From 2ba91372fa4247dd48a45fae3f1cfc4d3b1f8220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:38:43 -0400 Subject: add discography of Michael Guy Bowman --- album/archive.txt | 829 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 829 insertions(+) create mode 100644 album/archive.txt (limited to 'album/archive.txt') diff --git a/album/archive.txt b/album/archive.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e5f2def --- /dev/null +++ b/album/archive.txt @@ -0,0 +1,829 @@ +Album: Archive +Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Cover Art: Hadron +Wallpaper Art: Hadron +Wallpaper Style: + background-position: top center; +Has Track Art: no +Date: July 19, 2016 +FG: #89aebe +Groups: +- Michael Guy Bowman +- Fandom +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/archive +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lwrc2bi-Eb7q9mvtmLZxyV7nUEYnW5l6o +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Commissions, novelty tracks, experiments in electronica from 2012-2016. Download features 10 bonus tracks. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Group: Main album +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Awake (2012 Version) +Duration: 3:32 +Contributors: +- Clark Powell (cello) +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/awake-2012-version +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2RhvFHAbB0 +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Kickstarter reward for Kaolin Maia Cash, 2012 +Lyrics: + Awake again + Here in my bed + Eyes staring up at the ceiling + + A breath of air + Light in my window + Heart still aglow with the feeling + I was dreaming + + Another time, another place + A strange and yet familiar face + Buried deep within my bed + I wade through memories in my head + + My sock's half on + Hand in a book + Finger is still on the chapter + + We both were there + I told a joke + I can't recall what came after + Just your laughter + + Clock goes off across the room + And time restarts and life resumes + I rise to meet the coming day + But someone's laughing far away +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Got It? +Duration: 2:52 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/got-it +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScxdTiqjD5U +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Soundcloud, 2013 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Airwaves +Duration: 3:02 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/airwaves +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbyW60mQzWk +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Soundcloud, 2013 +Lyrics: + Keep your eyes on the airwaves + Don't look down if you don't want to fall + Out here, ain't nobody dancing + Up in the air you ain't nobody at all + + Keep your forward direction + Look for signs of the enemy, enemy + You're too far gone for protection + I am a spaceship who's looking for love (yeah) + + Open your doors and shoot your missiles + Blow away everybody you pass + Just a bunch of peculiar people + Looking for a party to crash + + Keep your back to the sunlight + Keep your eyes on the rubber T-Rex + Save your teardrops for later + You're going to need them for the part that comes next + + Wake up trashed in the ocean + Look for signs of the enemy, enemy + These drones can feel emotion + I am a spaceship who's looking for love (yeah) + + Open your doors and shoot your missiles + Blow away everybody you pass + Just a bunch of peculiar people + Looking for a party to crash +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Mad Science +Duration: 3:14 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/mad-science +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS2u8XytSCQ +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Kickstarter reward for Nich Maragos, 2012 +Lyrics: + "Yes! This thunderstorm is just what I need to bring my creation life! LIFE!" + + Your career starts with a dream + That becomes a brilliant scheme + When you first acquire the rudimentary skills + Soon you're turning lead to gold + And making space's fabric fold + And breathing life into the dead to get your thrills + + You may say it can't be done + But baby, I am number one + And the things that I can do + Prove the facts I know are true! + + MAD SCIENCE + We do it 'cause we can + MAD SCIENCE + It's all part of the plan + MAD SCIENCE + Yes, we have got the tools + Consequence means nothing when you learn to break the rules + + "Steady, now. We wouldn't want to scare the poor creature. Look into its eyes; there's a light behind them. Yes! It's intelligent! It's learning! It's learning! Yes!" + + People first will be impressed + They will call you a success + Put your name on some important-sounding prize + But when it starts to leave a scar + They will say you've gone too far + And they'll call your work a dirty pack of lies + + You may say my proofs are wrong + You may say my tests are flawed + You can shove it up your flask + I'm too busy playing God! + + MAD SCIENCE + We do it 'cause we can + MAD SCIENCE + It's all part of the plan + MAD SCIENCE + Yes, we have got the tools + Consequence means nothing when you learn to break the rules + + Losing your patents to idiots in suits + You run from the world and its trivial pursuits + Living in exile with henchmen and minions + Your work's too important for outside opinions + + In a castle far away + You plot revenge throughout the day + Putting touches on your horrid master plan + Those tiny peons would not learn + Which is why they'll have to burn + Progress cannot wait upon the will of man + + You may say it can't be done + But baby, I am number one + And the things that I can do + Prove the facts I know are true + Don't pretend you're not intrigued + You're as twisted as the rest + You might mock me in the day + But at night you are obsessed! + + MAD SCIENCE + We do it 'cause we can + MAD SCIENCE + It's all part of the plan + MAD SCIENCE + Yes, we have