Matthew Nellis
games, music, tech, design
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January 9th, 2009Song a WeekWell my PC monitor went kaput last night so I’m having to do all this on my Mac which is a strange experience. I usually only use it for recording so doing actual work on it is a bit weird. Anyway, here’s the song!
Download ‘One of Us’ [ mp3 ]The .ogg and .flac versions will follow this weekend when I can access my PC. I can probably get the converting tools on the Mac so I’ll have a looksie shortly.The song started out with a lyric “You look like one of them, but you talk one of us”, shamelessly ripped from Aaron Sorkin’s excellent Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. I’d been watching the show again last week and that line had stuck in my head. It felt like a lyric from a Dire Straits song so thats the sort of direction I went in. As usual my initial idea for a song never matched the end product, but I’m still fairly happy with it.Tags: Aaron Sorkin, Dire Straits, end product, mp3, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip -
January 2nd, 2009Song a Week
The song would have been up earlier, but can you believe I slept until about 5pm today! Thats night work for you I guess. Quite fitting though given the subject of the song.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Devo this week and remembering how good they are. I really wanted to do a song like Whip It and so without trying to rip it off completely this is what I came up with. Tried a few new things production-wise and I’m reasonably happy with the result. Let me know what you think!Tags: mp3, Whip -
December 26th, 2008Song a Week
Hope everyone had a nice Christmas. This week a song that has absolutely no relation to the time of year!
As you know, I’m fascinated with going to space and the inevitable prospect of living there. I’m just saddened that it probably won’t be in my lifetime. Or will it?…I present to you fine people the LiftPort Group! A terrific group of companies with the sole aim of building a space elevator by the year 2031. How fantastic is that? If everything goes to plan I’ll be in my mid-forties by then, so more than able to go to space. I can’t wait.My other option would be Branson’s space shuttle, but at $200,000 a trip I don’t think I’ll be taking that anytime soon.Tags: Christmas, LiftPort Group, mp3, USD -
December 19th, 2008Song a Week
Just in time for Christmas! Well, at least its not Hallelujah…
Naturally I felt obliged to do a Christmas song, and spent most of the week trying to decide what direction to go in. However most of the comedy angles have been covered and I didn’t fancy re-inventing the wheel. I guess I could’ve written a personal Christmas song, but then my last few Christmases have been incredibly dull due to the fact that I was working.So I went with a more fantastical angle, the snowman that comes to life. I thought about all the things you could do with a real life snowman and quickly realised that you can’t do much. They are made of snow after all…Tags: Christmas, mp3 -
December 12th, 2008Song a Week
No one really chooses to be a vampire do they? Surely not….
For one reason or another I was thinking about vampires this week. Mainly about how they’ve got a pretty bad deal. I imagine it’d be a rare situation where someone actually chooses to become a vampire. Usually you’d be minding your own business then… BAM! You’ve been bitten. No real say in the matter. So this song is about that. Kind of…Tags: mp3, THIS IS THE LIFE -
December 5th, 2008Song a Week
So its actually come to this… a song about how I couldn’t write a song.
Things really are getting tougher. I’m at a stage now where I think everything I write sounds terrible, both lyrically and musically. I’ve noticed trends in my work: A few good weeks followed by utter trash the next and I firmly believe I’m currently in the trash phase.If I were looking for an analogy I guess its like being a Premiership striker. Score a few games ina row and the confidence is high. Go another few without scoring and everything is different.Anyhoo, I’ve got a few collaborations in mind that I really need to work on so hopefully that will bring something fresh to the table. We’re getting near Christmas too so naturally a Christmas song is on the way…Tags: Christmas, mp3 -
November 28th, 2008Song a Week
This week, a song to honour the wonderful charity that is Childs Play.
So what is Childs Play? Rather than me make a hash of explaining it, here’s a little copy/paste from the website:Since 2003, over 100,000 gamers worldwide have banded together through Child’s Play, a community based charity grown and nurtured from the game culture and industry. Over 3.5 million dollars in donations of toys, games, books and cash for sick kids in children’s hospitals across North America and the world have been collected since our inception.
This year, we have continued expanding across the country and the globe. With around 60 partner hospitals and more arriving every month, you can be sure to find one from the map above that needs your help! You can choose to purchase requested items from their online retailer wish lists, or make a cash donation that helps out Child’s Play hospitals everywhere. Any items purchased through Amazon will be shipped directly to your hospital of choice, so please be sure to select their shipping address rather than your own.
When gamers give back, it makes a difference!
It really is a terrific charity, and its just a shame there’s only 1 participating hospital in the UK. Hopefully that will increase over the years.
Tags: Amazon, mp3, North America, online retailer wish lists, United Kingdom, USD -
November 21st, 2008Song a WeekWho’s up for a spot of Whiff Whaff? I know I am!
Download in the format of your choice!Matthew Nellis – Whiff Whaff (.mp3)He’s my major, and I bet you wish he was your major! Boris Johnson is surely a British national treasure. The man is a comedic genius in my opinion, but should definetely not be allowed to wield any form of power. I think he’s terrific on telly, but being major of London? Anyways….His speech during the Olympic handover will surely go down in history. Its pure comic genius and its hard to tell if he’s being 100% serious or not. Either way, it cracks me up everytime and I just had to use it in a song.Tags: Boris Johnson, London, Matthew Nellis, mp3, WHIFF WHAFF -
November 14th, 2008Song a Week
Bonjour! It’s Friday night and the song is finally fit to post. Get it down your earholes!
And now due to popular demand (Ok, so only 1 person has asked) you can now download each song in both Ogg Vorbis format and FLAC!Matthew Nellis – Superhero (.ogg)Matthew Nellis – Superhero (.flac)So the song… I’ve had the chorus in my head for quite a while but again, didn’t really know what to do with it. And once again the inspiration for it came from another great Penny Arcade comic. (I can’t actually find the link to the specific comic! Doh)Simple stuff really; what if you always wanted to have superpowers, then one day you were attacked by a mutant hawk and gained the power of flight? I think we’ve all run throught that scenario in our head before.I’ll start converting the rest of the songs to FLAC/Ogg this weekend and will redesign the ‘Songs’ page to accomadate. Have a good weekend everyone!Tags: head, Matthew Nellis, mp3, Penny Arcade -
November 7th, 2008Song a Week
Its the big three-o! Enjoy…
Its a song about nothing really. But at the same time its about everything….I guess its about a King of some mystical land. He’ a nice guy but as soon as he became King he turned into a bit of a dick. You see, the crown has a power. An evil power. Once its upon your head, as well as granting you eternal youth it also corrupts your soul.Its all in the song…. honestly.Tags: King, mp3
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