upgrade in drum programming and in guitar work, downgrade in emotion.
i'm noticing this going through these. on the one hand, i think i was sort of afraid to be too emotional. i wanted to keep that "ironic distance". but, i don't think i would have felt that if the material was fresher. these songs are two, three years old at this point. i'd reinterpreted them a dozen different ways. i'd lost connection to them...
in the sense that the drum sections were partially created for the purposes of performing these songs live (which never happened), and they completely recreated most of the pieces, i think it was necessary. but i'm realizing that it very much sounds like i was performing a chore. perhaps i was....
original version:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/hey-god
recorded in feb, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/hey-god-1998-archived-112-kbps-mp3
