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Thursday, January 04, 2007 

Category: Music

see it online:

http://www.performermag.com/nep.recrevs.php

 

Upon opening The Black's recently released EP, Dead Love Songs, one is greeted by the liner notes: "I always win. I get my way. I pray the Lord my soul to take," framed by female silhouettes that would be more at home on a trucker's mud-flaps. Despite its ill-advised packaging and artwork, Dead Love Songs is a catchy, solidly-produced rock album that won't disappoint.

The infectious keyboard and guitar combo in the first ten seconds of "Green Eyed Girl (Why Would You Lie to Me?)" immediately initiates the listener into The Black's brand of blues-infused rock. A song of anger and betrayal, it's an apt starting place for the passionate EP. "Sad and Lonely You," the final song on the EP, exhibits more focused emotion; its vocals are less frenetic than the rest of the album, and its drumming is more precise. Whereas the beginning of the album is turbulent, its conclusion has a mellowed, melancholy tone, like the wisdom gained after a bittersweet break-up. Sandwiched in between are "Caroline," which shows the breadth of The Black's repertoire, and "Young Girls," a simple, hummable song with echoes of Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child of Mine."

Confident lead singer Tim Hansen has picked up a lot of experience in his 15 years as a New England performer. Hansen, reminiscent of a throaty Steven Tyler, sounds closely tied to his Worcester roots and shows few traces of an acoustic/synth-pop chrysalis. Although The Black sounds at times like a secular Creed with stronger drive and fewer soaring vocals, the band certainly has wings. You can picture them playing somewhere between a frat house basement and a bar in Bridgewater.

Dead Love Songs is the sort of unpretentious, music-driven rock that eschews glossy liner notes and is magnetic enough to keep the listener coming back for more. (M-80 Records)

www.theblackrocks.com

-Kate Cole & Christian Eager

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Thursday, November 30, 2006 

Category: Music

THE BLACK
M-80 Studios
Dead Love Songs
4-song CD
Thank You T Max! I get to review a band that gets it. The Black puts the roll back into rock 'n' roll. This CD is fantastic! The Black is a five piece band hailing from Wormtown, and they crank out old school roll 'n' roll reminiscent of Steppenwolf and Captain Beyond, but with a fresh, modern sound. The arrangements of two Gibson guitars and bass, along with Hammond and Wurlitzer organs, over a crankin' downbeat are awesome. I love the dynamics, especially in the vocals. The harmonies are superb. "Young Girls" has great punchy guitar hooks and an addictive quality that makes you want to sing along. "Sad And Lonely" is just as catchy. Its slightly remorseful lyrics suck you in and you still find yourself rockin' out. The standout track, "Caroline," delivers the goods with a great use of vocal and guitar phrasing.
My only complaint about this disc is that there are only four songs. TEASERS! Damn you! I want more songs! I hope I get to see them sometime soon. If you get the chance, do so. This disc rules! (John Hess)

Or check it at:

http://www.thenoise-boston.com/cd_reviews/

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 

review by Phil McNamara from www.wormtown .org

THE BLACK - "DEAD LOVE SONGS" (Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Pete DeGraff and The Black
at M-80 Studios Worcester, MA; Mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East Studios Allston, MA)

If The Black sound recognizable, it may be because all five members have been making music in the local scene for five to fifteen years. Though the sound of most of their previous bands was punk influenced, this EP is more straight up rock and goes further back into time. The opener "Green Eyed Girl (Why Would you Lie to Me)" is one of the most frantic, spastic songs on the record or for that matter on any record that I've heard all year (it's only September so there's still time for someone to top it).

"Green Eyed Girl" barrels out the door with chaotic drumbeats, meaty guitar riffs, and a caffeinated keyboard part that brings old B52s records to mind. There's more than that going on as the song's buildup leads to a J.Geils band like house party rockin' sing along to the bridge of, "Misery loves company, loves jealousy, loves I'm guilty." Lead singer Tim Hansen sings his heart out with a throaty, bluesy voice that stays in tune through all the highs and lows.

The freedom rock riffing part of the record arrives with "Caroline." The guitars rock like an old Allman Brothers song as Hansen's voice bears resemblance to Cream's Jack Bruce, but also brings to mind classic rock titans like Deep Purple and Steppenwolf. Eddie Finger's quirky keyboard gives it a feel of a harder rocking version of The Band. Hansen and guitarist Danny Carbona do some cool bluesy shredding on this without overdoing it. The sing along hit of the record, "Young Girls" will make you raise a beer and join in on this anthem of skipping school, fake IDs, and getting in trouble. The keyboards in the song make it sound like an amped-up Cars tune. Sure it's a little retro and a little silly, but you'll fall for the refrain of, "…on a midnight joyride, snuck out on a school night."

