music you dreamt

I still have the odd dream sound/tune these days, but unless it's on a Saturday or Sunday when I've got no other issues to deal with it's got no chance of seeing an output jack.

None of which actually exist in recorded versions.

It was so fucking awesome.

Another time I dreamt I had to stand in for Bob Dylan at a Bob Dylan concert because he hit his head on a giant gold globe and forgot all his lyrics. The show went better than I expected.

I did dream some lines for a song once, wrote some verses around it and it became the chorus of one of the few originals my band performs.

OK, so in a dream last night a Scott Walker song was playing, in the vein of his 60s work not his modern stuff, in fact it was bit like "We Came Through" from "Scott 3". The song had a bawdy sort of Jacques Brel-like lyric about a guy telling his friends about how he'd had sex last night, I woke up and remembered a line from it and sort of fumbled about in the dark for a pen and paper to write it down, this morning I read it and the line was:

"Tonight I cut my temple teeth"

that's great!

Well it makes as much sense as most of his lyrics

I guess it means he/you recently converted to Judaism?

It's definitely about sex, the whole song was

Had a dream I was seeing MBV last night, everything sounded pretty 'on' except the vocals, which were Creed/Clear Channel nu-grunge style. I worked my way down from the balcony level and started walking closer and closer to the stage, at which point my alarm sounded.

at which point you realised the cleaner had started vacuuming with Nickleback on, amirite?

I think it turned out to be one of my roommates singing along in the shower to... Tom Vek for some reason?

Oh, this is interesting.

And yes, when I was fully immersed in songwriting, I did dream of melodies, rhythms and full blown songs and arrangements. I didn't remember all of them and some would come back more than once.

Sometimes I wouldn't dream them, but I would wake up with a melody/song idea/rhythm/arrangement. It was great because I would just sit down and record it.

This was a while ago.

After I sold all my equipment and got out of music it no longer happens. I think it happened before because I used to basically eat, sleep, breathe music.

I always used to hear music in my head and I still do. Melodies, song ideas, rhythms, arrangements.

The only difference is that now I try to suppress it because it can distract me from being a boring 9-5 'career man'. But I don't think I could ever stop hearing music in my head.

Maybe one day I'll get back to doing music.

Posted this one a few years back in a Beach Boys thread:

Wasn't sure which of the many Beach Boys threads to put this on, but I figured this wasn't a bad choice. I went to bed last night feeling really sick and feverish and ended up having the wildest fever dreams for most of the night. The only one I vividly remember was when I bumped into this dude at a record store that was telling me about two "lesser known" Beach Boys albums, apparently part of some alternate timeline.

The first was a 1978 album called Runnin' Low which was more in the country/folksy vein, with several of the songs heavily indebted to the "outlaw country" of the era. The second was even weirder, apparently in this universe Dennis didn't drown that fateful night but ended up needing a long time to recuperate and got super into fucked-up synth sounds in the meantime. Somehow he roped the guys into cutting an album that he drove, and the result was 1984's Night Races. The vivid part was the cover art which was sort of like the Trans artwork but more Tron with highly stylized and neon versions of 50s cars. So weird.

I would listen the shit out of Night Races. I don't like Dennis's 70s voice a great deal but it would so suit a Trans-style album.

Sometimes I fall asleep listening to music on the train and become convinced I'm playing the music myself, or possibly just listening back to music I played. What's strange is that it feels like I'm 'conducting' the sounds and that they're doing exactly what I want them to (as opposed to the music doing what it wants to do); but even stranger is that I start noticing mistakes, like, serious problems where the guitars are out of tune or the drums don't hit on time.

Posted this one a few years back in a Beach Boys thread:

yeah, I remember that 'cuz I had a Beach Boys dream around the same time and posted to the same thread, let me see if i can find the thread...

Found it:

Had a dream which had a Beach Boys album in it last night. I woke up and wrote some of it down, then went back to sleep. It was an eighties album. It had ten tracks on it. The first track was one of their old songs, the second was called something like "Really Back" (referring I take it to the fact that Brian Wilson was back in the band) - it was 0:00 long. What else? Oh they do version of The Who's "Tommy Can You Hear Me?" on there, this is 0:30 long (for some reason the lengths of the songs have stuck in my brain). Fourth track on Side One is an epic, an eight minute track called "The Grand". But there's another 8 minute track which closes the album, this one's called "Coconut Buffin'". Highlight of the album has to be Side two, track one, a collaboration with 70s funk legend Johnny 'Guitar' Watson (and 'his Crew'), a song called "Rain and Shine or 1 of a Git".

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:02 (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I had a weird daydream/snooze moment where I imagined I was watching a song performed by people standing in a queue with a recording device set up at the front:

Rec <-1 <-2 <-3 <-4 <-5 etc...

