David Atkinson and Skies Project - BUZZ WORDS! (1989) : Music and Lyrics By David Atkinson. My second self-produced Skies Project album, made on 4-track cassette tapes. Recording started in Maine (mostly Brewer) and finished in Palm Springs, California. When performing \"I PLAY FOR YOU (And No One Hears),\" I would usually sing 'hidden cornflakes are driving me mad.' \"BACK OFF\" seethes with misdirected scorn and vitriol; I regret its message now. Listen for my brother, Paul Atkinson, who sings lead vocal on \"RELEASE ME,\" for which he also wrote the lyrics. \"COUNTRY HITS-309,\" which tells the story of a codependent man and the true love who treats him like hell, was a favorite of my mother's. \"EXTORTION,\" the theme for a school video project, was recorded in a dorm at Husson College in Bangor, Maine. I wrote \"SING MY LOVE\" when I was fifteen, and it certainly shows. Lynette McDaniel, née Trout penned the middle-eight lyrics for \"ISN''T IT STRANGE?\" \"TONIGHT\" was recorded at two-thirty on Christmas morning. I sang whatever entered my head while the tape rolled; singing to a keyboard loop.
0:00 DREAMS / I PLAY FOR YOU (AND NO ONE HEARS)
4:38 BACK OFF
7:21 RELEASE ME
8:26 WHEN
11:42 COUNTRY HITS-309
14:01 SKIES
17:11 EXTORTION
18:38 REMEMBER?
21:14 SING MY LOVE
24:48 BUZZ WORDS
26:10 ISN'T IT STRANGE?
29:26 TONIGHT
34:20 1989 liner Notes
Music Lyrics and Performance by David Atkinson except:
\"Release Me\" - Words and lead vocal by Paul Atkinson
\"Isn't It Strange\" - Words by David Atkinson & Lynette McDaniel, née Trout
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