Rob's Song Sketches

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
	Liftoff	1989	Cover (Peter Antoniou) just the main theme
	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
	Chariots of Cheese	1990	Cover (Vangelis) verse + chorus
	If I Tried	1990	I don't remember who wrote this, but it wasn't me. Mike, maybe?
	Incantations Part 1 (Excerpt)	1990	Cover (Oldfield)
	Jump (zzz)	1990	Cover (Van Halen) arrangement mine, 1 chorus
	Big Porno Muzak	1990	attempt at rock; a roommate said it was porno background music
	Bombastic	1990	pompous corporate-anthem-sounding chunk of fake orchestra
	Fake Reggae	1991	Reggae ala multiple keyboards. Quotes "Tubular Bells".
	Untitled 1991	1991	Beginnings of an uptempo jazzy thing with cheesy gtr simulation.
	Breadline	1990	Formerly "Steely Rob", 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
	Supercramp	1991	I think I started trying to play "Logical" and came up with 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
	?	1991	cute oboe arrangement meant as a bridge
	FukenGruven	1991	decent 70's Grand Funk type of groove.
	Guilty	1991	Abortive cover (Oldfield)
	Funked Again	1992	Re-do of Funk You, with a Metallica bass, "rap whistle" and brass
	HeinousNoiz	1992	Cover (Jarre) arranged in memory of the 8-man 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	Abortive cover (Kansas) ala big band
	Untitled Electric Piano Rambling	1992	aimless and pointless comping
	DNA on LSD	1992	Cover (Vega/DNA) of "Tom's Diner" with extra cheese, arrangement mine
	Untitled 70's Groove	1992	like Fukengruven up above but not as strong
	Big Bland	1992	generic 40's type music but I have lyrics in my head about a bathhouse
	Bombrasstic	1992	Another take on Bombastic but with a call/response and more "gusto"
	Composure	1992	Wistful underwater piano take that I've got no idea what to do with
	Mock Turtle Song	1992	Cover (Becker/Fagen/Carroll) verse + chorus
	Disco Feevah	1993	16 bars of cheesy disco, pure and simple
	Untitled 930220	1993	Unfrozen Caveman Jazz Guitar, found on backup and cleaned up
*	Rick's Song	1993	Appropriated (Locke/Kudla) Oldfieldish thing, first few seconds inspired by one of Rick'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
	West End Girls	1994	Just trying to get the mellotron sound (Tennant/Lowe)
	Daddy	1996	melancholy 3-chord piano vamping, lyrics long forgotten
	Untitled 1996	1996	could be part of a song ending; sounds nothing like I envisioned
	Evacuation	1996	abortive cover (Oldfield) using piano instead of Fairlight
	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, got lyrics on my tape somewhere
	Forgotten	1997	piano-based origin of "Forgotten", whose lyrics are on my portable tape
	Snow	1996	Impressionist new-age synth vibe with some misplaced piano stabs
	Firebird Suite (Final Tableau)	1996	Someone's Stravinsky MIDI cover that I rearranged somewhat.
	Dr. Wu	1996	Cover (Becker/Fagen). My second vocal experiment; sort of like out-of-tune karaoke. WARNING: I SING!
	Leave It (intro)	1997	My third vocal experiment (the first one was a HORRIBLE version of this a capella opening bit). Still not quite right. WARNING: I SING!
*	Old Song	1986/97	One of the first songs I ever wrote (1986ish). Kind of Genesis-like. Minimal 1997 version.
*	Dance	1997	The profoundly disturbed Wyattesque song that became Carpet Crawlish. 30 May 1997 for the lyrics; 13 June 1997 for the music. WARNING: I SING!
	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.
*	Untitled 971014	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.
*	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. Still rough but could be a good "big" song.
	Lies Part 2 Vocoder	1998	My first vocoder experiment. Some lyrics I dreamed. A new level of cheese. Very brief. And another version in the right key. WARNING: I SING! Or do I?
	E.F.A.	1998	E stands for Extremely. A stands for Annoying. I suggest loop mode when trying to rid yourself of an unwanted roommate or spouse.
*	Remembering (keyboard interlude)	1998	The Mellotron and analog synth bridge from "The Remembering" (about 40 seconds worth) by Yes. Here is a better-mixed version (April 99) with a little bass guitar added.
	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.
	Abject silence	1999-2000	I'd like to blame it on my blissful real life, but really it's because Linux composition tools still kinda suck.
	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.