The Tortured Poets Department ILX Pre-Cover Planning Thread

Been a while. And these pre-covers don't make themselves.

Usual rules: claim which one you'd like to do below. Files MUST be sent to me by March 15th via ned at kuci dot org, preferably AIFF format, mp3 acceptable but please PLEASE, do not send it as a WAV. Release date will be April 1. Someone needs to create album art and it won't be me.

Track titles once more. Take the additional listed vocalist as a cue for all sorts of shenanigans.

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Down Bad
So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
loml
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
The Alchemy
Clara Bow

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

Also, please be clear under what name you want the song released, whether as your ILX name, your real one, a current band project, a new one, etc.

I will do Down Bad please

(as 'Acoleuthic', please)

ok, I'll take "So Long, London"

as "Mfktz"

Fresh Out the Slammer (Tom D)

I will do loml

I’ll do The Alchemy, pls, as ShariVari.

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart (HI DERE)

Kristin Hersh already has "Clara Bow" in the can:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQFgq6WVUyo

Okay, current update -- claimed ones are asterisked:

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
* Down Bad
* So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
* Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
* loml
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
* The Alchemy
Clara Bow

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
as Neanderthal

actually, small correction....still doing that song, but artist name Bo Jackson Overdrive

Roffle. But of course.

Oh i want but daddy

Wait wait no … I want the title track

You got it!

Re-update -- half the tracks claimed:

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
* The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
* Down Bad
* So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
* Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
* loml
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
* The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
* The Alchemy
Clara Bow

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

Can I claim I Can Do It With A Broken Heart?

Artist name Twenty Dollars

believe the asterisks are all claimed up

would like to take a stab at "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys" though I also don't want to crowd anyone out, especially if someone wants to sing, down for a collab

have never participated but these are one of my favorite things about ilm, thanks Ned

oh yeah also ILX name is cool

Can I claim I Can Do It With A Broken Heart?

Artist name Twenty Dollars

I'd like to claim "I Can Fix Him". Artist name TBC, put down Beer Swan for now please

Done! Updated list -- those two duets/feat. spots are just sitting there. Dare anyone do the famed LULU pre-cover gambit a la "Little Dog"

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
* The Tortured Poets Department
* My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
* Down Bad
* So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
* Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
* I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
* loml
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
* The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
* The Alchemy
Clara Bow

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

Oh damn this is tempting.

Give in!

I'm just worried about saying I'll do it and then letting everyone down. I've not been doing much music since the pandemic came around.

Me do BUT DADDY I LOVE HIM

A couple of folx from that Discord server that me and imago are in talked me into making music a while ago, although I'm about as far from sounding like Taylor Swift as Gorguts is. (It's abstract instrumental bedroom electronics.) I'll take "My Boy Breaks His Favorite Toys."

Or "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys."

You have to pick another one! Asterisk means it HAS been claimed.

Whoops, I didn't see that message. I'll take "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me."
And I want it under the name Chris Irregardless.

Sounds good -- current 'to claim' list, four to go plus bonus, with a hoy hoy down for claiming one of these already. emil.y you still have time if you'd like to do one!

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
* The Tortured Poets Department
* My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
* Down Bad
* So Long, London
* But Daddy I Love Him
* Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
* Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
* I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
* loml
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
* The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
* The Alchemy
Clara Bow

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

cbesigner and I would like to claim

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

billed as Renegade Priests

LITTLE DOG IS BACK BABY!

Aw yeah

Wait I’m confused by your message, I did claim Broken Heart right?

No I was meaning to say someone already claimed it before you! Claim one of the unasterisked ones instead.

Ah yes, my bad.

Give me Clara Bow… I just need two weeks to learn how to make music but I think that’s more than enough time.

Hahah do what you must! It's yours. So updating, three left to ask for, a hoy hoy has expressed interest in one of them, so can we have two more folks step up? Or emil.y and one more, maybe?

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
* The Tortured Poets Department
* My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
* Down Bad
* So Long, London
* But Daddy I Love Him
* Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
* Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
* I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
* loml
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
* The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
* The Alchemy
* Clara Bow

* Bonus Track: The Manuscript

Put me on the reserve bench for if there's any songs left over

Give me Clara Bow… I just need two weeks to learn how to make music but I think that’s more than enough time.

