Paul Iorio
Folkpop. Aired on KCRW, KALX, KSDT and other radio stations!
Grunge rap. Sort of Radiohead meets the Beasties meets Steam meets Nirvana. Six months in the making, this track. It started as a mere riff in April 2017 and evolved into my attempt at creating a 21st century "Na Na Hey Hey" -- and then it became
A drony song of longing. I wrote this in the winter of 1983 in a rat-infested apartment in Manhattan and wrote the last bit about "good luck dancing naked in broken windows" in late 1985 during the hurricane that hit NYC.
Drum and piano based pop, sung in Nadsat, the language of "A Clockwork Orange." Composed, performed, arranged and produced by Paul Iorio.
folk-pop -- with a grudge!
Burt Bacharach meets the Olde West. I wrote it in 1979 and 1980 and recorded this version in 2008.
A power pop song about someone named Samantha Moore.
A folk-punk song about a particularly kooky public figure! Composition, music, lyrics, arrangement, production, performance, rhythm guitar, lead guitar and vocals by paul iorio.
Gangsta-folk rap. (Composed, performed, arranged, originated, produced by Paul Iorio.)
About a school shooting and a student too freaked out to admit to himself that it happened.
Sort of Fleetwood Mac meets the Tijuana Brass meets the Grateful Dead. Folk pop song that asks a girlfriend, What version of you is at my door?
Rhythmic singalong about being glad that I got to see the world before the world blew up!
A bit of a tear-jerker about a loved one who's coming home from the hospital after an illness. I wrote it in 1997 and first released it in 2004.
Sort of like Andy Partridge meets Melle Mel.
This is a straight-up drinking song and singalong I wrote in February 2023 and recorded at my home studio in Berkeley on February 28, 2023.
A folkpop song that I wrote in 2022 and recorded on February 18, 2023, at my home studio in Berkeley, California. Composition, music, lyrics, performance, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, vocals, background vocals, arrangement, production by paul iorio.
A power pop song that I wrote in January 2023 and recorded on January 26, 2023.
a multi-part song that starts one way and evolves into something else.