mike skliar
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your actions will change your emotions your actions will change your emotions
this was a very fast co-write with nancy rost- she co-wrote the lyrics with me and I wrote the music. quick demo.
2/28/2007 Acoustic General
a civil action part one a civil action part one
this is a musical narration of a civil malpractice action.. not sure if this has ever been done before, at least like this.
2/27/2007 Acoustic General
strawberry lane strawberry lane
this is a tribute to the Beatles. A fairly elaborate production for me.. lots of sonic layers here.
2/25/2007 Acoustic General
broadway broadway
this is a song about a particular street near where i live-broadway , in manhattan, nyc. quick demo, first draft of the song, too
2/23/2007 Acoustic General
pretty girls know the score pretty girls know the score
I wrote the music for this. the lyrics are a co-write with nancy rost, who i met as part of the feb album writing month project.
2/19/2007 Acoustic General
saddle saddle
this is an anti-war song , played on dobro, with vocal and harmonica added as well.
2/17/2007 Acoustic General
mine fine valentine mine fine valentine
a love song written to my wonderful wife....
2/16/2007 Acoustic General
come back al gore come back al gore
a folk-protest. trying to write 14 songs in the month of february for fawm.org. getting stuck, watching the news, thinking of politics, this came to mind...
2/13/2007 Acoustic General
strangledisco is not dead 6 strangledisco is not dead 6
this is (a slight remix of) a 'strangledisco' piece for fawm. (see fawm.org for details on this crazy songwriting and recording challenge) - silly but fun.
2/11/2007 Acoustic General
strangledisco is not dead strangledisco is not dead
this was done as part of a dare from the 'fawm' group to do a so-called 'strangledisco' song- see the fawm.org website for details
2/11/2007 Acoustic General
eat that chicken eat that chicken
a wacky fun one, nothing deep here. I heard the line 'eat that chicken and be saved' and decided to combine it with a songwriting challenge of writing a song with two chords.
2/10/2007 Acoustic General
somebody take me home somebody take me home
a more serious song for me.. hard to say what this is 'about'
2/10/2007 Acoustic General
random understanding random understanding
this is a strange song, i got into the idea of the sound of words for words' sake.. then thought of a chorus that hopefully puts it together, maybe. an experiment
2/5/2007 Acoustic General
rip van winkle blues rip van winkle blues
in my neighborhood in manhattan, alot has changed in the past few years, not all for the better. here's a blues about it.
2/4/2007 Acoustic General
day the music died day the music died
a song about the plane crash in 1959 that killed buddy holly, richie valens and the big bopper.
2/4/2007 Acoustic General
birthday song birthday song
folk rock-- it was my birthday, so I decided to write a song about the whole getting older and birthday thing!
2/3/2007 Acoustic General
listen to fools listen to fools
written after seeing a 'debate' about global warming' on CNN- the fact that people can seriously debate whether it exists at all, at this late date, is beyond me!
1/31/2007 Acoustic General
Pluto Pluto
written when they demoted Pluto from a planet to an asteroid; I figured the least we could do was give Pluto its own song
1/28/2007 Acoustic General
mothers advice mothers advice
what my mother (and others) have said to me for years!
2/2/2006 Acoustic General
