This is the beginning of rivernightlight & swivelized!
rivernightlight has a hole in his heart
but he tries best to cope
he also feels his own words
as do the words of those
whom he recognizes lead him to
the most interesting places
Swivelized Sounds will be playing live in Taipei at the Underworld/ address: Shi-da road, no.45, B1(地下社會 Underworld/地址：台北市師大路45號B1) on March 11th @ 9:30-11:30 PM. If you live in Taiwan you should try and make it to the show!!
It Was You
here here is here is here is a is a song a song that gets at that gets at Swivelized Swivelized Sounds' roots....that is the sound i was making years ago!!!
lyrics:
every day everyday every day is the same every day is the same day we go we go where we go we do we do what we do every day everyday every day is the same is the same yes we go yes we do yes we go every day and we do I wish we were I wish we were I wish a I wish we were here here here I wish we were I wish I wish we were here every day everyday every day we go we go the same way I wish I wish we were I wish a I wish a we were here time is not real!!!!!!!
enjoy _ _
(the kids are sleeping) Wake!
Swivelized Sounds will be playing live in Taipei at the Underworld/address: Shi-da road, no.45, B1(地下社會 Underworld/地址：台北市師大路45號B1)
on November 17th at 9:30 PM. If you live in Taiwan you should try and make it to the show!!
sh_t don't fit no more
It's my one and only cover (so far)!
If you know the original, "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave" by the Butthole Surfers, I hope will enjoy my homage.
-Swivel
Empty Noise (live?)
not really a live track but the closest thing to what a Swivelized Sounds' live show would sound like. i recorded this track back in 2005 or 2004…?
it’s a tracked out open mic improv recording that i tracked out in about 40 min. (and then recently added audience sounds etc…)
Swivelized Sounds
Swivel: lead/rhythm guitar 1
Swivel: lead/rhythm guitar 2
Swivel: bass guitar
Swivel: drums
Repost Alert!
After receiving feedback on possible titles i have chosen 'The Uncompromized Soundtrack of Murderous Alien Takeovers & Their Wild Psychedelic Jamboree'. The title has inspired the video and i have even reposted new audio......
I have also decided to stop posting my videos here on podomatic and instead posting them exclusively on youtube
Enjoy,
Swivel
Wish (you are!)
A minimal synthpop tune!
Lyrics:
Your eyes x2
They see straight thru
Your words x2
They seem so true
The way you walk
The way you talk
It makes me move
I only wish
That I was you!!
Studio lo remixTardy
Here is my latest instrumental! I have been working on this for a few months and finally I am satisfied with it. The original video is from Eiichi Yamamoto's One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
Enjoy,
Swivel
industrial age
Here is Roket a song I posted in July 2008. It now has a video and lyrics/vocals by Fissure Shaft! Fissure Shaft and I have been making music together since Platter Sliced Bacon in the 90's!! Here are some links:
Platter Sliced Bacon's MySpaceFissure Shaft's YouTubeFissure Shaft's MySpaceFissure Shaft's podOmatic
"The lyrics are about a man who was alien to this world.
He has Lived here for some time finding mankind an oddity worthy of study.
Well he finds out that the Earth is about to get blown up, and he sings a little good bye as he makes his escape from the doomed planet." Fissure Shaft
Lyrics:
The day has come
The end is nigh
Just in time to say to you
Good bye...You're all gonna die
Never imagined It could get like this
Deus up in his stars would make such a mess
But he didn't
Never imagined It could get like this
Deus up in his stars would make such a mess
But he didn't
Because of you
They warned us again and again
They warned us again and again
They warned us again and again
They warned us again and again!
The day has come to sing to you
The day has come to sing to you
The day has come to sing to you
The day will come to sing of you!
Waxy Flexibility (¿oɥʍ sǝʌoɯ who?)
Here is a new song and video!! The original animation comes from a tribute for the USA's bicentennial and was funded by a Bicentennial Project Grant. It was animated by Vincent Collins who made other psychedelic cartoons. The original video was produced by the United States Information Agency. I edited the original to fit my song. I hope you enjoy it!!
