We’ve got a clean month ahead (February started out with some Baidu traffic), so I’ll start posting them again now that I’ve got a slightly more accurate picture of what’s doing. Amazingly, contrary to reports I’ve heard previous to this, excluding Baidu on robots.txt actually worked, or is at least working at the moment.
Also: “Obsolete” is going to be posted very soon, I swear.
Baidu traffic went crazy in January (3000-ish plays for “Wolftab”? No way!), so I’m going to change our robots.txt, see if Baidu actually honors it (they’re notorious for ignoring excludes), and proceed from there. Hopefully, at some point, we have a realistic picture of what’s going on here. Stay tuned…
I should be posting “Obsolete” soon, in its current state. I made peace with it, and want to get to the present day at some point in my life.
Man, either the bots like the alt.abortion stuff, or it’s catching on in some part of the world:
December:
Zenova: 932
Wolftab: 690
Something In My Drink: 680
Love Life And Sign: 558
Puppet: 343
Tonight: 281
Something True: 259
Sybil: 248
The Scott Crawford Show: 242
Ecstacy: 203
Sybil Instrumental: 202
Something True (Overnightscape): 177
New Song: 165
Untitled: 159
Sybil (version): 156
Chord: 154
Total:
Zenova: 3522
Wolftab: 2520
Something In My Drink: 2137
Ecstacy: 1984
Sybil: 1974
Tonight: 1743
Sybil Instrumental: 1728
Untitled: 1632
Love Life And Sign: 1627
Puppet: 1620
Sybil (version): 1323
The Scott Crawford Show: 1234
Something True: 1049
Chord: 1040
New Song: 1010
Something True (Overnightscape): 848
The usual lack of specific data accompanies these numbers. Y’all know the drill. Drop me a line if you’re out there listening and like what you hear. Those of you who are fans of this stuff will be pleased to know, in the meantime, that the New Year brings 2 new synths (new to me, anyway) and a returning synth to my renovation-in-progress studio, so hopefully, I’ll be getting started on some stuff with those soon.
Thank you for another month of your continued interest and support, and by all means, even if you can’t or won’t donate (the button’s right below this paragraph), please add my page on Facebook, as well as the page for my other band Get Precious.
Big jump forward in raw numbers! I’m thinking that Bing’s catching on, whether we want it to or not, since a lot of those hits came from Bing.
November:
zenova: 915
ecstacy: 858
untitled: 563
wolftab: 452
tonight: 414
love life and sign: 314
puppet: 312
something true: 272
something in my drink: 261
the scott crawford show: 245
sybil: 196
sybil inst: 188
something true (overnightscape): 183
sybil vers: 173
new song: 169
chord: 124
total:
zenova: 2577
wolftab: 1830
ecstacy: 1761
sybil: 1726
sybil inst: 1526
untitled: 1473
tonight: 1462
something in my drink: 1457
puppet: 1277
love life and sign: 1069
sybil vers: 1067
the scott crawford show: 992
chord: 886
new song: 845
something true: 790
something true (overnightscape): 671
Still not much real input on who’s listening to what and why (really, these could all be bot hits; whichever…), because I did go with the “give it away and pray” model here, but that’s fine, because as I’ve said before, the other option involves annoying people. As a consumer, I don’t like to be annoyed, so I can’t see the point of promoting a product in a way that would annoy me if someone else were selling it to me. As for what’s being done on my end, the “rebuild the studio” project took a big step forward this week, because I redid things in a way that gives me a ton more workspace. Workspace is our friend. So, we’re inching ever closer to finishing the album, finishing some of the other projects I have laying around here and getting started on some Get Precious work.
Thank you for another month of your continued interest and support, and by all means, even if you can’t or won’t donate (the button’s right below this paragraph), please add my page on Facebook, as well as the page for my other band Get Precious.
6 months of free music! Crazy shit.