Post of the week.

Gotta embrace the possibility. H.P., got it!

Put me down for Guilty plz

Moka is already dissing the art of Taylor Swift, the beef is real, a feud is coming

Okay all that's left are "Fortnight" and "Florida!!!" -- WHO IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO CLAIM THE DUETS?

maybe we hire a ringer, like Jedward

I nominate Neanderthal to give us a metal epic

LJ lured me here and I just recorded a draft of "Fortnight" (more of a post tonality feat than a Post Malone feat tho). I can send a recording if it counts and is still available.

Very much available, it's yours!

"Florida!!!" is the last one left!

I'm going to officially state that I'm out. I do like the excessive exclamation marks of 'Florida!!!' but I don't think I can take it on. Somebody else jump in and make the album complete.

Voting that whoever takes it should have to collab up with Alfred for vocals/spoken-word

little dog was so good

Truly

it's really nice to for me to be able to hear Dottie's bark again, she gave it her all

Already wondering if my initial idea for my track isn't completely stupid and impractical.

I have never knowingly heard a TS song so I feel unqualified to approach this one, as much as I enjoy our covers projects, but if anyone needs any help with mastering or the like hit me up on this thread.

You don't have to have heard anything by the artist or even be interested in their work though? Believe me I have less than zero interest in latter day U2 and Morrissey and I did tracks for both those projects. I just go on whether the titles give me any ideas. For instance I did a cover of a Morrissey track called Mountjoy, which I assume was named after the prison on Dublin but made me think of the snooker player, Doug Mountjoy. Doug Mountjoy's claim to fame was he was the first player to perform a maximum break on television, so I found some audio of the commentary (Ted Lowe of course!) and built the track around that.

Also doing something that sounds nothing like the artist you are covering seems the ideal approach.

Well, the last point is a given with my contributions for sure, and I do see what you mean, but I'm trying to think if I've ever done one of these when I haven't liked or at least been pretty familiar with the artist.

If Alfred reads this (or if someone wants to give him a nudge) and wishes to do his thing, I will happily provide the music.

He's been nudged

hi!

If MaresNest and Alfred are up for it, we have our roster complete.

Alfred, I ilx webmailed yer

Okay just to confirm the overall roster -- make sure to update your artist name if you want to change it, otherwise that's the credit.

Fortnight -- sund4r
The Tortured Poets Department -- sarahell
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- Florin Cuchares
Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D
Florida!!! -- Maresn3st/Aflred, Lord Sotosyn
Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Beer Swan
loml -- Elvis Telecom
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
The Alchemy -- ShariVari
Clara Bow -- Moka
Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests

Plus we have H.P. on backup if someone has to step away, thanks for that -- if anyone else wants to be a backup too, just post!

Repeating myself from above: Files MUST be sent to me by March 15th via ned at kuci dot org, preferably AIFF format, mp3 acceptable but please PLEASE, do not send it as a WAV. Release date will be April 1.

Per my initial post, we need cover art but I am not an artist. That said, I have created a placeholder. By all means if someone has a better one, share it! Anyway:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53520763611_2af0838dd6.jpg

Also my current plan is to make it available for basic download only somewhere like mediafire or whatever -- I *could* place it on Soundcloud as I have with all the other ones and may still do but I also remember how Grady's YouTube account got completely nuked after LULU was up for a little while there and the amount of fame-driven fever pitch around the runup to this one tells me that floating it a little too publicly before release may be disastrous even for my basic SoundCloud setup, so. (I may place it there after the actual album itself is out.)

How do we feel about Bandcamp for these now?

IIRC Bandcamp only accepts files at full rate, so if we want to do that, no mp3s, just AIFFs please. We could set it up as a free download easily enough but again (even with the relative Wild West of the place in re actual covers) I kinda only want to put somewhere formal AFTER the actual album comes out.

