Hey Suckas
At the end of any project, you kind of assess who you is and what you does- and more important, what you does next. So give it up. What kinds of things do you think I should try in future songs?
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The Weak Moment
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
Started as a “mini-album,” I started it in Feb.2006, finished recording in July, and posted the final songs in December. The gimmick here is that I recorded myself playing the songs in order and in one session, and those tracks (lead vocal/rhythm guitar) became the basis for the final versions. I wrote the songs in order as well. They’re all from Song Fight titles. So I’d play through a song I’d written, and when it was over, I’d pick a new title to go with and see what kind of song should come next.
Divider Why Are You Doing This?
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)
Add Covers Achtung Baby
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.
Please Let Your Faith and Patience Be Mine
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.
Dirty Water
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.
Songfight Songs: Feb 2001-Feb 2002
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
Bad Guy
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.
September 16th, 2004 at 12:50 pm
Continue to have fun making music. I would assume you have been doing that all along, but seems to be the key to it, really.
September 16th, 2004 at 5:02 pm
Dirges!
September 17th, 2004 at 1:22 pm
You guys are just no help at all.
September 18th, 2004 at 5:01 am
More cowbell.
September 18th, 2004 at 11:50 pm
Did somebody say… rock opera?
September 19th, 2004 at 12:50 am
I am 100% behind the Rock Opera suggestion (also the mythical 10% extra applies).
September 19th, 2004 at 9:32 pm
Pixies cover.
:O
September 19th, 2004 at 10:38 pm
i’m wondering how you playing E’s work would go over.
September 20th, 2004 at 9:10 am
Of course, not all of us have our own theater company to stage whatever rock opera we may pen.
Might do a pretentious story album some day though. Should make it easier to write lyrics.
I might record a quick Pixies cover for the little weekly soundclip. The Pixies are second only to Radiohead when it comes to what I play when I’m messing around.
I’d tend to think my style is too similar to E’s to make it an interesting match. Though if I ever did, it would probably be “Last Stop: This Town”. That song is rad as hell.
A suggestion I got from Blue of sonofsupercar (who kind of spawned this topic since he suggested it was time to switch up my style) was more screaming, which I happen to think is a damn good idea.
September 21st, 2004 at 9:44 pm
add + more screaming = awesome.
September 23rd, 2004 at 8:31 pm
Thing is, who’s to say some splinter group of ERP wouldn’t try and produce your epic rock opera, if you wrote it? Hmm?
September 23rd, 2004 at 8:43 pm
You should… Play one note. For an hour. …But make it interesting.
September 24th, 2004 at 5:15 pm
dude, while I was at the Pixies show 2 days ago I kept thinking abotu how awesome a whole album of Pixies’ style rock from the add machine would be. Not Pixies covers, but out and out rock with that flavah.
October 12th, 2004 at 10:00 pm
I think you should look at moving into a more experimental direction. I would look at what Brian Eno has done for many bands, U2, Talking Heads, Bowie and Devo to name a few. I could honestly see your music flourish into directions you can’t even realize right now. Because listening to “let it all burn”, to me I feel you’re more melodic, dense and insane than rock.
Just my two cents.