February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

J. Piccirillo (@tiedyehero)

progress: 15

winner!
joined: January 17 2006
location: Colorado, USA
influences: Gentle Giant, Silver Jews, The Cure, Idaho, Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Townes Van Zandt, Vetiver, Counting Crows, Blaze Foley, Lambchop, Justin Vernon, Blitzen Trapper, Jackson C Frank, Guy Clark, Land of Talk

Bio

This is my seventh year of FAWM. Check out my reverbnation page for past songs and covers and etc.

By the way, my high e string broke a few days ago so I guess I'm FAWMing with five strings for now.

also check out my brother @monochromenemesis
and my boy @thegoldentook
and my buddy @dccusanelli

2012 Songs

1	Fast Talker	15 comments // 3 months ago
2	I Didn't Have a Childhood	30 comments // 3 months ago
3	Kenosha	12 comments // 3 months ago
4	In Older Towns	16 comments // 3 months ago
5	Smithereens	6 comments // 3 months ago
6	Fashion Pizza	9 comments // 3 months ago
7	Taciturn	10 comments // 3 months ago
8	Slasher Flick	9 comments // 3 months ago
9	I Am Not Beautiful / In Love	8 comments // 3 months ago
10	Hit and Run Heart	4 comments // 3 months ago
11	We Belong to Lions	4 comments // 3 months ago
12	Crowforms	5 comments // 3 months ago
13	We Break	3 comments // 3 months ago
14	Mojave Mirror	3 comments // 2 months ago
15	The Last Time (with whisperedcandles)	zong // 2 months ago

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whisperedcandles 2 months ago

No problem! Take your time, it's all good.
hanley 3 months ago

michaelhanley01@gmail.com
I'm excited!
hanley 3 months ago

even just a start of something I can get started on it
hanley 3 months ago

I know there's not a whole heap of time left and my time is tight til end of month anyways...but if you get me some lyrics soon I'd be keen to put something to it?
themadlibhatter 3 months ago

Completely understandable, I have the same issue, only with homework.
I sent you the e-mail, look at it when you have time. There's no rush.
simonjcurd 3 months ago

Hey, thanks a lot! I've been enjoying your songs from the start [since I spotted your superb list of influences] and your work rate/consistency is very impressive. Taciturn and Slasher Flick in particular are devastatingly good.
themadlibhatter 3 months ago

Are you still interested in doing a collab with me, or have you decided not to? (Which is perfectly fine.)
gordon 3 months ago

Thanks so much for the comments. I don't know how the harmonies work, I just kind of hear them in my head and sometimes they work. Why not try experimenting yourself, it's really a lot of fun. Thanks again.
mindy29 3 months ago

hey you don't happen to have your part do you? cuz i talked to my piano friend and she has a sick kid at the moment so it's going to be awhile...so i could just create a basic (crappy) piano recording of the whole song and you could just add your lyrics/singing/guitar...might be easier eh? oh geez that's so canadian of me
erinkelsey3 3 months ago

Yeah I don't really know how the internet collaborations happen haha but if you have an idea I say we try it!
kenjku 3 months ago

I enjoyed your songs! Great lyrics and a calmness in your voice. Soothing. I just saw your influences and I could actually hear some Mark Kozelek in your voice. You also reminded me of a good friend of mine who doesn't play anymore these days, but the way you sing reminded me of my friend. Brought me back.
erinkelsey3 3 months ago

Totally down for a collab!
lauralu 3 months ago

hey thanks for checking in with me! sadly, i can't make it happen this year...too much going on. i'll be around now and then, listening.

your lyrics/voice/guitar are all gorgeous, as per usual. keep it up!
wuola 3 months ago

You're writing these so fast that I fall behind with commenting them... I will come back many times and listen to them all. Promise. Great stuff.
johnnycashpoint 3 months ago

Hey there, just to say a big thanks on your comment for "Rod Hull ..." made my day! "dark and then light hearted at the same time" is exactly what I'm aiming for.
mooingmenace 3 months ago

DUDE. ALICE PRACTICE.

And WORD. Not in Love is way fresh! Especially once the vocoding comes in and then Robert's final chorus.
mooingmenace 3 months ago

I was obsessed with them in high school.
I could go on for a while about how much they suck now as opposed to before, but realistically they weren't great to begin with. They are really good at that hot topic mentality though haha

Crystal Castles is awesome! I don't know what I was thinking before. Crimewave is siiicckk. I love the vocoding and the periodic NES bloop. Thank you for reminding me of them.
mooingmenace 3 months ago

Oh man. I need to listen to more Crystal Castles. I've heard of them but the first time I listened to them I was really close minded. Electric Dragon uses a lot of chiptune plugins (http://electricdragon.bandcamp.com/album/begins). They're heavily inspired by Mindless Self Indulgence though so if you don't like them...