October:
something in my drink: 389
wolftab: 380
zenova: 260
sybil: 207
tonight: 198
love life and sign: 186
something true: 199
sybil inst: 179
puppet: 175
the scott crawford show: 169
something true (overnightscape): 168
ecstacy: 143
untitled: 142
chord: 138
sybil vers: 137
new song: 132
total:
zenova: 1662
sybil: 1530
wolftab: 1378
sybil inst: 1338
something in my drink: 1196
tonight: 1048
sybil vers: 994
puppet: 965
ecstacy: 923
untitled: 910
chord: 762
love life and sign: 755
the scott crawford show: 747
new song: 676
something true: 518
something true (overnightscape): 488
Fell *just* short of my goal of 500 plays/downloads for every track (12 short on the live “Something True”, but I’m 18 ahead on the studio one, so that must mean something, right?), but traffic’s been steady, and songs that didn’t do well in other months did well in this one. In total, even if plenty of them are bot hits (and I’m sure they are), there’ve been over 15,000 attempts to access the songs I have on my web site in 6 months. If you’re one of the humans or even one of the bots who’ve done so, I’d love an email telling me who you are, what you thought of the music, or whatever you’d like to tell me.
Donations are still very quiet since the initial batch of ‘em, but again, this is about giving back to music, not just about taking from the people who listen to it. I have the resources, limited though mine are in general, to do this, so I’m doing it. I did put together a list of all of my donors to date, and that will be added to the liner notes for “babykiller.” once I finish rebuilding my studio setup and do the last 2 songs. That’s still a little ways off in terms of both time and money, but it’s coming.
Thank you for another month of your continued interest and support, and by all means, even if you can’t or won’t donate (the button’s right below this paragraph), please add my page on Facebook, as well as the page for my other band Get Precious. It’ll make us HWET.
I bet you thought I forgot about this. Either that, or you didn’t give much of a rat’s ass. “But, sir! I only have this small part of a rat’s ass to spare on this Saturday morning! Please don’t use the curling iron on me!”
September:
zenova: 258
sybil: 258
the scott crawford show: 255
wolftab: 248
something true (overnightscape): 207
ecstacy: 195
something in my drink: 193
sybil inst: 190
puppet: 188
tonight: 178
something true: 161
sybil vers: 146
love life and sign: 145
untitled: 138
chord: 122
new song: 121
total:
zenova: 1415
sybil: 1323
sybil inst: 1159
wolftab: 998
sybil vers: 857
tonight: 850
something in my drink: 807
puppet: 790
ecstacy: 780
untitled: 768
chord: 624
the scott crawford show: 578
love life and sign: 569
new song: 544
something true (overnightscape): 320
something true: 319
Some songs move up the list, some songs move down the list. You know how it goes. By next month, barring any new releases (and I really wanted to get at least one out in October, but I’m not sure how logistically possible that is, as I haven’t even started ripping my studio apart or digging up raw tracks yet), every song on this list will probably have been played or downloaded at least 500 times by something, human or robot. That’s kinda cool. No more news on the donor front, but that’s OK. Donate if you like, don’t if you don’t or can’t afford to. A lot of my doing this is a matter of giving something back to music, which has given me so much. Speaking of donors, I’m still slacking on digging up my PayPal transactions to create a proper donor list for the liner notes, but it is still on the to-do list and I haven’t forgotten about doing it. Been a weird, busy, in some ways rough month, so it’s something I just haven’t gotten to yet. Soon. Thank you for another month of your continued interest and support, and by all means, add my page on Facebook, as well as the page for my other band Get Precious. It’ll make us feel all warm and squishy inside.
It’s that time of the month again! No, I’m not menstruating, silly! I’m a bloke! It’s time for some stats from the music department!
August:
zenova: 328
sybil: 264
sybil inst: 242
tonight: 241
the scott crawford show: 230
love life and sign: 228
wolftab: 207
new song: 199
sybil vers: 196
something in my drink: 184
untitled: 181
ecstacy: 164
puppet: 163
chord: 162
something true: 158
something true (overnightscape): 113
total:
zenova: 1157
sybil: 1065
sybil inst: 969
wolftab: 750
sybil vers: 711
tonight: 672
untitled: 630
something in my drink: 614
puppet: 602
ecstacy: 585
chord: 502
love life and sign: 424
new song: 423
the scott crawford show: 323
something true: 158
something true (overnightscape): 113
Some of the songs that did great on plays last month dropped considerably, but some of the ones that have been slow movers jumped some from last month’s numbers, which is good to see. The newer songs are doing well, especially “Something True”, which did really good numbers in less than half the month. Again, I have no idea where these songs are going to or who’s listening to them (my biggest non-Google contributors are Bing and Baidu, so I’m guessing a lot of this traffic is Asian). I read things that people like Trent Reznor say about how you should require an email address from people to let them download, but in my mind, 99% of all email I’ve ever gotten from the mailing lists of musicians has been spam, so I really don’t subscribe to that logic. Plus, I think people who are serious about music use other ways to track artists (last.fm, iLike, artist pages on MySpace and Facebook, etc., and more and more, I’m finding from my discussions with folks about music, people are returning to artists’ actual web sites) that are targeted better. I’ve got some concerns about vital demographic info being hosted in places I don’t have full control over, but I also do pretty regular exports of that data whenever possible. The bottom line is, the fewer hoops people have to jump through to hear my stuff, the better. If it’s just getting hits and not getting heard, so be it. That’s what I have a hosting account with decent bandwidth limits for.
