Chalk FarM – Wonder

*Updated* Apparently my first attempt got flagged by Sony on YouTube. So You’ll have to make do with this crappy audio version

We all have a song that we really like. Unfortunately, when you mention it to family or friends; you get a strange puzzled look. Not because it’s weird or they don’t like it. Just because they’ve never heard of the band or the song before.

This is my song! I remember hearing the band on a college radio station in the 90′s and I had to have the album. [Sadly stolen by an ex ] It’s part of the wonderful, funny thing about music. No matter what your tastes, there is always a band, a genre, a tiny piece of music that we can all hold on too.

iTunes Bio

Fans became so loyal to Chalk FarM (the capital M has no significance) that they tried to find ways of sending messages to the band after their Internet site was shut down. The Los Angeles-based alternative rock quartet was originally formed as a duo in the early ‘90s by Michael Duff (vocals, guitar) and Orlando Sims (vocals, bass). However, Duff and Sims weren’t content with the group’s minimal sound; in 1995, they added Toby Scarborough (drums) and Trace Ritter (guitar) to give the band more power.

Columbia Records signed the group in December 1995. A year later the group released Notwithstanding, an album of accessible guitar rock that drew comparisons to the acoustic pop of Toad the Wet Sprocket. But public indifference prevented the LP from being profitable for Columbia, and no amount of critical acclaim could save the band from the axe that eventually fell down. After being dropped by Columbia, Duff created the independent label TIC Records.

The group recorded Three 2′s for TIC (the initials stand for The Inner Circle), promoting it mainly to their devoted cult following via the Internet. On Jan. 31, 2000, Chalk FarM, disillusioned with the music industry, called it quits. Duff became a solo artist.

Song Lyrics
Life chases fiction with contradiction
Pick yourself up, it’s all right
Blood marks the pavement
So this is where I am
Well, stop the car and look around
We’re getting nowhere

I’m not looking for a miracle
And I wasn’t born a Kennedy
And I wonder if time would stop tomorrow
Would I hunger for things I never had?
Then I wonder, am I going to anyway?
I hunger for you and me, you and me

Gold, no I can see it beyond my reach
But I can’t give up until it’s mine
Green is how I see the fence’s other side
There is no room open minds, we need some action

I’m not looking for a miracle
And I wasn’t born a Kennedy
And I wonder if time would stop tomorrow
Would I hunger for things I never had?
Then I wonder, am I going to anyway?
I hunger for you and me, you and me

Let the water fall on me
And I wonder if time would stop tomorrow
Would I hunger for things I never had?
Then I wonder, am I going to anyway?
I hunger for you and me, you and me

And I wonder if time would stop tomorrow
Would I hunger for things I never had?
Then I wonder, am I going to anyway?
I hunger for you and me, you and me

For you and me
For you and me
For you and me

You can purchase the song here. Or if the audio/video link is down, you can still hear a 30 second clip in your browser.

Chalk Farm – Wonder (Go to iTunes)

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Just testing out a post with audio. It’s MP3 encoded at 48 bitrate of a steel band playing Oye Come Va.

So what do you think, any good?? I would like to have it at a better quality, but bandwidth costs money.

Plus, too many people like to steal stuff!! And I’m a full believer that if you like a song, you should pay for it.
Yes, I know big corporations rip us off. But in the end, the only person your hurting is the artist that made the song and the people that worked on it.
But that’s just my two cents, your free to your own opinion

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