TomS

TomS

JOINED:1 year ago
PROGRESS:50

LOCATION:Flint, Michigan
WEBSITE:http://cookiefinger.bandcamp.com
INFLUENCES:‎"We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - John Adams, letter to John Taylor. (15 April 1814)

BIO:

Hello, from Flint, Michigan!

Songs: 50 ( + = Songs posted by a different Songwriter that you Collaborated on.)

		Title	Collaborators	Comments	Post date
1		I'm Fine		13	46 weeks 2 days
2		One and the Other		14	46 weeks 2 days
3		Everything I Own is Broken		10	46 weeks 1 day
4		I Don't Mind Fun But I Don't Want To Be...		10	46 weeks 4 hours
5		High School Punkfidential		12	45 weeks 5 days
6		Shiny Things		11	45 weeks 4 days
7	+	Muse	TomS Jane_ukey	4	45 weeks 3 days
8		Another Sad Song		8	45 weeks 3 days
9		A.K.A. The Lava Lamp Experience	cts	23	45 weeks 2 days
10		1979 O'Clock	songsville	14	45 weeks 1 day
11		Ears Like Ground		2	45 weeks 1 day
12		Legendary Scotch of Emotional Nothingness		7	45 weeks 1 day
13		All Insane, That's All		7	44 weeks 6 days
14		Clothesline Funk		2	43 weeks 3 days
15		Amy Among the Angels		7	43 weeks 3 days
16	+	Odd To You	TomS RC	10	43 weeks 3 days
17		Wow, is it Hot		3	43 weeks 2 days
18		Crapulent Oldsters		8	43 weeks 1 day
19		Everybody, Sing If You Wanna		4	42 weeks 3 days
20		The Day I Got My Big Muff		5	42 weeks 1 day
21		Twilight of the Herbert		4	41 weeks 6 days
22		I've Been Writing Lots of Songs About My Red...		7	41 weeks 5 days
23		Contemplate		4	41 weeks 2 days
24		Fanfare for Herbert		2	41 weeks 2 days
25		Herbert Psychopomp		1	41 weeks 2 days
26		Waiting For Your Fall		8	41 weeks 5 hours
27		Herbert and the Acolyte		3	40 weeks 6 days
28		Herbert in the Isles		5	40 weeks 6 days
29		I Set My Prow into the Wind		6	40 weeks 5 days
30		Buried Vocals are a Sin of Great Antiquity For Me		4	40 weeks 3 days
31		Misology		7	40 weeks 1 day
32		Herbert and The Singers of Barsoom		2	39 weeks 6 days
33		Stupid		2	38 weeks 4 days
34		Waiting For No One Who Ever Came		1	38 weeks 4 days
35		This Song Has No Words		3	38 weeks 4 days
36		Song Descending		5	38 weeks 4 days
37		Herbert At Rest		1	38 weeks 1 day
38		Number 38 (The Wind Is Changing)	RC	3	37 weeks 5 days
39		Monster X		4	37 weeks 2 days
40		The Union		3	37 weeks 1 day
41		A St. Clair River Poem		3	36 weeks 4 days
42		Herbert's Overindulgent Repetitive Sad...		1	36 weeks 3 days
43		St. Mary's Challenger on the Glassy Waters		2	36 weeks 2 days
44		I've Been Spitting Fire		7	35 weeks 6 days
45		I AM Going to Make It to 50 Songs		19	35 weeks 4 days
46		Rocket 89		2	35 weeks 3 days
47		Unnamed Unfinished Alchemy Loop Tune		1	35 weeks 3 days
48		A Question Answered		7	35 weeks 1 day
49		No 15th Dalai Lama		2	34 weeks 2 days
50	+	The Ballad of 50/90	T.C. Elliott Jane_ukey TomS kiwafruit	6	33 weeks 3 days

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kiwafruit

33 weeks 2 days ago

Yay!!!! Winning!!! :D

kiwafruit

33 weeks 3 days ago

I know you said you wanted to stop at 49, but I couldn't post the song with your lyrics and not add you as a collab... http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/12370

If you want to stay on 49, I can remove you, no probs :)

nuerdetjuligen

33 weeks 3 days ago

hey belated thank you so much for your so totally nice comments on my song. Maybe i'll get to play it in a tiny cabaret sometime. I'm totally looking up Marc Blitzstein. If he's more menacing and less sweet than I am, I bet we'll get along. Thanks ten million and congratulations on 49!

airbagtester

33 weeks 4 days ago

D00d r u serious it's the 30th and you are at 49 songs the tension is killing me!!!11

songsville

34 weeks 9 hours ago

Updated the lyrics -- you can leave bass and drums to me if you're pushed for time ... and I think we can update songs after the deadline anyway ...

songsville

34 weeks 1 day ago

Hey Tom, you are teasing us with that 49, the last one is going to be an epic, is it? Let me know if I should tweak the 1979 lyrics to make them more writable ...

downburst

34 weeks 1 day ago

One more, Tom! Come on! I'm gonna move that toe!

