Title | Written | Uploaded | Description |
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Serious Songs | |||
When I Needed You | September 1995 | March 2003 | This was written a couple of weeks after I broke up with a long-time girlfriend. It's about having a friend you can lean on when you're not feeling so strong. This is the first song I've written since high school. I don't recall what prompted me to sit down and write a song about it. |
Christmas Eve With You | December 1995 | March 2003 | This was a Christmas gift to a friend. It's a whimsical little song, and awfully short, too - under two minutes. This song is the result of my lack of ability in the kitchen. I received a Christmas list, and one of the suggestions on it was a batch of cookies baked by moi. Well, I figured writing a song was a much less hazardous form of creative expression, so I did that instead. |
Going Through The Motions | June 2009 | May 2020 |
Two things:
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The Kella Song | May 2020 | Kella, the weekend morning DJ on Q107, said she would like it if someone wrote a song for her. So I wrote a song for her, and included references to a few Q107 artists. | |
Leopard | March-May 2021 | May 2021 | This is the first original song I've ever written that's a guitar song. |
The Past Returns | February-March 2022 | March 2022 | Putin's invasion of Ukraine brought back memories of growing up during the Cold War, so I wrote a song about it. |
Careful What You Wish For | May 2022 | On Victoria Day weekend in 2020, during the pandemic lockdown, I started what turned into a pandemic project by re-recording an original song. For Victoria Day 2021, I wrote a new song. So for Victoria Day 2022, I wrote another new song. | |
Parodies | |||
Raisin Bran | March 2007 | This is a parody of a Raisin Bran commercial from my childhood which returned a few months ago. It's still about a lumberjack, but not the same lumberjack, and he has a different reason for coming down from his tree. Warning: contains coarse language and adult situations. | |
Ballad of Rick Tocchet | June 2007 | This song tells the sad tale of Rick Tocchet and his brush with the law, based on The Monks' song Drugs In My Pocket. Warning: contains coarse language. | |
Jello | 1985 | June 2020 | Weird Al writes many parodies about food. Well, I did one, too. This is my parody of Lionel Richie's "Hello" which I wrote in high school and originally performed at my school's talent night. |
All I Want For Christmas | December 2020 | I took the well-known novelty song All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth and gave it a 2020 update. | |
Bathroom On The Right | December 2020 | I took a well-known misheard line from Creedence Clearwater Revival's song Bad Moon Rising and wrote the rest of the lyrics to go with it. | |
Vaxxy | June 2021 | I took Pharrell Williams' big hit, Happy, and wrote new lyrics about how happy I am to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. |
That's it for now. There are a whole pile of songs I wrote while I was in high school, and maybe I'll put some of them up eventually. And any songs I write in the future will probably also show up here. Check back once in a while!