The thread to post the first song you ever made!!

[vurt]

i dont even still have a copy of the first track i did this week

[Bonteburg]

So this is not my first track but it happened within one month of me getting Muzys 0.9, December 2001, so it's easily among my first five

enjoy:

http://www.panicnow.net/~marco/ooooww.mp3

5 years, damn!!

Marco

[Sickle]

My first recorded track done at Tapeworm Studios in Miami.

[licasto2]

first track I did with a 'puter was "beer commercial" in 1998. I got Cubase vst and a beige G3 powermac(233 mhz)and
spent a weekend learning the software with an old idea I had 4 Ice Cube's vocals. Used a Crate practice amp and a
Yamaha tx16w sampler and DX100 for hardware.




click on "BEER COMMERCIAL"

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... D=71281383

[camsr]

thanks for the comments guys Im surprised this thread took off like this. Keep em comming and I will listen to y'alls' songs soon.

[camsr]

Okay I listened to them

runagate: scary!!! lol listening to that I thought I'd bought the soundtrack to a bad dream.

jon: I couldn't listen since I don't use bloatware winamp.

Lady J: LMAO who let the chipmunks in the party, and on the mic!? Cool beats on the first AND second. The second sounds like alot of todays hip hop in a way, but then the vocals came in and smacked of 90s.

dunderkwac: Awesome synth rock-ish sound. lil repetitive even for my tastes

clueless: If I could hear the lyrics, would I know what a space hopper is?

geekboy: Great sounding vocals.

advaya: Super retro electronica sound that I like. Imaginitive melodies.

Ildon: Sounds great. Are you sure this is your first song EVER?

Bonteburg: DUDE this is awesome!! I can't believe I haven't heard your music before. I could get down to this

Sickle: That's some dark soundin shit man. heh The production def sounds like a first recording.

licasto2: Bitches n money, sounds good to me heh.


Damn, that took awhile.

[Ildon]

Ildon: Sounds great. Are you sure this is your first song EVER?

Don't take what I said the wrong way. :p

This is one of my first tunes. Not "the" first, but ah well. Filelodge isn't working, so yousendit is gonna have to do for now.

It's actually more like my third or fourth tune.

:p

[clueless]

clueless: If I could hear the lyrics...

...would I know what a space hopper is?

I just used it as a word for a relentlessly superficial and optimistic person who would rather "get away from the world..." because "we're running out of ice" than "come back down to earth". It was a sort of eco-pop song.

[camsr]

cool

[deaf dunderkwac]

dunderkwac: Awesome synth rock-ish sound. lil repetitive even for my tastes

ya, all guitars and moog bass. simple drum beat, showing my youngest how to edit a song together.
Not my first recordings though. Those were done on a direct-to-disc cutter (more of a toy, really) 2 mono 1/4" tape machines (more toys) and a Roberts (Akai) 4-track with SOUND ON SOUND (2 tracks one direction and two tracks the other)good for about 3 passes before the noise got so bad that you couldn't make out the instruments.
Got real serious after that, but nothing survived the demise of the machines and the glueing of the tapes and the melting of the shellacs...
and my own neglect.
hint: first recording in 1960...
did I mention I prefer even an AC97 codec in a crap computer over ANY of the previous stuff I worked with.
(now I'll wander off the path of old memories and do something more constructive)

[AdmiralQuality]

Oh man, I can hardly believe I'm doing this but... what a GREAT thread subject for the Music Cafe board (and this will inspire my first content-post here!) I think at December 1985, that I'm the current winner for oldest submission too!!! (Come on old farts, send in your tape crap!) Yes kids, we managed to do this stuff BEFORE computers!

I could actually dig out some earlier stuff, when I used to do it all by 2 track tape bouncing, but this was the one I had handy.

OK, dig if you will... the year is 1985, Christmas, I'm 17, my parents just bought me a Fostex X-15 4-track casette recorder, and so I ran up to my bedroom and made... this:

http://www.admiralquality.com/mp3/AQsFi ... ckSong.mp3

Yes, it's WAY too long (most of my early songs clocked in at 7 minutes so this one at 5 was relatively restrained!)

