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4/10/2016, 12:04 AM
Harry Macari - The City I Lived
From the cassette album "The Company Man", If there is any interest I'll try and find the tape and make a 320kbps mp3, Harry Macari - The City I Lived The company man The company man was easily impressed by figures and statistics The company man Express yourself Not what you saw on television last night Before educating others we have to learn ourselves Exploration of our latent abilities Spiritual depths from the times before machines Currency was easy No economic crisis sitting waiting to explode The company man Was left wing in ideals but he was right wing in his policies Controlling the political influence of youth Through clever marketing of pop culture Everyone is the same nowadays None of us looks to the sun Preferring instead to scrape the seeds From the earth In pursuit of wealth To bleed out the guts of the one Do you often tell yourself you're not insane Sane is your only perception of sanity Believe all of the tales of the television You will get schizophrenia at the very least In the city I lived jazz was banned The legacy of contemporary society Everyone read exactly the same book No one was allowed to think The artists were satans Persecuted into using the same ink Stimulants were illegal Except caffeine tobacco and drink This is the way of the modern world This is the way to drink Turn up all the power And into the oceans we sink
Add Comment4/28/2016, 8:12 AM
Thanks again D :) That's the song file updated from the master cassette tape, a new wave and 320kbps mp3 of that, So hopefully be a bit kinder on the listeners ears The tape seems to be on its last legs with a kind of mechanical sounding click click click..... as it runs, prolly lucky to get it at all.
4/19/2016, 6:58 AM
All of which shows that this a 100% authentic tune and backs up my comment perfectly! Well done, really :)
4/19/2016, 6:38 AM
Thank you FT, that still means a lot to me.:) Thank you Chandra, for the station add and your most valued opinion, :) Thank you Stoneman, the drummer makes it, and is the most dynamic musician I ever played with. the whole thing was a jam, guitar and drums live, with synth and bass and vocals added a in a single take each using an old fostex 4 track, I doubt if I could "make up" tracks like those now :) Thank you Dolores, I think the "sounds" were a good(or bad) coincidence, of gear that we had at the time, a squier strat and tube distortion pedal, and DX21 synth, and of course, the "thin cassette tape 4 track recording give it a lofi sound. The lyrics were jotted on envelopes/scrap paper, and just improvised along, :)
4/12/2016, 2:00 AM
This is brilliant! The words are really poetry. I can't even imagine how you thought of the sounds you got here - and just what I'd like to say if had thought of those words. I think you've gone beyond just good song writing here. D
4/10/2016, 10:48 PM
By complete coincidence I just added this ace track to Over The Moon and just saw this now - it's brilliant - I love it.
4/10/2016, 12:04 PM
This is a great song, one of my favorites. Should be played at every party.
