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OK!

Here it is. I’ll have a full album entry for it when it’s available for sale, which will likely be a couple weeks while I get the extra stuff together and send it to the CD makers. Oh and I’m still open to tiny tweaks for the rest of this week. So if you feel really strongly about something small, speak up. Thanks.
Divider Why Are You Doing This? by Add:
1. You’re a True Believer,
2. It’s Always Something,
3. Let It All Burn,
4. It Won’t Last,
5. Flagwavers,
6. THE ECHO CHAMBER,
7. Don’t Be Afraid,
8. Uniter,
9. Divider,
10. Open Your Eyes

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14 Responses to “OK!”

  1. prayformojo Says:
    October 11th, 2004 at 9:54 pm

    Horray for remixed vocal levels! Horray for Divider!

  2. Noah Says:
    October 12th, 2004 at 4:41 pm

    Holy crap! I’m listening to this for the first time, and I couldn’t sit through it without logging and on telling you how much ass you kick, Jeff. (A lot). “Let it All Burn” is especially rocksome.

  3. Euc Says:
    October 13th, 2004 at 1:27 pm

    Yay! Nice album, dude. My personal favorite at the moment is the It Won’t Last. As soon as it started to play, I knew I’d love it. Thanks. :)

  4. Heidi Says:
    October 14th, 2004 at 9:12 pm

    Another wonderful album, Jeff. Hooray! I think my favorite is You’re A True Believer, but it’s almost impossible to chose.

  5. craig Says:
    October 15th, 2004 at 11:37 am

    AWESOME.

  6. john m Says:
    October 17th, 2004 at 8:25 pm

    You are very great at music.

  7. Jefff Says:
    October 18th, 2004 at 9:06 am

    Thanks guys. That means a lot :)

  8. brad sucks Says:
    October 18th, 2004 at 5:43 pm

    Great work, Jeff! Flagwavers is so super awesome.

  9. mc3p0 Says:
    November 18th, 2004 at 9:41 pm

    I’m with Noah. Ass totally kicked. ‘It Won’t Last’ is a favorite. You are so amazingly musical. Even the quirky intro ‘Let It All Burn’ becomes magic.

  10. Bobby Says:
    November 28th, 2004 at 5:30 am

    Stumbled across this site by accident – mate, this stuff is fantastic! You should bring this over to the UK sometime (I’m a student here) – I think it’d go down really well.

  11. Euc Says:
    December 4th, 2004 at 2:15 pm

    Dear lord, what a fantastic album. Parts of it feel so ridiculously cinematic that I can see the movie unfolding in my mind. And then there’s stuff like Let It All Burn which just destroys me with awesomeness. This is currently my favorite album of 2004, and that’s not hyperbole. Damn you, Jefff, you talented bastiche. :)

  12. prayformojo Says:
    December 7th, 2004 at 1:05 am

    I concur!

  13. xz Says:
    December 7th, 2004 at 12:17 pm

    thanks for this. i’m going to post one of these on my mp3 blog if you don’t mind. (found this via euc, but know you through songfight and Damian).

  14. fluffy Says:
    December 9th, 2004 at 11:04 pm

    Jeff, every thing you do is so much better than the last, and even if you go back to your oldest stuff it’s still way the hell better than anything that most people have the fortune of hearing.

    It is an absolute pleasure to feel so completely inadequate by comparison.

    Also, not too long after listening to Divider, your cover of Achtung Baby came up totally at random, and I don’t think I ever commented on that when you posted it but it is such an awesome reinterpretation of the original.

    Next time we’re in the same place for a SongFight function or whatever, remind me that I totally need to buy you a drink or three.

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Music

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

[Artwork]

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

[Artwork]

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.

[Artwork]

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.

[Artwork]

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.

[Artwork]