I "remastered" this in 2002 onto two 16 bit soundblasters, in the same box, with Vegas (great thing about Vegas, you could use many different sound devices together!) I think I need to capture all that old stuff again now that I have 24 bit gear, but the original 16 bit remastering DID help, a lot. I strictly didn't add any new reverb or other time based effects, only EQ and compression (probably too much on this track). But pretty much what you hear here is what it sounded like in 1985, just a bit cleaner.

And to answer gear questions in advance:

Mostly it's my Roland JX-3P (which I got 2 summers previous as payment for painting the outside of my parent's house). Of course, it's not multitimbral so every different sound is a different track (and LOTS of bouncing to fit it all on one 4 track cassette! The secret was to record early tracks brighter and louder than you wanted them in the end.)

The drums are a Roland TR-606. All the same pattern, though I shake it up by mixing in the snare after a certain point.

The high pitched "toms" are a Roland MC-202 microcomposer (basically a SH-101 in a very small box with a rudimentary 2 track sequencer built in). It's being triggered off a GATE out from the TR-606 (there was no MIDI on any device but the lonely JX-3P). Oh... actually, there's a small chance the JX-3P's sequencer did the "high toms"! I can't remember and it's such a simple sound, either synth could have easily done it.

The "guitar" power chords are a '3P patch I made. As is the "Eno" floaty resonant pad, and the "soft electric piano" and the "bass", "strings", "brass" (which has benefitted a lot from the compression during remix) and the "piano". I don't think I used my Realistic/Moog Concertmate MG-1 on anything here, though that's too bad.

The reverb is a spring reverb from an old Traynor PA I had. It's also adding some distortion on the drums and the "power chord 3P-guitar".

So there you go. I'm too shy to post any new stuff until I make something perfect (which won't happen till I'm done development of my upcoming soft-synth... if ever ... God I was prolific back then compared to now!), but thanks for this thread and for an excuse to show off stuff from when I was 17... a hundred years ago!

(Yes, I know, it sounds very Phil Collins.... what can I say? I was a Genesis fan and it was smack dab in the middle of the 80's! Forgive me. )

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Now some shout-outs to all the ones I really dug...

camsr: "Vestigal", great name! Is that the new name or the original? How did you know it would become vestigal?

runagate: I didn't feel like signing up, sorry.

folks with MODs: sorry, I can probably play them but if it's not rendered to stereo, it ain't a "song" yet... at least not according to my dogmaticism. But really, I didn't even listen to them. Sorry again.

Lady J: Um, that's a remix, not a song. And my ears hurt. Sorry. The other 2 are better though... but again, I have this thing about songwriting that makes me an unfair judge...

Deaf Dundekwac: Funky! I like. Very 80's, but not in a bad way. (OH! and that clipping distortion when the sub-frequency happens, that's to DIE for! I wish more people knew how to do that!) Nice guitarin' too. Again, a spooky 80's vibe.

advaya [er, correction: geekboy!].... "You Never Trust Me". OH SO Beatlesque!!! (Have I made that comment to you before? I think I did!!!) Wow... you're a force to be reckoned with! Love it! That's songwriting! I know the production could be better, but hey, the songwriting SHINES THROUGH. Very George Harrison. Great solo. Did you say "with your lonley mom"? ?" Dude, if you wanna make a band I'm IN. We're only 3/4 of a a very wide country apart!

lElectronica (or is it IElectronica? Damn sans serif fonts!)... very Kraftwerk! I like. (And trance isn't really my thing so, you're reaching new audiences!)

(Ack! Why don't some of you people put your info in your MP3s!?! Would make this reviewing a lot easier!...)

Anyway... whoever made "owwwwwwww", I like, funky. But.... is it a remix or is it YOUR music? (Ooooh, I know I'm gonna catch shit for that comment.)

