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Last Played: Sep 13, 2008 - 07:24:27 AM
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Uploaded: Sep 09, 2005 - 05:17:45 PM
Last Updated: Sep 25, 2006 - 05:56:42 PM
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Genesis (6), Moog (8), solo (72), progressive (125), Gorglepoof (2), Tempo changes (4)
Description:
In the recent weeks I've been listening to a whole lot of Genesis (Peter Gabriel's Genesis, I might add) and shortly thereafter I got this uncrontollable urge to make a long, cool Genesis-like song with a bunch of keyboards and Moog solos.
I managed to nail the fact that it has keyboard and moog solos.
The title itself is complete rubbish - just the first thing that came into my head when I was about to name this thing. But considering the fact that this is the first song where I've just taken some solos and recorded them, I thought it was appropriate to have a spontanious song title as well.
Hope you enjoy this.
Oh, btw - there'll be some distortion; I didn't manage to remove all of it. Not today, anyway...

©2006 - Einar Sverrir Tryggvason

Lyrics:
Feel free to collaborate ;)

Hardware:
iMac G5
MK-149 Evolution keyboard

Software:
Logic Pro
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Roger Dean imagery &mdash 09/09/05 - 05:39:09 PM
I'm really digging the keyboards in this; very lively and/or mysterious. The dynamics, complexity and intensity of the song all follow very effective arcs. I love the solos, especially the epic section at the end. Really cool!

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Nice song! &mdash 09/20/05 - 12:16:04 PM
I guess I'm downloading all your songs guy!

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Rich and enjoyable &mdash 09/09/05 - 05:53:11 PM
piece of music. Reminds me of some of Mark
Knopfler's stuff. I can listen to this over and over
again. You are very talented E!

Jack

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5th time &mdash 09/29/05 - 12:44:38 PM
its the thirth time i hear this song, hahaha. i alwayas forget to download it.....
i sware im gonna download right now!

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energy train &mdash 09/09/05 - 05:55:11 PM
I'm taking the energy train to downtown Snapsville. This is
righteous stuff. Nice progressions and
transmogrifications. Your change-ups are especially
grabbling.

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Einarus! &mdash 09/09/05 - 06:13:30 PM
quite outstanding track.
more than outstanding actually, i hope you are thinking
of getting out there and selling your music...
pronto......


D/L
Slimmie

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Grabblesnap crackle pop... &mdash 09/09/05 - 06:14:20 PM
Noticed the noise about halfway through... too bad.

Fun and interesting tune. Lots of software instruments going
on here. My comment for this will be the same as for Tobin's
Revolution's Son... It needs guitar.

There was a passage in the middle that was like the synth
version of Tool's "Sober"... which was kinda cool!

Great tune... kept my ears interested for the duration. I
would love to hear it further refined!

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Just so right on... &mdash 09/09/05 - 07:06:59 PM
It may be the cold weather in Iceland or maybe not... I must be the talent you have that brings this great music to macjams.
Einarus...just listen to what SlimGirlFat sais..I agree with her...

Thoddi

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takes ye away &mdash 09/09/05 - 07:18:06 PM
Wonderful collection of synths, and I think it definately
has a spy movie soundtrack quality in the first half or so.
Love the bass. Will download once I get to the right
computer ~

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I'm not the hugest prog synth fan... &mdash 09/09/05 - 08:13:47 PM
...but I like this a lot.

It's complicated, it has a suite-like quality to its
movement, it's rhythmic and it's melodic...

The drumming is awesome. How you got Bill Bruford to
answer your calls...

I love the textures you're getting on the synthesizers, too,
and the blend between the various instruments...

Well done.

Ed

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Some terrific chord changes and textures &mdash 09/09/05 - 08:56:25 PM
Not to mention the solos! Very Genesis. Or maybe even more
like Marillion! Like this a lot.

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sLABBLE SNAPPER! &mdash 09/09/05 - 11:17:01 PM
gOUHL SONG!

