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1Thanks 2:11 -- lyrics
2Love at First Sight 2:47 -- lyrics
3The Perfect Song 4:44 -- lyrics
4In Bed 4:21 -- lyrics
5Anymore 3:12 -- lyrics
6Punch 3:19 -- (insturmental)
7Things 3:48 -- lyrics
8Seven Hours Ago 2:37 -- lyrics
9No Turning Back 3:44 -- lyrics
10The One 3:03 -- lyrics
11Say You Will 5:58 -- lyrics

128Kbps mp3 files, about 1MB per minute

Recorded 2000-2002 at Lemming Studios V, Boston MA; Lemming Studios VI, Oakland CA; Lemming Mobile, Oakland CA.

Written, performed, engineered, mixed, and mastered by nothing nothings, excepting bass guitar in the instrumental excerpt at the end of track 3, played by Jim Donahue.

Thanks to Chris&Jen for support; Lisa G., Elsie, and Gena for inspiration.

recordings Copyright 2002, nothing nothings
songs Copyright 1991-2002, Sean Barrett

Metaboy notes

This "album" is a collection of the best of the songs (of this sort) that I've written over the last ten years or so; I only write about two songs a year.

The recordings were made in 2000-2001 in my apartment in Somerville, MA; 2001-2002 in Oakland, CA, both in my apartment and in Chris & Jen's house.

Recordings were made on a Roland VS-1880 hard drive recorder. Most guitars were recorded using the Roland VG-88 guitar processor. Synthesizer sounds provided by the Alesis QS 6.1 keyboard. Drums consist of the Roland TD-7-based electronic drum kit. Vocals and acoustic guitars were recorded through a Rode NT-1 microphone.

Thanks

1999?

Love at First Sight

2000

The Perfect Song

Inspired by a crush on a singer

September, 2001

The excerpt at the end is the bridge from an untitled instrumental by Sean Barrett and Jim Donahue, recorded to 4-track around 1990.

In Bed

Sometimes I'm fairly silly.

1997?

Anymore

I wrote the oddly-structured music first, then later fit words to it.

1999?

Punch

... in the face?
... and Judy?
... spiked with Everclear?

2000

Things

What is it? It's it.

1998?

Seven Hours Ago

A very curious song; it demonstrates the seven chords A, B, C, D, E, F, and G (all major) in an interesting way (see the lyrics). All told it uses ten different major chords and six minor chords.

1990?

No Turning Back

I originally wrote this song with a different set of words; Jim Donahue wrote some of the main bass riff. Later I wrote entirely new words for it.

1990 (music), 1991 (lyrics)

The One

1993

Say You Will

At the time I started writing this, I was concerned that all my songs were downbeat, and I wanted to write an upbeat song, so I imagined it in my head as rephrased marriage proposal. But then it ended up being about codependency, I think.

1998?

The excerpt at the end is an old 4-track recording, probably from the late 1980's.