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Design update: still not done. I’m working on it…. Actually, that’s a lie. I’m not working on it, which is why it’s not done. But I WILL work on it. Soon, I hope. By the time it’s done, there will be a main nav link to the Add Wiki that I’ve set up. The main goal for the Wiki is to supply lyrics and chords to the curious. I’m not about to systematically go through and write up every song (hey, I can’t even finish a superficial redesign), so I figured I’d give you the reader the opportunity to write up my songs for me. And if you get something wrong, I will probably correct you. For instance, Tessa, I feel bad breaking it to you, but my song “It’s Always Something” isn’t so sweet as “In the rush of a lovely dream, your wink would set my weak heart free”. In fact, it goes “In the rush of a lovely dream, your WEAK WORDS set my weak heart free”.

So that’s the intended use of the Wiki, but as it is a Wiki and all, feel free to add anything to it that is relevant to me and/or my music. One thought I’ve had is to start a “Notebook” section where I deposit my half-written turns of phrase so that other people can add their own phrases and then maybe it’ll evolve into a stew of inspiration. But that’s just a thought.

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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]

Tessa Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

Well, holy crap. Thank you for the correction. Apparently I need to be more careful before posting things on the internet.
Also it is a great idea to have a lyric wiki.

Tessa Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

This grievous error has been corrected.

drew Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

totally awesome. when i was in high school, i thought the line in “shot down” was “wrap it around me to segue me again”. that didn’t make any sense! i’m glad i figured that out. oh yeah, and this is an awesome idea.

you know how silly young people “have songs together”? my girlfriend and i are particularly attached to “listen close”, and now i’ve got all the tools to play it sloppy-punk-style over the phone at her. thank you, sir.

JJRJ Says:
August 13th, 2008 at 9:26 am

It’s funny how you can go years thinking you know how a song goes and then when you try to transcribe, you realize a part doesn’t make sense. So, uh, a few lines in “Let It All Burn” might need changing. I think it’s basically right, though.

Jefff Says:
August 13th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

Mostly right. The few mistakes were arguably better than what I’m actually saying.

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Music

The Weak Moment

Divider Why Are You Doing This?

Add Covers Achtung Baby

Please Let Your Faith and Patience Be Mine

Dirty Water

Songfight Songs: Feb 2001-Feb 2002

Bad Guy