(A little late) August Song Announcement!

Oops.  I usually have this info posted a week before the month ends but never got around to it.  Here is the info for August and it's song!

Genre: FOLK

Subject: Post-Zombie Apocalyptic Love Song

Specific enough?  To accommodate this half assed post, here is a half assed drawing of a zombie:

Man, I am really slipping here, aren't I?  Oh well, DEAL WITH IT!  Good luck!

June's Winning Song!

I thought that June had a really fun theme and hope that you enjoyed hearing the new old songs.  When the voting was all said and done, the winner was Jack Eggleston with his song Tracks.  Good job, Jack!  You had my vote!  Listen to the song again below and bask in it's glory.  BASK IN JACK'S GLORY, I SAID!

What does Jack win?  Hmmm...I kinda forgot that I was making up prizes still.  Okay, okay.  I've got it.  Jack wins a....

AN ANIME GIRL PILLOW!  Here is Jack enjoying taking it out to dinner!

Alright, that was kinda mean.  Was it any meaner than writing a song about him and pre-pubescent Olsen twins though?  I'm not sure.  Please send all hate mail to:

Brian Williams

c/o NBC News 

30 Rockefeller Plaza 

New York, NY 10112

OKAY THEN.  Don't forget about the July Cover Songs!  I just finished setting up my new PC and am looking forward to recording it on upgraded software!  Woohoo!

June 2013 Old Songs Revisited

A little while back I found a few tapes and CDs of music that friends of mine and I wrote and recorded in college. On the one CD was the first song I wrote that I can remember.  That got my gears turning and decided to rework old songs for June's song writing game.  I was the only one who had a copy of my original song so I posted it as a compare/contrast.  I hope you enjoy them!

Jack Eggleston - Tracks

Jack's comments:  Essentially it;s about a guy discovering that his girlfriend/wife/whatever is sleeping around on him, and trying to make the decision between suicide, heroin, or acceptance and growth.

Brian Salapek - Jack Wants to Nail the Olsen Twins

The original version from 2001:

My comments: Even though it's a ridiculous and kinda crass song, it is still a love song at heart, so I decided to rework it that way.  With the use of a friend's keyboard and the strings section in GarageBand, I tried to make it as pretty as possible.  It's a love song, it should be pretty!  To pair with the beauty and love of the song, I attached the stupidest picture of Jack and I that I could find.  I think he's licking me.

Rene Zansman - Everybody is so Crazy

Rene's Comments: I'm thinking of doing a song called Everybody is so crazy that I wrote right after I turned 12 after 9/11 and how I felt the world was, it's kind of a weird song, but it's 12 years old almost and it's been half my life since I wrote it...I had just discovered blink 182, I had found out what the word "pills" meant and I loved using Norwegian words in english songs and the South Park movie was on tv all the time and it was my favorite movie.  So it was me trying to write a blink 182 song, but the lyrics are kind of like I'm super by Big gay Al and it was inspired by terrorism and a movie I saw about drugabuse.


Also don't forget about your songs for July!