I Blame You (TMBG cover)

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i liked this. you always have that same clean quality to your recordings, and your so young! don't take offense to this but i wonder what you'll produce once you're older and have some life experience to really reflect back on. tragedy and art go hand in hand you see. anyway, i think you'll do good things. keep it up man.
 
greyharmonix said:
i liked this. you always have that same clean quality to your recordings, and your so young! don't take offense to this but i wonder what you'll produce once you're older and have some life experience to really reflect back on. tragedy and art go hand in hand you see. anyway, i think you'll do good things. keep it up man.
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Thank you, and no offense taken. I know what you mean, and I have had some pretty screwed up things happen to me in the short time I have lived, but I tend not to look at any of that and I write things to chear people, and myself up. I don't want to drone, but when I was about 13, I watched my dad have a heart attack in front of me at an amusement park. He was in a coma for a solid week, and I didn't know what was going to happen. I had to go through about 3 different medical related things after that that were life threatening with him and other people. After that, I had to put up with an anxiety dissorder (which by the way I am over now). Because of those things, I tend to stay away from dark subjects, and write more happy tunes. I think people need to hear that every now and then. You know? Thanks again. :D

-Adam.
 
Tragedy begets art yes - often. Experience influences the pallet of the artist - yes. Bitterness hardens the edge of art - probably. Time creates a churiascao - certainly.
Teen angst fuels rock n roll - necessarily!
TMBG have just the right sort of light for the darkness - the glimmer of or spark from humour.
Nice one Adam,
may all your future anxieties be less than those you've experienced, may all your future experiences be more than those you've been anxious about and may the sunny side you seek, not fully eclipse the bleak, for through the gentle words you speak, you offer alms to the heart sick and weak.
You record well too!
Oh,
& they "...don't milk the pain for art, rather the pain seeps in from the start, green the bile, red the heart, black the cancer: each in its part."
 
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rayc said:
Tragedy begets art yes - often. Experience influences the pallet of the artist - yes. Bitterness hardens the edge of art - probably. Time creates a churiascao - certainly.
Teen angst fuels rock n roll - necessarily!
TMBG have just the right sort of light for the darkness - the glimmer of or spark from humour.
Nice one Adam,
may all your future anxieties be less than those you've experienced, may all your future experiences be more than those you've been anxious about and may the sunny side you seek, not fully eclipse the bleak, for through the gentle words you speak, you offer alms to the heart sick and weak.
You record well too!
Oh,
& they "...don't milk the pain for art, rather the pain seeps in from the start, green the bile, red the heart, black the cancer: each in its part."
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I have no idea what a lot of what you just said means, but OK. I get where you are coming from at least. I wish I could understand it more, because it sounds cool at least. My thing is, I get a bit tired of re-reycled storylines in songs, and I really get sick of people saying how much their life sucks in song form, like I care. Sometime I can relate, and I understand it is them venting, but I most of the time think, I have my own problems, and don't want to hear yours. I want to hear something to chear me up. That's what I try to do. I don't want my writing to be so serious. I don't have a very serious personality, so it only stands to reason I don't write about serious things. I joke a lot, and have fun with words and subjects. I am confortable writing that way, and I think somebody should for a change, and for my taste not enough people do. I am not trying to bea jerk or anything, I think that serious tunes have their place too, as does every other subject and genre. This is just the one that I prefer. Oh yeah, and thanks. :D

-Adam.
 
Good listen

Done very well listen to your other stuff, especially liked have you ever seen the rain 5 stars keep up the good work
 
Particle man, particle man. Size of the entire universe man.
 
propman said:
I have no idea what a lot of what you just said means, but OK. I get where you are coming from at least. I wish I could understand it more, because it sounds cool at least. My thing is, I get a bit tired of re-reycled storylines in songs, and I really get sick of people saying how much their life sucks in song form, like I care. Sometime I can relate, and I understand it is them venting, but I most of the time think, I have my own problems, and don't want to hear yours. I want to hear something to chear me up. That's what I try to do. I don't want my writing to be so serious. I don't have a very serious personality, so it only stands to reason I don't write about serious things. I joke a lot, and have fun with words and subjects. I am confortable writing that way, and I think somebody should for a change, and for my taste not enough people do. I am not trying to bea jerk or anything, I think that serious tunes have their place too, as does every other subject and genre. This is just the one that I prefer. Oh yeah, and thanks. :D