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Great buildup &mdash 09/10/05 - 04:29:03 AM
Cool track...I like the way it builds, great production! I
think that this would be great with some rock guitar
added...get Ziti on the phone?
Really inventive melodies and soundscapes.
Nice
Steve

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Cool Synths &mdash 09/10/05 - 04:51:45 AM
Excellent drums. I'm not much of a prog fan (it pretty much
begins and ends with KC for me) but I enjoyed this. I'd
actually would prefer to hear some electric violin over this
(what's Eddie Jobson doing nowadays?) rather than a guitar.

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Keep on Trucking &mdash 09/10/05 - 06:49:57 AM
Nice change ups to keep this piece trucking right along.
Nice drums.

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very energetic &mdash 09/10/05 - 07:35:13 AM
This is a great piece of music, interesting variety in each
section, imaginative rhythms and progressions... brings me
back to the moooogy days, ahhh. It just sings... very nice.
Faved, DL'ed, played to my kids "Now THIS is music!" :-)
And the classic "fade just as the really cool solo starts,
arghhh" ending.
ttfn,
Drakonis

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imaginative &mdash 09/10/05 - 08:34:20 AM
You have a very natural musical sensibility, putting
interesting sounds, chords and beats together in a very
pleasing, imaginative way.

These good ideas flow from one to the next very
smoothly, yet with a jolt of interest with each new section.
I would say, though, that this piece could be tightened up
with a few less ideas, especially towards the end. Each
idea in itself is great, but there were a lot of them in one
piece.

HOWEVER! You somehow manage to pull it all together in
a pleasing way, which says a great deal about your
musicality and your talent.

I agree with dchapman that this will be much better after
you remove the noise.

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Nice Work &mdash 09/10/05 - 10:53:53 AM
Nice piece Einarus, the dymanic is great. Starts off nice
and easy and builds to some real power and then a tempo
change just to carry you off someplace else. Love the
decending scales at the end, I always like playing guitar to
those scales. Nice keyboard work. Enjoyed it.-JAC

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fun &mdash 09/10/05 - 10:56:18 AM
Like the creativity, like the synth especially as it get 1/3 of
the way through.
Nice buildup.

Very nice drums where it gets suspenseful.

Again lots of nice creativity for sure.


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Keyboard genious &mdash 09/10/05 - 02:02:48 PM
Veru good keyborads!!! It sounds like the early prog bands. Veri nice.

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what's a grabblesnap? &mdash 09/10/05 - 03:08:13 PM
just curious

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what's a grabblesnap? &mdash 09/10/05 - 03:12:05 PM
Nothing at all, really - as it clearly says in the song description ;)
And the rest of you: thank you very much for the listens and the kind words.
Greatly appreciated!

---
-Einarus<br />
Confide nemini

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what's a grabblesnap? &mdash 09/10/05 - 03:08:17 PM
just curious

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But . . . &mdash 09/10/05 - 05:05:17 PM
will you get it out by Friday?

I don't listen to a lot of this type of stuff either but if you
hadn't mentioned the distortion, I probably wouldn't have
noticed that it wasn't what you intended.

An excellent track.

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prog on! &mdash 09/10/05 - 06:18:43 PM
very nice! you've captured the essence of "prog" w/ this
one-especially nice mid-section: i can almost hear P.G.
singing a refrain from "watcher of the skies" within-you've
spent too much time on this-you should rest! prog on,
matey!

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really... &mdash 09/11/05 - 05:13:43 PM
...really like it.
Is that your dog on the picture above?

Thanks for sharing this song!

PS: Must hear it again. :-)

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Okay, but whatever you do... &mdash 09/11/05 - 10:42:01 PM
please, DON'T listen to a whole lot of Emerson, Lake &
Palmer. ;)

Very nice work. But to complete the Genesis tribute you
might have put a daisy petal collar on the pictured pup. :D

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I love the title... &mdash 09/12/05 - 06:32:05 AM
...but I keep lookin' at it in the lists, and I keep thinking it
must be a 'bizarre' tune...

