“Lost, But Never Forgot” has undergone various remixes and, although still room for improvement, this is the final mix (for now).

I started creating this Website in May last year and, by the end of the year had made a lot of progress.   As well as adding many lyrics to this website and adding vintage recordings to my SoundCloud site, I also recorded 26 new (and old) songs.  For the first 6 months I was still in ‘Innovator’ (gigging and recording) so I managed to knuckle down well once I’d left on the 6th June.

This year I have already created one new tune and turned it into a song (the one mentioned above) and I have decided to try and upload a new song every week.  This could either be a song from my past or a completely new one.  I will be, like most people, taking a few breaks this year but, nonetheless, I will still endeavour to upload 52 songs this year.  I am hoping to type and upload every lyric, which  I have ever written, to this website by 6th July, 2018.

Can’t wait to get recording another song at the weekend.

Bye for now!

Well, on the 1st January I created a new tune on the spot and uploaded it to SoundCloud. A few days later I messed around with the structure a little bit and then, yesterday sung/rapped it.   Today, though, I have played around with it a bit more and think I’ve improved it now.  I looped a 16 beat patch and kept the original alongside it.   Hope you all like it.

Recently, I noticed I had made a hash of some the song lyrics I’d posted or blogged.   ‘Counteraction Gun’ has now been corrected.   I have been changing some of the words and, occasionally, errors do occur.  I have been typing out hundreds of my lyrics onto my FaceBook page and making slight improvements if, and where, necessary but, due to the amount I have got to get through, I haven’t been checking everything before putting them online.  Not very professional of me, but it will all look great eventually, lol.

Well I hope everyone’s having a great time.  Looking forward to the new year and I hope you all manage to achieve happiness and success.

Unfortunately, I am rather ill and have not gone out for the only two nights I was able to, and have turned down a lovely Christmas meal invitation.  Today my headache has finally gone after 2 days and my body is no longer aching as much as it was, but I am still coughing occasionally (quite violently too!) and sneezing and blowing my nose constantly.  Well it is winter and this kind of thing happens, but I just don’t feel like doing anything.  I am meant to be going back to work tomorrow, but really am not sure if I’ll be up for it.  Guess I’ll have to see how I feel tomorrow.   The good news is I am on my own and keeping my germs to myself and, as it happens, had no major plans for this Christmas anyway.  Let’s hope I’m well by tomorrow or, at least, by the new year!

More positive posts in the future hopefully!

Cheers and best wishes for the new year.

The end of the year is approaching and I’m feeling good about 2018.   2017 has been the start of ‘The Lost Connection’ website and I’m so glad it is growing and the target date for completion is still July 2018.

Meanwhile, as time progresses, I am revealling more and more about the ‘Lost’ lyrics and tunes that may rattle people’s interest and that enlightens people as to how I mentally function and, thus, then became “The Lost Connection’.

With nearly 800 song titles and additional music uploads, I have to expose what I have written gradually, otherwise there would be no way of phyiscally reading everything in the grand scheme of things, time being what it is.

In the new year I will start to promote my website more and more. This will involve sending out ‘like’ requests. I know many people have no interest, whatsoever, in what I write and record and I do not mind getting no response. On the otherhand, if you do ‘like’ anything I post and respond in a positive way then that will be very much appreciated. The website is growing more each week, but still doesn’t look very professional yet. Making it look professional is the very last step I will be taking, whereas loading all of the lyrics and songs is the main task at the moment.

I came across this competition, hosted by Serj Tankian (the former singer of System Of A Down, before going solo) which was to create a song/instrumental using 7 notes, which he had selected to start the musical piece.  The tune couldn’t exceed 3 mnutes in length, but other than those two stipulations how the tune seveloped was in the hands of the writer/musician/composer.