The finale, "Sad and Lonely You" is equally as memorable. The storytelling song of heartbreak is catchy like a classic Foo Fighters song, without the happy ending. I'm not exaggerating when I say that this record is flawless. "…But Phil," you might ask, "Isn't it easier to make a flawless record when you only have four songs? I mean you could just record a dozen songs and cut out the eight most average ones." That's true, but a flawless record is a flawless record. It's a rare occasion that one crosses my desk. Do I expect the Black's next four songs to be similarly flawless? Well, yeah, I was kind of hoping that they would be.

(For more information on The Black, visit their web site at http://www.theblackrocks.com)

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Friday, October 06, 2006 

Category: Music

"Dead Love Songs"

debut cd from THE BLACK

available at the following locations:

AL BUM'S 149 Highland St. Worcester, MA

JELLY'S 246 Park Ave. Worcester, MA

more locations coming soon!!!

 

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Monday, September 25, 2006 

Category: Music

 

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Sunday, September 24, 2006
The Black produces rock from the hip

Passion joins nonchalance
Scott McLennan
smclennan@telegram.com
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Even if you've seen singer Tim Hansen display his particular brand of lunatic charm in Old Man Hansen or Uncle before that; and seen Pete DeGraaf jamming heavy rhythms in Cast Iron Hike, Villain, or 9Volt Superhero; or caught Ed Paquette at the keys playing heady, New Wave-y pop with Cary the Zero; or enjoyed the down-and-dirty antics of Brainless Wonders and The Pathetics, which respectively held guitarist Danny Carbona and drummer Rich Scales, none of it prepared you for what these guys do in their new band, The Black.

The Black is, in DeGraaf's words, "Just rock 'n' roll from the hip."

And what that exactly means is that The Black's music sounds both passionate and nonchalant. How else to explain a song like "The Best of Luck"? The tune is a rollicking bit of vintage FM fare reminiscent of Joe Walsh at his booziest. You just don't hear much stuff like that around these parts, and The Black is doing it with an earnest, albeit loose, conviction.
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"The Best of Luck" is one of the songs The Black posted on its MySpace page ( www.myspace.com/realblack), and other missives from the year-old band are gathered on the four-song CD "Dead Love Songs," which the band releases Friday at The Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St., Worcester.

Cool vintage bands flit like shadows across The Black's music. "Caroline," for example, sounds like lost Aerosmith funk; "Sad and Lonely You" conjures Axl Rose fronting the Faces.

The songs are catchy, but dirtier than underground pop and explosive without being punishing.

DeGraaf said that big, boisterous rock is simply what came out of the band-room jams that gave birth to The Black.

"Rock 'n' roll is supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be mind-blowing all the time," DeGraaf said.

"Green Eyed Girl," which opens "Dead Love Songs," attests to that statement, with The Black running a reckless route of bad attitude. "Young Girls," a song Hansen co-wrote with Average White Boys' Al Bombs, is another bit of buoyant sneer.

DeGraaf gave a lot of credit to Hansen's songwriting for The Black's basic sturdiness. Hansen and Carbona worked out a lot of tunes as an acoustic duo that would make impromptu appearances at The Lucky Dog when Carbona ran a Tuesday night showcase there.

DeGraaf, who engineers sound at The Lucky Dog several nights each week, liked what he saw on stage between Carbona and Hansen, digging the contrast to all the uber-heavy sounds he usually witnesses. He soon wandered onto the stage from the sound board.

The band built on the songs, adding DeGraaf's bass, Scales' Stones-y drumming and Paquette's distinctive and rhythmic keyboard playing. DeGraaf said The Black is simply a fun hang.

"There are some guys you just enjoy jamming with and you want to jam with, just like there are guys you want to have a beer with and guys you don't want to have a beer with," DeGraaf said.

DeGraaf also runs M-80 Recording Studio in Worcester and handled production duty on "Dead Love Songs."

DeGraaf's studio work led to another band job as the bassist stepped in to join Clear the Way as he was recording the group. Clear the Way is among the opening acts joining The Black on Friday. Paquette's other band, Carry the Zero, is also playing that night, as is Cocked N' Loaded from Brighton.

In The Black, the music is attacked from many different directions at once, DeGraaf said.

"It's just the right people in the right alignment," he said.

Scott McLennan can be reached at tgmusic1@yahoo.com

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Thursday, August 10, 2006 

Current mood:  excited
Category: Music

THE BLACK

"Dead Love Songs"

cd release party

 

featuring

CLEAR THE WAY

CARRY THE ZERO

and

COCKED N' LOADED

september 29,  2006

at

the Lucky Dog Music Hall

89 Green Street,  Worcester MA

$10 cover includes "Dead Love Songs"

21+ proper ID required

 

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Monday, March 27, 2006 
(from wormtown.org) Tuesday, January 24 2006 @ 11:25 AM EST Views: 22 Without Doc Siddall's "Worcester Rocks" on WORC and much of any
other dependable local music programming on the local airwaves for reference,
I've spent most of the past month on MySpace searching to find out if we're
missing out on any exciting new music. Unfortunately, while there might
be well over 600 bands calling Central Mass home there, there's surprisingly
little that hits you right in the heart. Unless you happen to fall upon THE BLACK,
whose recordings sound unlike almost any that have ever been unleashed
by a local act - comparable to how even today Guns 'N' Roses
stands miles above the pack almost two decades later. It's real rock star music -
the kind of stuff bands put out prior the onset of the punk rock
class of '77 when fighting for diminishing space on the radio airwaves, you had to
throw your favorite music into a specific box in trying to bring it to the attention of a wider audience.

