When I talked about finishing off the unfinished Kiyomori album last week I wasn't sure if I'd actually ever do it!! A number of factors ought to have conspired against me - I shouldn't have found the time, I might not have had the resources - I ought to have started it, gotten bored and then not finished!! Instead things are looking pretty good. I'm already most of the way there, I'd say, although with each day I seem to find a half finished song tucked away on an old hardrive or something and I start wondering if it ought to be included or not and as my tracklist reaches the higher teens I start wondering if it is more of a double album!!
Part of me wants to call it quits now and leave off songs like Rendition, Not In My Name, Deliverance and Invisible Hands... as we never played them live, Sean never settled on bass lines that I can try to replicate and I never finished the lyrics. Part of me wants to finish those and include a couple of weird songs I found last night 'unittled E min thing' and 'Control' - which was about the fourth time we tried to write a song called Control at Sean's behest!!
So anyway, those decisions are yet to be made so I shall present another list (love lists) of all the potential songs and the state they are in. '*'s next to tracks that are finished.
*1. Banging - finished contemporary demo
2. Deliverance - no verse lyrics, no bass-line... good drum and guitar take with working structure.
*3. Dance Like A Robot - finished contemporary demo
4. Not In My Name - no verse lyrics, no bass line... reasonable guitar and drum take.
*5. Fighting Fire With Fire - thought I'd lost this one but found another copy of the original session, bass was all on keyboards and a little thin so I recorded a bassline, mixed it and now it's finished.
*6. Unsung|Unstrung - Now finished, with synths, bass and additional vocals.
*7. Puppet On A String - finished contemporary demo
8. Gekokujo - Almost finished - need to try and mix it so the new vocal hides the old better (mix has vocal so can't get rid of original ad-lib
9. Invisible Hands - have recorded new bass and guitar. Need to write lyrics, record vocals and find Easy Rider samples.
10. What Goes Around - Good version available with adlib vocals - need to record the written lyrics over this and mix it so the new vox replace the old.
*11. Bird In A Cage (Part 2) - finished with new bass-line, synth, extra vocals
*12. The World They Built For Us - finished contemporary demo
13. More To Lose - needs bass/synth/extra guitar (possibly)
14. Tick Tock - nearly finished, added midi drums to original demo and bass/guitar/synth now thinking it could do with strings!!!
*15. Virtually - I remember Kiyomori played a versions of Virtually a few times, but forgot we'd recorded this version, which was only missing a bass line, so I finished it off.
16. Control - kind of weird little rough thing... repeats same thing for about 2 mins might be nice as a bonus or interlude
17. Untitled Emin - this jam had a lot of potential... nice bass line/sound from Sean. Not sure if I can make something useable out of what I've found and the opening adlib lyric - "something in her eyes said no" Is creepy in the extreme... so I'm thinking about ditching this one!!
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