Well, one new tune, and one new version of a tune already up.

http://www.phileyejapoo.sliding-doors.net

I played, sang, and recorded everything, except for the two new ones. My roommate Luke engineered the new version of The Wedding Song and Overhead for his senior project.

We had fun.

Let me know what you think.

-Phil

no love, hate, or opinions, huh?

People is just taking their time to give you good, thought out opinions.

I'll download after I annoy all my friends via this message board and email.

*cough*

that bad huh?

it's in my que Phil

Edit: (just to let you know, I bumped it ahead of the House of Love disc and my first listen of the new spoon. I love you that much.)

*cough* = bump

I'm downloading tonight, because when I was ready to download it last night, something funky happened to my connection. Stupid dial up.

Firewall won't let me check em out here at work.

I'll hit it up tonight.

Dig it. Thankzzzz.

listening now . . .

These are very good.
You need to boost up the sound on these, especially the vocals on Overhead.

The Wedding Song is awesome.

fuck you and your multi-instrumentalism, too.

thanks timmy, colin. I don't know if i'd make them TOO much louder, i think the trend over the past few decades has been to master albums louder and louder, and now they're too loud and the dynamic range is quashed.

The truth? I really like your voice, and I think you've got a strong sense of melody. If I've got any complaint it's simply that (IMO) these sort of hushed singer/songwriter confessionals tend to live or die by the strength of their lyrics and, while your lyrics aren't in any sense bad or trite, they don't really offer any insight or spark of personality that might set these songs apart. Of course, as you know, I'm generally wrong about everything.

no that's good to know. I just never know what to divulge in the song and what not to.

It's kind of like, i don't want to come off as a whiny sad bastard, but maybe i need to just take the plunge.

Yeah, I think that my only complaint would be that there is an imbalance in strength between the formal composition and the lyrical composition - much akin to the Radcliffean remarks.

I still may have to destroy you, you multi-instrumentalist-type, you.

If I weren't anti-social, I would use "The Wedding Song" to pick up chix.
Either that, or listen to it alone and dream about using it to pick up chix.

The Wedding song was written for a couple that me and my ex set up. Her roommate, and one of my housemates. Somehow, it seemed to be doomed from the start, but they persevered and now they have a great relationship, strong first few years of marriage. Everyone thought the ex and i would be the ones to get hitched but obviously that didn't happen. So i wrote this song for them but it's about all the things the ex and I used to do.

I'm not sure how you put all that into a song.

Overhead is about the same ex running away to Africa to join the Peace Corps, but still asking me to write her and be there for her. Then I wrote the song. Then she asked me to stop writing her and being there for her.

Again, i'm not sure how to put that into a song without being maudlin. Any suggestions would be welcome, appreciated, and entertained.

So is it better to be blatant or subtle, since i have trouble approximating something in between?

You may use it any way you see fit. Tell a chick you wrote it for me to sing. I'll play along.

Your doppelganger lives in Annapolis, Phil.

I saw him today.

Driving a maroon Honda Accord or something like that.

Same hat as the one in the Marian Fudge CMJ Revealed page.

Full beard of stubble.

Strange things, man

Get his number, maybe he can be in a band with me.

Thanks for the comments people.