OH and have you heard Rushjet1? (http://nsf.4x86.com/?p=music). He makes his music exclusively in FamiTracker. In fact, he's how I learned about it. His first two albums make me think of a space opera NES game.
mooingmenace 3 months ago

It looks like a less bass-y cello.

~NERD MOMENT~

6502 Assembly Language is what they use to program NES games (I bet you already figured that but here's where it gets awesome) and there are compiler's that allow us to turn the script into a rom and, if we buy the cartridges, play the game on an NES. EVEN MORE AWESOME is that there's a tracker called FamiTracker which allows us to not only create NES music but export it as a file that will run on NES hardware.
mooingmenace 3 months ago

Thank you! I actually want to make an NES game but uggghhh I don't want to learn 6502 Assembly Language right now. >.<
donkimmusic 3 months ago

Thanks for the comment! Man, you have such much awesome stuff here. I'll be checking them all out for sure!
cloudboy 3 months ago

First off, you're a writing MANIAC right now. I need to catch up. Secondly, thanks on the cave. I am proud of it. I am just afraid it fosters some dark tunes. Thirdly, the punk kid is supposed to create a piece that doesn't sound like anything he's ever written. So hopefully that makes sense. Thanks for all your support brother.
leslie 3 months ago

Thanks so much! I'm new to the harp, actually. Just got it in November.

And I borrowed the turned-into-a-harp motif from a song of Loreena McKennitt's called, "The Bonny Swans," who in turn borrowed it from a folktale.
wille 3 months ago

You have been paired with electronica man @wrigzilla in the FOLKTRONICA album project. This is gonna be a good one
themadlibhatter 3 months ago

Of course I'm serious about fiddling! I never joke about fiddle.
Serious business, it is. (Wow, that sounded like Yoda 0__o)
Shoot me an e-mail at themadlibhatter@hotmail.com and we can work on lyrics and such. I promise with my whole heart this will be far better than the first song I've finished so far.
Though, I think /anything/ would be better than that piece of junk. ;3
nathanschleicher 3 months ago

Great tunes! Which one got the Van Cleef reference?
themadlibhatter 3 months ago

As long as you don't make me write ANY music whatsoever, I'd love to do a duet.
My music writing skills=less than 0. ^.^;;
albasauce 3 months ago

I have been working quite a bit this weekend but I managed to get a couple things written down. I can try and send them to you tomorrow morning. Check your email sometime tomorrow.
mindy29 3 months ago

yup i received them
ilayschipsana 3 months ago

Aha, so I was right. *feels proud of self*

By the way, I wrote you an email, so you might wanna check that. Or at least, I THINK I wrote you an email. Maybe *I* might wanna check that.....

*goes to check* Yes it is sent. So now it is your turn to check that.
davotron 3 months ago

Thanks for the biscuit related comment. It's pepparkakor, some biscuit I had when I was out in Sweden for some work related japes
loljosh0106 3 months ago

Thanks! That's a huge complement, being a bassist and all! And, it's funny because, that's more or less how my picture came about. You've got some great stuff going on here! Absolutely going to follow you!
mindy29 3 months ago

okay just sent...i apologize again for the crappy piano playing lol
mindy29 3 months ago

hey! I have half of the lyrics written but didn't know if you wanted to write the guy part since I obviously can't think like a guy haha...I was working on this Casablanca song and then my mind did a comple 360 and changed all my tunes up lol...anyways let me know and i could send you what i have thus far and go from there
lara 3 months ago

on the chance that it's MY email acting funny, try sending it to lara@alaskaawalim.com (so much for technology working for us!)
monochromenemesis 3 months ago

Just so you know I'm keeping up with my songwriting. The 12-string is good for writing, but I'm not comfortable enough with it to record on it. Once I get back to MN I'll record and put my songs up. Speaking of which, where would you recommend I upload my songs to?
whisperedcandles 3 months ago

I sent you an email.
whisperedcandles 3 months ago

Why yes, it is Saturday!
lara 3 months ago

email doesn't seem to have come through- can you resend it? I'm teaching this afternoon, so I'll look for it again when I get home.
lara 3 months ago

Yeah! Send it on over, can't wait to see what you've got! (lara@alaska.net fore easier communication is fine)
toddchappelle 3 months ago

Hey, thanks for the mention on the message boards.
musuko 3 months ago

Thanks for the comment man. Yeah, it casiocore-ish eh? I need to do one proper though this year.
mindy29 3 months ago