The Black are led by Tim "Old Man" Hansen, whose initial recordings of hard
dark slamming rock that invited you down into his most intense feelings two
years ago got him labeled as someone to watch and hear. That is, if you could
find out when he would be performing backed by a collection of Worcester
all-stars or caught him at one of the Lucky Dog's theme nights.
Perhaps the fact that someone whose music resembled that which you'd expect from an
axe murderer was turning up to sing the classics should have been a clue
of where his true musical vision laid. Well, hop onto http://www.myspace.com/realblack
and you'll find out the sky's the limit for Hansen and The Black -
if that's where these guys are aiming to land their arena sized music.

Hansen's joined by guitarist Danny Carbona (AKA Dan the Boy), best known for
his role with the heavenly punk band the Brainless Wonders and as
the current host of the Tuesday night slot at the Lucky Dog Music Hall
(when Tim and Dan have been known to work on some of the Black's music),
ex-Cast Iron Hike and Villain bassist Pete Black (Cast Iron Hike and Villain),
Ed Paquette on keyboards (Carry the Zero), and the omnipresent Richie Scales on drums.
The roads of Worcester's rock 'n' roll history are riddled
with acts that should have found a wider audience outside the I-290 area
and one hopes these recordings don't reach that same fate.

On "The Best of Luck" features vocals like Alice Cooper and sounds like the
Faces at times while "Green Eyed Girl" wouldn't have been out of place on Cheap
Trick's "Heaven Tonight." Southern-style guitars kick off "Caroline" and I swear
I hear a flute in there complementing Dan's keyboards.
There's a lot of layers to the Black's music and you could have a great time
simply trying to spot the group's musical influences in each song. Having said that,
however, to their credit, everything sounds truly genuine and direct from the
heart. This is a group giving it everything they've got.

The song that really blows me away is "Sad and Lonely You" which recalls the
magic period of music between the Summer of Love and the onset of the
laid-back California sound when bands were at their creative peak and the years
of partying had yet to steal their best abilities away. You've got keyboards adding
to its classic sound (not quite Blind Faith but that should give you an idea of what
I'm talking about here) underneath Hansen singing how "I was a fool for giving
my whole world up for you and I was a fool for thinking your love was something true..."

Time will tell whether this group of musicians who've all been in bands which
at one time or another have found themselves amongst the area's most
popular will stay together to pursue a common united goal of widespread success.
For now, you owe it to yourself to check out the music on their web page and if you
fall in love with it like I have, make it a point to catch them live ASAP.

