I can't remember who had expressed an interest previously
but I've uploaded a very nearly finished version of the extremely self-indulgent 35 minute piece of music that my mate and I have been working on.

It ranges from pink floyd style stuff, to some iron maiden type stuff, to house, going via flamenco and some odd rock bits, to end up with an acoustic guitar duet.

naturally we've called it The Red Squirrel / Grey Squirrel Scenario.

I'd value some feedback (all the while remembering that a lot of it is very tongue in cheek) so let me know if you'd like the download link.

edit: oh yeah, the bit with singing in isn't me
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 15:50, 76 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Give it up you slag,

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 15:53, Reply)

may as well stick it here
https://www.yousendit.com/download/MVNmTmZRaFI4NVVLSkE9PQ
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 15:55, Reply)

GOOD LAD.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 15:57, Reply)

it's gone to your email address already
well, that link has.

it's going to amuse me when you totally hate it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 15:59, Reply)

we shall see! I won't pretend to like it if I don't,
what would be the point of that? But I'm really keen to hear it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:07, Reply)

I wouldn't expect you to
I'm keen to know what you think. It's a bunch of different styles so I'd be curious to know which bits you think work best.

Ultimately though, it was something we enjoyed doing, and beyond forcing it on people when we are stoned there's no real purpose to it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:08, Reply)

A bit like your penis.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:26, Reply)

*rapturous applause*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:29, Reply)

exactly like my penis

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:29, Reply)

THAT SOUNDS AWESOME

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 15:53, Reply)

you definitely won't like it

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 15:55, Reply)

I think that's a given.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:03, Reply)

not necessarily
the description above doesn't quite sum it up, it's not an unpleasant thing to listen to and you seem to at least have some taste in music.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:04, Reply)

You are supposed to 'big-up' your work!
'This is the greatest album ever made'.

'A great leap forward.'

'New found levels of maturity'.

'Will change the way we listen to music.'

'Not U2.'

Feel free to use the above and if you want the use of my A & R skills for a press release let me know.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:03, Reply)

I'd say it's found new levels of immaturity
for best effect I'd recommend listening in a darkened room while stoned. That's pretty much how we made it.

Quite a chunk of it is improvised with further layers built up after the main theme of each part was laid down.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:06, Reply)

this is what put me off
"extremely self-indulgent 35 minute "
(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:09, Reply)

totally understandable
it's not full of guitar wanking and it's not the same all the way through, so is essentially like listening to a short album.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:10, Reply)

Right away I'm 'avin it
because it sounds like Belbury Poly or the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
But if it gets all Floyd I'm offski ; )
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:04, Reply)

Whoa!
A fan of Ghost Box?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:05, Reply)

:)
I only have the most recent Belbury Poly, but between us me and my uncle are gonna get the freakin Ghosty lot, because it's just so... somewhere and sometime else.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:09, Reply)

it starts off all floydy
but that's really only the (long) intro
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:07, Reply)

No it didn't start off too Floydy.
Or I'd have been offski.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:10, Reply)

Woah, what was the bird??
I like the talky woman. That's bringing it back to what i like.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:10, Reply)

probably a clip from the BBC about the plight of red squirrels

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:11, Reply)

Only managed to listen to the first 5 mins
But damn good non-the-less. Have saved it for later.
( Jinxy13 is hating the S key, right about now., Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:26, Reply)

Stick a copy on CD with a few of your other favourite tracks and bang it in the post for me chap?
I assume it's a big file and my phone won't eat it. I also assume there's some awesome delay work in there somewhere? :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:31, Reply)

will do
if my burner is working correctly

might need you to gaz me your address again.

of course there is delay :-D
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:32, Reply)

Iron Maiden you say?
I'll have to have a listen when I get home
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:34, Reply)

that's only a really short bit
unfortunately ;-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:35, Reply)

My least favourite bit so far is the Iron Maideny bit.
it's getting boss again
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:36, Reply)

my favourite bit is the flamenco bit, which is nearish the end
because my mate bought a spanish guitar that day, brought it home and I improvised all the guitar bits.

at 25:15 if you are interested :-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:38, Reply)

