Popular Music with Attitude.

[Charagma]

Question.......does the forum allow dropbox links? Or do I have to run it via soundcloud. Want to upload part of a song for zed (He is aware of it coming he just do not know when and I have no other way except through here to contact him) and will then probably delete it again after a day or two. That is why I am thinking of dropbox. Then I can just move it out of my dropbox instead of deleting a whole lot of things

 

[Frindis]

Question.......does the forum allow dropbox links? Or do I have to run it via soundcloud. Want to upload part of a song for zed (He is aware of it coming he just do not know when and I have no other way except through here to contact him) and will then probably delete it again after a day or two. That is why I am thinking of dropbox. Then I can just move it out of my dropbox instead of deleting a whole lot of things

I think the easiest way would be just to upload to soundcloud. That way, we avoid PM and links, but in case you want to use Dropbox, just PM me the link and I'll forward it to Zed.

 

[Charagma]

We try via sound cloud. I set it to my private section so hopefully it will share. This is what the lady dropped of the other day (Scrap of paper with a melody/sortoff lyrics on a USB stick) Only the first 36 seconds has something in it since it is a rough draft for her to listen to and decide if I should go on or change it.

https://soundcloud.com/charagma%2Fswanson-trail-1%2Fs-AEKNipnPZRc

View: https://soundcloud.com/charagma/swanson-trail-1/s-AEKNipnPZRc?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=d43bb386e5384ab8bf4c92c9fac3f50a

 

[Charagma]

For sure the pixies are better but I promised I would share. LMAO

We try via sound cloud. I set it to my private section so hopefully it will share. This is what the lady dropped of the other day (Scrap of paper with a melody/sortoff lyrics on a USB stick) Only the first 36 seconds has something in it since it is a rough draft for her to listen to and decide if I should go on or change it.

https://soundcloud.com/charagma%2Fswanson-trail-1%2Fs-AEKNipnPZRc

View: https://soundcloud.com/charagma/swanson-trail-1/s-AEKNipnPZRc?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=d43bb386e5384ab8bf4c92c9

 

[Frindis]

@Charagma Thank you for sharing. I believe I listened to it through the movie Trainspotting for the first time. Green Jelly reminds me of the Meet The Feebles movie (yes, you have to stretch the imagination a bit there, lol). In case you have not seen that one, watch it!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0X_7wYkwec

 

[Charagma]

Better music first. Obviously needs background else my name would not be Charagma. LMAO

When I returned from Afghan I was sitting in a bar having a drink or ten. The owner was a friend of mine and he was busy settings up a BIG screen TV for some sports event that was coming. When he eventually got everything connected and working this song was the first song I heard there and also the first song I heard after returning home. I was looking for the original video but cannot find it. It was the right words and the right video at the right time.

View: https://youtu.be/K7E35s4pq-E?si=tPXFeMrtGRSp4BAD

 

[Charagma]

@Charagma Thank you for sharing. I believe I listened to it through the movie Trainspotting for the first time. Green Jelly reminds me of the Meet The Feebles movie (yes, you have to stretch the imagination a bit there, lol). In case you have not seen that one, watch it!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0X_7wYkwec

I will have to go check....you say trainspotting...... That is something I been working on for two days for a client. If it is similar to anything out there then it means I need to start over again. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Charagma]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0X_7wYkwec

Have never seen it. Will make a point of seeing it. Being in the arts industry I love seeing things like that. I am the guy that will go watch Live shows just to see the performance and music. Whether it is a good show or not, I enjoy doing things like that. Untimate fav I would say was Holiday on Ice. Seen that probably about 300 times in live shows. LMAO

Green jelly, I loved 3 little pigs. You will never look at nursery rhymes the same ever again. LMAO

 

[Frindis]

I will have to go check....you say trainspotting...... That is something I been working on for two days for a client. If it is similar to anything out there then it means I need to start over again. Thanks for the heads up.

Ahh, no, no, I was talking about the Pixies.

Have never seen it. Will make a point of seeing it

You'll LOVE it! and speaking of obscure ones, here is another treat and I must say, all respect for whoever did that insanely good trailer!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8SSyQi-2c

 

[Charagma]

Ahh, no, no, I was talking about the Pixies.

LMAO, ok I stopped going through all the tracks on trainspotting now. LMAO. Last thing I need in my business is someone saying I copied music and made it my own.....bad for business

You'll LOVE it! and speaking of obscure ones, here is another treat and I must say, all respect for whoever did that insanely good trailer!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8SSyQi-2c

Zeightgeist has made some good ones. I saw Zeightgeist 1 and 2. Did not know they made other movies as well. Will have a look at them. The ones I watched was about conspiracy theories etc. Was actually very informative.