As far as donations go, it’s been dead silent since the first month. Again, not a shock in rough economic times. Donations are kinda like a “dead air” deal anyway. They’re abstract. This isn’t to say that they’re not appreciated, but I can totally understand folks’ apprehension about making them so far, even if they have the money. It’s a one-way transaction, or it was, anyway. As of right now, and this extends back to past donations, if you’ve donated money to me and you’d like to be thanked on the liner notes of my album, “babykiller.”, when it’s finished, drop me a line. I’ve got records of all of your past donations…somewhere…but to be sure, drop me a line. Alternately, if you donated and absolutely DO NOT want to be thanked on my liner notes for whatever reason, drop me a line for that as well. I have pretty fond memories of reading the tiny liner notes on my cassettes as a kid, though, thinking about how cool it’d be if I were thanked on the liner notes of “Appetite For Destruction” or whatnot, so I’m thinking that the least I can do here for your continued support is make y’all feel even just a fraction of that. I’ve got no immediate plans to release “babykiller.” on cassette, but you know, shit, I could make some homemade, signed ones when the album’s done if folks are interested. Let me know on that. People get all hepped up about vinyl, but I grew up a tape guy. I’d have to figure out where side 1 ends and side 2 begins on what’s currently a single, long-form work, but I think I should do that anyway. It feels like cheating not to have a side 1 and a side 2.
Anyway, I’m just sorta thinking out loud at this point, so I’ll leave you to your business, and thank you for another month of your continued interest and support. Oh, and one more thing. If you’re on Facebook, stop by not just my page there, but also the page for my other band Get Precious and become fans of both. It’ll make us feel all warm and squishy inside. OK, here’s the get thanked on the liner notes of “Appetite For Destruction” button. More next month on the music, or when more music’s ready.
I’m a few weeks later than I wanted to be with this one, but better late than never, right?
Something True by Scott Crawford is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at: http://www.mybigblackcock.com/
This means you can play it on commercial and non-commercial radio, remix it, copy it for your friends, put it on your web site, whatever, as long as I am properly credited, this license information is included wherever you choose to put my music, and, if you sample it, remix it, etc., your music containing any part of my music must be released under this same license unless you contact me specifically to negotiate other terms that I agree to.
Here’s the song, in both 320k MP3 and WAV format. (Sorry, FLAC nerds, but you’ll just have to convert your own. Consider it your punishment for the years of y’all being snobby to people on torrent sites, while posting “lossless” copies of things like Sammy Hagar albums. As I’ve said in the past, “When you post Sammy Hagar albums to torrent sites, EVERYBODY loses”.)
Something True: 320k MP3 | WAV
As a bonus, here’s the “slow” version of Something True, recorded live at The Overnightscape on December 29th, 2005. Thanks again to Frank Edward Nora and his lovely wife Denice for having me by the studio, and for providing us with this clip.
Something True (live at The Overnightscape): 320k MP3 (This one may sound less-than-320, as I’m pretty sure we transcoded it from a lower bitrate, and it was also recorded rather quickly without overdubs. There’s a weird static to it, but I find it charming.)
Part of the reason it took me so long to post this song had to do with my possibly foggy recollection of having recorded a studio version of the “slow” “Something True” here, but my searches through my archives don’t seem to bear that out. I’m guessing that if it did exist, it was lost in my one major drive failure. Ah well, one more thing to re-record.
Right-click these files (or Control-click it, on a Mac) and go to “Save as…” to save the. If you want to play them first to hear how they sound, click the play buttons next to the mp3 download links.
