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Here's a new collaboration with Wade Mosher, with some very cool piano work by Steve Soucy. Wade plays all the other instruments, and I'm on the vocals. Kind of an epic, this one. We'll chop it down into shorter versions too, but this is the long version, in the venerable tradition of 70's album rock, in which DJs used to be able to smoke a whole cigarette and still go to the bathroom. Not really sure what to do with this beast, but it sure was fun to make. Any comments or suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=9544899

Hipster

I remember you from the Ambassador Hotel
You were a picture perfect mess, and you really wore it well
When you trashed the band at midnight
Before the last farewell was through
All the casual pretenders fell away to something new

You always stood out on the edge
But it cut you in the end
Left bleeding for a song that would help to make amends
But the days passed by in silence
There's always something left to lose
Like the chronic ache and memories of those faces you once knew

And the band played the song on a New Year's Eve day
Another year gone, a time fades away
And the band played along to the promises made
We try our best just to be strong
Every hipster has his day

It was 25 below and EMS were in high gear
Nothing could penetrate that cold except the cigarettes and beer
And when they pulled you from the wreckage
You saw the bodies lying there
And you've been numb for twenty years now
Rollin' round inside that chair

As the band plays the song on a New Year's Eve day
Another year gone, a time fades away
And the band played along to the promises made
We try our best just to be strong
Every hipster has his day
Every hipster has his day
Every hipster has his day

(Copyright 2010 by Wade Mosher & Mark Kaufman)

What, no mention of Ray-Bans or American Apparel?

j/k, I liked the tune. At times it reminded me of David Bowie's early work, when he was less established and more willing to take shots at people in his songs (Winston Churchill, Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, etc.)

- Scott

Mark - once again a cool tune! I agree with the Bowie linkage - maybe the bass lines not sure what. Great feel to it - Thanks for sharing

Well, first off I have to offer the caveat that I must hate this song due to the subject matter. ;^)

Seriously, I like it in it's "epic" form. It didn't feel too long at all to me, but then I tend to like me some epicitude from time-to-time. If this was 70's FM radio, they would of course do a fade during the extended guitar solo at the end. Great work on the piano line, and I can totally see the Bowie reference. This sounds like a track from 'The Man Who Sold The World' with more contemporary production.