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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.
June 24th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
unrelated, kind of: you are so popular on the audioscrobbler.
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/music/Add
June 24th, 2005 at 3:08 pm
Hey cool. Thanks for the tip.
June 25th, 2005 at 8:09 pm
however not related to the post, here are my comments:
a classy design you have for your page, now. it’s been a while since i’ve visited.
i’m also eager to give your new album a spin.
keep at it.
July 7th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
the vox on this might lend it to an azwellian production.. i don’t recall you ever doing anything with voice over strings and lushy galazy 500 style gitters, but i can hear it happening here.
August 3rd, 2005 at 9:07 am
Hello mr. add, my name is tim, and due to my lack of anything to do, or money to do it with i have been scanning the logs of somesongs and have found what i think are gold. I didn’t see a general comment section so i picked this one.(btw I think this song is really cool. Great singing. Anyway i was wondering where i could get a cd of yours or several. I didn’t see a discography section and i hope that you have some cds. i was wondering if i could buy one or two of them. songs i really was looking for were
I wont be there
heaven is no place
red
awaiting on you all
take on me
Anyway i just wanted to touch base and see if you had cds with these songs on them, i saw the i wont be there on a cd so don’t worry about that one. Anyway man i really like your style and am going to try and pass your name around. i just had a party and played those songs of yours and people were really liking them. but i digress, i will check back to see whats up. Thanks man.
August 5th, 2005 at 12:13 pm
Rad, thanks for the comment. Red was on my Album Fight album, which may or may not be still available here: http://frankiebigface.com/order_cd.htm
I Won’t Be There was on a homemade album that I quit giving out cuz I got lazy. The rest were never on CD. However if you email me your address (jeff@actdead.com), I’ll try to remember to send you a CD with all those songs on it and some more to round it out. Bear in mind! I am often really bad and late about sending CDs out. In fact, reminders don’t hurt at all.