MY HEAVEN
released JULY 4, 2017
ALBUM 7, RELEASE 18
At the time, I think I thought this was a great achievement. I made a few CD-r's for it and sold them online. "Dripping World" was originally about 50 seconds long, and it was good. The version that landed on the album is much longer and much less good. I actually really like "Settlement". It's an odd duck on this album, but it has a sort of haunting air to it that I don't think I captured a lot on early HW stuff. I also really like "Melodramatic Bullet" and "Aimless Rites". There are a bunch of songs here with music I like but lyrics I can't stand. You can tell I was 18 and not 27. This is the 2nd and last HW album to feature a cover on it, and this time it's the Big Dipper deep cut "Lou Gehrig's Disease". I was a huge Big Dipper fan at the end of high school into the start of college, and I covered a good few of their songs in 2017. This is the first, and it's on this album because I spent a lot of time and effort on it compared to most covers I'd done up to then. I'm not sure that it needed to be on the album, but it is one of the tighter recordings on offer. "Fantasy Bleach" was first written in 2016 as a breakup song, but it went unrecorded by my band at the time, so I held onto it for 9 months or so. I rewrote the lyrics almost entirely, but kept the music intact because the opening arpeggio was too good to lose. In 2024, I somehow landed back on this song and decided I wanted to play it live. This sparked the eventual creation of Gives Up And Plays The Hits. I think "Where It Always Has You (And You It)" was going to be the opener at one point. This song got covered by my friends in Rectangle Creep in 2019. That's the definitive version. "Little Dipper" was about a teacher I liked who had just retired. I guess it's a tribute to him. Last I heard, he is still alive and still kicking, which is nice. The song was pretty clean originally, but I was messing with the Click Removal effect in Audacity and I decided the song sounded a little better with some mess in it. "Ahead" is about preparing for college. I was justifiably nervous about it all.