Bright Colors That Fade (June 2005)
Brandon Adamson's second album. This sophomore effort contains eleven piano driven minimalist twee pop songs. Music for people who can appreciate naptime.
"Bright Colors That Fade is something else!
Thick with Ambience and afflicted sincerity-
it's quite appealing!"- Mark Schoenecker
Album Liner Notes
1.Bright Colors That Fade: Converted from a poem that I wrote in the fall of 2004. The song is representative of the cycle of relationships and the drastic changes in mood that occur throughout the various stages. The verses are conveyed in a depressing near monotomous fashion as an indicator of the sad, dire, and perhaps self-fulfilling? predictability of it all.
2.The Last Coup Fourre: While playing the French card game "Mille Bornes" for the first ti me, I had no idea what I was doing and my girlfriend was trying to teach me how to play. While discarding during my turn, I accidentally threw away a "Coup Fourre"(the most cherished card in the game), and she said something like "You just fucking threw away a coup fourre". I guess i see it as a metaphor for our relationship in two ways. The first being that when I could have really used some sort of real-life equivalent of a coup fourre to save our relationship from ending, I didn't have one. The second being that the moment our courtship finally did end, I discarded her. I threw away my coup fourre. Now you get it?
3.Alternate Ending: This was actually the first song I wrote for this album. Over the years I've continuously had trouble with time and timing in relationships. I often daydreamed about going back in time and meeting girls when they were in a different mindset, or before they had formulated negative ideas about relationships that were based upon poor choices and past mistakes. The sad underlying theme is illustrated at the end of the last verse, and if you'll notice that part is sung slightly different as if I've given up on the song After all my painstaking efforts to alter the course of history, there is only disappointment. only to discover that the ending is the same
4.Glow in the Dark Boy: The person who mastered these songs for me, when we came to this track, put the question to me, "can I just ask you something? just what exactly inspired you to write this song?", so I told him: While spending the night at a girl's house she frustratingly remarked that I was so pale that I "glow in the dark". I thought to myself, first of all, people who spend all their time in the sun look like crap once they hit a certain age. Second of all, the world is a dark and miserable place filled with the same people. A boy who glows in the dark should be considered a rare and priceless thing. He shines despite his bleak surroundings.
5.Yellow Light Blues: Anyone who knows me is aware that my wardrobe contains many light blue or baby blue items of clothing (something which started in late July of 2004). Yellow Light Blues are when you can never quite get the carefree green light cause you're dealing with someone who changes their mind all the time. The childhood game "red light green light" comes to mind. Anyhow, you always got that yellow light holding something in you back so you can never be totally at ease. If only you could get the green.
6.A Thousand Words: I wrote this song in a secret room in Fashion Square Mall. One of the lyrics at one time was "we had our moment of Truth together in the photobooth", and my ex girlfriend used to jealously ask "who was the girl in the photobooth?!!!", but what she didn't know was that SHE was the girl. I wrote that part of the song at the very beginning of our courtship, and I had merely anticipated that we would most likely end up in a photobooth at some point. We never did, and when I finished the song 10 months later, the lyrics were altered to reflect that.
7.Brandon and brandie: The standout track on the album, and the best song I've ever written. In the vain of "hey Paula"(minus the happy ending) by Paul and Paula this is one for the ages. Brandon and brandie was a beautiful, historic emotionally exhausting, and tragic, doomed love affair that deserves to be timelessly preserved in this precious song. Forever when I think of Brandie it will be this passage of "the Little Prince" that best conveys what she's worth to me as a human being vs. all the other girls in the world. Just replace rose with alstromeria, and there you have it:
"You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose."- The Little Prince .
Brandon and brandie is the song I'd like to be remembered for, because it represents the best of all the love and passion that I could possibly give and that could never quite be matched or replaced by anyone no matter what other appealing qualties they may have. I guess you'd call that a "bold statement", but truly they just don't know how...
8. The Last Coup Fourre (pop version): a "fun" pop version of The Last Coup Fourre. I tried to stay away from keyboard beats on this album as much as possible as, but I liked this too much.
9. Partner in Time: This song used to be called "Lemon Lime", and for eight years I could never come up with new lyrics or a new theme for it. It wasn't until August of 2004 while walking through Fashion Square Mall that I came up with "Partner in Time" while daydreaming about such a person. The idea of 'changing the future when you change lanes'is a concept that was discussed in "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" as well as the Nostradamus documentary "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow".
10. Spring Times Two : merely an instrumental piano version of the song "Springtime in Paris" from my previous album. I like this one better.
11. Fly With me to the Elevators: Another song converted from a poem I wrote about the somber trips to the airport with Brandie. The references in this will seem foreign and outright bizarre to anyone who's never been to Phoenix sky Harbor International airport. This was originally intended to be nothing more than a 45 second outro, but I just got carried away with it.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.brandonadamson.comTrack List:
1. Bright Colors That Fade
2. The Last Coup Fourre
3. Alternate Ending
4. Glow in the Dark Boy
5. Yellow Light Blues
6. A Thousand Words
7. Brandon and brandie
8. The Last Coup Fourre (pop version)
9. Partner In Time
10. Spring Times Two
11. Fly With Me to the Elevators
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