Listen and Vote on the Title Song / New CD

The survey results are in…and so are the comments, suggestions, and two bits worth from nearly 1,000 of you. Thanks to all who participated! You can scroll down to get the results and some selected comments from the survey. (Note: these are only about 10% of the comments received…)

But first…

LISTEN AND VOTE: TITLE SONG VERSIONS 1 AND 2

Here are two versions of the title song for my upcoming CD, Analog Brain In A Digital World. I’d love to know which one you prefer. Please listen to both, and then let me know your choice in the comment box at the bottom of this post. (If you want to be anonymous just use a fake name and email.) Thanks!

You’ll notice some differences in the two versions, like audience size and lyrics. Clicking the link will probably take you to another window, so after the song ends just hit the “back” button on your computer and it’ll bring you back here to hear #2.

#1: analog-brain-in-a-digital-world-eq.mp3

The second version has about a minute of my chatter before the song starts that we haven’t yet edited out. (Sorry!) Just ignore that and try to compare the song itself with #1. This one has a more intimate audience.

#2: 01-analog-brain-in-a-digital-world.mp3

SURVEY RESULTS:

• Over 80% of you still prefer CDs (with liner notes and lyrics) to digital downloads! This amazed me, in a good way. So we’ll release it in both formats.
• As for the next offering from me, an equal number of you voted for a new comedy CD and a new heartfelt songs CD. In 3rd and 4th place were a live-performance DVD and a new book. A new songbook was 5th. So that’s the order I plan to work on ‘em.
• The clear winner in the comedy CD title was Analog Brain In A Digital World. It ran about 50% higher than Still Saving The World From Whiny Victim Love Songs. In 3rd place was Humor, Laughter, Harmony, and Life. 4th was A-Musing Musical Mystic.
• Those of you wanting songbooks had widely varying format preferences. So I’m tabling that till I have time do think about it.

SURVEY RESPONSES AND SUGGESTIONS:

CD Title Ideas:

• Mystical Muse in Blue Suede Shoes
• An 8-track lifestyle in a CD world
• A Myriad of Musings from a Musical Mystic
• Greg-orian Chance (Hey … I taught elementary school for years … what can I say???)
• Sgt. Peppers Happy Hearts Club Band
• Songs to Sing in the Shower (with a friend)
• The Cosmic Comic Troubadour
• Ramblin Tamblyn off his Rocker
• Greg Tamblyn, hunkologist [HA!]
• “Warning: Uncontrollable Laughter Inside” “Highly Contagious, Play Recklessly”
• Eat Locally, Laugh Globally
• Comical Consciousness
• AnalEgo Brain in a Digital World
• Loss of Inorganic Brain Cell Blues
• Serendipity meets Epiphany at the I”m ok you’re ok Corral.
• Catchy tunes for the Apocalypse
• The Traveling Itch and other reasons we sing
• Laughology
• Still Laughing After All These Years
• Saving the World from Type A-ness
• Musical Musings
• Music for when you need A-Musing.
• Wacky Wisdom
• amusing confusion
• Songs to Make You Think and Drink
• untwisting tunes for a twisted world
• Funny You Should Ask
• Pleasantly Disturbing
• Tales of the Galactic Goof
• Something Delightfully Weird!
• If You’re Not Having Fun Yet Let’s Start a Revolution
• Still Dysfunctional After All These Years
• Collapse your own waveform into consciousness
• Unrepentant Humorous Iconoclast

COMMENTS ON CD TITLES:

“Humor, Laughter Harmony and Life” is BORING…DON’T USE!! It may cause irreparable damage to your career!

All your choices are lame.

But seriously, make it funny - the title, I mean. Humor, Laughter, harmony and Life, sounds like the headings in a file cabinet.

“Analog Brain” and “Still Saving” use more “tangible” language, while the other three are conceptual language, which I don’t think works for a title. “A-musing” is a powerful little play on words I like very much, so it must be used elsewhere.

5 choices with 4 possible answers? Greg, Is this some kind of psychological test?

Greg can’t count.

COMMENTS ON DIGITAL DOWNLOADS VS CDs

Greg … I am of the OLD school (now almost 60 … how did that happen) … so if you are not doing vinyl … then for me it is fun to have a CD … but trust me … this is very S Q U A R E … and CD’s are ROUND!

I so appreciate the lyrics included, such a joy for those of us hearing impaired.

old school low tech.

I download my music mostly, but if your computer crashes, like mine has just done when the motherboard died, all your data can be compromised. With a CD, at least I can reload to my iPhone.

I hate to admit that I don’t even know how to download music.

Call me old fashioned, but I need the CD so I can transfer it to a cassette for listening to in my van.

I still love having the actual CD or DVD. However I download them to computer and put on my IPOD so would be fine with downloaded only. Old habits die hard!!!

I still have and play my vinyl although I do take advantage of free downloads to my computer.

You can burn ‘em cheaper than I can.

A bit of personal communication to/with the audience/fans is always appreciated. Ummm…not TOO personal, boxers or briefs would be TMI. [Huh??]

I’m a technical neanderthal woman.

I am technologically challenged and I would NEVER put a credit card number on the internet anyway.

C’mon! I still have my 8-track player………

I’ll download if i can still get the liner notes, etc, too…

Depends on the situation. I have one of your CD’s, but I prefer to get stuff from Itunes. Please give us the chance to hear the album prior to buying it…

I like a booklet with CD that has lyrics, info about song-writer(s) and musicians.

CDs, but consider the source here - I’m still calling them “albums” Downloading is no doubt the way to go these days.

I am in an in-between stage of cd’s and i-pod. I don’t know how to answer the above question.

I’m old-fashioned and very tactile!

I am still old fashioned, don’t have the whole download thing mastered and then each time I get a new computer or software it is different.

I am too ignorant of all this electronic technology to answer this question.

Oh God, this stuff makes my stomach hurt! I hope everybody says, “CDs that we pay full price for with all the packaging and liner notes. It’s so worth it!” [from Jana Stanfield]

COMMENTS ON WHICH NEW OFFERINGS YOU’D BE INTERESTED IN:

A Polish lullaby that ends in…Boom tadiyada Boom tadiyada…

Something along the lines of the White Album would be nice.

I say… Follow Your Bliss, Baby! Forget what I’d buy. What do you ache to create?

A Children’s Album, please.

The CD studio recording would really benefit from Bob Trussell’s vocal harmonies and gut-bucket blues riffs. [from Bob Trussell]

I personally like what you did with The Grand Design: one CD of live humor/comedy and the other with inspirational songs. I also liked your book, but it was way too short for the $.

11.5 inch platform shoes, spandex jumpsuit, red and yellow striped cape, and a chair shaped like a globe.

An advice column!

My apologies, but I’m not familiar with your work so I’m probably not the best person to ask.

a mix of humor/comedy songs and inspirational songs — that would REALLY be best!

What would really be nice is an uplifting laugh till the economy gets better.

Your live stuff really comes across stronger than your recorded stuff (my opinion only).

A DVD with your songwriting friend, golfing and frisbee buddy. [from Dr. Bowen White, aka Dr. Jerko]

CD of songs connecting the evolutionary spiritual earth centered my large self.

Have you heard the Muppet Christmas with John Denver? Not enough fun Christmas music out there. You could do it!

Quantum physics played against consciousness jokes.

Can you come hang around my house for a while?

Get to work!

© 2009 Greg Tamblyn