Music
I’ve been playing music since I was 8 years old, and here are some of the songs I’ve written and recorded over the years. I play several different instruments and many songs are completely different styles. You can take a listen below.
| Name | Description | What I Did | MP3 | OGG |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whittle Little Figures | A song I wrote about little whittled people and the adventures they have. I didn’t even realize it was almost a reggae song until I listened to it without the vocals. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/whittlelittlefiguresFINAL.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/whittlelittlefiguresFINAL.ogg | |
| Legend of Zelda | The theme song of the original NES game, The Legend of Zelda, transcribed for and performed on guitar only. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/zeldaguitar.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/zeldaguitar.ogg | |
| Circles | This is a song I wrote as a wedding gift for my friends, Andy & Kristina Beardsley. It’s one of the few songs I’ve written that was written first on sheet music. I’d like to see it performed by a guitar quartet sometime. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/01-Circles-Guitar-only.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/01-Circles-Guitar-only.ogg | |
| Sono | A song about travelling. Vocals by Gabi Moore. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sono.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sono.ogg | |
| Slinkie | I think the bass makes the song. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/slinkie.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/slinkie.ogg | |
| Cobra Stops the World! | The first good song I wrote in college. Re-recorded a few years ago. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/cobra.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/cobra.ogg | |
| Chores | An experimental song I wrote, in the style of “Dodecophonismo”, a style of non-traditional structural songwriting. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/chores.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/chores.ogg | |
| Avelã | Avelã is Portuguese for Hazelnut. The best Brazilian candy is made from Avelã. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/avela.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/avela.ogg | |
| Slow Boom | This is a song I started writing a few years ago, but just recently added bass and guitar to. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Slow-Boom-w_guitar.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Slow-Boom-w_guitar.ogg | |
| Bad Ass Blues | A song of mine I modified to be a rip-off of the White Stripes style. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/baddassblues.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/baddassblues.ogg | |
| Yo! | Not sure about this one. I kind of like the parts when it seems to slow down though. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/yo.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/yo.ogg | |
| The Darkness | Metal. Metal. Metal. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/thedarkness.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/thedarkness.ogg | |
| Jeans Suit | This song was a Frankenstein combination of a song I did in college with Greg Stanger, and a rap beat I made a few years later. The rap lyrics were written by Andy Beardsley. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/jeanssuit.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/jeanssuit.ogg | |
| Domestic Disturbance | A song I wrote with my friend David Leonard. He sang, I did the guitar and xylophone. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Domestic-Disturbance.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Domestic-Disturbance.ogg | |
| Runaway | Music by me, lyrics by David Leonard. Guitar solo at the end by Wes Thomas. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/runaway.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/runaway.ogg | |
| Bad Day Blues | This song was written for a really bad short film I made after college. The film was really bad. I think this song was the best thing that came out of it. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/BadDayBlues-Edit.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/BadDayBlues-Edit.ogg | |
| Wake Up | Bass and drums by Wes Tomas. I did everything else. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/wakeup.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/wakeup.ogg | |
| Remote Control | My attempt to do a Naked City-like noise song. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/remotecontrol.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/remotecontrol.ogg | |
| He Lied | I wrote this song after seeing an episode of the Twilight Zone, called The Grave. I used most of the dialogue from one scene directly and built the music around it. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/helied.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/helied.ogg | |
| O Holy Night | A cover I did of the Christmas song O Holy Night. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/oholynight.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/oholynight.ogg | |
| Night Court | My version of the Night Court theme song. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/nightcourt.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/nightcourt.ogg | |
| Pain Killer | A slow jam I wrote with Mike Patrick. He did the sax and keyboard. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/painkiller.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/painkiller.ogg | |
| Tension | Sketch of a song I wrote with Jimmy Hall. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/tension.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/tension.ogg | |
| Dickin’ Around | A sketch of a song I did based on the bassline. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DickinAround-MixDown.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DickinAround-MixDown.ogg | |
| Deaf | I wrote this song after I first discovered what the different major and minor chords in a major scale are. If you know that, then you can dissect this song very easily. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/deaf.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/deaf.ogg | |
| A Scream | Part of the trio, A Thought, A Moment, A Scream. Written by me and Mike Patrick. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ascream.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ascream.ogg | |
| A Moment | Part of the trio, A Thought, A Moment, A Scream. Written by me and Mike Patrick. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/amoment.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/amoment.ogg | |
| A Thought | Part of the trio, A Thought, A Moment, A Scream. Written by me and Mike Patrick. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/athought.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/athought.ogg | |
| Bottle Rocket | A song I wrote with Mike Patrick. I did the guitar slide with an empty pint vodka bottle. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/bottlerocket.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/bottlerocket.ogg | |
| A Minor | This song is called that because it’s written in A minor. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/aminor.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/aminor.ogg | |
| Weird Song | Old rockin’ song I did in college. When in doubt overdub 30 phaser guitars to solo. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/weirdsong.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/weirdsong.ogg | |
| Phone Sex Commercial | A cover I did of a phone sex commercial that played incessently in the middle of the night in Baltimore when I was in school there. “Blonde girls, black girls, beautiful girls!” |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/phonesex.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/phonesex.ogg | |
| Weird Laura | A song I wrote in college with Laura Previll. Experimental ambient weirdness. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/laura.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/laura.ogg | |
| Wondering | Little country ditty I wrote in Baltimore. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/wondering.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/wondering.ogg | |
| I Never Meant to Hate You | The middle part of the song uses samples from Clockwork Orange, Cube, Deathtrap, and Empty Nest. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/inevermeant.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/inevermeant.ogg | |
| Go Away | Old song full of anger. Lots of screaming. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/goaway.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/goaway.ogg | |
| Diogenes | I noise song inspired by Einstürzende Neubauten. The lyrics are a story by Franz Kafka read in the original German by Jon Thomas. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/diogenes.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/diogenes.ogg | |
| Vicious Circle | Song I wrote in college, experimenting with harmonies and circular logic. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Vicious-Circle.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Vicious-Circle.ogg | |
| Hick Song | Old song I wrote in college with my friend Jon Thomas. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Hick-Song.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Hick-Song.ogg | |
| UV | Nominated for the Most Chord Changes in A Song Award. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/uv.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/uv.ogg | |
| Alkabot | A song I wrote with my friend Jon Thomas. He wrote the lyrics, we did the guitar together. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/alkabot.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/alkabot.ogg | |
| Joe’s Song | A song my friend Jon Thomas wrote, dedicated to me, after I convinced him it was worthwhile to learn to play the guitar. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/joessong.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/joessong.ogg | |
| Sludge | High-school era experiemental audio sludge. Some points of the song just sound like someone opened a big valve labeled “SOUNDS” and let it pour all over the place. |
http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Sludge.mp3 | http://josephrogermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Sludge.ogg |