A Little Time Off
here is my newest song: What
it was inspired by post-punk (Public Image Ltd. & Flipper) and Krautrock (NEU!)
so if you dig it check the for mentioned bands out!!
lyrics:
---What---
What would you do
if your dreams fell through on you
What would you do
if your dreams fell through
What would you do
if you were meant to run but
you could only crawl
What would you do
if you were meant to fly but
you would always fall
What would you do
if you were meant to know something
you could not recall
What would you do
What would you do
if you were meant to be
nothing at all…
What would you do
I… want to know x3
What would you do
I… want to know x3
What would you do
I want to know
what would you do
if you were meant to run but
could only crawl
I want to know
what would you do
if you were meant to fly but
would always fall
I want to know
what would you do
if you were meant to know something
you could not recall
I want to know
what would you do
if you were meant to be
nothing at all
I…. want to know x5
What would you do.....
Move Out My Way
yeah, this is what happens when an anarchistic whiteboy from Ohio listens to too much hip hop and funk…..and has taken copious amounts of.... you know!!!
lyrics:
You gotta step up, step up to be
You gotta step up, step up to be
You gotta step up, step up to be
You gotta step up and step up and be free
You gotta step up, step up to be
You gotta step up, step up to be
You gotta step up, step up to be
You gotta step up and step up and be free
You gotta step up if you want to be
You gotta step up and step up to and be free
You gotta step up if you want to be
Step up step up 1-2-3
There’s a time and a place you see
Step up and make love with me
Step up and make love to be
Gotta set yourself free
Gotta be, gotta be here to be
Step up step up step up to be
To be on top of what it is what it is
To be on top of what it is to be
Step up step up to be free
Gotta be, gotta be here to be
There’s no choice in anything you do
There’s no choice in all the things you pursue
Those things those things are named
All those things are so fucking lame
Gotta be, gotta be here to be
Step up step up step up to be
To be on top of what it is what it is
To be on top of what it is to be
Step up step up to be free
Gotta be, gotta be here to be
Step up step up if you want to if you want to be free got to be to be to be to be
Step up step up if you want to if you want to be free got to be to be to be to be
Step up step up if you want to if you want to be free got to be to be to be to be
It’s so easy to be free
Just turn around and let yourself be
Gotta step gotta step gotta step gotta step to be
Gotta be to be to be free if you want to be free
Can not play these games you play you play you everyday
If your tired of the way the way world it treats you gotta beat you can not play this game no more you gotta step and to be to be yourself free to be yourself to self to self to be yourself is free to be yourself yourself is free
Samples taken from: The Education Of Sonny Carson
Fun Happy Stupid
here is a new song!! it is a little different from the rest of my posts but i felt like making something electronic, fun, happy, stupid and danceable. please if this is your first time tuning into my podcast CHECK OUT THE OTHER SONGS!! my style changes frequently!!!!!!
untitled
it’s been too long since my last song/post…..sorry!!!
nevertheless, here it be.
it is a tribute of sorts to old school electronic music and allen ginsberg.
i hope you dig it!!!!
stay swivelized
Joe The Plumber
here is my latest song! i have stepped back a bit from the traditional production or pop format and returned to my roots in noise!! i hope you dig it or at least can appreciate it!!
Time Is Now (the continuing story of let’s stop)
Time Is Now (the continuing story of let’s stop)
The time,
is not time,
it’s here.
If you,
are you,
then you are here.
Those things,
they are things,
no good to you or me.
The time,
is now,
only now are we free.
Roket
This is my newest song Roket!
(I know.....it's kinda popish! I like to mix it up!!!!)
It is an instrumental not by choice in that I am unable to give it the vocals that I think it needs and deserves so…..here(hear) it is!
p.s. if you want to add vocals just give me an email!!!
Humanoid
Here is a new song. This song was inspired by my new watch and watching A Scanner Darkly recently….i hope you like it!
-Swivel
The Lyrics:
Let’s Stop (time!)
