Rebecca Pittenger's Podcast of Weird Songs

There're people falling down a hole in the movie I'm making; theme music of that scene is an instrumental version of an old song that I turned around backwards in Audacity. I'm all, huh, I kinda like that backward melody; so I made a song with that melody, along with a little hook that came from a dream. It's kinda sorta about that scene a little bit. Or, in any event, it's a song about people falling down a hole together.

This is a song about how I don't want to celebrate the 4th of July (so I won't).

There are probably a thousand songs with this name, but it came to me in a dream, so here it is. It's about missing someone, as you can probably tell from the title.

Sorry for the rough mix; it got late and stuff, so I'll do the poking-around-in-my-DAW-to-make-a-better-mix tomorrow. This is a song about how it's been feelin' like my music gets old really fast recently. I dunno if that's due to depression-related dysphoria, or if it's just that my music is sucking these days. In any event, that's what this song is about.

There are times I find the mirror can be unkind. This is a song about getting a new face. It turned out to be about something different than I thought it was gonna be about.

Here's my song in response to recent events, like California Senator Alex Padilla getting manhandled, and all the crazy fucking insane nuts stuff happening in our country. We're heading into a new dark age. We're probably already there. Oh yeah, I attempted to draw a little caricature profile thingy of Dump. I don't know if you can tell that's him or not. 

This is a song about being the ghost of a broken TV set. It's sorta a metaphor for depression a little bit.

This is a song that's kind of almost a true story. It's about a person who only has nightmares instead of regular dreams. I still have regular dreams, but when I try to have lucid dreams, they always end up being horrible. I don't know if you'd call 'em nightmares technically speaking cuz it doesn't have a disturbing climax; but they're disturbing and shitty. 

Crap, I couldn't get the mix right, bleh. I think it's cuz my voice doesn't have much resonance and stuff. That's what I get for trying to teach myself how to do heavy metal screaming and fucking up my voice (there isn't any of that in here - I sound like the kid in The Shining when I try to do it, ha ha ha). Anyway, this is a song about the spirit of someone's grandmother being in Heaven and communicating with that person that even though life sucks, there's a purpose to it. You're not really allowed to...

This song was inspired by a dream where people died in a big flash of light and explosion-y-ness. It's about a person who is a ghost, stuck on earth, with the memory of her death repeating over and over. 

This is a song about those tolerance holidays or whatnot. At least I thought they were called tolerance holidays, but Google AI thingamagigger sez no. But Wikipedia sez yes - or it said something to the effect of, yes, going off meds for a while is called a holiday. So, there ya go. Anyway, it's a song about taking a break from pot to make one's tolerance go down. That's what this song is about.

I thought this was kind of a crap song yesterday, but it kinda grew on me a little bit. I might put it in the next Loosey Goosey Lucifer album, and stuff.

Damnitall, I tried this new supplement today, and it dried me out to the point where I can hardly even sing - argh! I'm not even going to post the other 2 songs I did today because they sound like ass-wipe. This is just a little number where I'm messing around with the theme of being all dried out cuz that's what I am. Argh.

What would happen if I recorded a song, and I kept all the mess-ups in there instead of recording over them? It would sound like this!

This is a song about ancestors comin' around to get you and take you to the afterlife when you die. It's a happy song about death.

This is a song about having ghosts in your house and offering them a beer. 

It's another song about the fucked up world, and the likelihood of said world ending soon. I had this F# minor chord ringing over the whole thing that added a little color to the regular chords of the song, and it made it extra-special-depressing and stuff. This song is God-flushing-humanity-down-the-toilet-themed.

This is a song about the anti-Christ comin' and stuff. It came to me to have the song be peaceful and sad. When I was a kid and I had end-of-the-world-dreams, they were sad. There was just this great sadness hanging in the air. That's sorta the vibe o' this here little ditty. 

This is a song about when Covid was on the horizon - we were waiting for it to get here. Y'know, probably January-ish/February-ish of 2020. Something along those lines. There was that ominous feeling of a thunderhead on the horizon approaching slowly. You knew things were going to get bad, but you didn't know how bad. And you see it comin' and comin' and comin', and there's nothing you can do to make it stop. It's almost like the slow approach of Covid was like watching an accident in slow motion or something.  It's just this thing happening and y...

