Category: Song Writing

Rock Star

I just received an email from hearthis.at basically telling me that I am a freakin’ Rock Star:

#4

Critical Mass
in Rock

Congratulations Robert,

Critical Mass is #4 of the weekly Rock ranking:

#1 Mouse and the Traps – Maid Of Sugar, Maid Of Spice by On The Flip-Side
#2 The Wig – Crackin’ Up by On The Flip-Side
#3 Mouse and the Traps – I Am The One by On The Flip-Side
#4 Critical Mass by Robert
#5 The Esquires – These Are The Tender Years by On The Flip-Side
#6 The Outcasts – 1523 Blair by On The Flip-Side
#7 The Outcasts – Smokestack Lightning by On The Flip-Side
#8 Dj MasterBeat VS The Mastermixers -the AC/DC megamix by DeeJay MasterBeat
#9 wreally wrongkey queen by Des Harmonic
#10 The Esquires – Judgement Day by On The Flip-Side

Listen online: https://hearthis.at/?type=trending&category=rock

Wishing you a nice weekend!

Benedikt Groß
hearthis.at

So how about that, huh? You didn’t realize you were dealing with a giant of the German Rock World, did you!  Me and the Hoff, just owning all of Germany!

Granted, seeing as seven of the top 10 spots are from the same band, that might tell you more about rock music on hearthis.at than seeing a doofus like me on their weekly chart.  Maybe I should check out On The Flip-Side.

Do you think this is just a way for the site to sucker people into using up my 5000 plays so that I will have to either pay up or stop uploading files?  Could be.

An Unusual Thursday

Today has been a weird telecommute day.

I came home from dropping the kids off before school and put on a load of laundry and filled up the dishwasher.  I made myself a little breakfast and sat at my computer looking into blogging options (svbtle isn’t a free service?  It used to be free, wasn’t it?).  I read a news story about Pixies front man Black Francis.  I read up on the Orion launch situation.  At about quarter to nine I logged into work for the morning.

At lunchtime I made myself a half cup of quinoa and a bowl full of green grapes.  I also took a shower.  I usually sacrifice my morning shower time slot to my step daughter on telecommute days.  I then told a Comcast door to door salesman that I wasn’t interested in switching off of FiOS and folded that morning’s load of laundry.  Now I am writing this in the last few minutes of my break before getting back to work for the afternoon.

Now you may be asking yourself, what’s so weird about all of that?

Well, I’ll tell you.

I haven’t tried to write or record even a single note of music.  Since February 1st all of my free time at home on telecommute days was spent working on a music project.  It’s December 4th now and I haven’t started a new project.  December has been free of original music so far.  I don’t know if it’s going to stay that way or not, but it might.  I have a left over song from November, another from October, and that big 20 minute sucker from September.  Maybe I’ll finish those this month.  Maybe not.  I’ve thought about re-recording a couple of songs from the distant past.  I’ve also been thinking about covering a Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd song.  Maybe I’ll do it.  Maybe I won’t.

Maybe I’ll take December and January off from writing projects and stick to learning songs for the band.  We’ll see.

Another Song

Just a few minutes after I told myself I was done with bluesy songs this month I came up with this thing. It’s like I don’t even pay attention to my own ideas. What a jerk.

Just a note, alonetone seems to be lagging like crazy tonight. I’m not sure if this one is going to be playable. Good luck. You’re gonna need it.

The First October Music Song

I haven’t posted any music in a couple of weeks. I promise I am still working on something for the month of October. It just doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.

Here’s the first song, complete with crappy sax playing.

Music for Labor Day Weekend

Tonight’s edition of the 50/90 song post is a little ditty about the annual college student moving day crushing that the city of Boston goes through over Labor Day Weekend.

Happy double parking, moving trucks driving the wrong way on one way streets, red lights are just suggestions weekend, Boston! WOOHOO

And Again, Yet Another New Song

Not sure about the mix for this one. My left ear hears much better than my right, and I do all of my work with headphones. Sometimes when I have two doubled tracks split left/right I end up having a hard time keeping them balanced. I over compensate one way or another and then I end up throwing all the other tracks out of whack as well. That might have happened here.

Overall I kinda like this one, but as with the last song I uploaded the cutting and pasting feels really choppy. Bad punches all around. The lyrics are about my 1997 decision to go back to college which, at least for a while, turned into a kind of career for me.