Floor/Chelsea Pigs.... WOOT! I totally get it I think (and again, not really my style.. so take this as an EXTRA compliment!) Your lyrics brought present difficult girl-issues in my mind to the forefront. (Yay?) Heh, we used to jokingly call this kind of metal "Cookie Monster Singing"... but really, I like this one. A bit flat on the recording dynamics but obviously that's to be forgiven in a "first song" thread. It's making me bang my head (like, the OTHER one. )

argu - "fukcing noisy strings". This isn't usually my thing either but I see this take as pretty sophisticated. Neat pumping compressor or something in there too making me wanna something my something. Is this original or largely remix? Always a problem figuring that out with your genre... (Sounds good though, whatever it is!)

Jordana Fly Away - hey wait a sec, this is someone else's song. You rekkid spinners... I'll never get it. I guess I'm old but back when I was a kid you had to know how to play something to be cool. These days anyone who knows how to drop a needle is cool. (In fairness, I've listened to it all through writing this and I have't gonged it yet... though it's making me wish I had the original.)

Cheers everyone, what a daring thread topic! I challenge everyone else to expose their earliest, puniest, stuff!

[runagate]

Runagate: Baloney.

Emdot: Too bad. I'd've liked to hear it, since I like your music.

Huh?

i dont even still have a copy of the first track i did this week

I do

In any event I'm making my way through these songs and it's a great feeling.

And to clear up anything about my song...
That's the first song I wrote, and I was excited as hell to try to make it on a PC being that it contains almost solely instruments that I myself cannot play. I think I recorded it about 4 years ago? I don't know; I had no idea what the hell I was doing. The fast viola arpeggio at the beginning took 9 hours to plunk into the sequencer. Also, I am amazed that I got the project back recently, as it was not my PC I was using. Obviously whatever plug-ins are on there aren't accessible to me anymore but I have the midi! I've been writing music that was totally impossible with the current technology for 15 years in the hopes that before I died I could record them. Well, now I can, though I'm not sure record is appropriate anymore
At the time I was still pissed that quadrophonic audio has gone away! But this song, which being my first is dear to me, is mostly achievable by me now, well this 2/5ths of the way through part is. That's why my songs I post here don't have vocals or much songiness - I'm still experimenting to find the techniques to graft together all these songs piecemeal while I await some miracle that'll make me wealthy enough to buy a dual core PC and some expressive and playable-by-me midi instrument lol.

I figured out how to use yousendit.com, though, so here's a new link that requires no sign-up:

Dystopian Ekstases

After hearing AdmiralQ's song (thanks for finally posting "content" as you say) I had to re-post mine. AQ, your song is adorable, and based on the fact that it's your first I'm guessing you have some serious compositional chops by now! Thanks for sharing; I for one certainly appreciated it.

Now to go listen to some more.

[AdmiralQuality]

Dystopian Ekstases

After hearing AdmiralQ's song (thanks for finally posting "content" as you say) I had to re-post mine. AQ, your song is adorable, and based on the fact that it's your first I'm guessing you have some serious compositional chops by now! Thanks for sharing; I for one certainly appreciated it.

Now to go listen to some more.

Mmmmmmmmmm, hugs and kisses!

Seriously though.. now that I can hear it... here goes my (of course) harsh critique:


Oooooooooooooh! (Typing as I listen) Right off I'll say this is challenging.... what Laurie Anderson used to call "difficult listening hour".

I like it runagate... that's your FIRST???? Wow... you too must be to some awesome height at this point!

Cheers! Sorry to (ooooooooooh! harp arpeggis! Hahahahha... this song just keeps on giving! There's a bit of Frank Zappa in you, isn't there? )

[runagate]

No Zappa in me, I'm afraid, despite rachmiel's best efforts. Seems to be a bearded crazy freak gene that makes you want to make multi-metered music. I'm afraid I haven't advanced an iota past that in 15 years, though... I make it up in my head and just put it down on the track. Uneven meters and wiggy arpeggios just seem to be what my mind makes instead of tasteful, classy songcraft.

By the way, "Zappa does Zappa" is on tour with Terry Bahzheo (I spelt it phonetically but it's the drummer) and all those original cats from Zappa with one of his kids playing guitar. Thought you might want to catch that. I have friends hoping it'll spark the Zappa-love in me.

[AdmiralQuality]

runagate, all I can say is I came up with the Zappa observation entirely independently. So it's not just your friends... it's me too!

Anyway, awesome stuff! Good work.