a straight-up demo thing.  I mean, I had this little melody in LSDJ.  A little nothing thing.  For some reason I decided to sing and play guitar with it.  I do kind of like the sort of quaint sound juxtaposed with lyrics that hint at heavy stuff though.


Sorry about the singing - it was done late at night while the world was sleeping, so it's sort of soft talk singing done in one take.  Sorry about the mix.  I was going to do more but ran out of time. 


Lyrics:


and if you have bad dreams
I can't make them go away
I can keep you close
but I can't promise you'll be safe
if you run away
I swear to god I'll lose my mind
but if you stay
I swear I'll stay sober this time

Sounds nice and lofi-ish. I would probably prefer this over "correct" mixing and mastering smile

great tags, haha// but seriously, you touched me with this one.  You always write solid LSDJ tracks and then you do something completely out of what I would consider your 'comfort zone' (only based on what I've heard on WB, etc)-- so hearing something like this from someone I thought only did straight chip is not only refreshing but encouraging as well.  Great job, friend cool  listened to this like 4 times haha

wowowow!!you are impressing me so much each time with your songs!!:cool:

It's GREAT! Sad you had not so much time hmm

Ahh man sounds great!  Like hearing the acoustic guitar and natural vocal over the LSDJ tracks.  Adds a whole new dimension.  Loving that blippy synth melody line.  The ending is a ripoff though... want to hear more and thought my laptop stop streaming.

Nice! I agree, it's a nice contrast - the heavy-ish lyrics and soft singing.

This is really nice with the vocals then going into that bridge section.  Your voice reminds me of someone but I can't remember whom? 

I love your stuff dude. This is no exception.

Reminds me of an electro Weezer.  heh.

Hey thanks guys.  Glad you dig it even though it's short and lo-fi.

@NWSPR yeah, the ending is just...the end of what I had.  I recorded this on my lunch break. >_<

I have bad dreams often, thx a lot, dude the r went away ;D

this is tittys everywhere!!

How did we miss this one? Could a song get more charming? No, don't think so. Nice stuff. Loving the whisper quality of your middle of the night voice. Sounds a bit like this wonderful band from Melbourne called the Underground Lovers (particularly their album Dream it Down). Soooo good!

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