Comments for Daily Refrain

Comment on “Alexander the Great” by Dennis Mott by Oaku

Oaku — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:52:04 +0000

Haha, so great. Very catchy! Kudos to you both.

Comment on MP3s by Oaku

Oaku — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:52:36 +0000

Just clapping one time! Never see song!

Trippy desktop… That’s pretty cool.

Comment on MP3s by Gwilym

Gwilym — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:23:33 +0000

@soudou It's an idea, though if I were to do that I'd probably want to make it a best-of collection. Or perhaps I could do a double album and a best-of.

Comment on MP3s by soudou

soudou — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:05:38 +0000

Gwilym you should post official cover art for this compilation of mp3s, such that I may add it to rateyourmusic.com and bring further attention to you. You whore.

Comment on MP3s by soudou

soudou — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:57:56 +0000

Man, I’m way behind on these. This helps a lot though, because it’s much easier to listen to music on my ipod at work than it is to sit in front of youtube. :]

Comment on #36: “Foolishness” by TimHig

TimHig — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:01:29 +0000

.. they will never take … our OPINIONSSSSS!

Comment on #23: “Hiding Behind the Metaphor” by TimHig

TimHig — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:52:18 +0000

Wow. My favourite since the skeleton song.

Comment on MP3s by Gwilym

Gwilym — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:09:04 +0000

@Dennis
Well, I’ll be accepting covers – whether they go here or on the new site (or both), I haven’t decided. That’s a good point about the transcribing, though. You’ll notice I’ve also transcribed the spoken-word moments (which were improvised) – this was so I could run the file through http://www.wordle.net to see which words I use the most. The answer surprised me. I was going to post my favourite word clouds here, but the truth is they all looked beautiful and I couldn’t bring myself to choose favourites. This is my current desktop, though.

Comment on MP3s by Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:06:45 +0000

i think the only reason why i haven’t covered any daily refrain songs yet is simply because i have been far too lazy to copy the lyrics out of the youtube videos for myself

thank you and you can probably expect something from me at some point

if your new site will be accepting covers????

Comment on #40: “Mochaccino” by Gwilym

Gwilym — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:38:04 +0000

Jinglist massive.

Comment on #43: “Portents” by Alexs Mum

Alexs Mum — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:21:14 +0000

Yes they do!

Comment on #42: “Cat Lady” by Alexs Mum

Alexs Mum — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:20:09 +0000

The words are… different but I think the music is absolutely awesome!! Another one which would be a great addition to the instrumental list

Comment on #42: “Cat Lady” by TheCatness

TheCatness — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:52:39 +0000

Oh, the Mother approves, I’m just running him up a couple of nice frocks on my Singer treadle sewing machine . . anything to have another mad “cat-lady” in the family. Love the song!!

Comment on #42: “Cat Lady” by Ancel

Ancel — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:51:54 +0000

That’s just great! Wait till I tell your mother;-)
It really is a beaut song!

Comment on #42: “Cat Lady” by Gwilym

Gwilym — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:52:55 +0000

Thanks. And now I realise that the world does not currently have a song about spit-takes. Perhaps I should remedy this.

Comment on #42: “Cat Lady” by Oaku

Oaku — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:48:47 +0000

Oh my… It’s definitely my favorite to date. Rather than go to a play by play about it all, I’ll just tell you that I was drinking water while listening and ended up spitting it all over myself.

Comment on #41: “Daily Malaise” by Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:11:27 +0000

aeris dies, you know

Comment on #41: “Daily Malaise” by Alex's Mum

Alex's Mum — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:57:44 +0000

That was really nice. I would like to hear a longer instrumental sometime as a lot of your music is great.

Comment on #40: “Mochaccino” by Alexs Mum

Alexs Mum — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:52:49 +0000

And 1960’s…. Some of them were really good. You could have been a jingle millionaire!

Comment on #40: “Mochaccino” by Oaku

Oaku — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:58:42 +0000

You’d have totally rocked it out as a jingle writer.

Comment on #40: “Mochaccino” by Gwilym

Gwilym — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:36:30 +0000

…aaaaaand YouTube gives away the punchline. Thanks YouTube. Thutube.

Comment on #39: “In 5 Seconds” by Alexs Mum

Alexs Mum — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:08:19 +0000

Clever. I like this,,,,,

Comment on #38: “Catchphrase” by Alexs Mum

Alexs Mum — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:06:18 +0000

He!

Comment on #38: “Catchphrase” by Nario

Nario — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:03:11 +0000

Awesome!

Comment on #37: “Cranberry Horse” by listener

listener — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:51:40 +0000

best one yet, just awesome

Comment on #38: “Catchphrase” by Gwilym

Gwilym — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:15:29 +0000

Oops! We've un-gone widescreen. As usual, it's Einherjer's fault. (I forgot to switch back to 16:9 after making that video)

Comment on #36: “Foolishness” by Zandy

Zandy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:48:45 +0000

I agree with all three of these posts.

I hope three is enough to drown out the attempt from the artist to shape not only our souls, BUT OUR OPINIONS TOO!