When does the Iron Maideny bit kick in
I think I'll just skip to that bit ;-)
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:41, Reply)

go from 11:20

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:42, Reply)

there's one bit that sounds
a bit like some soggy Parma. You'll like that bit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:37, Reply)

i wouldn't have that on my deli counter

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:38, Reply)

I see what you did there
;)
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:39, Reply)

I'm positively Wildean, aren't I?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:43, Reply)

in some ways

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:44, Reply)

You calling me a hur-mur, pal?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:53, Reply)

maybe
whatcha gonna do about it?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:54, Reply)

Suggest a collabo
on some more of that gay disco you be slangin'?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:01, Reply)

as much as I'd like to claim credit for the gay disco bit
all I did was point my mate in the direction of a song that had inspired me (The Prophet by CJ Bolland) and let him put his house music skills to work.

and occasionally said "it needs to be more banging"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:03, Reply)

'It needs to be', or 'you need some'...?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:05, Reply)

the former

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:16, Reply)

I have no idea
Never read/seen any of his stuff
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:48, Reply)

You should
He was superb.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:03, Reply)

I loved that
But not the scandinavian rock march bit.
But other than that I proper liked it. And I like the tiny gay disco interlude, but then it gets back to serious music.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:48, Reply)

cool :-)
you probably won't like what we are doing with part 2 though...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:49, Reply)

oh god does it go all proggy?
Anyway, let's concentrate on Part 1.
I like it. Some of the guitar sounds like tunes my mate used to make me sing over.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:51, Reply)

a lot heavier
some definite wolfmother influence in part 2
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:52, Reply)

I like heavy
I just don't like stuff that reminds me of vikings.
Apart from Immigrant Song.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:54, Reply)

haha
I get called the viking by a couple of mates, and have viking ancestry somewhere.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:56, Reply)

Your ancestry came out at 11 minutes!!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:56, Reply)

as did he

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:57, Reply)

"Alan... you've come free at the side..."

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:58, Reply)

LOVE IT
"The boys are back in the barracks"
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:02, Reply)

"They did have an underpant lining, but it's perished. "

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:04, Reply)

In all seriousness
I don't think that particular series has ever been equalled by anyone. I like Fawlty Towers etc but not as much as Alan.

"I was having a pop at the undead"
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:09, Reply)

It was amazing
But I couldn't be disloyal to Just Good Friends now, could I.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:12, Reply)

as do I
My surname is an old Norse word for a geographical feature.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:57, Reply)

mine means someone who lives near a certain type of tree
or on a farm owned by someone with a first name the same as that of the tree.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:01, Reply)

Yukkatot

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:03, Reply)

not quite ;-)

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:04, Reply)

How can you say that?
Vikings are cooool.....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:56, Reply)

I think I mean vikings from the 80s
rather than the ones that came here in the *cough*hundreds.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:57, Reply)

Hahaha
"Gay Disco interlude"

I wish I wasn't at work so I could find out what you're all on about :\
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:49, Reply)

I wouldn't refer to it as gay disco, but it amuses me that she has :-)

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:50, Reply)

It's not even an insult!
i just didn't know how else to say it.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:52, Reply)

didn't take it as one
honestly, I wouldn't mind if everyone listened to it and bombarded me with messages about how shit it is
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:53, Reply)

Phew
Nah, you can see by how honest I've been that I'd just say "not my thing" if I didn't like it.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:56, Reply)

:-)
glad you enjoyed it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:02, Reply)

I'll have a listen tonight
and let you know
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:28, Reply)

wtf
are the noises shortly before the commentary kicks-in? Seagulls?
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:40, Reply)

they are squirrels
believe it or not
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 18:19, Reply)

Well, I've listened to it a few times now
and I think it's pretty damn good. Exactly the kinda stuff I try to track down, that ends radically different to how it began, and stops off in several other places in between.
Definitely interested in part 2.
EDIT: Shit. Meant to reply to the main thread. What a biff.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 23:29, Reply)

Not bad at all...
Cheers, man, I enjoyed that
(apart from that bit about 28 mins in which was a bit too "chuggy" for me)
Hell, ignore me, it was damned good.....
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 11:08, Reply)