Be Good To Me

Myshkin

Genre: Alternative Rock

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Description

A song I wrote years ago. Perhaps it needs some more verses, I don't know.

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Lyrics

Be good to me
Belong to me
Take an axe to my family tree
Write my obituary

Be kind to me
Beware of me
One thing on which we must agree
My life belongs to me

Song Stats

Hits: 993
Comments: 15
Fans: 0
Plays: 201
Downloads: 41
Votes: 6
Uploaded: Mar 26, 2006 - 08:31:54 AM
Last Updated: Mar 25, 2006 - 10:16:52 PM Last Played: Oct 06, 2009 - 03:51:17 PM

Song License

Creative Commons License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Song Actions

Keywords:

good (168), kind (7), dark (363), flute (147)

Hardware:

Edirol PCR-A30, Byerdynamic microphone

Software:

GB2

Comments

	said 1340 days ago (March 26th, 2006)
	Love it Nice slow tempo a special kind of drums like that. I love it you have done a great work on this song. Keep up the good work Respectfully ----- Skean/The Dragon

cjorgensen	cjorgensen said 1340 days ago (March 26th, 2006)
	Mix? The drums are on a different plane than the lyrics, words are a bit lost. And I agree, needs more verses. Like 50. You got 48 more to write. Seriously, can see this one going on for quite some time. Nice music. Nice little song. Check out my latest song called Gardens

Myshkin	Myshkin said 1340 days ago (March 26th, 2006)
	Mix? 48?! Damn... I better get cracking... Thanx Chris. Your candour is always appreciated. I do need to tweak the mix, but I'm not really sure how to go about it without pulling the whole bloody thing apart... --- You said, "Well, never mind. We may be ugly, but we have the music" Check out my latest song called Iceland

alfalpha	alfalpha said 1339 days ago (March 26th, 2006)
	really nice instrumentation!! Ross, I agree with Chris, more verses! the instrumentation is great & nice use of the flute. For my money, I think the vocals could do with some reduction in the overall mix? I love the mood of this song! AA Check out my latest song called Mania- w/DavisAmerica-The 'Sprout' Remix

Myshkin	Myshkin said 1336 days ago (March 30th, 2006)
	really nice instrumentation!! Thanx Alf. It's weird - on some speakers the vocals stand out, and on others they're kind of muted. It's weird. I must attempt to write some more verses... --- You said, "Well, never mind. We may be ugly, but we have the music" Check out my latest song called Iceland

jiguma

jiguma said 1339 days ago (March 26th, 2006)

Very weird Ross!
I agree that this could go much much further - very Nick and Kylie
sound here (I can see the video!). As well as some extra verses, a
chorus might just give some relief in the middle. Having said that, I
quite like this as is - on second listen it's already growing on me. The
instrumental tracks are really intriguing, especially that solo whistle(?)/
flute(?).
Good post,
Neil

Check out my latest song called Lost In Translation (w Mike Watkins)

Myshkin	Myshkin said 1336 days ago (March 30th, 2006)
	Very weird Ross! I think I originally had words for the chorus (the second flute solo) but never wrote them down. So, when I pulled the song out 9 years later, there was nothing... Thanx for commenting Neil. :-) --- You said, "Well, never mind. We may be ugly, but we have the music" Check out my latest song called Iceland

	said 1339 days ago (March 27th, 2006)
	A Possible Alternative to adding verses would be creating an extended instrumental section with layering of (orchestral?) instruments. This might work better I think if an additional, complementary melody were introduced, to break up the monotony (I enjoy repetitive variations on a simple theme, but more objectively, I also think many people find that boring). I enjoyed this.

Myshkin	Myshkin said 1336 days ago (March 30th, 2006)
	A Possible Alternative I like the idea of a counter melody Mungo - I might work on that. I have been tweaking this in GB and there's now two guitar parts and a piano track. I might use the piano to work a counter melody against the second chorus. --- You said, "Well, never mind. We may be ugly, but we have the music" Check out my latest song called Iceland

thoddi	thoddi said 1339 days ago (March 27th, 2006)
	no problem to be good to you on this. Good tune mate. I like the art... "Madonna" by the Norwegian artist edvard Munch. This and his other famous painting "Skrik" was stolen from the Munch-museum. I think their still missing, and it's said that they might have been damaged... Check out my latest song called Don't tell me what I can't w/KTB and Ingve

Sista Mac	Sista Mac said 1338 days ago (March 27th, 2006)
	Very Mysterious! I really like the layered vocals - they kind of float in the background which sounds ghostly and very fitting for the song. I also like the flute its kind of erie at certain points. Great Song! Check out my latest song called I'm Not Trying

Warren Smith

Warren Smith said 1331 days ago (April 4th, 2006)

absorbent
Such a great, haunting melody - one of those that could go on and on for 50 verses and you wouldn't get tired of singing it.

Maybe you could recruit other macjammers to contribute some of the other 47 verses you need to make the goal cjorgensen set for you?

Here's my contribution -

Take a pickaxe to my consciousness
Take a jackhammer to my soul
It's gonna take a dump truck, baby,
To haul away the hole.

Wait - can a hole be hauled away? Not sure about that. Maybe what's needed is a bulldozer to fill it up?

Well, I'm joking around here, but that's only because I do really think this absorbent song has great potental. It's one of those opened-end structures that you could keep adding to over time, whenever another "canto" gets written.

Check out my latest song called Pushing and Pulling

	said 972 days ago (March 29th, 2007)
	10-10-10-10 wow...what a tune, voice & & & ... well I don't know-lol... It's like a chant: ) . . . I could listen to this all day! thankyou Your message is what People Need To Hear The Most, I'm no exception... :): ): ) tx Lena

	said 972 days ago (March 29th, 2007)
	lol I agree with cjorgensen !! 48 more verses to go ! LOL

saymme

saymme said 314 days ago (January 15th, 2009)

..Great hearing this again !!!
I love this song !!!!! Am I happy to hear it again...(!)(can't believe I missed to both fav & dl it..recognized it at once: )) A definate fav...it could go on for much longer this song!! would love to hear it 'growing' even more- like more&more ppl singing the deeper u get into it , until theres a huge crowd (a whole herd;)) singing & getting it louder & louder..its like a meditation - we all need what you sing , humans being good to eachother.. : ) Great to see You BACK HERE!!!! & HAPPY NEW YEAR : )
Lena

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Artist Info

Name: Ross

I started playing the piano when I was 5, but gave up doing practical examinations after my very first one as it was so terrifying. I continued with music theory, however and learnt the saxophone in highschool. I taught myself rhythm guitar in my las... [see more]

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The terms alternative rock and alternative music[1] were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time. At times it was used as catch-all phrase for rock music from under

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