Wait hold on, I have a better cover placeholder:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53521191716_63bf07f6c4_z.jpg

how did Ned hack my Grindr account

"Password, password...I know: JakeGyllenhallsThighs."

wondering if anyone would like to share their writing process some weeks out from deadline

not super familiar with the swift discog beyond the singles, I gather that isn't really important but it sounds kind of fun to anticipate what the record might sound like

does she move towards "country" again with this record? or is that maybe a decade or so on

Ultimately you shouldn't feel limited to actually sounding like her -- the goal is not to necessarily do a specific parody or pastiche of a 'typical' Taylor song, however defined. The pre-cover efforts certainly have contained many examples doing that for its various subjects over the years but it's not universal. If you want to hazard a guess with what it might all be like, though, feel free!

ok I think my song is ready. I think I nailed it.

sending it your way, Ned. I don't know if it's mixed too low... I don't know what I'm doing lol.

at least it's brief so I it's relatively painless.

First time trying to play guitar too so I don't know if I should so a second attempt lol... there's still time to learn and send a better thing before the deadline... I tried doing a sample based song but I had no idea how to do it properly and kept crashing garageband after a pair of frustrating hours without saving any progress and didn't feel like paying for ableton, so I asked a friend for a keyboard controller and a guitar instead.

I'm sure it sucks and not in an interesting way like idk, The Shaggs... which seems apt for a Taylor Swift pre-covers project so I might just leave it at that.

Good thing it's the last song, tho. There's no track to skip to.

Ach, missed this! One for the reserves bench, plz

You’re on it!

Anyway Moka's track is in as mentioned so the countdown begins for the rest of you. You have a month from today!

Mine's is finished, Ned, haven't got round to sending you it yet. Can my artist name be changed to Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)?

I’ve never done one of these and it sounds fun. Any room left?

Answering Tom: sure! Send when you can.

Answering Heez: no room, and you'd be I think third in line as a sub, but we'll see what shakes down. Keep an eye out for next time!

Below is the list with artist names -- the asterisk shows I have the file.

* Fortnight -- sund4r
The Tortured Poets Department -- sarahell
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- Florin Cuchares
Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)
Florida!!! -- Maresn3st/Aflred, Lord Sotosyn
Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Beer Swan
loml -- Elvis Telecom
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
The Alchemy -- ShariVari
* Clara Bow -- Moka

Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests

Update! A little under two weeks to go! Tracks in hand marked with asterisks.

* Fortnight -- sund4r
The Tortured Poets Department -- sarahell
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- Florin Cuchares
Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
* So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
* Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)
Florida!!! -- Maresn3st/Aflred, Lord Sotosyn
Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
* Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Beer Swan
loml -- Elvis Telecom
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
The Alchemy -- ShariVari
* Clara Bow -- Moka

Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests

Have next week off work, was hoping to spend some time coming up with some… thing

uh oh

On February 16, 2024 at The Eras Tour show in Melbourne, Australia, Swift announced a second version of the album featuring a new bonus track "The Bolter."[3]

On February 23, 2024 at The Eras Tour show in Sydney, Australia, Swift announced a third version of the album featuring a new bonus track "The Albatross."[4]

On March 3, 2024 at The Eras Tour show in Singapore, Swift announced a fourth version of the album featuring a new bonus track "The Black Dog."

I have to re-record everything due to being a uniquely shitty guitarist

I'm happy to tackle one of the new songs.

Hold that — H.P., Heez and Mark G had all mentioned being on the reserve bench if there was space or opportunity. Can you three please confirm if you’d like to choose these and which ones? Josh if one of them bows out, a song is yours.

10-4. I couldn't get to it until next week anyway.

i work best under pressure. I have three sets of riffs written and will decide maybe tomorrow which one I'm using lol

same, presently waffling between lo-fi electro pop and somber acoustic country/folk, seems like the play would be to marry the two somehow but I am no Taylor Swift

will throw out again that I'm up for a collab if anyone feels like laying something or other down but doesn't have the time/wherewithal to write/produce an entire song in the next two weeks

I'll grab The Bolter

gladly pick up the slack if anyone needs to duck out for any reason. i understand we are already queueing on the subs bench

It's like getting concert tickets all over again. I'll pay $1500 to cover one of her unreleased songs!

Happy to give up my song for $1500

I've got four songs together that I will part with for $5000.