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Friday, August 12, 2005 

oldmanhansen: yo dood
imnotmickjagger: hey man. i love that song.
oldmanhansen: awesome. I'm listening to it now
oldmanhansen: there's a bass line that is kind of hooky that's not in that recording
oldmanhansen: I'm sort of envisioning the drums in that phil collins "in the air tonight" type of way
oldmanhansen: so you are ok with these lyrics?
imnotmickjagger: I kinda like what you were talking about last night, about selling your soul and being happy cuz when you wake up etc
oldmanhansen: you working soon?
imnotmickjagger: no, not today
oldmanhansen: cool. should we write?
imnotmickjagger: sure
oldmanhansen: we could actually write and then record this with new lyrics
oldmanhansen: and harmonies
oldmanhansen: and bass
oldmanhansen: well....acoustic playing bass line
oldmanhansen: I just signed all the papers
shook hands with the devil
I'm on my way
oldmanhansen: I will wake in the morning
so deeply in love
a smile on my face
oldmanhansen: one day my heart will break
but not today
I'm in love with Mabelle
oldmanhansen: I'll be the envy of men
I'll get worked up now and then
but she will be mine
imnotmickjagger: you got it already
oldmanhansen: got what?
imnotmickjagger: the lyriucs
oldmanhansen: I need enough verses to match so that I don't have to re-record guitars.....
oldmanhansen: I still need some
oldmanhansen: I was thinking for another verse....soemthing like
oldmanhansen: something about forsaking the Lord
oldmanhansen: Like....
oldmanhansen: I don't know help me out here....
oldmanhansen: I'm so in love with her
I've forsaken my Lord
For pleasure and...?
oldmanhansen: I was thinking about writing this initially from the perspective of the guy imagining what it's gonna be like....but as the song develops....things go horribly wrong....I mean...the guy Sold His SOUL
oldmanhansen: so with the first verse...he's finalizing the deal and he's imagining what it's gonna be like tomorrow when he wakes up with Mabelle
oldmanhansen: He's gonna be the envy of men....etc
oldmanhansen: so i need a way to twist this
imnotmickjagger: i can't think without cigarettes.
oldmanhansen: I'm trying to use my own experience but it's so evil that I can't put it to words
oldmanhansen: funny how that goes
oldmanhansen: hurry up and have a smoke.
imnotmickjagger: i have none
oldmanhansen: I will punch you
oldmanhansen: wake up!
imnotmickjagger: Coffee.
oldmanhansen: i'm on cup#3
imnotmickjagger: Lemme catchup, hold on.
imnotmickjagger: battered broken and bloody my clothes are all muddy, lying here in the rain
oldmanhansen: ok that's good.
oldmanhansen: so is that at the end?
imnotmickjagger: yeah
oldmanhansen: k
oldmanhansen: This needs to be a really good story.
oldmanhansen: like old blues songs
oldmanhansen: ok so help me out with the little chorus part....after the first first verse he's imagining....so...i don't think you can use the someday my heart will break right there
imnotmickjagger: sure you can. he knows that the devil is sneaky, and that he will have to pay someday.
oldmanhansen: my eyes opened at 8
to the most beautiful face
that I'd ever known/seen
oldmanhansen: opened at dawn to a beautiful blonde
oldmanhansen: some shit about crickets and rainbows and pez
imnotmickjagger: hahaha
oldmanhansen: we also had a pizza party
imnotmickjagger: and unicorn rides.
oldmanhansen: pin the tail on the dumbass
oldmanhansen: donkey
oldmanhansen: what is it about coffeee that it just flushes your system clean out
oldmanhansen: ??
oldmanhansen: that's a lyric
oldmanhansen: the guy is wondering that
oldmanhansen: he also takes mystical craps
oldmanhansen: that was part of the deal
oldmanhansen: he can make balloon animals
imnotmickjagger: I had a grill stop bolito last night
imnotmickjagger: bgeak
oldmanhansen: gil stof boo....
oldmanhansen: A GRILLED STUFT BURRITO!
imnotmickjagger: and a ham sandwich and 2 sausages
oldmanhansen: ....please
imnotmickjagger: BEAK!
oldmanhansen: as in steak?
imnotmickjagger: As in beef.
oldmanhansen: it was heaven;y wasn't it?
oldmanhansen: it's alike a fast food miracle
imnotmickjagger: It was. they could have co-mingled the ingredients a bit better, so I wasn't chomping on all bean for the first half. But once I got to the second half, Oh Man.
oldmanhansen: yeah but it's kinda cool that way....it's like a culinary pinata
oldmanhansen: it's like a damn fiesta in your mouth
imnotmickjagger: Focus.
oldmanhansen: ok so ......
oldmanhansen: i need to open ms word
oldmanhansen: I just signed all the papers
Shook hands with the devil
I'm on my way
I will wake in the morning
So deeply in love
A smile on my face

One day my heart will break
But not today
I made the deal of my life

oldmanhansen: One day my heart will break but not today//////something that rhymes with life
imnotmickjagger: i'm starting a brand new
imnotmickjagger: mabelle will be my
oldmanhansen: ooh i knda like that as the first one now,but we still need something to rhyme with life
imnotmickjagger: wife
imnotmickjagger: knife. drife. entife.
oldmanhansen: it doesn't have to be ife....it could be ight
imnotmickjagger: or ice
oldmanhansen: right
oldmanhansen: ind like mind
imnotmickjagger: i had my bank up to 50 bucks, then lost it all playing drunk. asshole.
oldmanhansen: ugh
oldmanhansen: rule #1: do not play online poker when drunk
oldmanhansen: joe lost 4G doing that one night in march
imnotmickjagger: rule #2: people in $25 1x1s are better than me.
imnotmickjagger: man
oldmanhansen: if you could have seen the look on his face the next morning
oldmanhansen: you were playing head's up?
imnotmickjagger: Yeah, usually I kick ass.
oldmanhansen: dude!
oldmanhansen: wtf!?!?!?!?
imnotmickjagger: what, are you jealous?
oldmanhansen: what are you swedish or something?
imnotmickjagger: no, i'm blavk
oldmanhansen: that is hugely popular in sweden
imnotmickjagger: blank
imnotmickjagger: Why?
oldmanhansen: there is some guy over there...joe knows him....and he made like a million bucks doing nothing but playing head's up
oldmanhansen: some maniac swede
imnotmickjagger: less people to beat to get your cash.
oldmanhansen: I hate the head's up game
oldmanhansen: that is my most high stress part of tournaments
oldmanhansen: that's like enjoying driving through the city in midday traffic
oldmanhansen: ok focus
imnotmickjagger: i like the stress. i have to call my dad and see if he has any cigarette stashes. breb.
imnotmickjagger: okay. where were we?
oldmanhansen: the deal of my life?
oldmanhansen: that would be a good title actually
imnotmickjagger: so we don't need a line there?
oldmanhansen: yeah we do.....hang on....
oldmanhansen: maybe it doesn't even have to be one day my heart will break, a second time....maybe another line
oldmanhansen: same rhythm though
oldmanhansen: I just signed all the papers
Shook hands with the devil
I'm on my way
I will wake in the morning
So deeply in love
A smile on my face