Ed

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I love the title... &mdash 09/12/05 - 11:54:02 AM
I'm gonna take that as a compliment :)
And thanks for the comment - I believe you are the first person to comment
twice (on purpose, that is) on a piece of mine.
Thank you all for the kind words.

---
-Einarus<br />
Confide nemini

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hi &mdash 09/12/05 - 02:50:21 PM
i love this song..
love the arrangement,very bluesy jazzy.
i love when the drums come in,great timing..nice sounds..
all round great.

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Okay, so I'm one of the biggest Genesis fans on MJ &mdash 09/12/05 - 04:34:52 PM
… so I'm hard to please (you're telling me!). I need to
improve my karma so I could do with a karmechanic
but unfortunately my supper's ready and I cannot tell
you where my country lies. But if you like the trick of
my tail then you'll know what I like (in your
wardrobe). More fool me, eh?

Good keyboard sounds, Ein. Nice one!

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Super noodling! &mdash 09/13/05 - 03:16:00 AM
Excellent track Einarus - you've really captured that prog
feel. Well done!

KK

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awesome &mdash 09/13/05 - 03:06:29 PM
love all of the moog sounds... great on the keys.

i thought i might get bored with it because of the length at
first, but then i got into it and it ended too soon! i want
more!

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Like others who have commented... &mdash 09/13/05 - 06:02:06 PM
This isn't my genre, but I really am enjoying listening to
this composition! You have such a talent for 'putting it all
together" in a song, Einarus!
I can 'hear' guitar added to this, too.
I thought the distortion was a little distracting, but the
track's so good that it makes it a minor nit.

Outstanding!



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Special treat &mdash 09/13/05 - 10:29:09 PM
As much as I dislike Peter Gabriel, I like this tune. Why is
that? Honestly, I have no answer for that
query...answering it would create a negative matter field
that would destroy the fabric of time itself.
Duuuude....the keyboard is so killer and in my head.
Mixes well with the voices that were already there.
Apparently my inner thoughts dig Prog.

The only thing I like more than the song is the title.
Tomorrow in my group session I'm just going to yell
"GRABBLESNAPS" at the top of my lungs. They'll probably
put me in solitary again for a bit, but it'll be worth it.

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Special treat &mdash 09/14/05 - 02:48:06 PM
>As much as I dislike Peter Gabriel, I like this tune. Why is
>that?

Perhaps because it sounds nothing like Peter Gabriel? Gabriel didn't write
that much of Genesis' music, he was mainly responsible for the lyrics.
Plus there's obviously no Gabriel style vocals on here. If anything this
sounds more like the work of Tony Banks, which is perhaps not
surprising given that he was the band's keyboard player and probably
the most important contributor in terms of the band's musical style. This
track has a very strong keyboard presence but no vocals or lyrics,
therefore it sounds very little like Gabriel. It does sound very like
Gabriel-era Genesis but that's largely down to the Mellotron effect that
was very prominent on those Gabriel-era albums. To be honest, some of
the non-Gabriel era Genesis albums ('A Trick of the Tail' and 'Wind &
Wuthering') sound very like Gabriel-era Genesis even though he's not
actually on them. I could expand on that but I suspect no-one's
interested, least of all Einarus and it's his flippin' song!

---
"You never say please. You never say thank you."
"Please don't be an idiot. Thank you."
-- Bayliss and Pembleton

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Special treat &mdash 09/14/05 - 02:54:20 PM
This week's Genesis triva was contributed by: Epileptic Gibbon.
Thank you Eppy :)

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-Einarus<br />
Confide nemini

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Special treat &mdash 09/20/05 - 03:18:13 PM
I'm glad you're still smiling, Ein. I'd have told me to shut up ages ago! ;-)

---
"You never say please. You never say thank you."
"Please don't be an idiot. Thank you."
-- Bayliss and Pembleton

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Wow &mdash 09/14/05 - 08:08:08 PM
With a name like Grabblesnaps how can you lose? Cute!
Very nice song!
Not sure we could sing to something like this, though.
It's rather complex, isn't it?
But like it very much!

