Rob's Song Sketches

Most clips are between 30 seconds and a minute, and should take only a few seconds to download if you have broadband. 2 minutes to download with a 56K modem if people still have those. However, these aren't excerpts, they're all there is. Only a couple are what I would call song-length.

The ones with a * are my favorites right now, which are usually newer stuff towards the end.

	Song	Year approx.	Notes
	Untitled 1988	1988	Wrote it on the Mirage and redid it on the Korg
	Funk You	1989	First thing I ever did on the Korg
	NJS Festival	1990	meant as the typical ambient jazz of the late 80's
	Tribe Parts 1 and 2	1990	Oldfieldesque synthpop/new-age; other parts are lost
	If I Tried	1990	I don't remember who wrote this, but it wasn't me. Mike, maybe?
	Jump (zzz)	1990	Cover (Van Halen) arrangement mine, 1 chorus
	Big Porno Muzak	1990	attempt at synth rock; a roommate said it was porno background music
	Bombastic	1990	pompous corporate-anthem-sounding chunk of fake orchestra that I might still use someday
	Untitled 1991	1991	Beginnings of an uptempo jazzy thing with cheesy gtr simulation.
	Breadline	1990	Dubbed "Steely Rob" by a disapproving friend, an attempt at copping Steely Dan's style.
	Hi Gloss	1991	Just your typical church organ power drone.
	Mike's Riff	1990	Mike Conroy kept playing this riff so I embellished it into this
	Ceej's Song	1990	Cover (Chris Hillery); done from memory based on a MOD file he wrote
*	MultiGuitar	1991	A strong theme meant for three guitars that I hope to use elsewhere
	Good Man Down	1991	another stab at Steely Dan; I have lyrics to this one
	Eighth Way (Home?)	1991	don't remember where the title came from; anyway, it's in 7
	Guilty	1991	Abortive cover (Oldfield)
	Funked Again	1992	Overproduced re-do of Funk You with the charm removed
	HeinousNoiz	1992	Parody of a Jean-Michel Jarre song arranged in memory of the 8-man incarnation of Event Horizon
	To Run	1992	just your basic driving bass/piano thing, no idea what to do with it
	Untitled Piano Riff 1991	1991	meant as a bridge to something I've since forgotten
	Carrion	1990	Parody of Kansas a la big band
	DNA on LSD	1992	Parody of a dance mix of Tom's Diner but in retrospect, I'd clearly heard "People Are Still Having Sex" not long before doing this.
	Bombrasstic	1992	Another take on Bombastic but with more "gusto"
	Composure	1992	Wistful underwater piano take that I've got no idea what to do with
	Disco Feevah	1993	16 bars of cheesy 1990s disco, pure and simple
	Unfrozen Caveman Jazz Guitar	1993	One of my early MIDI files found on backup and cleaned up
*	Rick's Song	1993	Oldfieldish thing, first few seconds inspired by one of Rick Locke's improvs
	Schwinng 7	1993	An attempt to do a swing tune in 7; sounds kind of goofy.
	Waldos	1994	Based on a chordal figure I've played on bass for years with; may become a bridge
	Untitled 1996	1996	could be part of a song ending; sounds nothing like I envisioned
	At an End (verse 1)	1996/97	Thrown together 22 Sept 97. One take per part, no quantizing, and I played everything with my left hand 'cause I can't get in front of the keyboard.
*	At an End (bridge)	1996/97	New more-developed bridge with mellotron and piano added
*	At an End (solo)	1996	keyboard section from At an End, wanky but pretty cool
	Untitled 961231a	1996	wistful piano/guitar figure to base a song on
	Untitled 970127	1997	another attempt at a "rock" song; I need to get my guitar fixed
	Untitled 970131	1997	another piano/guitar thing, had lyrics on my voice recorder that got stolen along with my car around 2000
	Forgotten	1997	piano-based origin of "Forgotten", lyrics ended up same as above
*	Old Song	1986/97	One of the first songs I ever wrote (1986ish). Kind of Genesis-like. Minimal 1997 version.
*	Dance	1997	Wrote this song on my 28th birthday and still haven't gotten away from it. Just the chorus, which I sing, and fake guitar solo.
	Meloflute	1997	Something I improvised while working on a Mellotron patchset (as you'll hear, the set wasn't done yet - click click).
	Ten Years	1997	Actually two little bits crammed together and it's still only 30 seconds. Only the first half is actually part of "Ten Years".
*	Lies Part 2	1997	Where's part 1? Who the hell knows? This is a jazzy mellotron/piano thing.
*	Takedown	1997	More mellotron abuse. This is the first appearance of what I now call the "Takedown theme" that keeps popping up in songs I've written (not recorded) since then, and meant to be the "solo" in the song of the same name (also not recorded.)
*	Jazzercide	1997	Not as danceable nor as ironic as the name implies. It's in 10/8, then 7/8, if I remember right.
	Untitled 971205	1997	Melancholy piano/Mellotron flute improv. Kind of goes nowhere.
*	Untitled 980225	1998	Kind of Genesissy. Genesish? Still rough but could be a good "big" song. Someone told me once that it somehow plagiarized all of "And Then There Were Three" without actually copying any notes. I took that as a compliment, but this is really pretty rough.
	Lies Part 2 Vocoder	1998	My first vocoder experiment, so vomito de gato Mr. Roboto and all that. Some lyrics I dreamed. A new level of cheese. Very brief. And another version in the right key.
	E.F.A.	1998	"Extremely __________ Annoying"
	Squoolge	1998	Named after the analog synth sound I made up for it. Aside from that, pretty awful.
	Untitled 980225 rev. B	1998	So close and yet so far away. I have this Mellotron outro in my head, but the execution is pretty lame in this version.
	Stupid Dance	2001	Do you belIEEEeve how far this has gone?
*	Dance Test	2002	After experimenting with Buzz for a weekend I came up with this. The mastering is awful and I like the sound of the original version better but I added a new section that came out really nice. This is purely Buzz and my 5-string bass.
	Outro 20040424	2004	My first recording since buying the piano, so boy am I rusty. This is the chord progression (or something) from the outro of a song I haven't gotten down yet. Since then the piano broke and I have yet to cause Linux to make any sounds with my Gravis patch sets when I plug a MIDI keyboard into it. I have a guitar but am not good enough on it to record song ideas, plus I've been kinda busy for part of it. So now it's five years later.
*	Leipzig	2009	I decided I wanted to complete a song before I turned 40. So here it is with a few hours to spare: a cover of "Leipzig" by Thomas Dolby. I could do more to it, but I'm cutting myself off. This is all LMMS and Audacity and their assorted plugins.
	Songs I've written but not recorded	2004-2009	They have names like Dark Sunlight, Takedown Slight Return, Valentine, She's Afraid, Medicated, Unchanged (which looks like it'll get that untitled intro from 1998-02-25), Sweeter Times Ahead, Wherever You Will Go, By My Hands, Abreaction (current name for the instrumental that incorporates Rick's Song and Bombastic among others), All I Need and I'm sure I'll add to this list of titles much faster than I get to recording any of them. Hope I get some of them out while I still can.