K I should have most of the lyrics done tomorrow night (EST)
mindy29 3 months ago

I'm watching Casablanca right now actually lol thank goodness for pvrs lol...if you would like to do the music I could write lyrics based on the movie and send u what I had in mind then you put in your two cents of what you want with it and how the music should go....I thought if we did a duet and since the movie is based in France you could sing the English and I could sing a French part
mindy29 3 months ago

Dunno if you've seen it but it's called faster...the rock is in it (who I just love lol) or Casablanca which is my fab movie of all time how about you?
mindy29 3 months ago

Well we could choose a movie to base it around OR my other idea was to do an incredibly cheesy pop song...kind of making fun of all of the Disney singers out there lol or a duet song ....my idea generator is going crazy right now
mindy29 3 months ago

Hmm we should try to do a movie soundtrack...or at least something out of our comfort zone to mix things up
mindy29 3 months ago

well guess what? i found out we're partners for that random collab post on the forums...what a coincidence
hbusse 3 months ago

Thanks so much for your kind comment on my song New Grooves! Much obliged.
albasauce 3 months ago

p.s. that townes album is the one i got from my friend this summer. i really dig the thunderbird blues. His talking blues are great. I laugh out loud in my car.
albasauce 3 months ago

Thanks for the comments! I appreciate your input. I don't know if you are into this sort of thing.... but maybe we should collab?

lemme know
johncrossman 3 months ago

Hey, good to see you back for --holy cow-- year 7! You made the random list, stay tuned for pairings...

http://fawm.org/forums/thread/2707
randyxpher 3 months ago

Enjoying your music a lot, but I have to comment on this:

Gentle Giant? Yeah, baby!
downburst 3 months ago

Wow, thank you for "recommending" me--I don't think that's ever happened before. Feels nice! And for your nice comment.
errol 3 months ago

I know, I was teasing ya! And hey, geek influence is important. At least, I think it is. Who doesn't love miyomoto?!
errol 3 months ago

Well, 22 isn't that old. were you even around when Nintendo came out? I kid
temily 3 months ago

Haha thanks I enjoyed singing it lol.
whisperedcandles 3 months ago

Yes, I would love to! I should be off work Saturday, so that's a perfect day for songwriting. We shall regroup then, lol.
mindy29 3 months ago

sent you an email...subject should say FAWM with the title of the song
cloudboy 3 months ago

Inspiration is key. You're off to a great start, sir.
nicksypniewski 3 months ago

Thanks for the comment on Cardboard Condos. Much appreciated. I was going for a lot of imagery, although, you're right. It is best at the beginning. Thanks again.
hanley 3 months ago

and a welcome back to you!
Unfortunately I'm starting a new job this year and it started yesterday so my plate will be quite full the next few weeks...and thus my FAWM will suffer and barely exist.
However I would certainly love to do another collab with you if you're keen, I loved those lyrics you wrote last year. Let me know if you're keen
PS. it's only 2 days and you have 4 songs! nice work
pizzakickback 3 months ago

Thanks for the comment! Hi friend!
carpenter 3 months ago

thanks so much for the comment, it was greatly appreciated
mindy29 3 months ago

well if you insist i could always try...i'll send it to you first just in case it's crap haha
mindy29 3 months ago

well dude it's a good song...i think i broke a record and listened to it about 22 times now haha...
mindy29 3 months ago

yeah if i like a song i usually sing a long...it's fun lol
candle 3 months ago

Thanks for the comment on Red Dress On A Beach. I am glad I could provide an Experience for you!

See You In The Shadows…
dillonrichards 3 months ago

Dude, My Bloody Valentine is awesome! Thanks for the feedback.
ptr 3 months ago

Thanks very much for the feedback on my Transgalactica song, glad you liked it! I agree with what you say about it sounding like it belongs on some sort of soundtrack. To me, I think a bit of it sounds a little like a mesh of the X-Files theme song and the theme to Casualty with the synth sounds that I used...
cloudboy 3 months ago

Kazoo = harmonica rack (Or channeling Kali with her many hands) ! Thanks for supportive words Dr. J! Looking forward to hearing your melodies.
ellenpliss 3 months ago

Hi TDH! Thanks for the note....glad you appreciate the photo It represents my feelings at this time...I want that ball, but I am kind of just looking at it before diving in. As always, not quite sure if I have 14 in me, but think the community can help me along. Can't wait to hear your stuff!!!!
cloudboy 3 months ago

That's the spirit!
cloudboy 3 months ago

Hey Brother, are you FAWMing this year?

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J. Piccirillo (@tiedyehero)

Bio

2012 Songs

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