Something True
Music and lyrics by Scott Crawford
well I’m nearing the edge
and I don’t know what the fuck to do
‘cuz all I want is something true
just a sign this old man isn’t through
but I’m bored with everything
I don’t know what to sing
I haven’t got the game to bring
would you set fire to my broken wings
spinning heads and flashing lights
will this be like every night
breaking me down and destroying my faith
do good things come to those who wait
now I’m down on my hands and knees
my heart’s pissing razor blades
wasn’t I supposed to have it made by now
all my wildest dreams betrayed
still I scratch and I claw and I bleed
my spirit is black and blue
as I dig through the wreckage for something true
and I wanna believe that I’m lookin’ for you
something true
do I want you
are we through
is it true
tell you what I want
I want nothing
I want something true
I’m having trouble separating the two
and I came and I saw and I came again
I got too much time on my hands
I’ve got nothing
to offer you
nothing else but something true
but if you’ve got the strength to believe what I say
then I’ll bring you the world at your feet every day
Some info about this song: the bulk of the lyrics were originally ad-libbed by me over the top of some other music done by a band I auditioned for. Yeah, that all kind of came out because I had no idea what to sing, and I even said so in the song. The band complained that they couldn’t hear what I was saying, they went in a different direction singer-wise, we had a lovely dinner afterward and I thankfully remembered virtually all of what I sang long enough to make this. This recording sounds fuller than it has any right to, considering that it consists solely of one vocal track, 1 piano track, a bassline and a snare drum. Couldn’t you swear that there’s more going on there drumwise? Me too, and I made it. Go figure. I came up with the “slow” version of the song about a year later, and both will be on “babykiller.” I’ve performed both live in front of audiences, but mostly the original, fast version. Typically, I sing the second to last line differently live, though. I sing it as: “but if you can believe…all the things I say”, because damn it, what I wrote originally is a mouthful, and I end the slow version with “then I’ll give you the world…I’ll give you the world…”
From here, it gets interesting, because I’m out of “finished enough” tracks to post. I need to redo my home studio (suggestions for solid studio environments that aren’t crazy-making in either Mac or Windows format are welcome), finish off the few “babykiller.” tracks what need finishing (For example, the vocal track on “If I Could” needs some serious help) and finish my long-awaited collaboration with Richard Hackley (nope, not kidding; just needs some tightening up in the mix, maybe). It may be a little while before another song appears, but stay on me and I’ll finish things.
While I’ll be doing all of this free of any kind of mandatory charge, and I think I’m going to move forward with that plan for the rest of the time I’m making music, donations of any size above $1.00 USD (below that, and PayPal fees make your donation kind of useless, sadly; if you want to give me less than a dollar, do it in person) are greatly appreciated. Donations will enable me to compensate the people who work on this music with me as best I can, as well as perform much-needed repairs and upgrades on my aging home studio. Ideally, this will result in more music being made and released, though I’m trying to take this music thing one tiny act at a time these days. In the meantime, thanks in advance for your continuing support, as well as for all the support you’ve given my music and I over the years. As always, if you have any questions about this release or anything else, suck@mybigblackcock.com.
Some stats from the music department. (Edited 8/11/09 because apparently, I was smoking crack when I did the math on 8/1/09)
July:
zenova: 549
sybil: 382
sybil inst: 366
wolftab: 326
something in my drink: 258
tonight: 224
untitled: 224
sybil vers: 200
love life and sign: 196
puppet: 170
chord: 152
new song: 139
ecstacy: 134
the scott crawford show: 93
total:
zenova: 829
sybil: 801
sybil inst: 727
wolftab: 543
sybil vers: 515
untitled: 449
puppet: 439
tonight: 431
something in my drink: 430
ecstacy: 421
chord: 340
new song: 224
love life and sign: 196
the scott crawford show: 93
Man, them Chineses on Baidu really like my music! Someday, I’m gonna go over there and, right before I get arrested for being a dissident, a bunch of screaming Chinese girls are going to run toward me singing “Tonight”. It’s also interesting to me that “Zenova”, which is the creepiest fucking thing I’ve ever recorded, is the most popular thing I’ve ever recorded. Bodes well for the Get Precious barbecue later today. July was a great month for traffic, which is good because it gave me something to look at while I was sitting at home, broke off my ass. People, don’t ever go to New York. It’s crazy expensive. Seriously.
