FAWM : Edwin (@jtsteam)

Edwin

@jtsteam

Songs

Joined

2022

Fife, Scotland UK
www.jtsteam.me.uk

Ukulele plinker. Most of what I churn out turns out to be #nerd_folk or #filk or something closely related, whether I'm intending it to or not. I think I'm okay with that :).

Otherwise, I am just doing this to amuse myself. If I amuse and/or entertain anyone else in the process, I'll consider it a win. If I generate any songs that I sing again after the challenge, I'll consider it a bigger win!

I'm not intending to throw a huge amount of time and effort into this 50/90. One or two songs per week would be nice, and maybe some of them will even end up usable. But who knows? This community is great at inspiring creativity after all!

Some of my efforts will be rubbish. Apologies in advance.

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@tunecat 3w

Hi Edwin thanks for checking out a couple of songs today -the serious ‘ oops there goes my life’ and the frivolous , violet rocks’. I note the compliment re rhyming decorum. I felt compelled to share that ‘quorum’ is a rhyme, forum, ..’ but bite ‘em did come to mind easily. Then again ‘ignore ‘em’ would work! Perhaps we should have a challenge around such things ( well there have been word cloud challenges/ skirmishes in which a song blneeess to include say ten out of a random 14 words. That can work better ( for me) than apricot suggesting a theme/ topic

@brisk 6w

I'm not a big PJ Harvey fanperson, and was only listening to the new album because I had to for my "album club" - but after a few listens I really like it. The words are great - heavily poetic, and leaning heavily into Cornish? West Country? dialect. Initially I was quite angry that it has a big feel of a Radiohead record circa 2005, and I thought it was just too similar in feel to something like Hail to the Thief or In Rainbows. But actually, I think that's pretty superficial - the songs are interesting, and there are some lovely tunes. There's a weird thing where a lot of the song titles and lyrics are recycled with alterations, which means I'm not sure where one song ends and the next begins - presumably a creative choice, and quite an interesting one. The standout for me is Ben Wishaw, he of Paddington Bear - who has a really lovely voice and provides a duetty, backing vocal on one or two of the songs. It annoys me when beautiful people are beautiful in even more ways than I had been expecting.