The Complete Discography 2005 - 2022
Grill 'em All
2005
The debut record is nothing but cock rock from start to finish featuring 12 songs in 12 minutes. Written in 2 days and recorded in 1.
I was hoping to be sued by Metallica for my sad attempt of making a mockery of their debut album "kill 'em all" which was released some time late in the cretacious period. Unfortunately my dreams did not come to fruition Was written in 2005 but recorded in my garage on a shitty 16 track zoom recorder in 2007. I stole the intro riff to "No 11". My mate Chris Moss wrote that riff when we were about 16 for our old band F.U.N.E.X. He never used the riff and I always loved it so I took the liberty of stealing it but I give credit where it's due. |
No. 2 for a reason
2005
A totally different sounding record to the first. You'd be forgiven to think you've been given the wrong disc in an Arse Eyes case. A slow, soft, folk style inspired album which sets the precedence of what is to become an unusually eclectic repertoire.
It's an overall serious album but has a positive influence. It's not with out its funny moments but does introduce a more mature a sound of music with meaning. The music was written in 2005 but it wasn't recorded until 2010 so alot of the lyrics and melodies were done impromptu at the time of recording. The album was recorded at home in my back room on a tiny little 8 track zoom recorder. |
Pluck you too!
2005
This album has almost the same story as the last, they're basically twin albums. They were both written and recorded at the same times. They were originally both going to be one long album. In my opinion the 24 songs together were too long so I decided to break it into two albums.
The music is relatively the same style on the two though this one may be slightly more upbeat and has more piano than the previous record. This album has opens a window into my legitimate personal life with songs about my family, living struggles and identity. For the first time ever the album surprisingly has no swearing (except for the cover obviously). Out of all my records both Arse Eyes and bands I play in I've never managed to accomplish that and it wasn't even deliberate. The other album came close with only two "Arse's". |
Why does my face smell?
2006
For me, this is the most iconic album of the discography. It was fun to write, I bought a keyboard (I used to hate them) and stepped outside my comfort zone to experiment with noises and challenge myself creatively.
I wasn't intentionally writing songs but sounds were new to me so even sustaining a single chord would spark a whole story in my mind. Sounds and (simulated) instruments that I would never had occured to me to use in a song suddenly became abundant. I started having to choose between ideas for which way I wanted to take the song rather than the usual "where do I take it from here" problem that occurs when composing. Some of the rejected ideas were later recycled, reconditioned, primed, painted and used on a latter album. The record ended up 14 songs, over 40mins long and was recorded in 2007 in the same garage and on the same recorder as Grill 'em all. This album is probably the best representation of what became the Arse Eyes signature sound. |
Upsidedownfishheadmanplayingabanjo
2008
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This album took a while to write cause the first four all had something in common which was the key to their creativity. The commonality is that I was never nesseceraly trying to write songs but mearly experimenting with new sounds which in turn ignited ideas I couldn't have consciously conceived otherwise. I was just lucky enough to fart out 4 albums in 2 years.
Now things were different I was trying to write music and also life had changed I was a parent now, working and feeling the heaviness of reality, adulthood and raising a family. I wrote songs or partial songs sporadically until it came to my attention one day I was sitting on the frame work of another decent album. I felt suddenly creative and I don't even remember finishing writing it i just seemed to be complete all of a sudden. It actually ended up to this date the longest album at 45mins with 15 songs. Most of the songs ended up becoming crowd favourites and regulars in sets. Most of it was recorded in 2010 in my back room on a that shitty 4 track I mentioned previously. I have redone some songs along the way just quickly on garage band cause the first attempts of some were embarassingly bad. |
Titles says it all really. It's half an hour of fast, incoherent, punk rock christmas madness!
I loved x-mas as a kid and used to love singing x-mas carols. Most of them are fucken awesome songs. I had a carols music book as a kid and learned to play a fair number of x-mas classics on the old gee tar at about age 10. These carols were some of the earliest songs of my life and are the first songs I learned to sense melodically therefor these songs play a great part in why I loved music as I grew older. Without x-mas carols I may have never become a musician. Damn, Fucken carols, I'd probably be wealthy! It's all Santa's fault. And so to pay homage to my favourite music, punk rock and X - mas I combined them together to bring you this ultimate orgy of musical geniusness. |
Pick your nose and eat it !
2010
This album is only moderately paced but seems more upbeat due to it's overall positive context. Back to using conventional instruments to rely on the majority sounds.
