Song for Week 44 – “Let’s Turn The Record Over (Elliott Smith cover)”

hello!

Here is the second of two covers we planned for this year; our version of the unreleased Elliott Smith tune “Let’s Turn The Record Over.” To say that Elliott is one of our musical heroes would be an understatement. It was great fun to work on this cover.

The original version of the song can be heard here.

And here’s our version:
Let’s Turn The Record Over (Elliott Smith Cover)

Song for Week 43 – “Drop Back In”

Whoops! This song has been done for about a week and I forgot to post it. Special thanks to our pal Mikey C. for providing whistling, handclaps and big-singalong-background vox!

hope you dig,

Matt and Jen and Mike

Drop Back In

Song for Week 42 – “Me & My Violent Tendencies”

Hello sports fans,

So, Jen and I were both sick last week (and Jen still is somewhat sick). Jen lost her voice almost entirely, and I lost the ability to speak without sounding incredibly nasal… SO! Instrumental. Perhaps we’ll add words at some point and lengthen it out. But for now, it is what it is, and we like it!

Matt and Jen

Me & My Violent Tendencies (Instrumental)

Song for Week 41 – “Out Past the Junkyards”

New song! Featuring pots ‘n’ pans percussion and the debut of my banjo in this project of ours. And a title thematically similar to last week’s song, because… why not?

Hope you dig it.

Matt and Jen

Out Past the Junkyards

ps. For this week’s upcoming song, we were originally going to do a cover tune… but now Jen and I are both sick and neither of us can sing. So we might do an instrumental instead. Hard to say right now.

Song for week 40 – “Out Past the Arcade

Here it is, our song for week 40, “Out Past the Arcade.” Forty weeks we’ve been doing this. Crazy! A dozen songs to go. A dozen weeks left of the Aughts.

Thanks for listening,

Matt and Jen

Out Past the Arcade

Songs for weeks 38 and 39 – “My Only Destination/Half a Girl”

Well, we finally got the medley idea to work! Some of you may remember we’ve tried, and abandoned, this idea before. But, we gave it another crack this week (and last week) and finally got something we felt worked as a two-parter. And here they are! Listen to ‘em in order!

My Only Destination

Half A Girl

Song for Week 37 – “Before The Stars”

Hey, folks! Here’s a new song, the second this week. We’re trying to get caught up. Week 37 was actually LAST week… so now we just have to do one more and we’re right back on track. Anyway…

Every once and a while, everything seems to just come together for a song, and that was the case for this tune. We had a really fun time recording this. I got some nice finger-picking practice in and Jen nailed the keyboard parts, I think! So anyway, please have a listen and let us know what you think.

Back soon with another!
Jen AND Matt

Before The Stars

Song for Week 36 – “Faker, Baby”

Here is a new song! See you real soon with another one!

Faker, Baby

Songs for Week 35 – A new E.P. and “Like Stone”

The Indefatigable Bouncy Castle E.P.

In what is fast becoming a tradition here at the TalbOmand (or Ombot?) household, we now spend Labor Day Weekend recording with our pal Mike under the band name “Human Beat Box Light Show” (or HBBLS). The formula for these sessions is pretty simple–start with a beat from an old Casio keyboard, hit record and keep overdubbing instruments until a song appears. Then rinse and repeat! This year’s session yielded four songs, which we’ve bundled together as “The Indefatigable Bouncy Castle E.P.”

The style of music is pretty different than our Honorable Mentions stuff. I don’t know what you’d call it… we just call it fun! On Sunday night, we had an impromptu band dance party after completing the midi-trumpet-driven tune, “Meat, The Bibbles.” It was the most fun I’ve had recording in a long time.

Anyway, The Honorable Mentions took a back seat last week to this endeavor. And Mike graciously said we could use one of the HBBLS tracks as our song this week. But after work tonight, Jen and I decided to just try and bang out a song in a night… and we did!

So here are some songs:

The Indefatigable Bouncy Castle E.P. (Human Beat Box Light Show)
Happiness Isn’t Good For My Face
Meat, The Bibbits
The Carrion Call (Shut Ins, Line Up)
The Plaintive Cannonball Polka

And our song for week 35, “Like Stone”
Like Stone

Song for Week 34 – “Hiding in the Gloom”

New song! Long week! Jen was sick! We had our friend Russ over from LA (and had a most excellent weekend)! Also, we got a PS3, so we might just forget about the rest of this project so we can play sweet, sweet video games in HD. Just kidding. Sort of. No, kidding–kind of. Kind of kidding. Not really though. That PS3 is pretty sweet.

Hiding in the Gloom