One day my heart will break
But not today
I'm starting up a new life

One day my


I'll be the envy of men
I'll get worked up now and then
But she will be mine

imnotmickjagger: bill will come due and i'll have to pay
oldmanhansen: this is kind of good. he's touching on evil virtues
oldmanhansen: envy
imnotmickjagger: anger
oldmanhansen: he's already coming undone strand by strand
oldmanhansen: maybe he woke up the next day and she wasn't in bed the next day.... like he thought the devil fucked him, but she's really making breakfast
oldmanhansen: so he's already getting paranoid
imnotmickjagger: yeah, but make it rhyme. I've got 2, possibly 3 boils and an abscessed tooth.
oldmanhansen: is that a lyric or are you just sharing?
imnotmickjagger: sharing. like kindergarten.
oldmanhansen: what the fuck is happeneing to you
oldmanhansen: you're like JOb
imnotmickjagger: I'll be that. Fuck God in the face. Does the devil win now, can I be normal?
oldmanhansen: I better not fucking die!
imnotmickjagger: Why would you die?
oldmanhansen: because god let the devil kill all Job's friends to prove how devoted to God Job was
oldmanhansen: killed his family
oldmanhansen: made him broke
imnotmickjagger: Ah, I see. God sucks, man.
oldmanhansen: gave him boils
imnotmickjagger: Plagues of boils.
imnotmickjagger: My cheek boil popped as I was eating a meatball sandwich at the Vincent.
imnotmickjagger: It was awesome.
oldmanhansen: well...after all was said and done,God healed Job gave him an even bigger family and made him rich and famous
imnotmickjagger: "Buck up, little camper"
oldmanhansen: basically proved that the devil was a jackass
oldmanhansen: time for a smoke,lyric this thing,will ya?
imnotmickjagger: Pills I've taken today. Multi-vitamins, 2. "Straight Flush", 2. Vitamin E, 4. Amoxicillin, 2. I need a cigarette.
oldmanhansen: consumed today by TH: 4 cups of coffee 2 cigarettes
oldmanhansen: I cannot stop watching that HBO tv series Entourage
oldmanhansen: I want THAT life.
oldmanhansen: LAHGE living
oldmanhansen: I just signed all the papers
Shook hands with the devil
I'm on my way
I will wake in the morning
So deeply in love
A smile on my face

One day my heart will break
But not today
I'm starting up a new life

Love will mark
The end of all my days
And all of my nights


I'll be the envy of men
I'll get worked up now and then
But she will be mine

oldmanhansen: czech it
imnotmickjagger: love will mark?
oldmanhansen: Love will mark the end of all my days?
oldmanhansen: so...no?
imnotmickjagger: no, it's good. i think. the attaining of love marks where the downfall begins?
oldmanhansen: well is that true in this case?
imnotmickjagger: Yes. I was just making sure you were saying what I thought you were.
oldmanhansen: yeah I think some abomination should occur that affects many people and has a ripple effect.
oldmanhansen: I keep hearing a line The trouble I've made
imnotmickjagger: trying to hide in a church?
oldmanhansen: i don't know....hold onto it and see what you can do with it
imnotmickjagger: what's that entourage all about?
oldmanhansen: it's about this 20 something actor from queens who made it big and he's chilling with his buddies in L.A.
oldmanhansen: if you got HBO on demand you should watch it
imnotmickjagger: i will sometime.
imnotmickjagger: how many verses total?
oldmanhansen: hang on.
oldmanhansen: i need a second line for this
oldmanhansen: I'll be the envy of men
I'll get worked up now and then
But she will be mine

oldmanhansen: second verse
oldmanhansen: something kind of vain
oldmanhansen: he's daydreming for all the wrong reasons
oldmanhansen: he's being a misguided asshole
oldmanhansen: but he thinks he's still a good guy
imnotmickjagger: rhyming with mine?
oldmanhansen: sure
oldmanhansen: 3 lines like the above verse
oldmanhansen: we will walk though the city
oldmanhansen: we'll be known through the city
imnotmickjagger: so all can see the pretty girl on my arm
oldmanhansen: not quite
oldmanhansen: keep throwing out lines
oldmanhansen: we'll go out on the town
oldmanhansen: we'll be the talk of the crowd
oldmanhansen: something down, around, well be the talk of the town, a line ending with-ine.....
oldmanhansen: I'll/we'll walk above the ground
oldmanhansen: we'll be the talk of the town
imnotmickjagger: my head in the clouds
oldmanhansen: yeah that'll work
oldmanhansen: / / / // / / to-day I made the deal of my life
imnotmickjagger: didn't you use that already?
oldmanhansen: no but i have it written down
imnotmickjagger: think it works there?
oldmanhansen: I just signed all the papers
Shook hands with the devil
I'm on my way
I will wake in the morning
So deeply in love
A smile on my face

