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This starts out a bit mysterioso but ends up a good ol' rock ballad

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This is a one-man studio-based outfit which has two streams. One is to produce songs, with vocals, in a fairly conventional format, that you might expect a "real" band to play. The other is to produce instrumentals with experimental electronic sounds, the stranger the better, but hopefully still appealing. I love that virtual world full of beauty and weirdness. Perhaps that's where I'll go when I die.

SoundClick artist Unread Pages presents "The Smell", a remarkable release in the Avant Rock Alternative genre. It works with a dynamic progression that keeps the listener engaged from start to finish. With a tone that is ambient, this track connects on an emotional level. "The Smell" has peaked at #13 in the Avant Rock category on SoundClick. Listeners who follow Electronica, Vocals and Original will feel right at home with this Unread Pages release on SoundClick.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Avant Rock

Charts

#752 in subgenre Peak #13

Charts

Peak #146

Author

Unread Pages

Rights

Yes

Uploaded

August 29, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 5.5 MB • 128 kbps • 6:01 minutes

Character

Energy

relaxed, cool

high-energy

Danceable

coffee-place

dancefloor

Positivity

dark, sad, angry

happy

Appeal

unique

radio-friendly

Story behind the song

I've been having this wierd experience of smells persisting long after I've left the place associated with them.  So I tried to think about what it could mean.  THIS is the result.........

Lyrics

Is it biscuits, vinegar, baked,
That smell when I breathe in?
Follow through to the upstairs room
The brown frame hurts my chin

And the vested tailor sighs
As his shears hiss and scrape
The experience of the dead
Of the smell that has a shape

Takes me back to what I always knew existed
And I know there's no-one here but me and you
But is it you here with me, or are those the eyes of some other
Full of sadness, truth, despair, solitude?

In this city made of sepia, 
Made of questions, doors and paste
What I smell is all the future,
All the past in that stuffy space

Then I have a scent of ghosthood
Drifting like a dream released
Those expressions on their faces
The starvation of the feast

Takes me back etc

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Kyma

Apr 28, 2010

Not sure if I'm supposed to find this funny, but dude, this is seriously funny! But all in all really well made!

KP

Mario Strack

Aug 20, 2009

A fine piece of poetry.

The Smell

Unread Pages

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