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Optimistic
by Fireproof_Babies
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Wed, Apr 27, 2011 @ 1:16 AM

Uses samples from:

 
Jeris
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permalink   Wed, Apr 27, 2011 @ 1:22 AM
Wow, love it. Extremely creative use of the samples!
 
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permalink   Fireproof_Babies Wed, Apr 27, 2011 @ 1:46 AM
Thank you so much, Jeris. I enjoyed working with your samples.
Speck
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permalink   Wed, Apr 27, 2011 @ 3:54 AM
A clean expression of a careful optimism. Cool instrumentation and style.
 
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permalink   Fireproof_Babies Wed, Apr 27, 2011 @ 3:06 PM
Thank you Speck. I value your opinion. I am generally optimistic, but the lyrics here are a bit tongue-in-cheek.
Kara Square
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permalink   Thu, Apr 28, 2011 @ 8:54 AM
“Every word has been used up
Every note played
and reference made”


I love the lyrics and delivery in this, FB. Actually, I love the whole track. I’ve listened a number of times… It’s really cool to listen to Jeris’ samples in his original track and your use of them back to back… Flippin’ awesome. It’s cool that your mind thought to use them this way. Well done, my friend.
 
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permalink   Fireproof_Babies Fri, Apr 29, 2011 @ 11:24 AM
Thank you Kara! “Every word has been used up
Every note played
and reference made” I do feel that way sometimes. It’s getting to the point musically, where sounding original is getting more difficult. What will musicians do 50 years from now… where is there to go?
 
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permalink   Kara Square Fri, Apr 29, 2011 @ 1:00 PM
I feel that way, too. I recently wrote similar words. It’s kinda like this saying: You’re unique just like everybody else. I find both comfort and disappointment in those kind of thoughts. It’s also similar to any fight for civil rights… If folks just knew how ‘normal’ a lesbian relationship really is. “People are just people.” (Regina Spektor) As for music and where people will go… maybe it isn’t about the music anyway. Maybe it’s always been about the emotion. Bum, buh, dum. :) (Sorry for the long stream-of-thought rant there…)
 
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permalink   Fireproof_Babies Fri, Apr 29, 2011 @ 1:26 PM
Oh, you know I like your long-stream rants :) I love Regina Spektor as well. Have a couple of her CD’s. That quote from Regina reminds me of a Depeche Mode lyric, “People are people so why should it be, you and I should get along so awfully.”
 
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permalink   Kara Square Fri, Apr 29, 2011 @ 1:32 PM
You just made my day (the fact that you dig Regina). Do you have “Soviet Kitsch”? My fav from her… by far. “I kissed your lips and I tasted blood…” Damn, I love that song. And yup, nice Depeche Mode quote, too.
 
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permalink   Fireproof_Babies Fri, Apr 29, 2011 @ 1:46 PM
Yes, I have that one. I first heard a song off of that album on a live NPR show with Terry Gross. I immediately ordered the album online. She’s very talented and original.
CSoul
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permalink   Thu, Apr 28, 2011 @ 3:19 PM
Different the others , you gone beyond.i felt it.
peace
 
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permalink   Fireproof_Babies Fri, Apr 29, 2011 @ 11:25 AM
My thanks, Csoul. Glad you could feel it :)
copperhead
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permalink   Thu, Apr 28, 2011 @ 3:32 PM
You have a fantastic style that I feel I can truly recognize with a blindfold on :) Dam good stuff!
 
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permalink   Fireproof_Babies Fri, Apr 29, 2011 @ 11:27 AM
That is a high compliment, copperhead; and I shall accept it humbly.
CiggiBurns
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permalink   Mon, May 2, 2011 @ 5:36 AM
Your songs and performance style are among my favourite things (along with dew drops on noses and whiskers on cheese). I wish you’d do more of them. In fact, that’s an order: Do More! xxxx
 
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permalink   Fireproof_Babies Mon, May 2, 2011 @ 2:21 PM
I shall follow your orders, my dear. I’m pleased you appreciate my style, as I do yours. Thanks, FB