There’ll be another song sometime this week, “Something True”, which is the last of my stuff before I actually have to do re-records of any kind, and there’ll be some Get Precious music up on teh Facebook, though it’ll just be streaming for now. Stay tuned, and thanks for your support.
It’s time for another song, and I’ll probably hear a bunch of shit from people for my commentary on this release, so let’s get to it…
The Scott Crawford Show by Scott Crawford is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at: http://www.mybigblackcock.com/
This means you can play it on commercial and non-commercial radio, remix it, copy it for your friends, put it on your web site, whatever, as long as I am properly credited, this license information is included wherever you choose to put my music, and, if you sample it, remix it, etc., your music containing any part of my music must be released under this same license unless you contact me specifically to negotiate other terms that I agree to.
Here’s the song, in both 320k MP3 and WAV format. (Sorry, FLAC nerds, but you’ll just have to convert your own. Consider it your punishment for the years of y’all being snobby to people on torrent sites, while posting “lossless” copies of things like Sammy Hagar albums. As I’ve said in the past, “When you post Sammy Hagar albums to torrent sites, EVERYBODY loses”.)
The Scott Crawford Show: 320k MP3 | WAV
Right-click this file (or Control-click it, on a Mac) and go to “Save as…” to save it. If you want to play it first to hear how it sounds, click the play button next to the mp3 download link.
If my bandwidth takes a hammerin’ from all this fun, I may also post links to .torrent files, so you can help spread the load around, but let’s learn to crawl first.
Still no one volunteering artwork. Oh well, if it happens, it happens.
The Scott Crawford Show
Music and lyrics by Scott Crawford
Guitars played by Kage Hopkins (as he worked on this, if you donate and want part of your donation to go to him, let me know)
I’d like to welcome you
the strangers and the ones I know
get closer to the stage
there’s nowhere else to go
the planets are aligned
we’ve finally sunk this low
you’ve waited years for this
it’s time now for The Scott Crawford Show
forget your conscience, girl
relax and let it flow
you’ll be more comfortable
once you take off your clothes
this is my universe
and I’ve wrapped it all up in a bow
just stare at the stars on the ceiling
they’re part of The Scott Crawford Show
so now you know the score
the ducks are in a row
you’d better stand back, folks
‘cuz she’s about to blow
is he for real or is he kidding
I don’t even think he knows
pathetic spectacle
oh man, I love The Scott Crawford Show
Some info about this song: of any of the recordings I’ve released to the public, this is probably my least favorite. No, I’m not fishing for compliments, I know some folks definitely like this track Geoff Precious being one for sure, but to me, this one sounds the least finished. The drums are barely there, the keyboards are kinda phoned in on the first verse without anything terribly interesting (to me, anyway) going on, and the whole thing sounds more demo-ish to me than the rest of these, well, demos. I’m also not in love with all the lyrics, and a line or two may fall prey to revisionist history at some later date if I feel like doing something with them. I will confess that I’m quite happy with the instrumental breaks between chorus and verses, but that’s about it. I’ll stop bitching about something that I’m putting out there for you to enjoy now, and tell you a little more about the song. At some point after my first solo show, in a really, really bad state of mind (in part because of my first solo show, but that’s another story for another day), I decided that it’d be amusing to have a theme song, in a gallows humor sort of way. It ended up meshing with a tune that’d been kinda floating around in my head which was my brain’s 5227596028748593th feeble attempt at channelling Ultra Vivid Scene, and this was the end result. It’s been played at all of the solo shows since. I still think it needs work, but I’ll let you be the judge from here out.
From here, I’ll be continuing to compile and finish up what I have of “babykiller.”. I probably won’t record any new tracks that I haven’t already, not yet, anyway, but I may tweak a few (For example, the vocal track on “If I Could” needs some serious help). I will probably also throw some bonus tracks up as I go through my archives and find stuff that doesn’t really fit anywhere else. Stay tuned!
While I’ll be doing all of this free of any kind of mandatory charge, and I think I’m going to move forward with that plan for the rest of the time I’m making music, donations of any size above $1.00 USD (below that, and PayPal fees make your donation kind of useless, sadly; if you want to give me less than a dollar, do it in person) are greatly appreciated. Donations will enable me to compensate the people who work on this music with me as best I can, as well as perform much-needed repairs and upgrades on my aging home studio. Ideally, this will result in more music being made and released, though I’m trying to take this music thing one tiny act at a time these days. In the meantime, thanks in advance for your continuing support, as well as for all the support you’ve given my music and I over the years. As always, if you have any questions about this release or anything else, suck@mybigblackcock.com.