One day my heart will break
But not today
I'm starting up a new life

Love will mark
The end of all my days
And all of my nights

I'll walk above the ground
Have my head in the clouds
We'll be the talk of the town

I'll be the envy of men
I'll get worked up now and then
But she will be mine

oldmanhansen: chorus ending with today I made the deal of my life
imnotmickjagger: hook.
oldmanhansen: yeah
oldmanhansen: you know what I realized?
imnotmickjagger: No.
oldmanhansen: I used so deeply in love.
oldmanhansen: that's cool.
imnotmickjagger: haha, yeah
oldmanhansen: little clues
oldmanhansen: into my banged up psyche
imnotmickjagger: tying it together.
oldmanhansen: yes.
oldmanhansen: ok so where we at? you got any ideas?
imnotmickjagger: for a chorus? no idea. something about mabelle, I assume. Something that can be turned into an ironic kinda thing at the end.
oldmanhansen: yes. how about we don't even introduce mabelle? like this guy is dreaming about this and then he gets hit by a bus
oldmanhansen: before any of this can happen
oldmanhansen: like a moron
imnotmickjagger: just a "She"?
oldmanhansen: give me an example
oldmanhansen: of what you mean
imnotmickjagger: i don't know. give me an example of what you mean.
oldmanhansen: as hhe drove off from the crossroads he was daydreaming----too blind too see it co-ming and get out of the way
oldmanhansen: of being in love with Mabelle........
oldmanhansen: some shit....ends up getting hit before he can put his dick in it
oldmanhansen: I'm a poet. I know it
imnotmickjagger: on my way home, my back to the crossroads,
imnotmickjagger: thinking of maybelle
oldmanhansen: k....and?
imnotmickjagger: drifitng across lanes
oldmanhansen: brb....keep going
imnotmickjagger: should have been thinking of driving, but i'm going 95 in a romantic daze
oldmanhansen: romantic daze is not right
imnotmickjagger: neither is not having an infinite supply of butts
oldmanhansen: oh and who has that?
imnotmickjagger: god
oldmanhansen: God don't smoke
oldmanhansen: ALlowed us to create the infernal thigns though-not cool.
imnotmickjagger: Yes he does.
oldmanhansen: why couldn't he have just left out the damn tobacco plant?
oldmanhansen: for frig's sake!?!?
imnotmickjagger: and pigs
oldmanhansen: well we NEEd bacon
imnotmickjagger: you can smoke bacon
oldmanhansen: I can't believe I actually thought about that for a second
oldmanhansen: these lyrics are pretty good so far.
oldmanhansen: I just signed all the papers
Shook hands with the devil
And set on my way
I will wake in the morning
So deeply in love
A smile on my face

One day my heart will break
But not today
I'm starting up a new life

Love will mark
The end of all my days
And all of my nights

I'll walk above the ground
Have my head in the clouds
We'll be the talk of the town

I'll be the envy of men
I'll get worked up now and then
But she will be mine

oldmanhansen: One day my heart will break
but not today,...different line right here
oldmanhansen: not tonight?
imnotmickjagger: this is my last lonely night
oldmanhansen: somethingsomethinh hard A sound, I just made the deal of my life
imnotmickjagger: i love straight flushes.
oldmanhansen: I am bound for greatness
I just made us the deal of our lives
imnotmickjagger: where is this?
oldmanhansen: I can't use us
oldmanhansen: after the envy of men verse,this is the 2nd half of the chorus
oldmanhansen: ok pokerboy.
oldmanhansen: you have been a great help since you logged onto the online poker
imnotmickjagger: where are you going with the chorus.
oldmanhansen: nowhere apparent;ly
imnotmickjagger: don't be a baby
oldmanhansen: One day my heart will break
But not today
Not tonight

oldmanhansen: Something something Hard A/ I just made the deal of my life
imnotmickjagger: hard A means rhymes with way, right?
oldmanhansen: yes
oldmanhansen: rhymes with gay
imnotmickjagger: i've been playing poker since 8 am, by the way
oldmanhansen: I have an unlimited supply of cigs by the way
imnotmickjagger: i took control of my fate
imnotmickjagger: well?
oldmanhansen: i don't know.it's not flowing quite right
oldmanhansen: fate is good though
imnotmickjagger: i am master of my
oldmanhansen: master of my fate/I just made/ the deal of my life
imnotmickjagger: because I just made?
oldmanhansen: One day I'll fall from grace
but I just made
the deal of my life

