Hearts In Her Eyes

I started recording this with the intention that the Parties would do it, but ended up finishing it myself.

Do Unto Others

Not sure what inspired this. I guess I felt like tackling the vocal part. The funny thing is I listened to the original version afterwards and realized I went completely overboard with vocal tracks. Curt Boettcher made it sound bigger than it actually was. Genius. (Him not me.)

Strange Weather

Another recording I did with the Palmer. I used to cover this at solo gigs long ago.

Division Day

I used to do this boogie rock arrangement of this song with the Stacks. I got one of those Palmer PDI03 speaker emulators and recorded this to test it out. Pretty cool tones come out of that little box.

Benton Harbour

 

I heard the Fiery Furnaces play an upbeat version of this song that I really dug and tried to mimic how I remembered hearing it while channeling a bit of Get Happy! I love how this came out.

K.O.W.

I heard the version of this that The Chords recorded and liked that they rocked it up, but thought it was a little messy. I recorded this as a demo with the intent that the Parties would cover it, and worked out a duet vocal. Unfortunately, they were unfamiliar with the song and passed on it. Oh well.

Look Out

This was a challenge due to the insane bass part. Not sure who plays bass on this song, but that is not something a normal rock musician would come up with.