In times of trouble the world has ceased to see, to understand the rights of the way things must go so, nevertheless, the world is quite the way the world has been for so…so long, yet sometimes when the things change they become something new and when they become something new they change to something they’ve never been, to be something you weren’t before you were when you have but never have been before then all of a sudden you see that you were the same and then well, I’ve seen before and after and now I know what I’ve been doing so I look before and after and now I know what I am doing so well, I look before and know and yeah and then and hey and ho and well anyway, let’s, let's, let’s stop ok wait let’s, let's stop ok well let’s, let's, let’s stop well, well, well let’s ok, ok, ok let’s, let’s stop, let’s stop, let’s stop, let’s take just stop, and just take whoa let’s cut it stop let’s stop take one moment, ok (and escape time!) [X2]
On a Limb
hey hey,
here is my newest song!
it’s a “post-rock” kinda song....i guess !
i need, and more so want, to give props to
Clavitron (click on the link to see more of Clavitron!)
for giving me the ok to use his art for the cover and must
admit that as the song had nothing but a working title,
i have used his art as a source of inspiration for the final title.
overall, it is about being.....alone!
---swivel
Hello, I've Chose You!
Here is a new song and video!
Hello, I've Chose You! ( a comment on free will and addiction)
Lyrics:
Hello, i’ve chose you
chose you,
your chosen,
fuckin’ do,
hello, i’ve chose you,
your chosen,
you, fuckin do,
chose you,
i’ve chose you,
you’ve been chosen to do,
to do what i want you to do,
so do that shit now
i light up when i look up,
and then when you know and a,
i’s tries to see staight into’s,
mine eyes crossed an doin’ well i can’t say but,
i’s i’ve tried and sometimes i don’t know why,
and eyes crossed and well i don’t know what, what, what, what
what, what, what, what, what, what, what
---swivel
i'm ready too! (thoughts on passing)
i have been workin on this song the past couple of months and i am ready to/too stop workin on it! i created a very crude video to go with it....it’s my first!!
lyrics:
i’m ready too!! (thoughts on passing)
i’m ready too,
i’m ready to fly.
i’m ready too,
i’m ready to pass by.
i’m ready too,
to be free as the night.
i’m ready too...to be wrong or right,
i know that it’s..
i know that it’s all...
i know that it’s all right....
yeah yo, it’s all right you know it’s all right,
but you know you’d better just let it go yo,
better let it go you know, if you want too...well, let it show.
i’m ready too,
i’m ready to fly.
i’m ready too,
i’m ready to pass by.
i’m ready too,
to be free as the night.
i’m ready too...to be wrong or right,
i know that it’s..
i know that it’s all...
i know that it’s all right....
yeah yo, it’s all right you know it’s all right,
but you know you’d better just let it go yo,
better let it go you know, if you want too...well, let it show.
yeah yo, it’s all right you know it’s all right,
but you know you’d better just let it go yo,
better let it go you know, if you want too...well, let it show.
swivel
Nothing @ all ( another broken heart and lost soul)
Here is a song i posted a few months ago before the great crash of 2007!!! i am reposting it------
(the lyrics)
Nothing @ all ( another broken heart and lost soul)
Look away you don’t want to see
i am not what there is to be
i’m not worth the sight
the eyes lay upon me
i am not
if you know what i am
you will turn away
if i, if i, if i, if i.........
the light it shines bright
straight into what might be right
maybe it’s wrong i can not say
civilization has led me astray
i want to cry but nothing is there
the tear falls dry---before
the tear falls dry before my eye
see into i do not know
what i am i do not know
why i do i do not know
Look away you don’t want to see
i am not what there is to be
i’m not worth the sight
the eyes lay upon me
i am not
if you know what i am
you will turn away
if i, if i, if i, if i.........
the light it shines bright
straight into what might be right
maybe it’s wrong i can not say
civilization has led me astray
i want to cry but nothing is there
the tear falls dry---before
the tear falls dry before my eye
if i know anything
it’s that i know nothing
if i know anything
it’s that i know nothing
if i know anything
it’s that i know nothing
if there’s anything i know
it’s that i know nothing at all
i know nothing at all
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