My FAWM Challenge Album - Songs For Swingin Old Peeps - Finished!

[AndyR]

After reading thetworegs topic on his RPM - btw, I can't believe he's finished already!!!  - I decided to link up my FAWM 2025 now...

Mine's still a work in progress... there's 5 there at the moment, but I have 9 written.

I'm writing during the week and recording at the weekend. They're all live single mic recordings in the Broom Cupboard.

Hoping to record and post 4 tomorrow. Maybe write another too.

For FAWM, it's "14 songs in February" - I'm pretty much on target now (given that I'll have to finish by the 27th!)

https://alonetone.com/andyr/playlists/songs-for-swingin-old-peeps---fawm-2025

[AndyR]

Finished!

Songs For Swingin Old Peeps - FAWM 2025



14 songs written in 22 days... not quite as fast as thetworegs

The demos are all single mic (Shure SM7B) acoustic-one-take recordings done in The Broom Cupboard with that Fender Paramount PM2 using Studio One.

I'll probably do some of these for real at a later date, but I need to lie down for a while now, I'm not that young you know

[Ted]

An unintended side effect of these FAWM posts is that I feel like I should be over there with my guitar and notepad writing songs – not here at my cucking fomputer listening to your and Trev's albums.

Listening now.

"Another Year Older" is a really strong start. That one wants to be a rocker.

I'm a few songs in now. Hopefully it will take me less time to listen to them all than it took you to write and record them all.

[T.C. Elliott]

I've listened to a couple and loved them. I'm impressed.

[Farrell Jackson]

I gave them all a listen and I'm quite impressed Andy! You did this with one mic, your voice, an acoustic, a lot of imagery/creativity, and in a short time period...yes, quite impressive!

[chapperz66]

Listening to Open the Box right now.  I thought I would start with track 7. 

Very impressive.

[Zoltan]

I listened to some of these songs days ago and started writing some "clever" comments about them.

About the All We Need To Know song (So Andy is singing about the sex toys these days?) etc. etc. but didn't post anything. And it's only now that i noticed the title "Songs For Swinging Old Peeps". So where's the song about dogging?

But yeah, i'll join the choir. This is mightily impressive. You're worthy of that Songcrafter moniker of yours. Hats of for Andy!

[AndyR]

Thanks folks

@zoltan
The imagery in my head for those toys (All We Need You To Know) was two things:

• J F Sebastian's toys in Blade Runner
• Bagpuss (UK childrens program in the 70s/80s) - we met him recently, and Professor Yaffle, and Madelaine, Gabriel the Toad, and the mice on the mice organ, and the dress Emily wore, a few weeks ago. They're in a little museum in Canterbury - there are others from the same film-makers there too: Ivor the Engine, Noggin The Nog, The Clangers. But turning the corner and seeing the actual cast of Bagpuss... WOAH! There were tears. Actually, we're going back tomorrow!

No songs about dogging I'm afraid... do old people even do that? We're not planning on it!

I believe the song nearest to having any intentional "human physicality" from me in this set is West Coast Suntan. After the title etc, I then struggled with it feeling a bit misogynistic to me... until I switched the pronoun from he to she... I'm imagining a female version of Gustav Klimt. From there I ended up with the "I'm old, I don't understand this modern gender sh1t... but live and let live, it's all good".

I'll probs be working some (all?) of them up into full productions - not sure how I'll publish those. I already have something like 10-12 band productions in progress/rehearsal at the moment anyway. Another 5-10 were waitign to get on the treadmill... now these 14 (plus 30+ old ones that I identified I'd like to record a year or two ago)

[SteveB]

14 songs in 22 days? You, sir, earn my undying admiration. I couldn't do that across a generation. Good luck with your endeavour. I can't review any because it keeps asking me to 'log in'; which I'm not. 

[Jean Pierre]

Impressionnant!......as these are vocal/guitar songs, can I try sticking a Dobro guitar or Weiseenborn guitar track on one of your songs?