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Trash-pop, guitar rock and melodic miscellany.
Not so much a band as a bloke with a guitar and a laptop, The Smivets deliver a genre-bending blend of pop, rock, punk, prog and many other monosyllables.
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Metal • Heavy Metal
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#405 in subgenre Peak #12
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Peak #33
Author
Steve Smith
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Steve Smith
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October 26, 2016
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MP3 5.4 MB • 160 kbps • 4:43
Story behind the song
Presented for the Clicker's Club "Dark and Stormy Night" challenge October 2016, this is just a description of 3 of my greatest fears. Also my paranoid feeling that, no matter how hard you try to prevent something happening it still happens, to the point where the only thing that happens is the thing you try to prevent. I am a magnet for Fate's cruel jokes. As an aside the "storm" noise you can hear was actually the noise gate on Amplitube failing to cope with background rumble on the SLO100 simulation cranked up to 11. It was just an accidental sound but I thought it sounded quite cool so I left it in.
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In the cold water The cramp bites hard The boat drifts out of reach And you're out here all alone Alone You know it's bad You know you should have listened to your head Now you can only listen to your heart As it's tearing itself apart Trying to keep going Trying to keep going to the very last But somehow you have to laugh And the joke is, not that this has happened, But it's the ONLY thing that's happened. The one thing you knew you had to try to prevent You had to avoid it at any event But still it's happened Nevertheless Up on the bare mountain The snow comes down hard Your pack falls out of reach And you're up here all alone Alone The one thing you knew you had to try to prevent You had to avoid at any event The last thing you wanted to happen Has happened Nevertheless Trying to finish one last job The glass falls hard It cuts you deep and easy And you're working late alone Alone You know it's bad You know you should have listened to your head Now you can only listen to your heart As it's tearing itself apart Trying to keep going Trying to keep going to the very last But somehow you have to laugh And the joke is, not that this has happened, But it's the ONLY thing that's happened. The one thing you knew you had to try to prevent You had to avoid in any event The last thing you wanted to happen Will be the last thing that ever happens Nevertheless
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Drumnjon
Dec 09, 2016
WHAT A KICKER SETH! LOVIN THIS ONE! JON:)
Swampman And The Machine
Nov 09, 2016
Hell yeah cuz this is rocking
Michael Duran
Nov 01, 2016
MASSIVE!!! Love the raw intensity of the one Steve, the vocals, like the music, pummels you mercilessly with the hammer of inevitability. WICKED :D
Ken Sacco
Nov 01, 2016
great song as always you are very talented
Ascenzion - Al Massey
Nov 01, 2016
Spine-chilling...frightening...unnerving and wicked. Love your ghastly vocals. Wow! And your guitar riffs are definitely out of this world. Love it. Also, awesome mix. Of course all your mixes are superb. Great submission for the evening theme.
Michael Bennett
Nov 01, 2016
Kinda reminds me of Zappa - great song - great execution - great sounds especially the guitar(s) and that riff is awesome!
Dollar Bill and the Unmentionables
Oct 30, 2016
That main riff is demented. That solo is truly twisted. And then there's the song - terrific concept and execution. Amplitude accident - it must have known you needed a little something for the breakdown. Perfect for Halloween, and Easter, and Christmas, and Arbor Day, and well... any other day. A++ would rock again.
Alan L Cole
Oct 30, 2016
Rodz said it - just first class all around. This baby raises the goosebumps! The savage beat and savage guitars are killer. Awesome vocals and vocal fxs. You da man Steve!
Rodrica Rudge
Oct 29, 2016
First class!! Top notch lyrics, melody, music and vocals - this is a winner! Scary, loud, tense and brilliantly performed.