Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff: The Album - Commentary
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Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff: The Album Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff: The Album (album commentary) Listen on: YouTube, YouTube (playlist)
for 4/13 i'm having happy memories of making the sbahj album, something that was done as an ironic high effort shitpost joke with my closest friends
the album cover is a reference to a huge influential album for me and my friends a decade ago
we made the album anonymously and purposely left no information on how to find out who made it but it included the members of my own band centerpiece from delaware, whose members went on to do much bigger and better things, such as dirt woman and heavens gate
because of this "fanwork" (can you even call it that?) i ended up with incredible opportunities like joining the vast error music team, and then eventually actually joining the homestuck^2 music team.
homestuck will always be an important part of my life, as i met so many people through it who i talk to every day and consider my best friends and can't imagine going through life without them
thanks to everyone who listened to this goofy stupid album over the years and commented on it. i don't know why i made it, i guess i thought it was funny at the time.
i would also like to add that it includes guest vocals from several members of a close friend group that was founded on the homestuck tinychat server over a decade ago. and we're all still kicking around on discord!
Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor)
The conception of this SBaHJ album goes all the way back to 2011. (Check out votl's commentary on LOFAM4 and a reference to one "SBAHJ Musical" that September.) This album as-is was released on SoundCloud probably sometime in 2015, but the page was never archived (dead link). The date the wiki uses, , is the date-modified for the album's cover artwork in the Google Drive download made available by votl.
Alex Votl: (HSMusic Discord, excerpt)
2015 sounds right! because that’s when avery/neal/justin all were in college and helped me record a chunk of it over winter break
Kalibration: (YouTube comment)
Still the best homestuck album and nothing else even comes close
Alex Votl: (HSMusic Discord, excerpt)
kali was involved in its creation
from the inception to the finalization
but in a very “manager” sort of wayone of my close friends for sure, they made sure some of the compositions didn’t suck
i don’t think kali’s actual fingerprint is on any song
as far as writing or performance goesbut the whole thing was a big secret project between a bunch of people who at the time didn’t want to be associated publicly with it because it was a joke lol and they had been pursuing actual like careers and didn’t want that somehow to negatively impact that pursuit
(Lan:) Just finishing listening to put yourself back together btw. that's a real good album lol
that was such a formative album for me i feel like. centerpiece got to open for real friends and free throw a handful of times at various jersey and philly shows and the guys in those bands were just incredibly loving and supportive of up and coming musicians
merging my two favorite fandoms at the time (emo and homestuck) felt natural
Pg. 1+2 Listen on: YouTube
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Pg. 3+4 Listen on: YouTube
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Pg. 5+6 Listen on: YouTube
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[Audio embed for a Tindeck file, "alex ft varynova - SBAHJ Musical act 05.mp3"]
Listen.
Just. Listen.
It’s not like I’m just pimping my own voice!
(This is Alex’s music anyway. To say I did anything but backup vox would be a lie.)
(From (dead Tindeck link))
varynova was one of the OG hands in the pot for the project as well from probably as far back as 2012?
sbahj 5+6 had me/julia AND avery on vocals listening to it now
Pg. 7 Listen on: YouTube
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Alex Votl: (HSMusic Discord, excerpt)
lmao trying to transcribe the lyrics i don’t even think we could do that
i remember me and avery sitting down sharing a phone and a sm58
and then picking out which parts would run over the other vocal part
and which parts to repeat
and then jumping up an down going OHHHH THIS SOUNDS GOODwe had the sbahj page open on an iphone 3
and it kept shutting off
bc we didn’t know how to keep the screen on so we’d take turns tapping the screen while singing into the mic lmaoweird anecdote, sorry
Pg. 8 Listen on: YouTube
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trying to figure out which songs zach drummed on and which were just triggers/samples
i think 8 is the only remaining real drums
it just got to a point where mixing real drums with limited mics didn’t produce results we wanted
Pg. 9+11 Listen on: YouTube
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Pg. 10 Listen on: YouTube
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Pg. 12-15 Listen on: YouTube
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the talking in the background of nancho party is justin (bass player) and his girlfriend
Stoned off their gourdlaffin about taco bell ingredientsat one point she’s crying laughing about “bell grande… BIIIIG BELL”
“ALL THE SALSA. ALL THE CHEESE. I WANT IT SO BAD”
me and avery were trying to mix the nancho party track and they’re in the background cackling about taco bell so naturally we turned the mic on and tried not to laugh to overload it
Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff: The Album
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