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hmm... &mdash 09/15/05 - 09:15:20 AM
this song totally couldve been on the napoleon dynamite soundtrack. thats what this remded me of at first, and then it switched into this crazy 80s synth thing and it was pretty cool!

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a steely dan &mdash 09/15/05 - 03:14:07 PM
feel u have here .....smooth yet rockin......would love to hear
what u could do with a wah wah pedal to your electric piano
or moog.....really liked the different and contrasting
sections......really nice conception ....!

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Cool &mdash 09/15/05 - 05:39:23 PM
Good stuff Einarus! Love the build up at the beginning.
Drums fit nicely and the synths created a real sense of
energy and movement. Kinda like ELP on X.

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Oh! &mdash 09/15/05 - 06:19:36 PM
I like this very much . . . but you knew I would, didn't you?

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Has a 70's "concept" sound &mdash 09/15/05 - 08:58:27 PM
This is kind of like, "if Genesis had written Bohemian
Rhapsody, or maybe cowritten it with Procol Harum". Very
enjoyable.

I don't think it needs guitars. But, I do think it needs vocals.
Yeah, some stream of consiousness Peter Gabriel stuff would
go well with it.

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ein - never upload when i am on holiday!! &mdash 09/17/05 - 12:12:42 PM
now look where i have to go to tell you how much i enjoyed listening to this!! thank you and bravo x

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Hard to say something that hasn't already been said... &mdash 09/19/05 - 10:11:55 AM
But nice. I really liked how the reverb space opened up
when the drums first entered and the 5/4 section was
awesome too. Nice work.

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I keep coming back to this song &mdash 09/23/05 - 06:40:22 PM
Dang if this isn't the spitting image of Camel. I know you are too young
to be familiar with this band. Dig up a copy of Mirage or Moonmadness.
You'll love it.

The rhythmic change at 3:25 is a kick in the pants.

I even love the slightly muffed lead notes. Gives it a sense of spontenaity.

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chops &mdash 09/29/05 - 07:48:24 PM
deluxe on display and why not. Said before but your playing is taking
some of us back to a time when chops mattered. Chops and creativity,
that has been said too.

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incredible. &mdash 10/02/05 - 02:30:02 PM
excellent songwriting & performance. lots of content, changeups, well-
rounded.. loved it. i don't 'miss' guitars, but it would be interesting to see
how they would fit in. very well done

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love the analog synthe sound! &mdash 10/02/05 - 04:51:34 PM
whoa! look at these people who commented and loved your song!
and i know why after i listened to it too....
great arrangement! im not a big fan of instrumental music but
i never got bored while listening to this one!! kewl!!
loved the moog solo. its cute!

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Such a great Prog feel &mdash 10/03/05 - 04:18:51 PM
You have a great command of your keyboard but your compositional
skills and ideas are what I like about you.

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coooooool. &mdash 10/14/05 - 05:38:39 PM
this is nice. very melodic and good on to the ear. fantastic use of synths.
The synth solo is top notch. nice mix and arrangement of instruments.

Well done.

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Genesis &mdash 02/09/07 - 09:22:49 PM
g hef dlti veri a hlusta Genesis, srstaklega The lamb lies down on Broadway og Selling England by the Pound. Annars hef g hlusta heilmiki prog. g er mjg hrifin af bandi sem heitir Gentle Giant. Ef hefur huga er nokku gott video me eim youtube undir slinni:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xcnvfoyA9rA

eir nota mjg miki klasssk hljfri og eru oft me skemtilegar raddanir. Lgin eru oft tum mjg skrautleg, hefbundin en jafnframt fjrleg.

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Killer! &mdash 04/29/08 - 08:25:00 AM
A true masterpiece... Out of words here!

Take Care
- Yeman A. Al-Rawi

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