Played a good version of the Divider title track tonight at Penny Lane. Sadly, the board wasn’t set up for recording. Two people came up to me after the show. One to tell me he liked my music, and the other told me I was good at playing the emo boy, which isn’t exactly a compliment. But would she go out of her way to diss me? I laughed, but I really should have come back with an “oh burn!”
1. I Know My Rights
2. I’m Having Trouble Concentrating
3. One Less
4. We Have the Technology
5. I’m Going Away for a While
6. Chance
7. Method of Delivery
8. Boundaries
1. You’re a True Believer
2. It’s Always Something
3. Let It All Burn
4. It Won’t Last
5. Flagwavers
THE ECHO CHAMBER
7. Don’t Be Afraid
8. Uniter
9. Divider
10. Open Your Eyes
You can buy Divider at CD Baby.
Started in 2003. Intended to be done in 2003. Instead, I finally tore myself away from the last mix in October 2004. I had to post it on the web just to keep myself from messing with it into infinity. Delays continued, and I finally received my box of CDs for selling in late January 2005, about a week after the inauguration of the original Divider.
It’s a semi-political album… but hopefully more to me than to anybody else. Personally political. I wouldn’t really want it to be specific about that stuff lest the life get sucked out of the music once the national tide turns.
The CD has the video for “Let It All Burn” on it as well as some extra mp3s:
Cold Sweat
Complaining
Don’t Be Afraid (acoustic)
Don’t Let the Waiting Wear You Out
It Comes and It Goes
It Won’t Last (alternate)
Sad Saints
They Will Sing
Voices Constantly
Your God Is an Idol
Your God Is an Idol (Acoustic)
1. Zoo Station
2. Even Better Than the Real Thing
3. One
4. Until the End of the World
5. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
6. So Cruel
7. The Fly
8. Mysterious Ways
9. Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World
10. Ultraviolet
11. Acrobat
12. Love is Blindness
Songs written by U2
Produced/performed by Jeff Fal
I needed to work, and I needed to work fast. So I ditched the burden of writing songs. We were listening to this album on a roadtrip to and from California. It was speaking to me.
1. Scared to Death
2. Locked Box
3. Towering Inferno
4. What’s Happening to Me?
5. Shades of Black
6. New York
7. Good Morning!
8. Coming Dear
9. Red
10. When Have I Been Wrong?
11. Air Traffic
12. Maybe So
Songs made by Jeff Fal
Made in late 2002 and early 2003, this was an unrealistic project undertaken by me and some of my Song Fight friends. We came up with 12 titles by secret ritual and then attempted to each write and record songs for all 12 titles within a month. We gave up that deadline in favor of making more polished work, which I think is for the better. The companion albums for this are Frankie Big Face’s Smile If You Absolutely Have To and John Benjamin’s Feel Things Deeply.
You can order it here.
1. Back Like This
2. A Reason to Stay
3. Choose My Battles
4. Dirty Water
5. Alone
6. Carrying On
7. Exactly the Same
8. I Know Better
9. Wears on Me
10. Let It Go
11. I Feel Bad
12. The Smile on Your Face
13. I Know Better
Songs made by Jeff Fal
This album took me all of 2002 to make. Ok, That’s not completely true. Probably 80% of the work got done in the summer. There are a couple of songs from before then, and I did a lot of mixing and remixing afterwards. But all in all, I’d say it’s a summer document. Something about summers… They just get me working.
1. Midnight Rendezvous
2. Don’t Dance
3. Shipwreck
4. On a Line
5. Black Hole
6. Dad, I’m Changing
7. Listen Close
8. It’s Invisible
9. Been to China
10. A Thousand Swords
11. I Can See You
12. Do It for Captain
13. Red Robot
14. Birds of Our Own
15. Firecrackers
16. Acid Mouth
17. Experimental Fashion
18. Secrets
19. Hotel
1. I Won’t Be There
2. Hard Enough
3. Fall Apart
4. Five o’Clock
5. Guess You’re on a Plane
6. I Know This Won’t Solve My Problems
7. Maddie
8. Bad Guy
9. Quit Breaking My Heart
10. Tell You Today
Songs made by Jeff Fal
This is an album I recorded in the summer of 2001. It’s actually the third or fourth album I made, but this was the first one after people other than me and my brother began to listen to my music. Which is fine, because those others weren’t great, and Bad Guy was really the first time I succeeded at recording an album of songs that all belonged together that were also all good songs. Of course, to accomplish that, I had to set myself the modest goal of 25 minutes. Actually, my goal was 30 minutes, but you take what you can get.
July 15th, 2004 at 10:13 pm
“I’ll show you who’s an emo boy. I’m gonna go write about this in my blog!”
July 16th, 2004 at 12:35 pm
bwaaaahahahahahah oh *burn*!
July 17th, 2004 at 11:43 am
Hehehehehe…dude, you are King Emo of Emolandia, you know that, right? It is why we love you!
-Euc
July 17th, 2004 at 9:24 pm
You are truly an inspiration to emo boys everywhere. We put you on mixtapes and get laid. It’s just as simple as that.
(NOTE: I have not actually gotten laid yet! But hope springs eternal, and so do I!)
July 17th, 2004 at 9:30 pm
You should have been all “YOU SHUT YOUR BITCH MOUTH” like you are to me all the time
July 17th, 2004 at 9:33 pm
Yeah, it’s like she was setting you up, but I can’t find the closer…
“Oh, you think I was good at playing the emo boy, huh? Well, I’m even better at fucking.”
See, that just doesn’t sound right.
It’s close, though.
July 17th, 2004 at 9:47 pm
“I’ll show you my vinyl if you show me yours.”
“Only one thing thicker than my glasses, baby.”
“Hey, baby, wanna go sit in the dark and cry with me?”
“Your MOM is pretty good at playing the emo boy!”
July 19th, 2004 at 9:39 pm
what is the emo?
July 24th, 2004 at 5:34 am
Emo is boaster
September 24th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
bodoh ar lu mat
September 24th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
wei lu tau emo tu amende sebenarnye????? jangan Burokkan name kitorang ar!!!!!!!!!!