Dear friends. Here’s another song written, arranged and performed by yours truly.

As the title promises it’s heavily influenced by Prefab Sprout and Paddy McAloon. My beautiful wife plays the part of Wendy Smith and I’m the crooner, McAloon-style.

I’m trying to be a just a little bit clever lyric-wise, but alas, I’m no lyricist… I hope you enjoy this modest tribute to one of my favorite bands anyway.

The Prefab Song (Go Through That) [download]

If you read this, Jason: Sorry ’bout the parentheses, but I had no choice. It’s a good title.

I nicked this link from Boing Boing. The singers and dancers are obviously doing a parody (er, hopefully), but what I really, really love about this video are the subtle gestures of the keyboard player during the first 10 seconds of the song - he’s so freaking hilarious. I’m definitely stealing his routine.

…or not.

Anyways, I’m making a lot of music these days, so here are links for three more songs in mp3 format.

True Love and She Said are upbeat pop-rockers. I sang more or less constantly for 24 hours, and something happened to my voice. I think it’s kind of cool, but I don’t know - too much Bryan Adams? Or Richard Marx??

Left To Cry is a drumless ballad, it’s very simple - only 4 chords repeating themselves, but it kinda works…

The lyrics were assembled - as usual - within 10 minutes and with very little regard to rhyme or reason.

I actually tried to make some money off these tracks just for the fun of it over on amiestreet.com. I got a couple of recommendations and the tracks made a few cents each, but my income stream seems to have dried out by now - I’ve been stuck with a total of $2.84 for weeks - so I think it’s safe to offer them for download here…

And hopefully I’ll come up with something interesting to write about soon… well - I never seem to write about anything interesting - but I’ll be back writing about something, that’s for sure.

My head is about as empty as the void between Ernest Borgnine’s front teeth these days.

I’m certainly no AC/DC fan, and thank God for that. Today the band announced that they skip iTunes in favor of an exclusive deal with Verizon’s online music store, PC World reports.

So, as iTunes move in a slightly more customer-friendly direction with their fresh deal with EMI, providing DRM-free files with better sound quality, Angus and Malcolm get concerned about their petty pennies and decide to locate their income base elsewhere.

If you’re an aspiring AC/DC fan and want to buy their “Highway to Hell” album online now, you’ll have to pay $11.99 for a DRM-infected, product-specific, Microsoft-dependent music file in an unknown quality (a quick browse on Verizon’s site didn’t reveal whether it was in 128, 256 or 56 kbps quality - I’m sure it’s there somewhere, though.)

In addition you cannot download a single track - you have to buy the entire album!

Now, you can get the same album on CD for $9,97 on Amazon. I don’t really know what AC/DC are trying to do here - a poorer product and a higher price - maybe they just want people to buy the CD? But I suspect it’s the same old concept that seems to drive most of the music industry at the moment - blind and stupid greed.