Loquacious Music

Download my new album, Bloom, by clicking here (66.9 MB .zip file, updated 19 March 2008).

ALBUMS

You can download 2008’s Babybird tribute album, In the Morning, by clicking here:
In the Morning (MP3, 50.7 MB)

You can download the entire 1999 non-classic Roomful of Losers album, a .pdf booklet, and new liner notes by clicking here:
Roomful of Losers (MP3, 38.1 MB)
(The digital download also includes two bonus tracks: “Town” and “The Thinking Song,” both from 1998’s Education in Reverse.)

You can download the entire 2005 album The Paine Road E.P. and a .pdf booklet by clicking here:
The Paine Road E.P. (MP3, 32.3 MB)
The Paine Road E.P. (iTunes preferred AAC format, 32.8 MB)

You can download the career spanning (and career ruining) 1996-2001 retrospective Nobody Cares About Ben here:
Nobody Cares About Ben (MP3; 56.3 MB)

You can download 2008’s album, Bloom, by clicking here: Bloom (66.9 MB .zip file)

You can download various and sundry other songs by clicking below. All files are in MP3 format unless otherwise noted. (You should download iTunes to play all your audio files, anyway.)

COVER SONGS

“Drive” (Cars cover, recorded for my own enjoyment, December 2005. 3.7 MB)
“Battery Brides” (XTC cover, recorded for Chalkhills’ Children ‘96. AAC format only, 2.6 MB)
“Making Plans for Nigel” (XTC cover, recorded for Chalkhills’ Children ‘98. AAC format only, 4.1 MB)
“Cooling Towers” (Babybird cover, recorded August 2001. 3.6 MB)
“Wall of Death” (Richard & Linda Thompson cover, recorded 1999. 3.6 MB)
“Everything” (Andy Partridge cover, recorded September 1996 on four-track cassette. 2.6 MB)
“Sleeping Pills” (Suede cover, recorded Winter 2004 and remixed Spring 2005. 3 MB)
“She’s Got a Problem” (Fountains of Wayne cover, recorded Spring 2004. 3.3 MB)

ALBUM TRACKS (BOTH RELEASED AND UNRELEASED)

“Saturday” (Recorded Spring 2003 for the unreleased album Two-Minute Warning. 1.6 MB)
“Give It All To You” (Recorded Fall 2001 for the unreleased album Two-Minute Warning. 1.8 MB)
“Wherever You Are” (Recorded August 2001 for the unreleased album Two-Minute Warning. 2.3 MB)
“Bee-Line Kind” (Recorded January 2005. Slated to appear on collaboration that never materialized. Music by Ben Gott, Lyrics by Ben Gott & Paul Culnane. 3.1 MB)
“Bee-Line Kind” (Instrumental version, recorded January 2005. 3.1 MB)
“The National Guard” (Recorded Summer 2004 and Spring 2006, remixed Spring 2006. 2.6 MB)
“Out of Your Mind” (Recorded Summer 2005. 3.5 MB)
“Nobody Cares About Ben” (From 2001 compilation. 5.2 MB)
“Nobody Cares About Ben” (Instrumental version, recorded 2000, remastered 2006. 4.3 MB)
“Teacher’s Pet” (From 2001 compliation. 3 MB)
“This Time” (Recorded Summer 2000. 3.2 MB)

UNRELEASED & UNFINISHED DEMO RECORDINGS

“See the Light” (Recorded in Mem 110 at Choate, 21 July 2007. 3.4 MB)
“I Don’t Know” (Recorded in Steve and Bev’s kitchen on Cape Cod, Summer 2005. 3.6 MB)
“Bug in a Breeze” (Babybird cover, Winter 2005. Prepped for recording for the new album. 2.8 MB)
“Belong” (New Mix) (MP3, 3.5 MB)
“I Wonder” (Remix) (AAC, 3.4 MB)
“I Wonder” (Instrumental Remix) (AAC, 3.4 MB)
“You, Your Mom, and Her Friends” (Instrumental Remix) 3.1 MB, MP3

UNRELEASED PRODUCER REEL RECORDINGS
(These songs were contain lyrics and/or music written by other musicians and performed, recorded, produced, and mixed by me. They are snippets of longer compositions that are meant to show off the awesome power of Apple’s free GarageBand software.)

“Heart Around It” (Music by B.G., Lyrics by S.G. Recorded late summer 2005. 1.6 MB)
“Heart Around It” (Demo)
“Rainy Day” (Music and lyrics by H. Recorded Fall 2005. 2.1 MB)

LIVE RECORDINGS
Recorded live at the Rain Desert Café

“I’m On Fire” (Music & lyrics by Bruce Springsteen. Recorded Summer 2002. 2.1 MB)
“Panic” (Music & lyrics by Morrissey/Marr. Recorded Summer 2002. 4.5 MB)

THE SKELETONS

As part of my Music Library cleanout, I discovered a cache of both original and cover songs that I haven’t yet finished recording. Since I’ll probably never get around to finishing them, I’m just going to post them, as is, on the blog. They give a bit of insight as to how I work (sometimes backwards!) when I’m recording. Most of the time, the lucky songs have been half-mixed; usually, the instrumentation is about 60% of what I want it to be — if it even exists at all. The compression is all off, and I haven’t yet ironed out mistakes. But that’s more fun, ain’t it?

1) “Christine” was written by the late B. Wilkinson, bassist for The Atlantics and founding member of Ball and Pivot. It’s taken off an unreleased B&P album from the late 1980’s. As you can hear, I’ve gotten a lot of the song completed, but it’s hard to finish. I do love it, though. It’s too bad B. never made it big.

2) I decided to do a cover of Warren Zevon’s “Splendid Isolation” as a live track, recording piano and vocals in one take and together. I threw a bit of reverb on the vocals; that’s it. I didn’t even clean up the bum notes.

3) This cover of “Everybody Move It” by Teddy Thompson was going to be great. Going to be. It never got off the ground.

4) Vocals for “Love To Be Loved” never got recorded. I couldn’t duplicate Peter’s high notes. Too bad. For all you XTC aficionados out there, the clank is indeed the fire extinguisher that starts “Towers of London” off.

5) This is a real find: the earliest version of “Come Over To My House”. As I recall, I wrote most of this song as I was lying in bed, trying to fall asleep. I stumbled out to the computer in my Scooby Doo pajama pants and recorded this with the internal microphone of my iMac…just so I wouldn’t forget it. I’m singing quietly so I don’t wake the kids in the hallway. It must’ve been about 11:30 at night.

6) I remember this one, tentatively titled “Gloria Excelsis.” The melody for the chorus came first, of course. It always does. “I won’t gloria excelsis / In deo…” I don’t know what it means. But you can hear me slumming sounds through the verse so I can get to the chorus, can’t you? Yikes. What did Kurt Cobain say? “VERSE / CHORUS / VERSE!”

7) Jesus, is anything more obvious than a sloppy, unfinished cover version of Babybird’s “To Die For” that begins with a sample of “Grass”? I don’t think so. This one is totally embarrassing.