got the tools + Consequence means nothing when you learn to break the rules + + "Okay, back to work." +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Millennium Bug +Duration: 3:33 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/millennium-bug +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhzogRWBZ1E +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Kickstarter reward for Sixar, 2012 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Far Away +Directory: far-away-archive +Duration: 0:53 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/far-away +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAiKtjk1Q9g +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Kickstarter reward for Jon Drobny, 2012 +Lyrics: + So far away + Way out beyond + + No capsule you could swallow + Could possibly compare + To the one that swallows you + And takes you through the air + + Hollow rockets filled with solid fuel + Faster than the Earth can pull + Body of the aether's night + Takes you on your maiden flight! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Gondwanaland +Duration: 2:36 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/gondwanaland +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q79TReINYQ0 +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Soundcloud, 2013 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Diamonds and Diamonds and Diamonds +Duration: 1:56 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/diamonds-and-diamonds-and-diamonds +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDQVevEiNKM +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Kickstarter reward for Michael Orr, 2012 +Lyrics: + Hidden from the naked eye + Beyond the view of telescopes + Behind the diamonds in the sky + From where the oldest light elopes + Nothing written in the waves + The signal's clear, the picture's black + Nothing standing in the way + The anti-matter stares straight back + Nothing to see but diamonds and diamonds and diamonds and diamonds and diamonds and diamonds and diamonds and diamonds + + Objects brighter than the sun + Shift to red and fade away + A universe built on the run + Eclipsed so easily by the day + Nothing written in the waves + Event horizon, no return + Nothing standing in the way + Perhaps these things cannot be learned + Nothing there but diamonds and diamonds and diamonds and diamonds and diamonds and diamonds and diamonds and diamonds +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Bandages +Duration: 0:56 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/bandages +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsOz_7QFr68 +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Kickstarter reward for Colin "Bandages" Burns, 2012 +Lyrics: + Colin Burns + But he does not char + The fire laps at his appendages + + Embers spurned + Cannot leave a scar + He is safe behind his Bandages + + The alias + The other skin + Who knows what can lie within + The Bandages + The Bandages +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Electroverture +Duration: 2:38 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/electroverture +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9O7DOmuEqk +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Commission for Cari Garafalo, 2013 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Emery's Theme +Duration: 1:24 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/emerys-theme +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqCIGInFoA8 +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Commission for Emery Ferguson, 2015 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Know That You're Mine +Duration: 1:58 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/know-that-youre-mine +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag4cJj6lakM +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Kickstarter reward for Kalen Boley, 2012 +Lyrics: + I’ll pack a blanket, a handwoven basket + Of red roses and wine + Rest with me here on this bed made of grass + And I’ll know, know that you’re mine + + In the cool of the evening the sound of your breathing + Seems all that you dare need to say + With incense and flowers, the minutes and hours + Like fluttering leaves slip away + + The sky turns from blue to an orange to black + With the slow passage of time + We ought to be home, but you know that I’m yours + And I know, know that you’re mine + + We will look to the skies with our twinkling eyes + And we’ll write out our names in the stars + Though it’s dark here on land, when we’re both holding hands + All the lights up above will be ours +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Just Destroy It +Duration: 1:30 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/just-destroy-it +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QZ-3oBnzOI +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Commission for Lindsay Hejl, 2014 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: In The Marching Band +Duration: 1:00 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-marching-band +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEfXNE2Rpw +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Kickstarter reward for Mason Herschberg, 2012 +Lyrics: + Some bands only play in small bars + Show up in their own cars + Only just to pass time + But my band always plays arenas + You probably have seen us + Playing at the half time + + Sequined soldiers of the football stands + Killing our evenings in the marching band + At every game we're in demand + Our parents are our biggest fans + As long as we're in marching band + + Some bands never really get big + Only play a few gigs + Not at all immersing + But my band always goes to contest + Cannot get a night's rest + Always up rehearsing + + If the team keeps winning, wouldn't that be grand? + Going to playoffs in the marching band + Loading the equipment van + Testing our attention span + Oh why'd we join