34 weeks 1 day ago

I was just gonna plop it into your Number 38 song - though I reckon it might not get as many hits...

Whatever you think... I like this song more every time I hear it! Thank you so much for the kick on this.

34 weeks 3 days ago

I have turned #38 into my own piece of Partridge-esque pomposity, linked below. Let me know if you're OK with it and I'll post it (or you can).

At this moment, I like it a lot.

http://www.mindreels.com/TheWindIsChanging.mp3

the dust collector

34 weeks 4 days ago

*grins* very believable! I'm glad there's a drum track! You doing okay?

34 weeks 4 days ago

I had no problem with that "horrid mess", but yeah, I probably need a version without.

34 weeks 4 days ago

I am back in the saddle, and have nothing to do but music this weekend, so I'll be doin' up #38...

So what did you have in mind for A Question Answered?

downburst

34 weeks 5 days ago

Like I said... you're my muse. :)

Yakobo

34 weeks 6 days ago

Wow we're like opposites, I've got 48 to do and you've done 48. Special.

kiwafruit

35 weeks 3 days ago

That is awesome. I have recorded the audience from the big uke jam tonight chanting that, you're going to have to record the vocals of that story methinks, and a song we shall make :)

Also Jane and I did 3 songs tonight. Thanks for the encouragement!!

wyatt

35 weeks 4 days ago

""" "I am "----Go Tom Go!!!!!!

kiwafruit

35 weeks 4 days ago

Hahahaha I'm sorry! You're right, of course there are two!

3 tomorrow morning?! Oh god. I have about 3hrs between waking and needing to leave for day 3 of festival. Challenge accepted.

And thanks for the supportive push :) I so badly want 50 this year, I feel so close even though I'm still in the 30s... *sigh*

35 weeks 4 days ago

Hey Tom,

I finally had some more concrete thoughts about your "Number 38", and I'd like to take a shot at it if it's OK. I can't promise guitar solos, at least not yet...

blindkiwi

36 weeks 2 days ago

For classical music, yes, it's a good thing... ;)

the dust collector

36 weeks 5 days ago

Hello! How are things going?

blindkiwi

37 weeks 2 hours ago

Yep, I've heard about the struggles in Flint, rough times indeed. I did my own union song a couple of weeks ago http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/9703

Leslie

37 weeks 2 hours ago

Hi Tom! I've been watching Star Trek: TNG episodes and Data keeps doing awesome things, worthy of song. It started with watching the episode where he feels emotion for the first time, and I knew I wanted to do a parody of Katy Perry's 'Kissed A Girl', called 'Killed A Borg'. Kristian set it up for me and autotuned my vocals: http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/10912 This poem of Data's is so great, I wanted to add to it. :)

Dee

37 weeks 5 days ago

Thanks for your kind comment on Fun in the Sun

sdecourcey

38 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks for the comment on "Walking Away from Summer." I really appreciated it. It's funny, usually when people comment they're just like "good song, good lyrics, good job" or whatever unhelpful pat on the back sort of stuff. Which is nice, and I love it when people enjoy my music and comment on my work, but it was actually good to hear that you thought I could have done better. I have a feeling I'll be revisiting that one when all this is over.

angelinapowersuit

38 weeks 2 days ago

Hey Tom, Belated thanks for your feedback on "My Love's in Charleston." In high school music camp I was in the lowest level music theory class. I never improved. In fact, your feedback on the theory in my song is way over my head. It's embarrassing. And I blame the fact that I never learned to play piano. But as a result I rely strictly on it "sounding" right. I choose chord progressions the exact same way. I admit "My Love's in Charleston" has a very different sound than what I usually compose, but I think that's why I like it - a bit off but also something classic at the same time. However, I'm open to suggestions if you think something would "fit" better - I would definitely need your assistance because I'm at a loss for what I could do. Regardless, I'm really touched that you put all that thought into my song - thanks so very much!

Kristi

38 weeks 4 days ago

Thanks for your very nice comments on "Right Now!"

downburst

38 weeks 4 days ago

Ha, not likely. But you are welcome to alphabetize them yourself. :)

testthebest

38 weeks 5 days ago

Thanks for the heads up. Boxstr's been giving me trouble so I'll move it to a different site.

segers41

38 weeks 6 days ago

Thanks for the positive comments on Right Now. Oh, and uh, I love your sound and songs, man!

jonniegrunge

38 weeks 6 days ago

Hey Tom. Just wanted to go all fanboy for a minute and comment that I really dig your sound. You have a great production quality, and a consistently awesome guitar-forward rock sound. You, sir, rock.

