10 Responses to “I Know My Rights (Live in Boston in August)”
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
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.
December 23rd, 2005 at 1:58 pm
Still keep in touch with Dave?
December 24th, 2005 at 11:53 pm
He just left my house.
December 25th, 2005 at 6:33 pm
Working on a 10 year. http://lphs.usualdosage.com. I’m hosting a place people can get back in touch, if you’re interested. Cheers
December 28th, 2005 at 8:46 am
Hey, Mike “Sonicfrog” the bass playing vocalist guy here.
I was googling M-Audio Firewire / Demudi compatibility and found your site. Any luck on that? I am a big linux advocate (typing this on Mandriva – though I hate the name) and highly recommend Suse or Debian. I have been fiddling with Demudi for a couple of years but haven’t done much music production with it due to time constraints i.e. 2 bands – one local, one 348 mi away, school, work. Throw in a dose of good ol’ fashion laziness, and well, that’s my life. When I get a chance I will give some of your songs a listen.
December 28th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
I would listen but it’s just so difficult and I have no time to spare
December 29th, 2005 at 10:58 am
Hello the bass playing vocalist guy -
I switched to a Tascam unit and then gave up on Linux, so I have no idea.
January 4th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
what a great, weird little song. Are we ever going to get a “studio” version of this? I noticed that it was never posted in Songfight…
January 12th, 2006 at 10:59 am
Hi people, Open your eyws
Very very nice…i enjoy it
January 18th, 2006 at 1:17 am
Shit, Jeff went to Lewis Palmer? My school’s principal almost ruined that school when he was principal there a couple years ago.
January 24th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
great song jeff, i especially liked the “hah’s”
i was wondering about some live recordings from some time back, in particular the recording of divider you did in LA… the link doesn’t lead to anything, and I was hoping maybe that could be fixed? divider is one of my favorite songs, and i’d love to hear a live version, if such a thing even still exists