-Adam.
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TMBG is considered a goof ball band, but there is an underlying maturity and thoughfulness in their lyrics. something that i, again no offense, think you haven't quite achieved in your music. But i think you will. eventually you'll grow independent, get an apartment, meet a girl you wish you didn't, ponder the dynamics in relationships, ponder religion, think about death, life blah blah blah. Not that i don't think you haven't considered this stuff before, but perspective on things changes with experience. and with time you'll establish a way of better articulating yourself. And you can articulate deeper premises with goofball metaphors like TMBG has. Serious doesn't necessarily have to be some sort of whinny venting music (although, you're right there are way too many of these sort of bands around)

writing songs for the sake of writing songs gets old. for example, there's nothing i really feel like writing about, so i won't write because it won't mean anything no matter how many creative puns or metaphors it has or how catchy the song is. Even if other people say they love that song, it wouldn't mean much because the song doesn't mean much. Radiohead does this all the time. Thome york won't play songs that he thinks has lost meaning, even if all his fans love that song. i don't know, i'm babbling, but i hope you get my drift. i only mention this because i see a song from you like every week and i guess it's fine for the sake of messing around and killing some time, but i think you're passionate about music and i hope eventually you take it to be more of an artistic medium than to just make songs for the sake of making songs.

i only mention this to you because you're young, talented and impressionalbe. haha.
 
Ah, but music is a mix of different emotions, Adam, It's the medium we use to express ourselves. I wrote a song when my Dad died and it helped me get over my grief so whether a song is sad or joyful, it doesn't matter as long as it comes from the heart.
This is a nice song, great harmonies and voice as usual and the acoustics sound very good. I wish I was this good when I was your age.

Joey :):):):)
 
tpb said:
Done very well listen to your other stuff, especially liked have you ever seen the rain 5 stars keep up the good work
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Thank you! :D

Myriad_Rocker said:
Particle man, particle man. Size of the entire universe man.
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Usually kind to smaller man, universe man. He has a watch with a minute hand, a mullinium hand and an eon hand, and when they meet, it's a happy land. Powerful man. Universe man.

greyharmonix said:
TMBG is considered a goof ball band, but there is an underlying maturity and thoughfulness in their lyrics. something that i, again no offense, think you haven't quite achieved in your music. But i think you will. eventually you'll grow independent, get an apartment, meet a girl you wish you didn't, ponder the dynamics in relationships, ponder religion, think about death, life blah blah blah. Not that i don't think you haven't considered this stuff before, but perspective on things changes with experience. and with time you'll establish a way of better articulating yourself. And you can articulate deeper premises with goofball metaphors like TMBG has. Serious doesn't necessarily have to be some sort of whinny venting music (although, you're right there are way too many of these sort of bands around)

writing songs for the sake of writing songs gets old. for example, there's nothing i really feel like writing about, so i won't write because it won't mean anything no matter how many creative puns or metaphors it has or how catchy the song is. Even if other people say they love that song, it wouldn't mean much because the song doesn't mean much. Radiohead does this all the time. Thome york won't play songs that he thinks has lost meaning, even if all his fans love that song. i don't know, i'm babbling, but i hope you get my drift. i only mention this because i see a song from you like every week and i guess it's fine for the sake of messing around and killing some time, but i think you're passionate about music and i hope eventually you take it to be more of an artistic medium than to just make songs for the sake of making songs.

i only mention this to you because you're young, talented and impressionalbe. haha.
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You may have misunderstood me. I don't just crank songs out willy nilly or just to do so. There are underlying meanings to all of my songs. (most of the time) I just don't make it super clear. Like for instance, the light was a song about some stuff that had happened the week before. Christmas never came was about my best friend's younger brother dying before he was ever able to se his first christmas. Simon says was about all of the people I don't feel like I really know anymore beacuse they have given over to what the croud does and almost trashed their life. Hit the ground running is a song to people telling them not to make that mistake if they haven't yet. Just to name a few. And there are some like night time, or nuclear fallout, that are just goffing around songs, but those are fun to do.

joeym said:
Ah, but music is a mix of different emotions, Adam, It's the medium we use to express ourselves. I wrote a song when my Dad died and it helped me get over my grief so whether a song is sad or joyful, it doesn't matter as long as it comes from the heart.
This is a nice song, great harmonies and voice as usual and the acoustics sound very good. I wish I was this good when I was your age.

Joey :):):):)
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Thanks loads!:D
 
Take this comment in the most positive way possible...I hate your guts. :)

If I could make recordings like that...I'd...I'd...

Man...that is awesome. I want to quit.
 
In short I meant to say that I like your stuff and your perspectives - rock on!
The rest was just guff in response to the idea of waiting for you to be hurt befrore you produce even better stuff.
TMBG a "Goof ball" band? Really? I've always thought they were clever, incisive, humoroous and really musical - all of which was confirmed when I saw them live with the addition that they R.O.C.K. in the flesh.
 
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