i know that we are aiming for a more electronic sound, but i really love Morrisseys used of falsetto, and Chris, you are so good at singing high too...it just reminded me how much i would love to record a simpler more "folky" guitar and non-electronic sounding bass song.
we could still used some neat echoey little keyboard sounds as well, but i dont know...i just love songs like this SO much! it might be fun to try?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuILSSmByIY&feature=related

-ghoulia

i actuallymeant to post this on my other blog butnow im leaving it on here.who DOESNT want to see a pic of the greatest singer ever?

I'd like to work something around this line:

"this is the sound of the last dance"

And here are some more lyrics I came up with, I imagine the song to be in a style similar to more pop Cure songs like "Why Can't I Be You" or "Lovecats":

"You're so clumsy in bed

you turn the sheets

you bump your head

Ohh, accidental lover

underneath the covers"

3 things I'm digging:

1. Speaking of the Cure, I really like the drumming in Siamese Twins (the video is bad quality so listen to it for real instead)
2. I also really dig Douglas McCarthy's vocal style in Nitzer Ebb, how he just kind of shouts things. For instance, "lies, lies, lies, lies, guns, guns, guns, guns...." You know what I'm talking bout.
3. The synth line in Lose Him by I Start Counting is really catchy, in a good way.

-Kat

http://www.slolum.com/band/thirdsong.mp3

These are separate.

http://www.slolum.com/band/thirdsongsecondkeyboardpart.mp3

And so are these.

http://www.slolum.com/band/thirdsongvocalsandthirdpart.mp3

some stuff:

i love the layers of samples/weird sounds in this song. i havent listened to severed heads in soooo long and for some reason it was in my head today?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4mZ2D33v4o&feature=related

a band i just discovered today, 'Warpaint':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPv3eou3Ltg

i love the guitar progression in this..the walk-down bass line and the repetitive higher notes. and the lyrics are beautiful too...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3_YrOULNY0

and...does anyone remember this song? hehehe. was watching all these 90's videos last night..this is a really cool song though. love it!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x29niw_poe-angry-johnny_music

-julia

random words i found written on an old receipt in a jacket pocket:

there was a time
i counted birds on wires
symbolism in coffee cups
watched clouds stick and gather
and thought of us
and finding needles in haystacks

you were the one
you were the one
i told myself on bad days

i was lightened and safe

some more lyrical inspirations:

"The lighthouse dog lifted his brow
The crippled trees bent low to growl
And swans, they wrestled with lifetime's grasp
In hopefullness they nestled the past
Teachers and travellers made their mark
They dined and feasted on whale and shark
And so the ocean lost its depths
And boredom rained as the ocean wept..."
- Bat for lashes "jubilee"


"It's four in the morning, the end of december
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New york is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on clinton street all through the evening.

I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You'd been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without lili marlene

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody's wife.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see jane's awake --

She sends her regards.

And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I'm glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here, for jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear ..."
- Leonard Cohen "famous blue raincoat"