Throw Away Song (w/ Trump sample 3:36 lol)

ALAN CRUZ: acoustic drums, ceramic drum 
DAREN TURNER: acoustic & electric guitars, vocals, bass, keys
CHRIS STETSON (special guest): thrashcore rant, spoken words
 
 
 
update: new mix 07-12-2016     {CD WAV master for single release off upcoming Ritual Del Cubículo} 
 
https://soundcloud.com/m_r_i/throw-away-song-2016
 
 
an alternate heavy rock/grunge outtake version of the experimental Throw Away Song (track 10) on MRI's album 'A Beautiful Virus'. 
Special Thrashcore Guest: Chris Stetson doing extended outro and his telephone performance poetry pieces. + Tangerine Trump "you're fired" samples @ 3:36 LOL - it should be fun to try to get license for those. we'll see ;p
 
 
THROW AWAY SONG 
©2016 MRI ~ Words & Music by Daren Thomas Turner
A painful observation of all of you here
Pessimistic, overdriven, troglodytive 
Hello! My name is: NAME TAG
Please laminate my head
Stick me in a cubicle
Ass-**** me 'till i'm dead
Hurricanes and earthquakes love my zen Malthusian
'cause you reek of all your cronies and dirty nepotism 
I am just an effigy burning up in flames
I'd rather be just thrown away than ever born again
Suicidal tendencies cut into my flesh
To dream in phenobarbital into foreverness 
I am the vicious mirror that anorexics fear 
Permanent obfuscation
Believing it's real
The point blank honesty that has made you hate my face
Also makes your own opinion of no ****ing consequence 
My only friends are mannequins who linger on Facebook
I just posted my obituary and no one even looked
Hello! My name is: NAME TAG
Hello! My name is: NAME TAG
Hello! My name is: NAME TAG
Hello! My name is: NAME TAG
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[original album version electronica/experimental track]
https://soundcloud.com/m_r_i/throw-away-song
 
 
 
 
 

Vocals up!
 
Pretty cool song though...
 
Regards,
Dan

I like your sound alot.  You guys should hook up with a band here called KING BLACK ACID.  You'd complement eachother.

Alice in Chains all the way. This is such a great tune - you guys really have a great sound and you are great musicians. I love this.

I really enjoy the fact that everyone here has a great set of ears - thanks to all.
The vocals were indeed buried even more than I 'artistically' do; I think my ears were fatigued from mixing. 
Taking the advice here I boosted them up front and center and tweaked the heavy guitars. Pretty sinister sound now - offset by the clean guitars/acoustics in the breakdowns and intro. I'm loving how the clean DADGAD based chords ring out I was inspired by Andy Summers / Walking On The Moon.  Tune is getting there now.  
muchas gracias amigos ;)  good to have some time to be back here again 
 
update: new mix 06-10-2016
https://soundcloud.com/m_r_i/throw-away-song-rock-remix
 

thanks Dan. Yeah there's a lot going on under the hood too I might listen on various systems now to get a feel for final tweaks on guitar vols etc- your feedback is much appreciated bro ;)
 
- DT 

I love the way you guys put together such a powerful dark sound. I'll admit the words are kinda scary to me, and I guess that's why I don't write grunge :)  but they line up well with the feel of this song.
 
The mix is really good. I love the DADGAD tuning. I use the same tuning a lot myself, but I don't sound this cool :)

emeraldsoul
First off, great song, great instrument work, and excellent singing performance. All are blended into a whole that I think could be pretty much an anthem or a modern classic rock tune - I'm serious.
 
cheers,
-Tom
 

 
Tom- you have great ears- I actually remixed with your post in mind...except that I kept in the metronome thing b/c it's kinda odd sounding and denotes that the changes are indeed in 10/8 ;p  Boosted vox & re-tracked the bass myself concentrating on tone and using only fingers, as Dan (usually bass) is in Montana. I think it breathes more without any loss of fullness as I EQd bass to not interfere with drums/kick amplitudes etc- 
 
brought up the "hidden" guitars in the choruses cool ping pong pans in stereo headphones 
 
thanks A LOT!!
 
- Daren T 
 
new mix: 
https://soundcloud.com/m_...song-alternate-version

Made me smile and I thought of 20st Century Schizoid Man in the initial vocal.

Very creative song Daren -- from the intro on it's well thought out and executed.  Guitars sound great as does the bass.  Vocals are good and have just the right amount of "sneer" to fit the song.  And, the drummer is very good -- those percussive bits were just right.  Good luck with your new album -- hope you get plenty of traction with it.  !!
 
Allan
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Wookiee
Made me smile and I thought of 20st Century Schizoid Man in the initial vocal.

Wow a King Crimson fan - Wook you just made my year!!! ;) 
 

This mix is stellar!  I'll be listening to this until it disappears. 

Midiboy
I definitely like the sound of this song.  First thought was Alice In Chains but not as heavy.  I love the pictures you paint with the words, though personally (and not a dig on you), I feel going with the f-bombs detracts from the impact and genius of the rest of the words.  It's like you have $500 words with a few 50c words thrown in.  Kinda cheapens it.  This is just my opinion as someone that doesn't like to use or hear that kind of language, but I'm not judging.  I promise.  
 
Musically, this is a great mix.  I honestly can't think of anything I'd change as for as music / mix goes.  Thanks for sharing this. 

hey thanks for bringing this up in fact. i myself actually debated over it for the same reasons; one of those being my 2-year-old little rocker who loves it but I make him listen to a private censored version lol - my buddy Chris came in with his rant and F-bomb laden "phone poetry" all over the place, which fit the "tone" of the song, societal alienation and basically living in a cubicle at work 70% of your life etc-- the death of the America dream - 
 
but the "character" of the story actually speaks like that. it's actually based on a co-worker who destroyed his cubicle one day after being fired then wrote all this sappy angry suicidal crap on Facebook - hence the lyrics - but his life was truly destroyed by a corporate takeover and firing. there are some subtle political references, more at a political zeitgeist with a bit of a fist bump to my Mexican friends, of whom I have many, living here in Florida etc- but less at a political song and more at a social commentary/ mirror song etc- inside an artistic soundscape that combines a few styles 
 
your point is very well taken tho- thanks again - 
 
- Daren T 
 

Clearest vocal I have heard on your music!  Ha, how ya doin, buddy?  I actually really like this song.  Instruments are great and I liked the singer.  It makes me want to pick up the bass and add all kinds of effects and just SOLO for an hour.  Of course it would suck but that's what I want to do listening to this.  Animal music.  Man, Daren, I really love this!

Good stuff.  Agree with Lynn, et. al., good lyrics deserve to be heard.  You got 'em... let us hear 'em.