oh wow. this sounds really good!

the track that caught my eye as soon as i opened the "site" was 'when i think of you', and i think it's really a classic. i study music in school—we recently just finished a part of the pop unit, covering rock&roll and motown and soul and such, and this reminds me of that, but probably because it's from the same era. i think it's really fascinating.

honestly i'm surprised by the quality. gonna loop through these as i study for exams tomorrow :)

Thank you!

I must admit I was a little shocked to read a "When I Think of You" review that didn't mention the cowbell....

I vaguely remember feeling I was getting somewhere between ridiculous and in need of therapy attempting so many rhymes of the word 'around'. I was way more a stickler about such things back then. These days I can, say, add/lose a syllable and still sleep pretty soundly. :-)

I listened through "I Want to be Close to You" while I mended my coat tonight. You have a lovely voice, and the sound quality really isn't that bad to an untrained ear in spite the circumstances...I hear worse from other single-person productions pretty frequently.

I liked From the Beginning and Letting Go best, of the songs that I listened to. Do you have the lyrics written down anywhere?

"Letting Go" is about the people and experiences therewith subsequent to having landed a particular single (i.e. no roommate) dorm room in college, on a floor of what I'm remembering to be 10 people - written on the verge of leaving not just that room/dorm, but that university and college life altogether:

        === Letting Go ===

    a year ago, not long away
       I moved into a room
          one of my own

not much to show, nor much to say
      and yet this very room
          became my home

it all seemed very matter of fact
     the future at that point
        had not been shown

  but slowly it revealed itself
  through people likes of which
         I've never known

 a life of moments, not one dull
      a life of fullness lay
          before my eyes

smoke and drink and song and walk
      yet even heartful talk
          to my surprise

     I've always been the one
 whose many letters never seemed
         to bring replies

    but suddenly I find myself
       accepted for myself
         and not for lies

  the end is really here for me
       so listen all of you
           before I go

 thank you for the time you spent
       the feelings shared
     along with what you know

thank you for the laughs and tears
    the good times and the bad
         the high and low

  and as a group for taking time
      and showing me the art
          of letting go

          oh oh oh oh oh

Thank you for the kind words!

I probably have the lyrics somewhere. Maybe. :-) Or I'll transcribe.

Your mentioning "From the Beginning" reminded me a few are covers, and I really should mark them as such. "From the Beginning" is by "Emerson, Lake, and Palmer". Loved it as a kid/teen, and in college sat down with another guy in a dorm stairwell to play it endlessly until we could each sing and play guitar parts simultaneously.

(And if you believe it was mostly that instead of mostly to attract the desirable (to us) gender, I've some proverbial swamp land for sale as well.... ;-) )

I wish I could remember who "I Want to be Close to You" was about. I'll have to dig for possible notes. It was likely a Korean coworker I fancied in the late 1980s... but as you can see, it was a couple, three, THIRTY-EFFING-SOME years ago, so.... :-)

Hmmm... not finding any files containing lyrics. Must be on paper, somewhere.

I did find a .html per song containing what the songs were about. Lemme know if that might seem interesting.

BTW, the Korean I mentioned above's name was "Kim", which I encoded in the song title "Caught In the Middle" (C instead of K... (whoa... haven't thought about Louis CK in a while... have you dear readers?)).

Another thing came to me while listening to some of these again... none of the people they were either about or even contained direct, in-person quotes from them ever heard them. And I really have no interest in interacting with them again, so I guess they'll just plain never know.....