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80's sounding, mid-paced ballad.
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Hello and thank you for taking the time to look at my Soundclick page. This is my 15 minutes, Warhol was right! I have signed up to Routenote in order to get my songs onto Spotify and Itunes. I've cherry-picked my favourite songs and made them into a compliation called "Recorded Music (home & away)". These pages will be going live in the next four to six weeks. I was going to delete my Soundclick page but thought I'd leave these few songs that haven't made the compilation on here. Including cover versions and songs I'm not quite so happy with these days. I will provide links as soon as they become available.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
#9,806 today Peak #106
#3,356 in subgenre Peak #42
Author
Claire Storey/Gus Glen
Uploaded
March 27, 2008
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MP3 3.1 MB • 128 kbps • 3:24
Story behind the song
This song has been kicking around in various formats for years, since about 1987 approximately, though it has undergone various changes since then. It started life with a very bouncy 'Walking On Sunshine' type feel. When I composed it, I was working with my friend Brian Harris, I would demo tunes on 4-track cassette in London then send them to him in Scotland to write lyrics for. When he got this one he wasted no time in letting me know he hated it. He did write lyrics for the original version of the tune, it was demo-ed up but we never did anything further with it. Cut to ten or so years later, when I asked my then-girlfriend if she fancied writing lyrics for it. She not only re-wrote the lyrics, she also modified the melody quite a bit. This version was demo-ed up, Claire still has it and describes the track as "perky". Cut to the present day and I'm tinkering with my 8-track and decide that after all these years, the poor thing deserves another chance at being recorded. So I emailed Claire to see if she still had the lyrics and she sent them to me. In the meantinme, whilst driving home from a gig, I was listening to Semisonic on my car stereo and the track 'Act Naturally' came on. I love that song and it occurred to me that if I approximated it's arrangement then I could de-perk or de-bounce 'Decided'. So that's what we have here. It's come out sounding quite 80's, which wasn't my intention, but I guess is appropriate to when the song started life. I'm no great shakes at drum programming, but could not find a preset I was happy with on my Boss BR864, so I dug out my old Yamaha RX11. The piano and strings come courtesy of an old Yamaha home keyboard, bought on Tottenham Court Road circa 1995. I wasn't going to use any guitar on this version at all, but the chorus needed a bit of a lift so I used my Ashton Dualler straight into the desk for rhythm guitar and my Vintage 'Les Paul' copy for the little arpeggio motif.
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