 

[Colif]

 

[Charagma]

We try via sound cloud. I set it to my private section so hopefully it will share. This is what the lady dropped of the other day (Scrap of paper with a melody/sortoff lyrics on a USB stick) Only the first 36 seconds has something in it since it is a rough draft for her to listen to and decide if I should go on or change it.

https://soundcloud.com/charagma%2Fswanson-trail-1%2Fs-AEKNipnPZRc

View: https://soundcloud.com/charagma/swanson-trail-1/s-AEKNipnPZRc?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=d43bb386e5384ab8bf4c92c9fac3f50a

Forgot to tell. Client is ok with the layouts. Started adding the melody this afternoon. In case you are wondering the one you heard has no melody in it, just chords strummed by different instruments to form a song pattern. We decided to go towards a "rock/punk" genre, already started on making the guitar solo (What is a rock song without a Guitar Solo?". But now it is just getting the whole thing done before end of the week when she comes to listen to the raw track. Have her blessing on posting it on SoundCloud (Told her I posted this and showed it to her, and she is happy with what I did), so will update it as I go on. But first let me get something other than just instruments and voices on the notation screen. LMAO

 

[Charagma]

It's now 5:30am. The whole band came here, and we worked on it all night. Still a few rough patches on the track but now it is just adjustments. Ended up being an alternative/pop song with a jazzy vibe.

Hope you guys like it. Client likes what we have accomplished. All this from a piece of paper with Chords on it and a USB stick with a sort off a melody on it. Think for yourself "I think it should be something like "La di da da re da fa" or maybe like a "Fa la da re da" was about how the audio part was.....LMAO

Unfortunately, I did not get the recording part of things but got everything else. They are taking it on their next tour to Debut.

https://soundcloud.com/charagma%2Fforever

View: https://soundcloud.com/charagma/forever?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=8a140cfbd1ef47e0a0ad70922617af4f

 

[Zed Clampet]

@Charagma @Frindis

I followed Charagma, but I am not getting notifications when he posts.

 

[Frindis]

@Zed Clampet Hmm, I don't see the option for getting notifications from people you follow, so I'm actually not sure if you can. @Lutfij @Kaamos_Llama, @Colif, do you guys know?

 

[Colif]

Refrains from accidentally Deactivating my account

Only notification I see is if someone follows you

I did find this:

Member Watch

Functions Watch a Member get alert notifications of his activity like post a new thread or reply. Watched Member will also get a notification as alert user X watching him. In User preference, there are options to select to customize the alert...

xenforo.com

could suggest to someone to add

Handy since we can't PM anyone now.

 

[Zed Clampet]

@Zed Clampet Hmm, I don't see the option for getting notifications from people you follow, so I'm actually not sure if you can. @Lutfij @Kaamos_Llama, @Colif, do you guys know?

Thanks. Didn't realize that. I get notifications on just about everyone, but I guess that's either because I started the thread or at least posted in it.

In the sports forum I post in, which seems exactly like this one, you can click on "news" and see the posts of everyone you are following.

 

[Charagma]

I am absolutely the wrong person to say anything about it since I cannot even get an image from my media to display. LMAO

I receive the general notifications. Had a look to see if it might be a privacy setting but nothing there either. Maybe the function was switched off. @Zed Clampet just for interest, do you see when I post in SoundCloud?

 

[mjs warlord]

Thread title is ... popular music with attitude ... rearranging the words and adding some.
My dad had an " attitude with my popular music " .....

My love of music was the reason i left home when i was 22.
My dad would sit in the chair next to my hi-fi set up nearly every night and i would end up asking him to sit in another chair so i could sit next to my hi-fi and put my headphone on as i was not bothered about watching what was on the television.

He would always move but one night he kicked off and we had big argument ... i said if your going to keep going off on one i have a solution ... i said i will take my hi-fi upstairs and put it in my bedroom ..... he said my speakers would disturb next door so i just said i cant use them now so i will just carry on using my headphones.

He just looked at me and said your not putting all that stuff in your bedroom ..... when i asked him why he said...
this is our house not yours ..... the next day i put my name down for a council flat.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I am absolutely the wrong person to say anything about it since I cannot even get an image from my media to display. LMAO

I receive the general notifications. Had a look to see if it might be a privacy setting but nothing there either. Maybe the function was switched off. @Zed Clampet just for interest, do you see when I post in SoundCloud?

I don't think so, but I'm not sure. I'm up-to-date on your posts on SoundCloud so far as I know.

 

[Colif]

My love of music was the reason i left home when i was 22.
My dad would sit in the chair next to my hi-fi set up nearly every night and i would end up asking him to sit in another chair so i could sit next to my hi-fi and put my headphone on as i was not bothered about watching what was on the television.

He would always move but one night he kicked off and we had big argument ... i said if your going to keep going off on one i have a solution ... i said i will take my hi-fi upstairs and put it in my bedroom ..... he said my speakers would disturb next door so i just said i cant use them now so i will just carry on using my headphones.

He just looked at me and said your not putting all that stuff in your bedroom ..... when i asked him why he said...
this is our house not yours ..... the next day i put my name down for a council flat.

