"Sunrise"

This has been up for a week but I haven't blagged it for a good reason: the recording quality is about the opposite of what it needs to be. It should be a lot more aggressive and "hot" (hence the title), and instead it sounds like it's underwater, and I've already done that song. I'm hoping to rerecord it if I can find the time.

Plapljwsijvklsjdnfiouwhu! Iuytfvsdg!

It's the End of the World as We Know It:


Minor Thing:

I don't really have anything to say about these, which is why I'm bunching them together. They're both ideas I had a while ago: the first is about a year old, the second I probably came up with around the beginning of last summer (which is probably why it sounds a lot less finished, but I was trying not to over-think it). Here's some facts:

-"End of the World" has a really long coda that I cut for it-sounding-terrible reasons. I left the first line of it as the last line of the song, if that gives you some idea.

-Great Big Sea also covered "End of the World" at a faster tempo. Their version is actually the exact same length as mine--for some reason iMovie always makes my songs a few seconds longer.

-I recorded all the "Minor Thing" piano parts with a Rock Band 3 keyboard, which works pretty well except it doesn't have instructions, and also that I'm a really shitty piano player. In retrospect, I probably overused the pitch-shifty thing.*

-"Minor Thing" is the first song of mine to take more than one day to finish recording, due to interruptions.

-I forget.

*Here is my review of it:

"If Rock Band 3 was just 'Space Oddity' and 58 Nickelback songs, and I'd probably still give it an A minus. The fact that there are least five other songs I might have used instead in that sentence is proof that it's the best thing the music game genre has ever produced."
They should put that on the box.


DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
Rerelease Notes: I took out the problematic ending, mainly because I couldn't figure out how to fix it.