A Good Place To Start, A Fine Place To End

A Good Place to Start

So I’ve written 39 acoustic albums, and some dance music :- here is some more detailed info on the tunes!

A good place to start is The Generic Love Songs Trilogy of albums, which are (yes!) generic love songs, some from the heart, some from the mind. The first album Generic Love Songs is a standout album, and Generic Love Songs Too is a thicker, heavier murkier affair. If you want something more MeLanChoLy from thEKinGoFMeLanChoLy, The North is a fantastic look at life in The North of England, with tracks such as A Good Day To Die, Clocking Off, and Happy Being Sad jumping from the speaker. A full album is Memoirs Of A Drunken Poet Part 33, which has the anthems Hold Me Close, Used, Broken Stars and Rain on. Two Suns is an album which started off as a driving album, then got tangled up with a few love songs such as HippyChick and Falling Down Again as the album progresses. Aces Three is an album all about the modern gambler (who me?!!) and has the tracks Lucky Joe, The Gambler, and Lucky Soon on. This is a very honest album. As is People Aren’t Poets, which is a slate at people who live their lives with their eyes shut, see Another Dave and Only The Straight Survive. Ten solid tracks there. Finally I Love You Ten Times..my final acoustic album is ten love songs with I Love You in the title. It has some stellar tracks on. The Best Of Too chronicles my last 2 1/2 years of work, and 30 tracks for $9.95 is a snip at most retail outlets. See below for excellent reviews of this album.

Last but not least my earlier work and my dance albums!! So my earlier work contains the gangster album Made, the sixties album Power Flower (some excellent songs here like Serial, Glue, and Right Again), the football album A Game Of Chants.. then there’s some personal stuff like UFOlogy (could I really have been taken by the Greys??) And an album on Possession – (see the album Finding GOD again) Make your own minds up on these. I thank God every day (if I remember) that I came through this suicidal period. Luckily I’m on the modern day equivalent of Lithium now which has side effects such as being jolly and smiling. Its so hard to see miserable people when you think hey take something!! Since all this I have written over 500 songs, I will detail my albums in more depth in the future. This article is for my new Facebook fans. If your a friend or relative, sorry but its all true! 🙂 *Oh and my dance music takes less explaining, its beltin’ !!

Take Cover – 20 Cover songs

 

Take Cover
Covers abum including 2 nice Bob Dylan tracks. Its my favourite songs

This album took A LOT of work! Tombstone Blues which is nearly 7 minutes long took one take!! This is my favourite Dylan song. Followed closely by Girl From The North Country which took about 20 takes! I ended up having to have a few pints for that one! People have commented on the strumming which has a nice ring to it. Happy with the Oasis tracks, this album is basically my favourite songs by the artists so.. Out On The Weekend is my favourite Neil Young song, took a few takes and editing! I try and put my stuttering strum style (try saying that on a Friday night!) into the songs where possible. Prevalent on My Drug Buddy.. and A Day In The Life. The easiest song was Lightning Bolt by Jake Bugg, and Groove Is In The Heart was pretty easy too.. that was class doing a version of that ! We used to listen to a lot of Stone Roses, found Standing Here a lot harder than predicted!! A lot of changes, even though basically only a few chords. I don’t know how I pulled off Half The World Away, how Noel wrote that I have no idea.. (a lot of chord changes!). Wanted to do more Bob Marley stuff, but it was hard finding songs that crossed over to acoustic from reggae. Plus I can’t sing a lot of his stuff. ? Why? I’m not sure. I could have done No Woman No Cry (which is becoming my motto lately!) maybe next time..

I play and sing at the same time (5 Gold Stars) so my I find doing things with my voice sometimes hard. I did try to change Where Did You Sleep Last Night a bit, hopefully Kurt would have liked it. I think he’d like a lot of my original stuff. I hope so anyway. Its mainly an ode to him in my own style. He’d probably hate Pennyroyal Tea as this was a straight copy of his version! Even the same break! Oh well!