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All songs by Chris Watson Copyright ©1988-2009 (except Help! by Lennon/McCartney).
Permission granted for non-commercial use.
Many of my best songs have not yet been recorded at all, and those that have recordings so far only have amateur quality ones. I badly need to be recorded (as opposed to being recorded badly, which is all that's happened so far). Still, these give a taste of my composing, playing and singing.
Even though a specific date may be given for the addition of the audio file of a particular song to this web site, that doesn't necessarily mean that I won't go back later and re-record parts of the song to make it better. The names of the most recent audio files have the date given as part of the file name, e.g., a01-20111010.mp3 is the filename of the Red Baron audio file that was recorded and posted on October 10, 2011.
Oct 16, 2011: Crazy Metal, Hot Young Blonde, and Running Out of Time have new mp3 audio files available now on their song pages for the new album (When you ride over sharps, you get flats!). The recordings of the 1995 performances by R Band are still available from the older web pages of the R Band versions of these songs.
Oct 14, 2011: Help! is my latest cover of this famous Beatles song. I have played this song for years but always improving how I play it.
Oct 10, 2011: Red Baron gets a new recording to reflect the way I play it now compared to how I played it back in 2008 when I made the YouTube music video. I hope to remake the video using the same images for this new arrangement, if I can find where I backed them up!
Oct 06, 2011: The Al Gore Rhythm, Logger Rhythm and Entropy songs now have optional free mp3 downloads recorded yesterday and today.
Jun 11, 2011: A year and a half after my last published version, I record and post another solo guitar cover version of the Beatles song Help!. This cover follows the original arrangement by the Beatles, but at the end I add an extra instrumental verse of my own arrangement inspired by the Beatles song.
Dec 13, 2009: I record and post a solo guitar cover version of the Beatles song Help!
Feb 16, 2009: I post The Magick Show (song recorded Nov 18, 2008) at this cat's page Magick, the little black kitty.
Jan 05, 2009: Prayer has a new recording of this song I wrote in 1994.
Dec 22, 2008: Death now has an optional free mp3 download, just in time for Christmas!
Dec 02, 2008: MUSIC VIDEO for the Nov 14, 2008 recording of my 1995 song Red Baron.
Nov 20, 2008: I redo my 1991 R Band song about Evolution.
Oh yeah, Videos of The Bicycling Guitarist.
The sound of these recordings from 2004 is more than a bit distorted because I only had a webcam microphone to record with. I think it worthwhile nonetheless to put these songs online. Several of the songs I posted here have been re-recorded and posted again with the same file name. Check the file dates if you've downloaded them to get the latest version.
The following links take you to the lyrics pages for these songs. After the title on each lyrics page, click on the “Download in popular mp3 format” link to hear or download the song.
Early Morning Hours describes longing and loneliness in the middle of the night. This version was recorded October 21, 2004.
Shopzilla This is a parody of the Blue Öyster Cult song “Godzilla.” This version was recorded October 24, 2004.
Tray Dipper This is a parody of The Beatles song “Day Tripper.” This version was recorded October 16, 2004. The original song by The Beatles was recorded on this same date in 1965.
My favorite of these is “One Florida Night.” The same three chord progression repeats eight times, but is different each time. Sometimes it sounds like two or even three guitars at once to me (it was just one guitar being recorded).
One Florida Night This one-minute song is in honor of Michelle Reeves, a promising 20 year old avant-garde poet and peace activist sadly no longer with us since September 26, 2004. My sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Michelle Reeves. All of us lost a friend in her, even those who never met her. I played this for the first time while recording myself on October 6, 2004. The second half of the song has some interesting melodies going on with the higher notes.
Perseids is another song I've been playing around with a long time. This version was recorded October 24, 2004.