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Songwriter Forum => The Bar => Topic started by: PaulAds on May 14, 2022, 12:02:48 PM
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Over last weekend, I made an audiobook recording of sixty of my song lyrics...split into two parts to make it slightly more digestible.
They're here if anyone would like to download them...
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au2uBYr5PUiJgRQt0IoI_td8DG3m?e=w3W6Om
I really quite enjoyed recording it...it wasn't particularly easy...but at least my deadpan drawl mostly fitted the generally Grimm subject matter.
I also picked thirty of them and made them into a Bandcamp album...which you can get here
https://thefuneralcrasher.bandcamp.com/album/polishing-words
And the second thirty are here
https://thefuneralcrasher.bandcamp.com/album/more-word-polishing
Thanks to everyone who's taken an interest...I really appreciate it!
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And an excellent listen it is indeed :)
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These sound great @PaulAds (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20253) - well I’ve listened to the first eight so far before the link above disappeared. I can’t remember the ‘mostly black’ one as a song, but it’s great as a poem. ‘Eliza Lane’ and ‘Walk In Wardrobe’, well you could lose yourself in those! ;) great stuff.
I think the spoken format really suits your slightly deadpan but melancholic delivery, and the North East accent, though reined in as you say, adds colour and character. Plus the songs are mostly narrative, so always interesting to listen to the words.
Amazing how short they all are without the padding of the music. Short but bitter sweet.
Super project, well done, I’m a fan! Sounds like you’ve done this many times before, despite it being a new thing for you.
PS, You’d probably have to put one of them in ‘Songs For Review’ for them to get noticed on here as I don’t think many folk venture into the Bar.
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Hey @PaulAds (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20253) i had a listen to some as I drove around on Saturday but haven’t had a minute to get back in to comment! I really enjoyed listening - loved the accent and you really have the voice for spoken word delivery - I’d sound completely shite doing that …
You’ve taken them down though? I would listen more if I could.
You’re a great lyricist… and poet apparently!
K
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Ta 😀
The files and everything are still there…I just made a horses ass out of editing the post on my mobile…but I’ll dig the links out and post them again when I get home.
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Now I'm intrigued...
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I've edited the first post again with the appropriate links...ta!
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So interesting how the lyrics get shown off in their full poetry. Not sure how many of our songs would stand up to this treatment. Hats off to you, for the songs which now have a second life, and for coming up with this idea, which works a treat.
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@PaulAds (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20253)
Hi Paul, just listened to the whole volume. I don’t recognise them all, but quite a few I could remember. I always enjoyed your lyrics they are so clever, but shorn of adornment they become much more powerful and emotive. You should send them to a poetry publisher. You could be the geordie John cooper Clark. Reallly good Paul, you have a wordsmith talent.
Cheers
Jamie
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Great work @PaulAds (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20253). You have a great voice for it and it really brings them to life in a completely different way to the songs.