January 28, 2010
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Sarah and Briana: Vocals
Michael: Guitar
Jason: Distant Ukulele
Christopher: Microphone Holding, Backing Vocals
Arthur: Percussion, Vocals
Our sing-along cover of the bubblegum classic by Edison Lighthouse.
January 25, 2010
Dry Elixir
Michael: Vocals, Bass, Keyboards
Jason: Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica
Mike P: Guitar, Percussion
A moody upbeat number with some warped vocals in Spanish and English about alchemy, translation, and the elixir of life.
January 21, 2010
Remember
Sarah: Vocals
Michael: Vocals, Bass, Synth
Mike P: Piano
Jason: Harmonica
Jon: Guitar, Backing Vocals/Beatbox
A minor epic of sorts, with Michael and Sarah improvising some sort of lovers spat over cheating, coffee, wine, and long phone calls. The chord progression is borrowed from the song Ansaphone by Pulp, one of Mike P`s favorite things to play on the piano.
January 18, 2010
Walking Down Stairs
Jason: Guitar, Brief Vocal
Virginia: Vocals, Percussion
Michael: Vocals, Organ, Percussion
Michael does have this habit of walking up and down the stairs during his day job. Apparently, so does lettuce.
January 14, 2010
Crimson and Clover
Sarah and Briana: Vocals
Michael: Guitar, Backing Vocals
Arthur: Bass, Backing Vocals
Jason: Percussion
Cover tunes happen frequently and spontaneously during our jam sessions, and are always a lot of fun. Here is a sparse version of a Tommy James classic.
January 11, 2010
Peeling An Orange
Sarah: Vocals
Michael: Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Not so much about peeling an orange as it is about preventing baby chicks, cows, and tadpoles from growing up…
January 7, 2010
Tamales
Jason: Guitar, Vocals
Michael: Percussion, Vocals
Debbie: Lead Vocals
Virginia: Percussion
Food is a reoccurring theme with TLE, and this song happened spontaneously after Virginia mentioned that she had just eaten some really good tamales down in Brighton.
January 4, 2010
Biscuit World
Virginia: Vocals
Michael: Piano, Vocals
This is the first song we finished, and was pretty much the impetus for all the songs that followed. Virginia tells us all about one of her favorite places down south…
January 1, 2010
So begins The Laughter Epidemic.