Again this album came when unintended. I was happy to give Arse Eyes a rest and get back to writing punk songs for the band. However! As fate has it, One day I farted out three songs just like that. "The bike rider song", "When I grow up" and the song which obviously also became the album name, "pick your nose and eat it." At some point that year I re-strung my banjo and 4 more songs farted out over the next few weeks. Idea's just came quickly and before I knew it I had written and recorded it from start to finish in a month or so. Originally recorded in 2010 on the old back room 8 track set up. I re-recorded "the last of its kind in this key" and "Banjovi" several years later on my mac cause the the previous versions sucked balls big time. |
Sit on that and rotate
2010
See ya later alliator
2011
This is probably my favourite Arse Eyes record. Whether it's actually the best one not is a matter of opinion but I like it. During the stages of composing I felt I had an album worth doing but not anything fancy by any means. I think why it turned out well though is because I had no expectations and my life was fucked. The perfect combination for creative thinking.
My Mrs was pregnant with twins, angry and moving her and my son into some dragons lair (her mothers). She was leaving me so hence the album title "see ya later alligator". We sorted shit out in the end and were still together today but at the time shit was seriously fucked. Anyhoo, our currant lease was in her name and the land lord said I had to move but I had no where to move to. SO, in order to prevent leaving I made moving take four days longer by recording this album. It was an escape from a low point in my life and so I just had fun, took my time and occasionally packed a box or two as my house grew cold and empty as box by box my home and family drifted away from me until there was nothing left but literally me in that back room with that 8 track recorder. I took refuge in an old friend called music that was still there for me after all these years. It kept me positive and optimistic when life seemed hopeless and what'a ya know? life got better. It's a really positive album and actually the song about her leaving is probably the funniest one on there and is always a crowed pleaser. So that's probably why it's my favourite, very sentimental but you make up your own mind. You may think it's shit house. |
Who ever smelt it, delt it !
2013
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I had the blueprint of this album in my mind for 3 years A lot of it was brain fart run off from the 2010 albums. That being said it was the useless shit run off that gets discarded.
In 2013 my wife (the "alligator") bought me a mac for my birthday. I was keen to fart around with garage band but had no new complete material so I fuck arsed around with these old songs and even managed to get "in the zone" and threw in a few impromptu numbers. Wasn't even going to make it an album I only liked three of the 17 songs at the start but I polished those turds like you wouldn't believe and in the end I'd heard them enough they began to grow on me. Then after a little longer I loved it just as much as the other children. |
Another record that pays homage to my love for punk rock. All tracks are covers of some of my favourite bands I grew up listening to. These bands inspired me and moulded me into the musician I am today.
These bands taught me ethics of not only being an independent artist and musician but also the moral ethics and outlook I took on life that made me the person I am today. Music is a powerful and moving entity that has the ability to bring peace, love and happiness into the world. It not only has the power to make people suddenly dance funny. So I recorded this to introduce punk rock to people of the next generation and to expose them to these increasingly becoming old timer bands. I recorded it on the mac late 2013 and finished January 2014. For those that aren't generally punkers, the front cover is a parody of Lagwagon's "let's talk about feelings" |
Arse Eyes Does Karaoke
2016
This record is a parody album. I had been brewing some of the ideas for a while and so in 2016 I finally brought it to fruition.
I originally recorded all the music my self to all the songs and lost the data. As a sign of impatience I decided to just use the karaoke versions (considering I did not write the music parts anyway) and just sang my piss take lyrics along to them. Hence the name Arse Eyes Does Karaoke. I had some other names in the bank for this record but went with this one as it seemed fitting due to the circumstances. Plus in the past I had busted out some of my parodies at actual karaoke nights in Sydney which had always gone down well.
I originally recorded all the music my self to all the songs and lost the data. As a sign of impatience I decided to just use the karaoke versions (considering I did not write the music parts anyway) and just sang my piss take lyrics along to them. Hence the name Arse Eyes Does Karaoke. I had some other names in the bank for this record but went with this one as it seemed fitting due to the circumstances. Plus in the past I had busted out some of my parodies at actual karaoke nights in Sydney which had always gone down well.
Arse Eyes Live
Artless Armchair compilation
2009
This is a compilation album released by Lesstalk records in 2009. The record features "Fluffy fluffy cloud song" from the album "Grill 'em all".
The song was voted equal favourite by people that got the record on an online vote conducted by lesstalk records. Out of 24 bands that's not too bad, I'll take it! |