the marching band? +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Make It Bounce +Duration: 1:47 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/make-it-bounce +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Z9FMR4R_E +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Kickstarter reward for McKinley Freeman, 2012 +Lyrics: + Make it bounce + Make it bounce + Make it bounce +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Explosion Force (They Do It Right) +Duration: 1:57 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/explosion-force-they-do-it-right +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gtR6iQAPGQ +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Kickstarter reward for Jeremy Geist, 2012 +Lyrics: + When the moon is high and the night has fell + They ride like demons out of hell + But they're not demons, they are men + Who send the demons back again + + Men of action, men of dreams + Armed with guns and laser beams + Hunting down all supernatural beings + + Explosion Force, they do it right! + They drop the bomb and win the fight + Riding in the Explosionmobile + Fighting for justice and keeping it real + + Who will live and who will die? + When the war is over, then you'll see why + Explosion Force, they do it right! + + Roll call! + Arthur, demolitions expert + Felix, demolitions expert + David, demolitions expert + Bryan, who's also a demolitions expert YEAHHHHH + + Together fights this secret crew + Sent from VASCU + A secret cell of the FBI + Sworn to make motherfuckers die + + Bad guys from the Cult of Scars + They will find out where you are + Where there's an ass to kick, they can't be far + + Explosion force, they do it right! + You may bark, but they will bite + Ghouls and goblins, you best beware + You're no match, your ass is theirs + + Who will live and who will die? + When the war is over, then you'll see why + Explosion Force, they do it right! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The New Window +Duration: 2:26 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/the-new-window +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ZLS3bp13s +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Soundcloud, 2013 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Polyominoes +Duration: 3:56 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/polyominoes +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Nkz4nKzNo +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Soundcloud, 2013 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Slow Bay +Duration: 2:41 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/slow-bay +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feyHwRVnPWE +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Soundcloud, 2013 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: This Sunset +Duration: 3:20 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/this-sunset +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzAs-WDXdNU +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Kickstarter reward for Leigh-Ann Peach, 2012 +Lyrics: + As I watch this sunset + The enchantment of the long night descends around me + Through the fading blue sky, stars arrive quietly + And the chirps of crickets herald the golden hour + + The day is at an end + And there are ten million things I'll have to do before I sleep + In the morning, there will be ten million, yet still + And then again, a sunset + + But in this moment + The sun is not just some giant ball put there to make me feel small + It is an old friend who I have known longer than anyone else + And this evening, I am by its side to tuck it into bed + + In this moment + I can feel only the grace of the world around me + This calm, this light, this air, this body + This sunset +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Jungle Boogie +Duration: 4:00 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/jungle-boogie +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9m1mux-BU +References: Sburban Jungle +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Outtake from [[album:homestuck-vol-10]], 2016 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Awake (2013 Version) +Duration: 3:28 +References: Awake (2012 Version) +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/awake-2013-version +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmKaslOTrXs +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Soundcloud, 2013 +Lyrics: + Awake again + Here in my bed + Eyes staring up at the ceiling + + A breath of air + Light in my window + Heart still aglow with the feeling + I was dreaming + + Another time, another place + A strange and yet familiar face + Buried deep within my bed + I wade through memories in my head + + My sock's half on + Hand in a book + Finger is still on the chapter + + We both were there + I told a joke + I can't recall what came after + Just your laughter + + Clock goes off across the room + And time restarts and life resumes + I rise to meet the coming day + But someone's laughing far away +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Group: Bonus tracks +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Aba Daba Honeymoon +Directory: aba-daba-honeymoon-archive +References: track:aba-daba-honeymoon +Duration: 1:27 +Has URLs: no +Lyrics: + Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab + Said the chimpie to the monk + Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab + Said the monkey to the chimp + + All night long they chatter away + All day long they were happy and gay + Swingin' and singin' + In their honkie tonkie way + + Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab + Means Monk I love but you + Baba daba dab in monkey talk + Means Chimp I love you too + + Then the big baboon one night in June + He married them and very soon + They went upon their aba daba honeymoon + + Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab + Said the chimpie to the monk + Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab + Said the monkey to the chimp + + All night long they chatter away + All day long they were happy and gay + Swingin' and singin' + In their honkie tonkie way + + Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab + Means Monk I love but you + Baba daba dab in monkey talk + Means Chimp I love you too + + Then the big baboon one night in June + He married them and very soon + They went upon their aba daba honeymoon +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Valentine To Sarah From Julian +Duration: 2:12 +Has URLs: no +Lyrics: + Nobody + Would ever have guessed we'd be homebuddies + Or that you even would be somebody + To someone you barely knew like me + + Like me + Like me + Like me + + I met you + Through a mutual friend + Oh, we were introduced + All I knew was you liked Doctor Who + I guess that was good enough for me + + For me + For me + For me + + I wanna play that + Like a snow-baked thing + I couldn't say that + 'Cuz this ain't just a fling + I wanna know you + Like the back of my hand + I gotta show you + The person I really am + + We'll make our own world + Where we can run away + To where it's all play + All day + Yeah yeah yeah + + [Dare you to transcribe this part, Niklink!] + + You called me + Just seconds before I tried to + Make my plea + For you to entertain this + Fantasy + So glad to know that it was + Not just me + + Just me + Just me + Just me + + Now you're here + We're sharing together in these golden years + And though our lives have many hopes and fears + I'll be there with you and me + + You and me + You and me + You and me + You and me + + (Mwah!) +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Ismelda The Bearded Mermaid +Contributors: Erik Scheele (piano) +Duration: 0:52 +Has URLs: no +Lyrics: + (Ladies and gentlemen, it is my distinct privilege to bring the sounds of Ismelda, the Bearded Mermaid!) + (Once again, faster!) + (Faster, still!) + (Yes!) +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Emery's Theme (Fast Version) +References: Emery's Theme +Duration: 0:57 +Has URLs: no +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Conro Corp Anthem +Duration: 0:36 +Has URLs: no +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Get Start! +Duration: 1:48 +Has URLs: no +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: You Are The Birthday Boy +Duration: 0:26 +Has URLs: no +Lyrics: + Hooray for you, kid + It's your birthday + Let's all sing along + + Birthday + Birthday + Birthday + Birthday + You are the birthday boy + + Birthday + Birthday + Birthday + Birthday + You are the pride and joy + + You're one year older than you were last year + So let's all have a big three cheers + For this is the best day of the year + Happy birthday to +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: You Are The Birthday Girl +Duration: 0:26 +Has URLs: no +Lyrics: + Hooray for you, kid + It's your birthday + Let's all sing along + + Birthday + Birthday + Birthday + Birthday + You are the birthday girl + + Birthday + Birthday + Birthday + Birth + You're the best girl in the world + + You're one year older than you were last year + So let's all have a big three cheers + For this is the best day of the year + Happy birthday to +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Old Buggy Now (Solatrus remix) +Artist: Solatrus +References: Old Buggy Now +Duration: 4:04 +Has URLs: no +Lyrics: + Riding through the night like a jaded vagabond + No one else in sight I could be the only one + Hear me radio, play the song I know + Take me where I long to go + + 'Cause there’s nobody nobody now + Who can hear me or stop me now + In this old buggy old buggy now + In this old buggy old buggy now + + Guided by the stars burning up petroleum + Here inside my car I could be the only one + Somewhere in the sky a satellite on high + Watches with its lonely eye + + 'Cause there’s nobody nobody now + Who can hear me or stop me now + In this old buggy old buggy now + In this old buggy old buggy now + + 'Cause there’s nobody nobody now + 'Cause there’s nobody nobody now + 'Cause there’s nobody nobody now + 'Cause there’s nobody nobody now + + 'Cause there’s nobody nobody now + Who can hear me or stop me now + In this old buggy old buggy now + In this old buggy old buggy now + + In this old buggy old buggy now + In this old buggy old buggy now + In this old buggy old buggy now + In this old buggy old buggy now + + In this old buggy old buggy now + In this old buggy old buggy now + In this old buggy old buggy now + In this old buggy old buggy now +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Ithaca (hrmnzr remix) +Artist: Jamie Paige Stanley +References: Ithaca +Duration: 4:14 +Has URLs: no +Lyrics: + (The journey made by all) + + I spent the best years of my life waiting + For this moment + A time to call my own, a place to call my homeland + + It’s come here far too soon + I sit around my room + Hatching my plans and schemes I mostly leave forgotten + + I spent my longest nights awake wondering through the outside + Amused but still deranged, divided on the inside + + Returning to the core + The place I can’t ignore + The wonder behind the fear I just can’t seem to shake off + + Oo-ee-oo + To dream or do + To do or die + To sink or fly + + Oo-ee-oo + To get a clue + To run and hide + To laugh and cry + + I turned my back on battles won and sailed to new adventure + The journey made by all, a lonely mortal tenure + + To Ithaca I sailed + And though I have not failed + My home is a fleeting camp, the journey’s just beginning + + Oo-ee-oo + To dream or do + To do or die + To sink or fly + + Oo-ee-oo + To get a clue + To run and hide + To laugh and cry + + I spent the morning hours awake writing down the lyrics + Resolved to get it right - to capture the true spirit + + Although I sing along + That moment now has gone + My heart still a restless sea where Ithaca is calling -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5