Here's what it sounds like when you take the song I just posted and turn it around. It's kind of a weird version of the storm song in the Hell movie I'm a-working on. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb-nfREM3Kk&authuser=0
The link takes you to the first part of it - the movie, that is. It's gonna be a 3 part movie, and all that. This part is 22 minutes long, so it's a nice little TV-show-length animated thingamagigger, in case you're bored and want some entertainment.

It's been about 2.5 years since I've recorded a backwards version of one of my songs - geez, has it been that long? This is a song that's in that Hell-movie I'm working on. But I performed it backwards and stuff.

Yeah, in times such as these, there's not much more that you can do than get really drunk.

I think this is a decent song, but it's a crap recording. Bleh. But it's a song about how we've gotten away from who we're naturally supposed to be, as a species.

This is just me messing around. I was recalling the days when I said really weird things when I was rapping cuz I was trying to get rhymes and stuff. I just went hog wild saying weird things to make many rhymes in the rap at the end. The song is (loosely) about what the title says it is about.

I woke up feelin' off this morning, yes, indeed, and I wondered if there was something wrong with me. Then I remembered this song from yesteryear I did a long time ago. It's a wee little ditty about wondering if there's something wrong with me - I think it was 2002 that I did it. This is sorta an updated version; I don't really remember what the original one sounded like, though, so maybe it's a whole new song. 

This song is a true story: I used to live in Altadena, and ever since the fire, I was wondering how my old house and how my landlords' house fared (they're right next door to each other). A friend and I drove there a few weeks ago, and my old house and my landlords' house are still standing! The house next door to my landlords' house was also standing. But the whole rest of the block, and most of the rest of the street, were burnt down - just total devastation. These 2 houses, which used to be such happy...

Similar to yesterday's tune, I'm doing another little number that sort of fills in the blanks on the Loosey Goosey Lucifer Album, Part 2 that I'm working on. Loosey Goosey Lucifer, the Goddess of Light, is getting ready to tell the Drinking Church, members, who are in a state of sad resignation, that it's better to fight the evil dictator who has taken over their country.

This is another song in the Loosey Goosey Lucifer Album, Part 2. I'm not sure which number song it'll be...maybe the 3rd. The Drunk Church is resigned to dying because the world is doomed. 

The hook of this song came from a dream, and stuff. It's about Chester Bennington and stuff. I started judging myself in the middle of writing/recording it. You might be able to tell. 

This is a crap song about how all my songs about owls end up being crap songs. I've only written a couple of them, but they were all crappy. And shitty, too.

This is another song in the Loosey Goosey Lucifer Album, Part 2; it's another song from the point of view of the fly. This fly has psychic abilities and has taken a trip to the Doomsday Clock. This fly has a warning for humanity, sort of.

I don't think the words, "cautious optimism," are actually in the song, but that's what the song's about, and stuff.  I'm considering using this music or a better version of it for the closing credits o' the first chapter of the movie I'm working on. I haven't decided yet. See, it's the end of the first part of a trilogy, but the trilogy will be all one big movie. It's like, hey, let's end on a hopeful note, but not too hopeful.

This is a song about earthbound spirits of drunk people. 

There was a little snatch of songy-ness I had years and years ago when I was improvising stuff after smoking weed. I decided to make a song out of it and stuff. It's that usual theme of humans destroying the Earth, and me being an alien and looking on. My voice is poop today, to the extent that I'm almost a little embarrassed to post this.

This is a really, really, realllllly rough draft of a song, part of which I will re-record and use in the movie I'm makin'. It's a song about someone who thinks things are not going to get better being reassured by someone who thinks they're gonna get better. Person number one is skeptical.

This is a REALLLLLLLY old little ditty. I wrote it back in 2000, so it's about 25 years old. Geez, man. I thought I'd do a little updated version of it with souped up lyrics and a rap and live drums and stuff. Here it is. Do us humans have free will? Or is there a little homunculus running things inside our brains and we don't know it?

This song came to me in a dream this morning, so I made it into a song about who we dug ourselves into our own graves here in the US. Yay, us! Yay!

This song, well, I guess it has its moments, but I couldn't get a good mix to save my life, so overall, it sounds like shit. Enjoy!

I saw a KTLA news story the other day that said an asteroid is coming toward earth and might affect us. All the commenters were like, good, cuz our world is going to shit, anyway. That's what this song is about.

This is the next song in the Loosey Goosey Lucifer album, part 2. The Drinking Church people hear about what happened in that past life when Loosey Goosey Lucifer did a brave thing and got burned. Her past act of bravery inspires them to fight the good fight, in light of the dictator, Murpt.