For I've forsaken the Lord
I'll trade in prayers for divorce
oldmanhansen: for a moment of fame
oldmanhansen: how about those?
imnotmickjagger: nice
oldmanhansen: good ideas come to me in the shower for some reason
oldmanhansen: I've written alomst all of these in the shower
imnotmickjagger: is that where you went?
oldmanhansen: yeah
oldmanhansen: I just signed all the papers
Shook hands with the devil
And set on my way
I will wake in the morning
So deeply in love
A smile on my face

One day my heart will break
But not today
I'm starting up a new life

Love will mark
The end of all my days
And all of my nights

I'll walk above the ground
Have my head in the clouds
We'll be the talk of the town

I'll be the envy of men
I'll get worked up now and then
But she will be mine

One day my heart will break
But not today
Not tonight

I will fall from grace
I just made the deal of my life

I've forsaken the Lord
I'll trade in prayers for divorce
And a moment of fame

One day my mind will race
From the great mistake
I've made in my life

I will be disgraced
From when I made
The deal of my life

oldmanhansen: you with me?
oldmanhansen: good right?
imnotmickjagger: Very. Yes.
oldmanhansen: i think I still need a finsihing verse though
oldmanhansen: let me listen and match
imnotmickjagger: i gotta hit the store. back in like 15.
oldmanhansen: k
imnotmickjagger: ?
oldmanhansen: ?
imnotmickjagger: what conclusiopn?
oldmanhansen: I need another verse after the I've forsaken my Lord
oldmanhansen: verse
oldmanhansen: I just signed all the papers
Shook hands with the devil
And set on my way
I will wake in the morning
So deeply in love
A smile on my face

One day my heart will break
But not today
I'm starting up a new life

Love will mark
The end of all my days
And all of my nights

I'll walk above the ground
Have my head in the clouds
We'll be the talk of the town

I'll be the envy of men
I'll get worked up now and then
But she will be mine

One day my heart will break
But not today
Not tonight

I will fall from grace
I just made the deal of my life

I've forsaken the Lord
I'll trade in prayers for divorce
And a moment of fame

Insert verse

One day my mind will race
From the great mistake
I've made in my life

I will be disgraced
From when I made
The deal of my life


imnotmickjagger: is every verse either developing character or plot?

oldmanhansen: not sure yet.
oldmanhansen: still trying to get there, but it's obvious this guy is well aware of his own demise
imnotmickjagger: right
oldmanhansen: there is something cool about the humanity of these lyrics thus far
oldmanhansen: I really like that
oldmanhansen: I also need a double verse to seal the deal after the last choeus
oldmanhansen: and then we will be done
oldmanhansen: and we can try to play it tonight
oldmanhansen: i don't know....either the guy gets hit by a bus or finds salvation.....one or the other
imnotmickjagger: i don't like the bus and I don't like salvation
oldmanhansen: I didn't mean it literally
imnotmickjagger: k
oldmanhansen: I mean either the guy dies or the guy finds peace or the guy basically awaits death
oldmanhansen: one or the other or the other
oldmanhansen: ya know?
imnotmickjagger: Yes.
oldmanhansen: ok think about it. I'm walking to the store with Joe
imnotmickjagger: k.
oldmanhansen is away at 1:05:10 PM.
oldmanhansen returned at 1:08:10 PM.
oldmanhansen: kback
oldmanhansen: anyideas?
imnotmickjagger: no
oldmanhansen: nice
oldmanhansen: how about now?
imnotmickjagger: ummm...nope.
oldmanhansen: take a deep breath....
oldmanhansen: and......
oldmanhansen: how about now?
imnotmickjagger: go take a shower.
oldmanhansen: man....go have a smoke!
oldmanhansen: we were doing so good!
oldmanhansen: wtf happened?
oldmanhansen: we're almost there. now is no time for the add to kick in
imnotmickjagger: i don't even know what structure we're basing whatever the hell we're supposed to be writing . uh, on.
oldmanhansen: you're frustrating me. focus. you understood completely earlier
oldmanhansen: is this better?
oldmanhansen: I've forsaken the Lord
For the taste of a whore
And a moment of fame

oldmanhansen: yes/no.
circle one
oldmanhansen: hi dan.
imnotmickjagger: hello. No.
oldmanhansen: k
oldmanhansen: you didn't circle no.
imnotmickjagger: i tried. honest.
oldmanhansen: will you do me a favor and listen tot he song and match up all the lyrics I 've given you so far? just match them to the melodies. I will re paste them so you can follow along and know what I mean
imnotmickjagger: okay.
oldmanhansen: I just signed all the papers
Shook hands with the devil
And set on my way
I will wake in the morning
So deeply in love
A smile on my face

One day my heart will break
But not today
I'm starting up a new life

Love will mark
The end of all my days
And all of my nights

I'll walk above the ground
Have my head in the clouds
We'll be the talk of the town

