Jonathan David Steinhoff
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Smile Smile
Opening track from an old self-produced music cassette ('80s), "Statues Painted Blue".
12/26/2017 Indie
20th Century Dirt Road 20th Century Dirt Road
An old song I did in the '80s, probably one that would have benefited if I had kept the tune but made it about 21st century cell phones, but who could see that coming.
2/27/2015 Acoustic Rock
Horse And Chandelier Horse And Chandelier
From my '80s music cassette, "Gravity", a sort of Old West Prohibitionist type emotional lament song (such laments possibly being a lost genre buried by drug fiends promoting swinging from chandeliers, halogen lamps, etc.).
2/26/2015 Country and Western
Still Around Still Around
Title song from my January 1999 self-released music cd. Was posted at garageband.com before it closed. If you listen close, you might actually hear the sound of a larger statement about sublimated resurrection of what the heart holds dear! Oh boy!
3/17/2012 Indie
Wait A Minute Wait A Minute
From 1984, slightly remastered, this song borrows from a period, perhaps a hundred years ago, when certain types might have been allowed more emotional intensity than they would today.
9/1/2007 Indie
The Hostile Cowboy & The French Restaurant The Hostile Cowboy & The French Restaurant
Back in '94 when I did this song, it reflected what I felt was a certain manner in which certain Americans assimilate new cultures and experiences.
8/16/2007 Indie
The Moon The Moon
Lead song from my 1994 music cassette, 'Home Boundaries'. This song was an influence on much Rolling Stones stuff: their songs 'Moon Is Up', 'Anybody Seen My Baby'; their video, 'Out Of Tears'. They left you having to take my word (sorry).
8/15/2007 Indie
Eve Eve
Words hard to hear, but still worth it. New Year's Eve day, 1929, guy's been devastated by stock market, wife's love seems gone, they're going dancing that night, he imagines wealthy man cutting in, her leaving him then and there.
8/4/2007 Indie
In Pause In Pause
A slightly tongue-in-cheek approach to the idea that there might be something (someone?) indispensible missing from the world, that this is really what is askew after all is said and done.
8/3/2007 Indie
Dust Dust
Song from my '85 'Gravity' cassette (slightly remixed), not to be confused with my '02 'The Gravity' CD. Relates to bulls in china shops, when taken with 2 grains of salt. Recorded on Peter Wolf's birthday, which shows.
8/3/2007 Indie
Enough Enough
From my 1985 music cassette, 'Gravity', not to be confused with my 2002 music CD, 'The Gravity', this song, 'Enough', not to be confused with my song, 'That's Enough', speaks to the inarticulateness of referring to music as a commodity.
8/2/2007 Indie
Icicle Icicle
This led to something essential to the Stones hit 'Almost Hear You Sigh', and to something less essential to McCartney's 'This One'. Not because this stuff can't be found elsewhere, but they used stuff appropros of it being in this song.
7/22/2007 Indie
Stationary Stationary
This song economically expresses common, obsessive fears many have of not being active in a manner others will 'validate', which is related to false definitions being rammed down people's throats of what are essential activities.
7/22/2007 Indie
Just Say Just Say
I may have been inspired on this one by the legend of the little Dutch boy.
7/22/2007 Indie
Coordinate Myself Coordinate Myself
I recall doing this one as a reaction against people turning the artistic medium of music into a part of exercise classes, which is not to say that they shouldn't name a diet pill after Beethoven.
7/22/2007 Indie
Garbage Pail Garbage Pail
I had always hoped that someday this song would become an English pub sing-along classic, for those times when everyone is feeling crocked and sentimental.
7/22/2007 Indie
Chains Are The Same These Days Chains Are The Same These Days
That sound is NOT me rattling chains, I'm shaking an English molasses can with English stones in it (a helpful tip for anyone who can't afford chains).
7/22/2007 Indie
But She Didn't Know But She Didn't Know
I'm featuring a bunch of songs from this 1989 music cassette I made, though they sound fuzzier than my newer stuff (hasn't that always been the difference between past and present?).
7/22/2007 Indie
Two Weeks Ago Two Weeks Ago
I'm featuring a bunch of songs from this 1989 music cassette I made, though they sound fuzzier than my newer stuff (hasn't that always been the difference between past and present?).
7/22/2007 Indie