Comment on #37: “Cranberry Horse” by Alexs Mum

Alexs Mum — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:18:24 +0000

mmmm fascinating!

Comment on #36: “Foolishness” by Nario

Nario — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:53:51 +0000

Through our teeth. Brilliant.

I thought the singing was nice, by the way. I thought the tone of the song was all-around cute too, and I’m all for those kinds of songs.

Comment on #35: “No Birthday Song” by Nario

Nario — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:44:10 +0000

I loved the orchestral instruments in this song. They were so powerful!

Comment on #33: “Inspiration” by Nario

Nario — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:39:21 +0000

I saw “digest” coming. Neat!

Comment on #31: “Mirror Village” by Nario

Nario — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:36:27 +0000

After having read your comments, I must admit that I am impressed by how deep this story really is.

Comment on #32: “Happy Birthday, Shane” by Nario

Nario — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:35:41 +0000

haha! I love the ending.

Comment on #31: “Mirror Village” by Alexs Mum

Alexs Mum — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:23:57 +0000

Oh Alex’s Dad liked it too….

Comment on #36: “Foolishness” by Alexs Mum

Alexs Mum — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:09:14 +0000

Well I think it’s nice….

Comment on #35: “No Birthday Song” by Alex's Mum

Alex's Mum — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:32:40 +0000

Love it and the effects! Soooo Happy birthday Dawa????

Comment on #34: “Maintenance” by Alex's Mum

Alex's Mum — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:04:40 +0000

Yep, very short hun!

Comment on #31: “Mirror Village” by Alex's Mum

Alex's Mum — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:18:58 +0000

He he a musical would do it! Actually I’m not sure what it would do but then I am Alex’s mum x

Comment on #33: “Inspiration” by Alex's Mum

Alex's Mum — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:15:44 +0000

Cool!!!!

Comment on #33: “Inspiration” by Gwilym

Gwilym — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:23:54 +0000

I am slightly annoyed that all of the thumbnail choices show definitions. I wanted them to be a surprise.

Comment on #31: “Mirror Village” by Gwilym

Gwilym — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:54:38 +0000

I couldn’t do an entire book; even a properly-sized short story would be pushing it. Perhaps a musical?

And yes, I was wondering how obvious it would be that I’ve been reading the Ender novels lately. Well-spotted.

Comment on #32: “Happy Birthday, Shane” by Alexs Mum

Alexs Mum — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:53:05 +0000

mmmmm he he!

Comment on #31: “Mirror Village” by Alexs Mum

Alexs Mum — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:51:12 +0000

Have you thought of writing a sci fi book? for some reason it reminds me of an ‘ender’ type story. I still think it’s very clever. Well done!

Comment on #31: “Mirror Village” by Gwilym

Gwilym — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:17:49 +0000

Strange things go into it, so it’s not too surprising.

Comment on #31: “Mirror Village” by Mika

Mika — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:55:26 +0000

Strange things come out of your brain.

Comment on #31: “Mirror Village” by Gwilym

Gwilym — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:31:27 +0000

Thanks, Alex’s Mum’s Son’s Mum. I’m going to take this as a cue to break into a huge behind-the-scenes story:

As well as having never written anything close to this before (in song form or otherwise), this is also the first time I’ve written a story in full before coming up with a single lyric. Even more unique is that I wrote it twice. Here’s the original story:

The inhabitants of Mirrorworld once lived in peace; staring into one another was their greatest joy, as the resulting infinity tunnel made them feel close to God. However, they broke into factions over differing ideas about what lay at the tunnel’s end. One faction believed it was heaven, another believed it was another world like theirs, and yet another believed that it could logically be nothing other than their own world. Over time, these differences became irreconcilable, and the mirrors went to war. At the end, only one faction was left standing, but having shattered all opposition, they could no longer create the infinity tunnel, and realised that they had forever cut themselves off from God.

There was of course a huge plothole here, which was that there was no reason the victors couldn’t have just looked at each other. So I had the idea of making the three factions into separate races – flat, concave and convex. A concave mirror could only create the infinity tunnel by looking at a convex mirror, and vice versa. The flat mirrors could indeed look at one another, but this caused resentment from the other two races, so when war began, the curved mirrors tacitly worked together to wipe them out, before fighting each other.

But it turned out I was totally wrong about the interaction of the two mirror types, and there was physically no way that an infinity tunnel could be created like that. And even though we’re talking about a story featuring sentient mirrors, I couldn’t ignore physics, so I rewrote most of the story.

In hindsight, the original version would’ve been a nightmare to turn into lyrics.

Comment on #31: “Mirror Village” by Alex's Mum

Alex's Mum — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:58:47 +0000

Wow that is so clever! It’s sad but lovely.

Comment on #30: “In Defence of Tomorrow” by Alex's Mum

Alex's Mum — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:53:17 +0000

Dat ist very nice!

Comment on #30: “In Defence of Tomorrow” by Gwilym

Gwilym — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:23:16 +0000

I just noticed you can hear my cat at 1:37 oh god this is the best thing ever

Comment on #30: “In Defence of Tomorrow” by Gwilym

Gwilym — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:50:02 +0000

It’s more than okay! I thank you a lot.