I'll be the envy of men
I'll get worked up now and then
But she will be mine

One day my heart will break
But not today
Not tonight

I will fall from grace
I just made the deal of my life

I've forsaken the Lord
I'll trade in prayers for divorce
And a moment of fame

Insert verse

One day my mind will race
From the great mistake
I've made in my life

I will be disgraced
From when I made
The deal of my life

oldmanhansen: go.
oldmanhansen: you with me now?
imnotmickjagger: one min
oldmanhansen: 4 min. 10 seconds
imnotmickjagger: don't underestimate=love will mark?
oldmanhansen: ?
oldmanhansen: yes yes
oldmanhansen: gotcha
imnotmickjagger: yes, taste of a whore. run with it.
oldmanhansen: so that's good now?
imnotmickjagger: yes.
oldmanhansen: I have been disgraced/
oldmanhansen: Walk alone in disgrace
imnotmickjagger: now i...
oldmanhansen: not a dime to my name
oldmanhansen: and losing my mind
oldmanhansen: this shall be the last verse
imnotmickjagger: hit me
oldmanhansen: I've forsaken the Lord
For the taste of a whore
And a moment of fame

Now I walk in disgrace
without a dime to my name
and losing my mind
imnotmickjagger: shouldn't that last line rhyme with fame?
oldmanhansen: scars on my brain?
imnotmickjagger: that's tewwible
oldmanhansen: romantic daze?
imnotmickjagger: turrible
oldmanhansen: nafty
oldmanhansen: difcuftin
oldmanhansen: turrible
oldmanhansen: offul
imnotmickjagger: offal
oldmanhansen: ok but he's now disgraced and broke......ooh i got it.
oldmanhansen: I now walk in disgrace not a dime to my name BUT I'D DO IT AGAIN
oldmanhansen: yes?
imnotmickjagger: oh yes
oldmanhansen: ok but i still need something for the verse beofre the last one
oldmanhansen: last verse last chorus to the end:
oldmanhansen: I've forsaken the Lord
For the taste of a whore
And a moment of fame

Now I walk in disgrace
Not a dime to my name but I'd do it again

As my heart begins to break
As the something shakes
Something in the night

Fallen out of grace
I just made the deal of my life
The deal of my life
The deal of my life
the deal of my life.

oldmanhansen: help me fill the something's in the chorus there
imnotmickjagger: As my heart begins to break
the moon turns blood red
like the blade of my knife
imnotmickjagger: knife! knife!
oldmanhansen: lol
oldmanhansen: that's funny
imnotmickjagger: just won a cool seven cents.
oldmanhansen: you are killing me
oldmanhansen: i am killing me
oldmanhansen: i just want this stupid thing done
imnotmickjagger: As my heart begins to break
As the wind makes
the trees sway in the night
imnotmickjagger: dude, what am I, fuckin the dead milkmen?
oldmanhansen: you fucked the dea milkmen?
imnotmickjagger: no, i helped em move
oldmanhansen: lucky you
oldmanhansen: how about faith?
imnotmickjagger: like?
oldmanhansen: in the verse there
imnotmickjagger: what about his faith? shattered? restored?
oldmanhansen: either or
imnotmickjagger: with or without cream?
oldmanhansen: without
imnotmickjagger: As my heart begins to break
along with my faith

oldmanhansen: sealed my fate/carry the weight
oldmanhansen: until the end of time
imnotmickjagger: i'll have to carry that weight
imnotmickjagger: boy
oldmanhansen: trade my faith and carry the weight until the end of time
imnotmickjagger: yes. stick a fork in it.
oldmanhansen: not yet we have to go back a verse now
oldmanhansen: i had an english paper last semester that was ALMOST as much fun as this
imnotmickjagger: i'm posting this as the lyrics when it's recorded.
oldmanhansen: oh you should
oldmanhansen: not yet though
imnotmickjagger: no. not yet.
oldmanhansen: wait til the song is recorded and posted
imnotmickjagger: Yes. What was that thing I had earlier...hold on.
imnotmickjagger: battered broken and bloody my clothes are all muddy, lying here in the rain
imnotmickjagger: eh?
oldmanhansen: we need a verse to replace the "honey just for the record section
imnotmickjagger: time on the track?
oldmanhansen: 1:54
oldmanhansen: the verse before it is about being the envy of men
imnotmickjagger: put your panties back on, I gotta go to the john, and take me a poo
imnotmickjagger: i don't know. give me a couple minutes, let it filter through
imnotmickjagger: i like the reverb on the vocals.
oldmanhansen: thanks
imnotmickjagger: i can't drink for a week.
oldmanhansen: why?
imnotmickjagger: antibiotics
oldmanhansen: i'm sorry. I'm gonna have a drink right now
imnotmickjagger: do it
oldmanhansen: mmmmmmmmmmm.good.
imnotmickjagger: i'ma gonna drink me some water
oldmanhansen: that's what I'm drinking
oldmanhansen: I thought you couldn't drink!
oldmanhansen: I need to finish this goddammned thing

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