Television & Trash by Brett Schieber

Please click on each song title to read each lyric.
This is my first "solo" cd.

Nothing Satisfies Me - I wrote this song about an ex-girlfriend, but as time has passed, I think it may be more about me...

Television & Trash - I wrote this song about someone who was on one of those bad reality tv shows. I was feeling very cynical about how bad/silly/disgusting/pandering behavior gets attention and fame in all kinds of media. I wrote it on the acoustic guitar, then got together with Gavin and we rocked it up.

Adult Education - This song is originally by Daryl Hall & John Oates. I love them and this has always been one of my favorite songs. It's impossible to do them justice, but I thought I could make the song slightly more aggressive sounding, so I did the best I could. Gavin played awesomely on it and I'm quite proud of how it turned out. It's one of my favorite songs to play live with a full band.

Falls Apart - I wrote this song at the end of a relationship....not so surprising, huh? My friend, Roger Reynolds, sang the choruses and the end with me. Like a great friend, he tells me to "let it go", while I complain and tell him that I can't. Ha! Roger has a great cd of his own, "Faith, Love, & Loneliness", on which I played on the songs "Like A Rose" and "Did You Know". You can find it everywhere music is sold.

Strike Night (live) - This song is about my time as a musical director for a theatre company and was recorded live at Eddie's Attic in Atlanta. Actually, I tell the story of the song at the beginning of the song.

Spinning - I have worked many, many long days at multiple jobs. I would get up early to go to one job, then go to class, then I'd go to another job in the afternoon, and then go to a job at night.....then repeat, over and over....all while trying to squeeze in time to write and play music. It was draining, especially when all I wanted to do was to write and play music and the necessities/realities of life were preventing me from that (though looking back, it didn't really stop me from writing and recording music at all - I wrote so much back then). Anyway, that's what "Spinning" is about. It actually began with the lyrics and Tree and I turned it into a very early unreleased Arcanum song. When we disbanded, I took the lyrics I wrote, rewrote the music completely, and made this version of the song.

Blissfully Unaware - While playing guitars for fun with my friend, Darrell Leven, I remembered a particular progression that I enjoyed. I took those chords, pulled out some lyrics I wrote a while back, and to put it simply, they just fit. The lyrics are about being scared of the outside world from war, terrorism, etc. You know, everything one sees in the news the past decade. It's also about an attempt to forget about all of those things to enjoy and concentrate on love instead of all the evilness around.
Later, I recorded a more fully realized version of the song for my following cd, "Life From Generation XS".

Eyes of a Tortured Angel - This was the song I wrote after having my first "real" broken heart. I can see how the title of this song might turn some people off, but it came from me thinking about a girl with innocent eyes - you know how someone gives you a look when they really love you? Then, suddenly, and beyond your control, she no longer feels that way. It's a sad thing, but I know that I'm not the only person this has happened to. Ah....anyway, it has one of my favorite lines that I've ever written, "She's got the eyes of a tortured angel, fragile as a midnight sun, delicate as a string of broken hearts".

It's All In Your Mind - Fiona Apple has a great song called "Paper Bag". In the song she says something like, "He said it's all in my head and I said, 'so is everything, but he didn't get it'". I wrote this song as a response to that line.

Everything I'm Not - This song is a sarcastic open letter to a particular record company a+r person.

Falls Apart (Professor Ace Remix) - My great friend, Professor Ace, did this remix.

Tracklist

1.	Nothing Satisfies Me	3:54

2.	Television & Trash	2:53

3.	Adult Education	4:22

4.	Falls Apart	3:14

5.	Strike Night (live)	3:30

6.	Spinning	2:58

7.	Blissfully Unaware	4:10

8.	Eyes of a Tortured Angel	4:07

9.	It's All In Your Mind	2:43

10.	Everything I'm Not	3:31

11.	Falls Apart (Professor Ace Remix)	3:39

Credits

released June 1, 2011

All songs written by Brett Schieber, except "Adult Education" by Daryl Hall and John Oates
Produced by Brett Schieber with Gavin Fisher.

Brett Schieber - vocals, guitars, bass, keys, programming
Gavin Fisher - guitar, programming
Rodney Mills - mastering

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