Back to the grindstone, and the first solo track I did any kind of serious public “release” of…
Love Life And Sign by Scott Crawford is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at: http://www.mybigblackcock.com/
This means you can play it on commercial and non-commercial radio, remix it, copy it for your friends, put it on your web site, whatever, as long as I am properly credited, this license information is included wherever you choose to put my music, and, if you sample it, remix it, etc., your music containing any part of my music must be released under this same license unless you contact me specifically to negotiate other terms that I agree to.
Here’s the song, in both 320k MP3 and WAV format. (Sorry, FLAC nerds, but you’ll just have to convert your own. Consider it your punishment for the years of y’all being snobby to people on torrent sites, while posting “lossless” copies of things like Sammy Hagar albums. As I’ve said in the past, “When you post Sammy Hagar albums to torrent sites, EVERYBODY loses”.)
Love Life And Sign: 320k MP3 | WAV
Right-click this file (or Control-click it, on a Mac) and go to “Save as…” to save it. If you want to play it first to hear how it sounds, click the play button next to the mp3 download link.
If my bandwidth takes a hammerin’ from all this fun, I may also post links to .torrent files, so you can help spread the load around, but let’s learn to crawl first.
As for artwork on this one, just like Volume Five, I’ve never done any. Does anyone want to make me some? That’d be kinda cool.
Love Life And Sign
Music and lyrics by Scott Crawford
love life and sign
she finds me
chase all the pain
away
breaking the waves
behind me
nothing else feels
the same
heaven or hell
i’ve been there
hadn’t a care
in the world
win or you lose
just ain’t fair
can’t stay away
from the girl
give me your hand
i’ll show you
a shower of orchids in the sky
don’t walk away
i know you
love you until
i die
die
Some info about this song: I wrote it in my sleep. Literally. I heard the music and lyrics in a dream I had, and remembered enough of it long enough to do a scratch pad version when I woke up. It’s, as I said, the first “finished” song I released, though “finished” is relative, as it has been played live with another guitar line by Kage over the top of the existing music, and I’ve also used the following additional lyrics, written in 2006 before you Kelly Clarkson fans descend, over the end of the song at times, which I’ve intended to flesh out into another song but never gotten around to:
Hell would suck without you
You may say I’m crazy but it’s true
I can’t think of anyone else who needs to be there just like I do
And I know you’d miss me too
Something else the sonically astute may notice and cringe at: I purposely mixed the vocals so they lean more to the right speaker than the left, which I’m pretty sure is an audio engineering no-no. I get bored sometimes.
From here, I’ll be continuing to compile and finish up what I have of “babykiller.”. I probably won’t record any new tracks that I haven’t already, not yet, anyway, but I may tweak a few (For example, the vocal track on “If I Could” needs some serious help). I will probably also throw some bonus tracks up as I go through my archives and find stuff that doesn’t really fit anywhere else. Stay tuned!
While I’ll be doing all of this free of any kind of mandatory charge, and I think I’m going to move forward with that plan for the rest of the time I’m making music, donations of any size above $1.00 USD (below that, and PayPal fees make your donation kind of useless, sadly; if you want to give me less than a dollar, do it in person) are greatly appreciated. Donations will enable me to compensate the people who work on this music with me as best I can, as well as perform much-needed repairs and upgrades on my aging home studio. Ideally, this will result in more music being made and released, though I’m trying to take this music thing one tiny act at a time these days. In the meantime, thanks in advance for your continuing support, as well as for all the support you’ve given my music and I over the years. As always, if you have any questions about this release or anything else, suck@mybigblackcock.com.
