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| Inspired by Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles," the final chapter of which is titled "The Million Year Picnic." It is remeniscent of the works of Jon (Anderson) and Vangelis, without the stream of consciousness quality of Anderson's lyrics. |
Label: Pubsal Records
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| This is a kind of Alanis/Grungs number that could really use a distorted electric guitar to bring it across. As it is, it's more of a folk-rock tune. Use your imagination. |
Label: Pubsal Records
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| My musings on the mercurial nature of relationships in the theater, comedy in particular, Mental Floss in very particular, with a few specific people and events in mind. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| A commercial jingle for steakhouse with some unusual practices. Inspired by a comedy improv exercise during my stint with Mental Floss. |
MP3.com CD: Novelties -  buy it!
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger. Thanks to Sal Pisani for the monologue, and to G. Miachel McKay for the notion of a |
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| You CAN mend a broken heart... |
MP3.com CD: Novelties - buy it!
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| Yet another folk song about virtual reality. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| The more things change, the more they stay annoying |
MP3.com CD: Novelties - buy it!
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| Same Bob, different recording |
MP3.com CD: Novelties - buy it!
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| My two bucolic comedy songs, Big Slab o' Cow and Farm Song in an impromptu medley, plus some pre-song banter that will start be annoying after the second or third listening.
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MP3.com CD: Novelties - buy it!
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| Not a blues. It's about coming of age, reconciling with yourself, and coming to terms with one's relationship with one's mother in particular. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| From my Indigo Girls/James Taylor/Graham Nash period. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| Straight ahead love song with a grandiose coda. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| Instrumental. Nostalgia sans irony, for electric piano, cello and flute. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music by Darren Zieger |
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| Yet another folk song about virtual reality with an Alan Parsons-style instrumental prologue. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| A pop ballad. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| Piano-driven rock instrumental. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music by Darren Zieger |
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| A live performance of a song from my sensitive folk-rocker period. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| Another song drawn from my experiences working with Mental Floss, Miami's legendary comedy improv troupe. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| Contemporary folk tune about complex relationships. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| From my Jean-Luc Ponty period, which largely coincided with my Casio period. A somewhat muddled recording of a pretty strong tune for keyboard and (synthesized) electric violin. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music by Darren Zieger |
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| This song was inspired by the brilliant Marilynne Robinson novel of the same name (later a lovely film starring Christine Lahti). It's contemporary folk, episodic (has a series of different verse strucrures rather than a repeating verse/chorus) and manages to capture something of source material. I highly ecommend the book and the film, beside which this song -- though one of my better ones -- pales in comparison. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| Channeling Miachel MacDonald, for no particular reason. A song with a very strong hook, poorly recorded. Tinny doesn't even begin to describe it. I don't know who that happened. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| A sort of Elton meets Too Much Coffee Man in the Haight in 1967 kind of thing. It's about the interconnectedness of all things. I think. |
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| From my Elton John period. Imagining life in a hippie commune. As it turns out, most of the things alluded to in the song eventually came to pass in my group house in Rockville, MD (except, unfortunately, for the home-grown microbrewery cannabis). |
Label: Pubsal Records
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| A folk-rocker with elaborate synth-driven instrumental break. |
Label: Pubsal Records
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| About growing up, catching up with an old friend (frighteningly enough, I wrote this ten years ago). |
Label: Pubsal Records
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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| Everyone knows someone like Bob...well maybe not... |
CD: Screams of the Vegetables
Label: Conglomeration, Inc.
Credits: Engineered by Kludge Audio |
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| A song about making the most of the otherwise wasted time in life. |
CD: Novelties
Label: Pubsal Productions
Credits: Music and Lyrics by Darren Zieger |
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