snow_crash

The 4-Track Demos [1998-2000]

dash — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:43:53 -0500

Here's some old Snow Crash stuff I've recovered from old 4-Track tapes. We recorded these at university, between working in call centers and attending the odd lecture. I would do the drums, guitars and singing during the day, and Kieron would record the bass lines at night... what a team!

I'm sure we have a couple more tracks hidden away somewhere...

And yes, there are a couple of extremely ill-advised songs however, Car Chaser, Kids and It's Always You were part of our main set.

Nocturnal Urban Romance (well Dodgy) by Snow Crash

dash — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:36:27 -0500

Well it was mostly an experiment, but we did record the whole thing so here you go... not my finest hour!

The Cave by Snow Crash

dash — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:36:27 -0500

It's Always You (and never me) by Snow Crash

dash — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:36:26 -0500

Kids by Snow Crash

dash — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:36:26 -0500

Car Chaser (half of...) by Snow Crash

dash — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:36:25 -0500

We just wanted to start with something funky, a sort of break to show off what we could do and wake everybody up before we launched into the plangent rock.

The first minute or so is cut off due to an over-taping error, if I ever get my hands on a 4-track recorder again we might get to hear the whole track!

The Other Recordings

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:31:36 -0400

These songs were all created as practise recordings, obviously I tried my best to do them properly, but this was all done in Sonar, using Fruity Loops to play the drums for me...

Snow Crash Demo [2000]

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:22:38 -0400

Shortly after I had left University, we availed ourselves of the studio in the Music Department and the services of it's engineer. This is the guy who tried to fail my studio project because he hadn't checked his pigeonhole for three months....

Still, we went in, played four songs and had them recorded properly - and here they are!

Storm by Snow Crash

admin — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:28:29 -0500

No words, no real name working title: Storm...

Small World by Snow Crash

admin — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:59:05 -0500

Old, old song from the Snow Crash days...

LYRICS:

And if you wind up standing alone
The world can seem so small
And if you're needing a friendly smile
Don't come to me.

(CHORUS)
I could never understand
why you always had to try me, why me?
It's only a little way behind
but it's always how you find me
and I can't get away from you

So if you find that I'm not helping,
sometimes you should leave
I am locked inside
a tiny world of my own

CHORUS

(the missing middle 8)
When you look at me with your brown eyes I wanna cut you up
to see what you have got that makes you so one-sided
this is not a dream, it's how I feel and it is so fsked up
the world is closing in, and I can't escape it now

So when you wake up and realise
that we could never last
don't look back, just keep on walking
and try to forget