i am Ta'fxkz: Every Song I Wrote (list in progress)

This will be a tough list to make, but i better do it now or never. I scrapped every song i wrote before March 2005, maybe i should list them as my embarrassments somewhere

List In Progress

When

Context

Status

Links

Top Brass Caviar

(March 2005)

This song kinda started me off on getting back to my myths.

At 27 the age my heroes were dead, i wrote this song. It began in a burst of enthusiasm to catch up with the myths I believed in all my life; that my role in life was that of a singer-songwriter.

The melody and harmonic structure has not changed one bit, though I have changed the key from C major to G major.

A Grubby Halo Staple

Works Solo

Requires Session Work

Good Bye

(June 2005)

Shelved at the moment.

New Man By Your Side

(July/Aug 2005)

Taryn suggested I write a song with the “normal chords” so I went “G D Em C, and this song was written.

Almost all my friends say it is my best song.

Ananth Menon helped co produce it in our EP From Another Morning.

Breakfast!

(Dec 2005)

A drunken riff, “i made you breakfast and i thought i made your day”

Shelved, will reopen with a full band.

Love Remains

(March 2006)

I first thought it was a poem, until Baruk Feddabonn showed me that it sat on a chord progression I was playing on his guiter.

Grubby Halo was formed by having this on the audition jam. Anybody who suggested that it did not have a chorus did not hear back from me.

Grubby Halo jammed with Geetha Navale on May 4th 2008, and we recorded this song.

Bloody Jesus

(March 2006, completed in March 2009)

I this song first hit me, I did not understand where it wanted to go, but now i know it is where it is supposed to be.

Worked only Solo, would love to do a full band version.

If I Were A Rock Star

(March 2006, to date)

I wanted to do an Elvis tribute

Not abandoned – needs work

Righteous Rags

(June2006)

I wrote this, about all the hypocrits and sinners i know- of whome i am the greatest.

Want to do a Tom Waitsish take.

RRRR

Sympathy for God

(June 2006)

Neil McCormick's book “Killing Bono” mentions a song he wrote in a dream called “I found God”.

It was a song that could connect with theists and atheists. Bono told Neil that he had wanted to write a song like that all his life. I read about thinking that I did too.

The studio engineers jokingly called it “Sympathy for God”.

The content for the song was from a debate and discussion with an obstinate christian online.

I feel that the spectrum of human belief and unbelief goes way beyond the defined colors of religious and irreligious labels.

It is the greatest song in the universe. It cannot be taken to studio enough.

A Grubby Halo Staple.

Life is a Virgin

(July, August 2006)

I love to ask people for a glorified timeline of their life.

I love the idea of perpetual virginity despite losing it, the idea of being born again and again everyday- like being new, fresh and untouched all the time. And I tried to capture it in song

I think we are amatures at this thing called living, and we are at best armatures all the way.

It was a great duo with Vikram.

I wish i could take this to studio with a real band.

Miracle

(Aug 2006)

Miracles fascinate me most often when they don't.

I love to express devotion with irreverence unbelief and skepticism.

Breaking Da Code

(Aug'ish 2006)

Billy Yesudian, who also goes by the name Billy Day asked me to help him with this one.

He had a few lines and a chorus in response to Dan Brown's book. I wrote over 85% of the lyric and changed Breaking The Code to Breaking Da Code

I regret working with Billy, he has not replied my emails to officialize what we discussed before writing the song.

I guess, this will be the best song he will ever sing.

For the record, I say "Fuck You Billy!"

There is a condisending acknowledgment on his website.

http://www.billyyesudian.com/in-studio.html
I co-wrote the lyrics for Breaking Da Code with Arul Baliah, a talented songwriter from Bangalore.

Under the Christmas Tree

(Nov 2006)

Sunil Noronha and I wrote the bulk of it in less than 7 minutes. I took upto the next day to put in my Mistiltoe bits. Sunil kept his version unchanged.

Sunil has his version and I have mine. I look forward to more colaboration with him.

Anything for you love

(Dec 2006 to Feb 2007)

WEMOVE an amature theater organization was debuting with their adaptation of Tushar Raheja's Anything for you Maam; titled Me My Love.

I Don't Know (Jan 2007)

Corporate BullTalk

(Feb 2007, April 2008 and Sep 2010)

I wrote this song in phases. It started with an idea, and then a riff with the chorus.

The stanzas developed in times when I was an "insider" but got completed only after I quit.

Killer

(March 2007)

A film maker dropped in at my Jam Room and over a few glasses of wine told me a true life story of three HIV +ive persons. He was still pitching it to the financiers.

I loved it that he just wanted to tell the three people's stories and just wanted to leave it hanging at that.

He asked if I could write him a sample lyric.

The song just burst out and Vikram and I co wrote the music.

This was the only song that Vikram and I worked on together from conceptualization to finish. The chords are cyclic and not boring, they have a touch of Vikram's obsession with the blues that comes out sounding like it has a Carnatic Music Flavor