(Believe it or not, it was cheaper to fly to Australia and cover a song there than to cover a song here.)

just send "Bonus Track: The Manuscript" so that's covered off

Great! So updating, along with new open spots:

* Fortnight -- sund4r
The Tortured Poets Department -- sarahell
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- Florin Cuchares
Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)
Florida!!! -- Maresn3st/Aflred, Lord Sotosyn
Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Beer Swan
loml -- Elvis Telecom
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
The Alchemy -- ShariVari
* Clara Bow -- Moka

* Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests
Bonus Track: The Bolter -- Mark G
Bonus Track: The Albatross
Bonus Track: The Black Dog

Again, per their earlier interest, H.P. and Heez have first claim to those last two; I'll ping them today so they can say yes or no. Josh and front tea for two are next up after them.

Whoops, sorry, redoing that:

* Fortnight -- sund4r
The Tortured Poets Department -- sarahell
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- Florin Cuchares
Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
* So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
* Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)
Florida!!! -- Maresn3st/Aflred, Lord Sotosyn
Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
* Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Beer Swan
loml -- Elvis Telecom
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
The Alchemy -- ShariVari
* Clara Bow -- Moka

* Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests
Bonus Track: The Bolter -- Mark G
Bonus Track: The Albatross
Bonus Track: The Black Dog

If there are any takers, I'd prefer to bow out :( I've fallen into a work vortex and my mind isn't in Taylor Swift covers right now!!

Okay that throws open "I Can Fix Him" -- Josh, would you like that one, just so we have the main album covered at least?

Josh, please take this and make it a cut up version of the Bob The Builder theme.

Also u.m.s. their song actually has "Bonus Song: The Manuscript" in the lyrics so I encourage all bonus song takers to make "Bonus Song" part of the actual title of their piece, regardless of lyrical choice.

I should say 'PER u.m.s.' etc.

When is the due date? I can do "I Can Fix Him," but probably can't get to it for a week.

xpost Hey Ned sorry to be pedant but it's "Bonus Track" not Song (I only say this because Chris says Bonus Track a bunch of times in the lyrics) (and as always thanks for herding cats on this!)

Josh: Due date is Friday the 15th so you've got time!

u.m.s.: Ah right! Man I'll have to redo the list here...

Okay, I think I have it right here -- Josh just mention if you want to be credited by a different name. And yes, "Bonus Track" should be the 'extra' lyric/title as desired for those last four!

* Fortnight -- sund4r
The Tortured Poets Department -- sarahell
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- Florin Cuchares
Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
* So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
* Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)
Florida!!! -- Maresn3st/Aflred, Lord Sotosyn
Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
* Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Josh in Chicago
loml -- Elvis Telecom
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
The Alchemy -- ShariVari
* Clara Bow -- Moka

* Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests
Bonus Track: The Bolter -- Mark G
Bonus Track: The Albatross
Bonus Track: The Black Dog

I’ll take albatross if that’s cool. Be waiting to use my “come across like an albatross” line

There ya go. Okay reupdate -- H.P., claim the last bonus track if you want it!

* Fortnight -- sund4r
The Tortured Poets Department -- sarahell
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- Florin Cuchares
Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
* So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
* Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)
Florida!!! -- Maresn3st/Aflred, Lord Sotosyn
Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
* Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Josh in Chicago
loml -- Elvis Telecom
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
The Alchemy -- ShariVari
* Clara Bow -- Moka

* Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests
Bonus Track: The Bolter -- Mark G
Bonus Track: The Albatross -- Heez
Bonus Track: The Black Dog

Thank you Josh for saving my ass, I was so excited and had the lyrics worked out but the days have been slipping by and the work piling up

Ha, lyrics? Clearly none of you got the memo that "The Tortured Poets Department" is her ambient relaxation album.#onethread

Uhhhhhhhh I'm sorry but I'm vacating my reserve spot too! Cramming two tests, one this weekend and the other the next, which will take all free time I might have to give to this. Sorry, too late in the game for me to sub in :(

All good -- front tea for two, it's up to you! Let us know if you can take "The Black Dog" and we're set.

hey hey, daddy, said the way you move
gonna make you onesickbeat, gonna make you groove

will pay you $10 if you just record the Led Zeppelin song

xpost GODDAMMIT

Roffle

will gladly put a black dog together for this - book me, danno!