Scribbler

39 weeks 8 hours ago

Thanks for listening to We Must Learn From Our History. Sorry it has taken so long to get back to your question. The tracks are done with Band in a Box.

angelinapowersuit

39 weeks 1 day ago

Hey Tom, Cool that I'm coming up on Jukebox, I can never get it to even play!

Trying to remember chords for "My Love's In Charleston" - maybe G C G C E G C. Is it the E that's getting to you? Any suggestions on what to change it to? I think I originally liked it because it was unexpected. But I want it to sound good to other ears too!

testthebest

39 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks for your kind comment and for posting it in the recommended songs thread. I'm completely flattered.

third time lucy

40 weeks 2 days ago

hey! thanks for the comments :)

you asked about my guitar and recording chain on "don't be weird"

the guitar is a hofner verythin ct. i'm recording on a macbook using garageband with an apogee duet as the interface, plugging the guitar in directly. i'm going for a sound that i can conceivably reproduce live as a 3-piece band, so there's exactly one guitar track, with the following effects chain (all software):

- gb's native chorus, with a medium intensity and zero speed, resulting in no warble but a nice big stereo sound
- "audiodamage fuzzplus2", which is an au plugin i found online (i.e. not gb native) with the dials all at about 12
- gb's "american gain" amp simulator. the quiet/loud bits are switching the pre-gain between about 2.5 and 10
- and then a smidge of reverb over the whole shebang

i was so pleased with the guitar sound on this track that i saved the effects chain as a preset, and have since used it on redshift and watch out as well (though redshift is a different guitar - a gibson "faded" double-cut LP).

this essay brought to you by the letters t, e, and a.

Dawnsoap

40 weeks 2 days ago

Thank you so much for the wonderful comment... also, thank you for the correction. When I re-do the song I will use the correct pronunciation. I also need to do that for Oregon. I'm sure that it's my North Dakota accent sneaking in. I would hope though, that if I was still a resident of WI I would say it correctly. Since MI was my state neighbor.

wyatt

40 weeks 4 days ago

"""""""""buried vocals are a sin of great antiquity for me. """"""""""
There surely must be a song title there somewhere :)

downburst

40 weeks 6 days ago

Thanks--I don't hardly know Mendelssohn, outside of the symphonies.

downburst

40 weeks 6 days ago

Mendelssohn?

Thanks for the flurry of comments. Did your wife find the Eigner backstory illuminating?

ultravioleteyejeff

41 weeks 1 day ago

I have heard Scott Miller's songs, but haven't listened for a while. It's quite a comparison. Thanks.

Jane_ukey

41 weeks 1 day ago

Wow - thanks Tom! Kurt Weil-like? hehe I had to look him up to realise he was the Threepenny Opera composer :) No drums needed, huh? Okey-dokey. Thanks for checking that out for me :)

Jane_ukey

41 weeks 1 day ago

Um, would you mind having a listen to the collab I did with Wyatt? I really think it needs drums of some sort and maybe strings but I would appreciate your view on that (seeing as how my musical ability/knowledge stops quite short at uke!) :) http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/8115

Jane_ukey

41 weeks 1 day ago

Ok, ok! No worries, I'll wait :)

Jane_ukey

41 weeks 1 day ago

hehe - with 25 songs up I'd hardly call you a slacker :) no pressure!! honestly!!! was just thinking of updating the dodgy vocal guide I've got up on Muse with a dodgy mixdown of the lovely track you sent me and the vocal track I recorded to give people a better sense of where the song was heading. So if you're cool with that I'll go ahead and load it up tonight (my time) and then whenever you get a chance to turn your mind back to Muse is cool :)

Jane_ukey

41 weeks 2 days ago

Heya Tom, back in 50/90 world for a bit?

42 weeks 2 days ago

Oh, crap, I forgot to put the .wav on 'em:

http://www.mindreels.com/RC_LV1.wav
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_LV2.wav

background vocals
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_BV1.wav
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_BV1.wav

two tracks of acoustic guitars
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_AG1.wav
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_AG2.wav

electric lead guitars
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_EG1.wav
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_EG2.wav

42 weeks 2 days ago

OK, I uploaded 8 WAV files. Use or discard as you see fit:

lead vocal doubled
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_LV1
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_LV2

background vocals
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_BV1
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_BV1

two tracks of acoustic guitars
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_AG1
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_AG2

electric lead guitars
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_EG1
http://www.mindreels.com/RC_EG2

the dust collector

42 weeks 3 days ago

Allo! How's it going, Tom?

downburst

43 weeks 5 hours ago

No idea! But "cradster" gets 1300 hits on Google.

so_ber

43 weeks 15 hours ago

I just wanna know how you got so many songs already and they sound so good?!? Keep on r.o.c.k. (ing) in the usa!!!

Matt Blick

43 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks for all your thanks! I'm just sorry I don't have any songs for you to comment on yet. But I am close to finishing the monster I'm working on and then...

TomS

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