I, on my second attempt, came up with something which seemed okay to turn into a song.  I had created a chord pattern around the 7 notes (which I used as a bass line) and then added lyrics soon after.   There were no other stipulations regarding the song speed, style, pitch, sound, etc so this is what I came up with…  (not sure if I should be uploading this before the challenge ends on 15th December, if I recall rightly.

Perhaps if I just show the lyrics there will be no competion infringement… (?)   I know – I’ll add it to my ‘Complete Lyric List’ (792-Clarity) and if you want to read them and/or listen to my entry.

I created the music within one afternoon and added vocals in one session.  I have time to make improvements still, so I will see what I can do to make it a worthy competition entry,  If you do happen to listen to the tune let me know what you think (even if you do think it’s rubbish, lol!).

Colin E. Pyle
The Lost Connection

Feeling Sound (Song 572)

Tap on this link above to hear one of many of my songs that have been improved recently.   All this Saturday I have been making small perfections to many of this year’s recorded songs.  Hopefully they are sounding a bit more professional now.  Once I’m happy with the mix I will do something with them.

Hopefully there are some people out there that will enjoy these songs, but time will tell….

New Tracks (Song 434):  this is the most relevant song to me and my life and, if and when I release an album (very easily done these days) ‘New Tracks’ will be the key song I think. I’m not expecting to sell any copies if I do – just thought I’d make that clear. I’m under no grand illusion here, it’s all self-indulgence and if any body likes it that’s a bonus!

As with most of my songs, I have amended the mix of the recordings many times so that the volumes of vocals and music are both clear on all music systems. Today I increased the volume of the vocals on this track and it seems to be just how I want it now.

If you get a chance have a listen to this song and let me know what you think.

https://soundcloud.com/thelostconnection/new-tracks-song-434

I am intending to categorise my songs soon, but there’s a lot to get through! Some of my songs are very adult orientated and contain sexual matters (some serious and some humorous, and some also containing expletives or controversial subjects, so I need to separate these from the many other normal songs.

‘The Lonely Heart Hotel’  is about… (I’m not gonna tell ya now) but it has a very  adult them, although disguised in puns throughout.

‘Killer In The Making (Payback)’ is about a guy who was bullied at school and turned into a killer in later years.

‘Anger Rapped In Anger’  (Song 783 which hasn’t been recorded yet) is a rap song which uses phrases that are common in many modern day rap songs, but  as well as taking the piss a little bit it also covers controversial subjects in the process.

The likes of ‘Miss Astronaughty’ and ‘Yoghurt Lady’ and  ‘Straight-Up! (Maybe Not)’ have sexual themes and expletives, as well as many others which I have yet to mention, so I will have to make this clear before the wrong people read them.   But should I worry in this day and age?  Probably not, but better safe than sorry!

Finally, to round it up, ‘Write-On!  Track’ is a song that summarises my songwriting and why I do what I do:

“I write about rights and I write about wrongs, I’m right on track when I’m writing these songs.  I write about life and I write about death, I write so when I’m gone something is left.  I’ll just speak ‘cos I can’t really sing, I guess just rapping is my kind of thing, I tend to rely and the tune and the beat, to make you hum or move your feet.    I write, I write, I write – I’m back (“Right-on!”) I’m writing another track”

Thanks for reading this and I hope you are enjoying what I have written and recorded.  If you decide to ‘follow’ me I will try and make it worth your while by improving everything I do to make it even more enjoyable.

Colin E. Pyle (The Lost Connection)

PS.  I am also currently creating a playlist for album possibilities and this is it so far:

1. New Tracks
2. Never Too Late
3. All Or Nothing Kind Of Man
4. No Time To Waste
5. Time
6. Action Not Words
7. Reflect
8. Feeling Sound
9. Write-On!  Track

Some of these songs need improving, but I will do that in due course.  I will probably add more to this list eventually. Some of these songs are very self-orientated and are not suitable for anyone else and that’s why I would keep them. I sense that people who know me are thinking, “Nobody will want them anyway!” and they could well be right, but who knows….?