Mash up the Led Zep song with the Nick Drake song, job's a good un (don't do this please)

Okay, fixed lineup, again asterisks noting who has already submitted:

* Fortnight -- sund4r
The Tortured Poets Department -- sarahell
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- Florin Cuchares
Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
* So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
* Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)
Florida!!! -- Maresn3st/Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
* Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Josh in Chicago
loml -- Elvis Telecom
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
The Alchemy -- ShariVari
* Clara Bow -- Moka

* Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests
Bonus Track: The Bolter -- Mark G
Bonus Track: The Albatross -- Heez
Bonus Track: The Black Dog -- front tea for two

Reconfirm artist names as needed, instructions for submission in the original post, you all have eleven days!

i suppose i have submitted something

Have just sent something totally unsuitable, but it's a good title...

I’m halfway done. Hoping to finish in the next few days but it may be right at the deadline.

I haven't had time to record the lyrics I wrote, but I will send Maresn3s audio tomorrow, I promise.

All good — just have it to me by Friday (and that goes for the rest of you!)

song's music and lyrics are written, and guide track recorded. hoping to have my friend collaborate on it - if for some unlikely reason we can't work that out, my backup plan is I will record it as a solo track (and keep Bo Jackson Overdrive name either way, as it works as both a group name and a solo act name).

but the hard part is done thankfully, lol...had such bad writer's block and rewrote it from scratch at least once.

This has been a good exercise in underscoring several of my many limitations.

OK, I've got a good problem to have. I've ended up with *two* tracks, one DIY, and a totally different one I made with the help of a ringer. Neither has lyrics, but if Taylor has made it this far releasing nothing but instrumentals, so can I. The challenge is deciding which one to submit!

I am awaiting Alfred's voice, he's cutting it fine :)

Thanks to everyone for getting in their cuts so far -- you have two days! Will have an update post in a bit, still catching up on mail after my conference break.

I am awaiting Alfred's voice, he's cutting it fine :)

― Maresn3st,

He is!

Just emailed you Ned.

Got it! (Sorry, STILL catching up with email -- will aim to have an updated 'got it' list posted much later today. Tonight? These last few days have been weird!)

Ned my file was too big to send through standard email so I tried to share it w/ you via Google Drive - it should have sent you an email from ilxemaildump at gmail dot com.

let me know if received when you can! relieved it's done. I love performing music, I hate recording it, but this was a fun absurdist song to write.

Hmm, I don't *think* I see it, but I'll go through my mailbox as I can to let you know.

Juuust in case sent the link manually again from my email...topic has Neanderthal in it

Yup, got it!

Okay, finally updating this! Again, reconfirm your artist name if you need to -- and if you still haven't submitted, you have until tomorrow! (If you know you sent something to me and you are not asterisked in this list, absolutely resend it.)

* Fortnight -- sund4r
The Tortured Poets Department -- sarahell
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- Florin Cuchares
* Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
* So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
* Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)
Florida!!! -- Maresn3st/Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
* Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
* Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Josh in Chicago
loml -- Elvis Telecom
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
* The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
* The Alchemy -- ShariVari
* Clara Bow -- Moka

* Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests
* Bonus Track: The Bolter -- The Misunderstudd
Bonus Track: The Albatross -- Heez
* Bonus Track: The Black Dog -- front tea for two

Basically, we have seven tracks to go.

Hey Ned, just sent you a mail with a WeTransfer link.

Got it!

I sent my file!

Sent! I think you should get it as a Google drive link.

Received!

That leaves per my count — sarahell, florin, kurt, Elvis, Heez.

Turning mine in later on Friday.

I need today to finish but will have it to you sometime tonight

I think my friend that helped out (a lot) had more fun than I did, lol. I asked him if he wanted credit and he looked at me like I was crazy.

Haha. "Please specifically NOT credit me."

No change per my previous post but just to fully update so far:

* Fortnight -- sund4r
The Tortured Poets Department -- sarahell
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- Florin Cuchares
* Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
* So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
* Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)
* Florida!!! -- Maresn3st/Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
* Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
* Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
* I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Josh in Chicago
loml -- Elvis Telecom
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
* The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
* The Alchemy -- ShariVari
* Clara Bow -- Moka

* Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests
* Bonus Track: The Bolter -- The Misunderstudd
Bonus Track: The Albatross -- Heez
* Bonus Track: The Black Dog -- front tea for two

Been without power most of the day as yesterday's windstorm here in the foothills knocked a tree over the transformer across the street. SoCal Edison finally getting to it now - update that to *late* tonight.