June MP3 Song Plays Or Downloads (my stats program doesn’t differentiate):
june:
Zenova: 280
Sybil (Instrumental): 276
Sybil (version): 250
Sybil: 243
Puppet: 227
Wolftab: 217
Tonight: 207
Something In My Drink: 172
Ecstacy: 151
Untitled: 148
Chord: 127
New Song: 85
total:
Sybil: 419
Sybil (Instrumental): 361
Sybil (version): 315
Ecstacy: 287
Zenova: 280
Puppet: 269
Untitled: 225
Wolftab: 217
Tonight: 207
Chord: 188
Something In My Drink: 172
New Song: 85
So, the exposure appears to be reasonably solid so far, and feedback from people I’ve talked to has been solid as well. Donations are still quiet, but I’m cool with that. The button’s below if you’re feeling frisky. More stats next month, and another free song next week.
A bit of a change of pace for our fifth installment. Back a few years, everyone and their mother was playing around with a program called ReBirth, which emulated Roland’s TB-303 Bass Synthesizer, as well as their TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines. I’ve used ReBirth on a few of my other tracks (the forthcoming “If I Could” is probably the most noticable one), but not a lot of my “screwing around with ReBirth for the sake of it” tracks or patterns exist, beyond this one…
New Song by Scott Crawford is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at: http://www.mybigblackcock.com/
This means you can play it on commercial and non-commercial radio, remix it, copy it for your friends, put it on your web site, whatever, as long as I am properly credited, this license information is included wherever you choose to put my music, and, if you sample it, remix it, etc., your music containing any part of my music must be released under this same license unless you contact me specifically to negotiate other terms that I agree to.
Here’s the song, but in a departure from usual policy, it’s just a 128k mp3 file, no WAV. Amazingly, I’ve had this floating around for years, at least 5, but I’ve never recorded a better copy. I believe I still have a functioning copy of the ReBirth file, so if there’s a ton of demand from audiophiles, I can attempt to re-record it at some point, but surprisingly enough, the 128 still sounds fresh, probably because sound never actually exited a digital environment.
New Song: 128k MP3
Right-click this file (or Control-click it, on a Mac) and go to “Save as…” to save it. If you want to play it first to hear how it sounds, click the play button next to the mp3 download link.
If my bandwidth takes a hammerin’ from all this fun, I may also post links to .torrent files, so you can help spread the load around, but let’s learn to crawl first.
As for artwork on this one, I’ve never done any. Does anyone want to make me some? That’d be kinda cool.
I told you a little bit about the track above, but here’s a little more. It was programmed, performed (yes, the filter twisting and the punch-ins/punch-outs were done live by me, for better or worse) and recorded entirely in ReBirth, which is a fun little free program if you’re running a machine that will still behave with it. It’s instrumental, and it was done, from what my disc cataloguer tells me, sometime between June 13-15, 2000, so it’s been hanging around here for 9 years doing nothing, virtually unheard. I labelled it “New Song” back then, and have never changed the title, even though it’s hardly new anymore, and has no attachment to any other song called “New Song”, whether by Howard Jones, The Who or anyone else who’s ever used the same title. Really a pretty simple, elementary track, but I can still listen to it almost a decade later and not cringe, so I figured I’d share it with y’all. Enjoy, and if you end up making any music with ReBirth, share it with me!
From here, I’ll be continuing to compile and finish up what I have of “babykiller.”. I probably won’t record any new tracks that I haven’t already, not yet, anyway, but I may tweak a few (For example, the vocal track on “If I Could” needs some serious help). I will probably also throw some bonus tracks up as I go through my archives and find stuff that doesn’t really fit anywhere else. Stay tuned!
While I’ll be doing all of this free of any kind of mandatory charge, and I think I’m going to move forward with that plan for the rest of the time I’m making music, donations of any size above $1.00 USD (below that, and PayPal fees make your donation kind of useless, sadly; if you want to give me less than a dollar, do it in person) are greatly appreciated. Donations will enable me to compensate the people who work on this music with me as best I can, as well as perform much-needed repairs and upgrades on my aging home studio. Ideally, this will result in more music being made and released, though I’m trying to take this music thing one tiny act at a time these days. In the meantime, thanks in advance for your continuing support, as well as for all the support you’ve given my music and I over the years. As always, if you have any questions about this release or anything else, suck@mybigblackcock.com.
Some might say I should save “the best” for last, but that’s not always how we roll around here. While I know it’s occasionally a bummer when Echo And The Bunnymen drop “The Killing Moon” smack dab in the middle of a set with no build-up, it needs to be done sometimes. So with that, I give you “Tonight”.