Sounds like you needed to rearrange the lounge room to avoid that argument
Considering my parents bought me a stereo when I turned 21, I never ran into that problem with my dad but volume was always restricted to a point. That stereo went in my room but the speakers were crap. I would mostly use headphones anyway...
Still do (I don't want to think how much all this in the photo cost me)

Might get speakers next year...

considering, if I am not spending money on my PC, I am spending it on music (listening) equipment, I can't imagine a life of silence... though some nights I wished I lived in one

 

[Charagma]

This is actually a talk I can relate too, aka Lives journey.

Edit: It is long because I am fairly old so it is a few lines to read.

Spoiler: I started playing piano at around age 6 (maybe 7-ish)

Loved every moment of it the "black and whites" loved me and I loved it. Few years later due to finances I got stopped going to piano lessons. Was the end of my world at that point in my life but as a consolation my grandfather gave me a guitar for my 13th Birthday. Pianos are very expensive incase no one knows. But I hated the guitar. It mostly gathered a lot of dust, and I used to lay it down on the table and "play" on it like a piano.

Edit: That is what it is pretty much about but then.......

Spoiler

Through the years I learned a few major chords (On a guitar that was not tuned because I did not know of any better) but was all just down strumming. With my out of tune guitar and my down strumming I wrote my own songs. (LMAO imagine my surprise when nothing sounded right after I eventually got the guitar tuned). So around age 16 I was sitting on the porch (Was more like a sunroom, had windows all round) with my out of tune guitar working on a song and a guy walked past, heard the guitar and decided I am in serious need of a guitar tuning. He knocked on the door and we became very good friends. Him and his 3 brother with another friend of theirs had a band. So, he taught me the guitar (on hearing) and eventually asked me to join the band.

The band lasted for 7 years and was the best 7 years of my life. Even while doing my compulsory military service, I still during off times went with them on "Gigs" and shows. When the band split and my initial military service ended, I joined the UN under (permanent service), but by then music was in my blood. The knowledge and experience I gained from the band made me to buy recording equipment wherever I could find and it was a hobby mostly. I met a music producer (Wish I could give his name but not allowed too for obvious reasons) several years later and when I was not busy would be at his place and learn. My composing, arranging etc just grew bigger and I started getting interest from young and upcoming artists for back tracks. Not because I was a professional, I simply did it for the love of it and not because of the money. My prices were dirt cheap and was pretty much just to cover expenses and maybe being able to buy a beer or ten out of it.

Age started catching up with me and was not able to do everything required of me at the UN so I retired. Figured I have the knowledge and experience (Industrial electronics in AED's etc.) so I can just do whatever when I am back in my country. Did not work that way and realised that military background means pretty much nothing in the private sector. Everyone wants certificates. A referral letter from the UN (Geneva) meant nothing to them.

That said I went to a school play (On invitation) the one night and ended up speaking to the music teacher. That conversation is why I am where I am today. I simply create "RAW" tracks for people and what they do with it afterwards is their problem. I will take a melody or a set of chords and create a whole band around it for you and that is what most young and up comings want. I still do back tracks and arrangements and yes, I do still compose (for private use only) and I am mainly into theory as opposed to actually playing instruments, but my journey into music started the day I sat down in front of a piano for the first time.

My very first lesson EVER (Burned into memory) and that was where to find "Middle C". I am definitely not the best in the market but Most artists (especially when starting) simply cannot afford huge companies to get them on their feet. I do explain to every client I am not the best and they accept it as such. Honestly, I do not even own any musical instruments anymore because I have any instrument imaginable on my computer.

Edit: Hope it works on every one's devices now.

 

[Colif]

@Charagma wall of text crits Colif for about 100k damage.

You know, hitting enter occasionally to break it up a little sure can mean more people will read it.

But 9 lines across at full screen hurts... I normally view in half screen on a 1440p screen... that adds up to 20 lines... You could hurt someone with that.

Early morning I might look at it... 3am (like it is now), I just look and go... nope.

Now, IF I hadn't gone mad a few decades (lol) ago I would edit that and add space but I can't so instead I will do next best thing and wave down a mod and see if they can
@Kaamos_Llama might be so kind.

 

[Charagma]

@Charagma wall of text crits Colif for about 100k damage.

You know, hitting enter occasionally to break it up a little sure can mean more people will read it.

But 9 lines across at full screen hurts... I normally view in half screen on a 1440p screen... that adds up to 20 lines... You could hurt someone with that.

Early morning I might look at it... 3am (like it is now), I just look and go... nope.

Now, IF I hadn't gone mad a few decades (lol) ago I would edit that and add space but I can't so instead I will do next best thing and wave down a mod and see if they can
@Kaamos_Llama might be so kind.

Will keep it in mind thank you. I normally just read whatever like an article. So, spaces or no spaces no matter. Will try to space up more

 

[Colif]

Some people use phones and I hate to think how many lines that would have been on mine.
Guess I been on forums too long and know how others react to chunks of text and try to fix it so maybe someone will read it.