All good!

still fiddling around on account of my overestimation of my ability to use Vocaloid (have only ever plugged in random vowel sounds, conjuring actual words is slightly more complex, haha) but will absolutely have Taylor's next banger sorted at some point this evening

has anyone volunteered for the boudoir photoshoot (for the album art/WDYLL thread)

sent

Got it!

Got quick updates from sarahell and kurt s that time had snuck up on them but they'll aim to have something in the near future (we have time given the 'release date' of April 1); combined with Elvis T and florin's updates here we're on track. If for any reason a gap DOES open up, is there anyone else who can claim a spot? H.P., are you free again?

How is it sounding, Ned? Have any themes emerged?

Theme: "bad music" from all pre-homo sapien musician

Actually mega excited to hear everyone's songs

It is a thing of wonder. (As of this point, Neanderthal's song is the longest; front tea for two's is the shortest.)

If there is an emergency, I do have an extra track that another friend of mine and I devised that sounds like really lush hold music, free to anyone that feels like adding vocals/anything.

I never actually finished mine so let me know if I can keep tinkering. Staying up until 2:30 to “finish” it was a bad idea. As with college papers, I sent what I had.

throwing my name in as a backup to the backups

xpost Feel free to tinker! But there will be a final deadline, no fixing “Wolves” here.

m bison: noted, will follow up as needed!

Okay the stragglers are coming in, we're down to Elvis Telecom, florin and sarahell...

I know I haven't been about much for the past few years but I'm not sure I would have resisted putting something together for the Post Malone track using just samples from Fortnite and him saying "should we sample this?"

FINALLY have full power restored to the house so I can bring it on home. The windstorm knocked out the neutral line to the house - when power first came back automatically after the first blackout on Thursday, there were still lines down and the resulting voltage spike killed a half-dozen surge suppressers, along with a microwave, a dishwasher, and *fuckfuckfuck* my SL-1200MK3. The first two can be repaired, replaced if absolutely necessary but I'm standing vigil for my turntable.

*sad salute*

oh so sorry to hear that

ET, you have an EV, right? Were you able to plug the house into the car?

Eesh that all sounds awful!

Ned’s first listen didn’t go well then

Roffle

lmao

(Not at ET’s travails, that all sounds awful and I am pouring one out for your turntable)

The Tortured Listener’s Department

Okay some late updates!

kurt schwitterz track in hand
Elvis...any update?
Florin: sent you a note the other day. What's the score?

Finally, sarahel confirms that she'll need to step back so m bison if you can grab "The Tortured Poets Department" itself and get me something by Sunday, we're good!

hell yeah bout it

Thank ya!

Okay gotta cough REAL loudly for Elvis T and Florin here; what's going on? (M Bison is working away, obv.)

maybe as a backup plan, m bison records a trilogy!

It's what Elvis (P.) would have wanted.

i have my instrumental, i have written the chorus' lyrics, i have good friday off tomorrow and im gonna have it done by sunday

Great to hear!

Well I sure would love to release this tomorrow but… (Nothing against you, m, you got the assignment late. But Elvis T and Florin, I love you both but I’m wondering why you’ve gone dark!)

im doing last minute mixing atm, i'll have it to you within an hour!

Great!

sendt

Got it!

Release it as is or have the soothing sounds of passing gas as the missing tracks. It’s what Taylor would have wanted.

Spoken word orations.

And you're just the man for the job, Ned.

If Taylor is allowed to re-release her albums with new or different tracks, so are you.

i will gladly record one or both as Henry Rollins-esque spoken word tracks except making much less sense

if there is dead space i can send some filler over but it won't have lyrics or standard song structure
it will have gongs

^omg please do this

It's a must.

