Mark Radice - Tracks: Not Hits Not Even Close 155

Well here we go peoples, let the games begin. This is the first installment of my compilation CD's. This is Volume 155 (named after my old street address in Nutley, NJ).....the next one will be volume 138, then 121, then 104 etc going down 17 until I get to 4 then they go up 13. Don't ask because I don't know. I figure if I release one a month I have enough here in this room to go 8 years and 3 months until I start saying 'did I put this on anything yet?' They're basically everything I've recorded that never landed on anything for sale. I hope someday for every single song to be a big huge enormous hit so that the title will be a big fat lie. Let's reach in the bag and see what surfaces....oh, ok.... Here's one from the EMI years. I think the idea was to finish the lyrics, since at the time 'lean over I can't hear you' and 'let me count the lies I've heard' didn't make any freakin' sense but I thought 'hey, when I finish it'. Plus I think the expression was BEND over I can't hear you, implying that the other person was talking out their butts, so right off the bat? Yeah well this is as far as it got. I think I was trying to be 10cc in the beginning, and recording engineer David Dale's authentic English accent helped bring out the effect. And we had fun making backwards snare drum sounds. EMI was a cool job, I had it for about 8 years. My job was to go into New York once a week, get drunk on Heinekens all day and make up songs and then we'd all try and figure out who could sing them. Then I'd have to pee like a yak on the busride back home. Which is when I wrote the song 'Please Hurry Now'. LEAN OVER Mark Radice 1990something. These people all look like they're from some other planet And then they talk and my suspicions are confirmed I feel like asking everybody when they landed I feel like just another bridge they haven't burned I met a girl last night who said her name was Wanda yeah I was so positive that she would treat me right Took off so fast she almost killed me with her Honda yeah I knew right then and there that it was not my night. .... It's still so early that my hair's not making sense yet Another day ahead it's been this way since birth I haven't found a way to put up my defense yet I have a toohbrush that has disappeared from Earth. If you leave it up to me I get myself nowhere slow And I don't know who'll I'll be When the World gets through with me And I'm sure that I don't wanna know Lean Over I Can't Hear You Speak UP or I won't hear a word Lean Over I Can't Hear You Let me count the lies I've heard Who's on the subway with me today Hundreds of people running away..... I wouldn't put a dime on anything you tell me Your eyes are straight up and your bird is flying south I try to be polite and ask you to speak louder yeah Cause where you're talking from is surely not your mouth If I leave it up to you I get myself nowhere slow And I don't know what to do when the World gets through And I'm sure that I don't wanna know Lean Over I Can't Hear You Speak UP or I won't hear a word Lean Over I Can't Hear You Let me count the lies I've heard Who's in the mirror that isn't me Where did my life go how can this be? @DisenchantedCottage2008 #2- Well, I did it. I wrote a song that the bass only plays two notes the whole song. Yay for me. One summer I rented a house on Evergreen Avenue in Bayville New Jersey. It was really cool and was on one of those boat slip things and ducks use to wander into my kitchen. I wrote about 8 really cool songs there, I was in the zone. I was missing Suzanne alot. So yeah, another one about you, baby. This feels like it fell off an early Beatles Record until it turns into Yes in the hook. THE ONE YOU'LL LEAVE BEHIND Radice 2002. Maybe. Probably. Around then. Here I am A voice inside the wind reaching out for something That I can always call my very own Would they ever let me be Would the World even bother.... So where were you? I stood there on a hill and asked if you would join me I saw you turn away and then you hid your face Just when you were high and dry I was bringing you water.... The answer is in your heart The answer is in your heart So fly away from me I'm not here to follow you I'm the one you'll leave behind. As I slowly disappear into your mental woodwork I know your name but you look like someone else On your kness and knelt in front of the almighty dollar. The answer is in your heart The answer is in your heart So fly away from me I'm not here to follow you I'm the one you'll leave behind. I'll live on Out of your concern sailing past your memory You'll feel a chill inside but you won't be sure What it is that's bothering you Is it me in your window? @DisenchantedCottage2008 Not a hit, not even close #3: SONGS ABOUT YOU Another one from the Bayville Summer. This one's about Bernadette (See 'Generation Why', hear 'Bernadette') All these Bayville songs were done in the kitchen (with the ducks) on a four-track cassette recorder, Sgt. Pepper style, but worse. SONGS ABOUT YOU Radice 3/19/06 You know it's not like I think about you night and day.... And that you're always on my mind Even when I go to sleep and I pray I think about other things too... Like that time I went to the beach And didn't think about you very much at all For a minute or two Until some girl walked by who reminded me of you.... I decided I'm not gonna write any songs about you any more There must be something else to write about The birds and the bees the flys and the fleas The chair, the wall, the ceiling, the floor Yeah I decided I'm not gonna write Any more songs about you, so there What's the difference anyway if you just don't care? Here I go whoop dee doo this one ain't about you I got a life you know A million places to go A million people to see and they all care about me he- hee Here I go out the door Late for the party once more And they'll all be sad if I don't show up without you.... Hey I decided I'm not gonna write any Songs about you any more I'm sure there's plenty else to write about The squirrels in the park the burglars at dark The reason why I get up at four. Yes I decided I'm not gonna write Any more songs about you So there What's the difference anyway if you just don't care? Hey so what's the big deal about you anyway? I don't need you to be happy I'm not even thinking about you right now I use to think about you way too much but I stopped Yeah I stopped And you know what else? And you know what else? I decided. Here I go whoop dee doo again This one still ain't about you. I got a life you know A dozen places to go A couple people to see And one might care about me -he-hee Here I go out the door late for the party once more And they'll all be sad if I don't show up without you.... Hey I decided I'm not gonna write any..... There must be something else to write about The birds and the bees the flys and the fleas The chair, the wall, the ceiling, the floor Hey I decided I'm not gonna write What's the difference anyway if you just don't care? Copyright @ Radisongs 2006 Livingroom Productions NOT HIT NOT EVEN CLOSE #4: I CAN'T KEEP THE RAIN I wrote this one in Treasure Island, Florida when I was working on the Vesica Pisces CD. Wait I want you to try something. Don't look at what you just read, close your eyes, don't look, and tell me the name of the band I just told you I was working with. That's what I thought. Well after I gave them FIVE HUNDRED BETTER BAND NAMES on a list they stayed with it and where are they now? In Florida I suppose. So while working with that band I booked a studio one day to do a new one of my own that just kinda popped out since I was writing for them but this wasn't their style.... About a month after I wrote it three or four people said it sounds like a Cheap Trick song, so I called Robin Zander. After the seventh call his wife answered, then put him on, I told him I may have a song he might be interested in recording and he said...'Oh. One of those pesky things?' So I sent it to him and