It started with the person at the front singing a few lines before going back and joining the end of the line. As the song progresses, the other people in the line start to join in and harmonise so that the recorder picks up different people's tunes as they approach the front.

Maybe this was partly inspired by some Cara Tolmie stuff I was reading about.

Woke up in the middle of a song this morning. In my dream, a guy asked me what was "my favourite Dylan song sung by Elvis Costello" (an odd question for one who is no great fan of either artist), but before I could answer he said, "Mine's is 'Holy Nuts'". Then 'Holy Nuts' started playing. The chorus was very similar to 'Mr. Big Stuff' by Jean Knight and didn't sound much like either Dylan or Elvis Costello. Oh and it was a love song, 'Holy Nuts' was a person.

I dreamt a song last night; it was a song I already knew (inside-out at that), but it had all sorts of extra weird bits in it I'd never noticed before. Dreams, eh?

Back in high-school I dreamt up a song (or more accurately, a chorus), and in the dream I played the song and everybody loved it and it was the catchyest song ever. When I woke, I couldn't remember it. I spent the next few days telling my friends that I had dreamt up the catchyest song ever, but that I had forgotten it. It was a cool story. Then, a week or so later, while I was folding laundry, all of a sudden it came back. And, to be honest, it wasn't the catchyest song ever after all... But me and my class-mates turned it into a song, and we won the school song-contest with it. So it ended well.

Awesome. Post it?

around august i was kinda sick and i had this dream that i was on this slow march through the desert, and people were dying and covered in blood and stuff, it was sort of funereal. and there was this sort of bongo-led dirge that accompanied it, with wailing and a female vocalist singing. i never really remember dreams but it made me get up and have a think. i can't remember the melody now, the whole thing was really intense. it had a lot of death rattles and stuff in it.

in the end i went back to sleep and the next day i got up and went to work.

Awesome. Post it?

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), 8. oktober 2013 13:00 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would love to, but I haven't got a recording of it. It was a yearly live-contest, many years ago.

<3 you, Holy Nuts

There was a period some years ago when most nights I'd dream a different amazing death metal/dub reggae fusion track.

Dreamt about a Four Seasons album last night, released in 1979, it was called "1970". It came in a cardboard box with a hole cut in the front so that you could read the title on the album sleeve - it was a vinyl album of course, I'm not sure I've ever dreamt about a CD in my life, which is potentially interesting. The actual album was like a leather bound book, and I remember a song, which 'should have been a hit but wasn't' called "Nashwan Experimental #1" (spending too much time on ILX obviously). I can't remember too much about it, it was in the vein of their mid-70s material but more electronic and keyboard based and I remember listening to the first verse and thinking, "This is good but when does Frankie Valli come in?" Then Frankie Valli came in and it didn't sound much like him (his voice was too high(!)) but I knew it was him.

(xposts) (I completely forgotten about "Holy Nuts"!)

Sadly only a title, no tune this time. Interesting story behind it though. Eighty years ago (sic) Bob Dylan had gone on holiday to a cottage on a small Scottish island and while there had recorded an acetate of an unrecorded song. Many years later the acetate was discovered by a woman staying at the cottage, but, as yet, she hadn't been able to find a buyer for it. The title of the song was "V.U. Pokes".

The other night, an early-80's ska-influenced single by Arnold Schwarzenegger (I understood in the dream that it was a one-off), with backing vocals by Wendy and Lisa.

Last night, I dreamed I'd wandered into some sort of meeting or church service and was uneasily trying to sing along, not quite recognizing the song. When I woke up the melody in my head was the Troggs' "Love is All Around."

Again, no music with this one. I was in the music section of the big public library in my home town. Lots of things happened but,what I remember best is I was looking at the classical section and pulled out a CD, the first part of which was a composition by Luciano Berio called, "To Let the Strength Out", the second part was by Jacques Brel and was called "Girolinde". There was a video still of a woman playing a harp on the back cover and, for some reason, this disappointed me, so I put it back.

Dreamt I heard a Boards of Canada song that had heavy Mario brothers 2 (NES) vibes.

I was having dinner with my dad, who's been dead for years, and my brother (I think), and I think it was outdoors. I was trying to chose some music for the occasion, so I was looking at two vinyl boxsets of Sun Ra (I wish I could remember the track titles!) and remember playing one track in particular. It had a low burbling moog in the background, pretty much in one key, brushed drums, no bass, tenor sax soloing and a strange sounding trumpet playing a repeating melody, with one vocal singing the title, "Charlie Was a Saint".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDXBPZoV2jw

I can remember three occasions.

1) A music hall song, with full, brass-led arrangement. The first verse: "Have you got any equations, was my only cry. / I think so, dear - yes, they're over there. / I'll be with you by and by."

2) An early 90s Erasure single: "I Gave You Freedom".

3) Abba's reunion single, with video: "Now My Race Is Run".

Great lyrics and song titles.