Gongs backing Henry Rollins spoken word??

i'd rather leave henry r out of it but whatever works. lmk what is needed (duration) and i will try to find something suitable.

coincidentally and speaking of random spoken word tracks, literally every time i hear "it's a must" i think of REM's "voice of harold"

You can use ai to have Taylor read small poem skits.

https://www.frfr.ai/

La L: Duration can be whatever but feel free to send it over to ned at kuci dot org, in either AIFF or mp3 format (no WAVs please). Assuming I don't hear from either Elvis T or Florin I'll assign yours to one of those slots.

Oh wait seems it’s not working anymore… at least on mobile.

emailed u ned!

If anyone wants or needs a leftover instrumental that sounds kind of like spa/hold music, upon which to lay vocals/poetry/noises, let me know!

Josh -- will keep that in mind!

La L -- got it!

Elvis T/Florin -- at this point we're in 'you snooze you lose' territory. (That said if Elvis has been held up further by the problems he mentioned from a couple of weeks back, I absolutely get it, but I've tried webmailing Florin through here a couple of times to no response.)

And actually, Josh, do send over your instrumental to me as well. I have an idea, believe it or not.

Sent!

Ned, if any tracks need normalising/mastering I'm in front of my ProTools rig for the next few hours.

Lol mine probably does I had no idea what I was doing.

I’m sure mine does bc I record live in a basement

As I'm almost out the door for a chunk of the day I can't do anything immediate; that said, Maresn3st, if you're willing to wait until this evening I can probably get you everything then if you want to do a run-through on that front.

(Also, Josh, not seeing your new one yet; maybe resend or try an alternate method?)

I sent it a second time via dropbox (I think/hope), since gmail wasn't cooperating this time.

i mastered ours, feel free to take a look at it but there's probably not much headroom

I made mine sound less shitty but when it comes to levels, I'm clueless and always have been. also was using a Bandlab app on my phone. so any tweaking of mine, have at it.

Sent you an email, Ned

Got it! And Josh, still didn't come through? Weird!

maybe try wetransfer or something similar?

I mixed mine with one ear not functioning so mine could probably use some mastering

this is still getting released in some form today, right?

yep but 8-track format only

i'm waiting for the reel to reel

"Ned's Version"

Limited edition PONO high-res version at Target (with unique bonus tracks)

Tomorrow more likely at this point thanks to Maresn3st giving it a once over later today.

👍

Anyway I just need to record my own addition to Josh's extra track, which is now in hand. It will, I think, suit.

How many decimals of Pi can you fit in two minutes?

Quick note that Elvis T got in touch, things did indeed get too crazy with the house et al. But we are covered at this point. Maresn3st will get the tracks later today from me for a quick listen/master and then I'll put things up for download tomorrow. (Again, avoiding Soundcloud/Bandcamp/etc. for the moment to prevent account nuking.)

Quick note that Elvis T got in touch, things did indeed get too crazy with the house et al. But we are covered at this point. Maresn3st will get the tracks later today from me for a quick listen/master and then I'll put things up for download tomorrow. (Again, avoiding Soundcloud/Bandcamp/etc. for the moment to prevent account nuking.)

*hiccup*

Sorry you got too busy Elvis

Okay final final track listing -- if you want to change or update your artist name, you gotta let me know now!

--

Fortnight -- sund4r Subramanian
The Tortured Poets Department -- matthew mathieu
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- La Lechera
Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)
Florida!!! -- Maresn3st (feat. Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Josh in Chicago
loml -- Josh in Chicago (feat. Ned Raggett)
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
The Alchemy -- ShariVari
Clara Bow -- Moka

Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests
Bonus Track: The Bolter --The Misunderstudd
Bonus Track: The Albatross -- Heez
Bonus Track: The Black Dog -- front tea for two

Done and dusted, just sending them back to you Ned.

Neanderthal, there was a little bit of clipping on the original recording close to the end of the tune, that I just couldn't totally pull out, sorry about that.

Got 'em, thanks!

Oh wait -- I still need DJP/HI DERE's track!

(From Maresn3st that is, not DJP himself.)

Just sent!

And we're good!

Exciting!

No worries, Maresn3st, appreciate you doing your best to clean up my mess :)

Can't wait to hear this

It's still April Fools Day in California for the next 2 minutes ;)

We're live!

"I Want To Say Thank You To The Fans By Telling You A Secret!" -- ILX Pre-Covers The Tortured Poets Department

And this thread is locked!