Tonight by Scott Crawford is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at: http://www.mybigblackcock.com/
This means you can play it on commercial and non-commercial radio, remix it, copy it for your friends, put it on your web site, whatever, as long as I am properly credited, this license information is included wherever you choose to put my music, and, if you sample it, remix it, etc., your music containing any part of my music must be released under this same license unless you contact me specifically to negotiate other terms that I agree to.
Here’s the song, in both 320k MP3 and WAV format. (Sorry, FLAC nerds, but you’ll just have to convert your own. Consider it your punishment for the years of y’all being snobby to people on torrent sites, while posting “lossless” copies of things like Sammy Hagar albums. As I’ve said in the past, “When you post Sammy Hagar albums to torrent sites, EVERYBODY loses”.)
Right-click these files (or Control-click them, on a Mac) and go to “Save as…” to save them. If you want to play them first to hear how they sound, click the play buttons next to the mp3 versions of each song.
If my bandwidth takes a hammerin’ from all this fun, I may also post links to .torrent files, so you can help spread the load around, but let’s learn to crawl first.
No cover art for this one. Really, does it need any? I think it’s at its best when it’s on scuffed up, dirty little CD-Rs that get passed around without a case, don’t you?
And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the lyrics.
Tonight
Lyrics by Scott Crawford
Music by Scott Crawford and Kage Hopkins
it’s not always black or white
the difference is only slight
in a world that isn’t right
lick my fucking ass tonight
lick my fucking ass tonight
tonight
lick my fucking ass tonight, oh
darling, don’t put up a fight
I just want to take a bite
you make my whole world seem bright
lick my fucking ass tonight
lick my fucking ass tonight
tonight
lick my fucking ass tonight
in a world that isn’t right
lick my fucking ass tonight
on the loneliest of nights
maybe I am too uptight
you make my whole world seem bright
lick my fucking ass tonight
lick my fucking ass tonight
tonight
lick my fucking ass tonight
in a world that isn’t right
lick my, lick my, fucking ass tonight
lick it tonight
lick it tonight
lick it tonight
lick it tonight
This one sorta speaks for itself, and loudly, I might add, but I’ll give you a little backstory, nonetheless: back when I was in Murder In The Dark, Kage started playing the bassline of what became “Tonight” during practice one day, and I thought it sounded a bit like The Chameleons, so I laid down a drum track and, being a jackass, started singing the chorus you all know and love over the top of it in a sort of Mark Burgess voice (apologies to Birdy, who I hope will get a laugh out of the song if he ends up hearing it, at the very least). About 5 minutes of other ridiculous, improvised lyrics later, a legend was born. I’ve heard talk of it being played in foreign lands and enjoyed by people who have no idea at all about the context of the song, it was a live favorite at MITD gigs before it came with Kage and I in the divorce, and I still have people mentioning it to me, years later…”You did that ‘lick my ass’ song…that’s awesome!”, all of which is pretty cool. I’d feel kinda like an embittered one-hit wonder, if the song weren’t so goddamn funny.
Like I said, this song was co-written by Kage Hopkins, and he’s graciously decided to let me do whatever the hell I want with it, so if you decide to make a donation via the button below based solely on the virtues of this song, please note that in the “Note” section of the donation page, so I can kick him some of the money, and by all means, check out his shit, too.
From here, I’ll be continuing to compile and finish up what I have of “babykiller.”. I probably won’t record any new tracks that I haven’t already, not yet, anyway, but I may tweak a few (For example, the vocal track on “If I Could” needs some serious help). I will probably also throw some bonus tracks up as I go through my archives and find stuff that doesn’t really fit anywhere else. Stay tuned!
While I’ll be doing all of this free of any kind of mandatory charge, and I think I’m going to move forward with that plan for the rest of the time I’m making music, donations of any size above $1.00 USD (below that, and PayPal fees make your donation kind of useless, sadly; if you want to give me less than a dollar, do it in person) are greatly appreciated. Donations will enable me to compensate the people who work on this music with me as best I can, as well as perform much-needed repairs and upgrades on my aging home studio. Ideally, this will result in more music being made and released, though I’m trying to take this music thing one tiny act at a time these days. In the meantime, thanks in advance for your continuing support, as well as for all the support you’ve given my music and I over the years. As always, if you have any questions about this release or anything else, suck@mybigblackcock.com.
Status, motherfucker!
