Tag: morphine

  • day 90: Cure For Pain

    Cure For Pain, by Morphine.

    Back in the days when we would get into airplanes and they would take us places, I always kept a little stash of owned music on my phone, meditative stuff I could leave on repeat while I tried to sleep in uncomfortable seats, sometimes with too much alcohol in me, sometimes feeling a little sick, or sad, or dried out, or shriveled up after a trip. Believe or not, I am an introvert, but work trips are usually the kinds of times when I am all karaoke and interaction with humans and it gets kinda overwhelming, so being able to shut everything out on the plane ride home is pretty important to start recovering.

    This Morphine album is always there, and this song is probably the most playable of it, though it’s all cool as hell.

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    So this… went well? It went poorly at first, because I couldn’t get the drum and bass and sax loops to line up, and then I had no idea what changes I had made from the chords I was reading off, and apparently it helps if you write down your arrangement somewhere, who knew.

    So I played it live instead, did the drums live, and then lined up pieces of loops in the right spots. And then added a couple weird guitars that were just right.

    The vocal is kinda lost, and this is probably a rare song in this list where doubling it would have worked just fine, but I didn’t come back to it.