SLEEPING DOGS LIE: Head First Down The Stairs

Sleeping Dogs Lie

Head First Down The Stairs

© 2006 Sleeping Dogs Lie (837101102742)

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22 fun indie rock songs sort of WEEZER/BECK/STEPHEN MALKMUS. Unususal, creative but still has hook and style.

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“Head first down the stairs” has 22 songs and over an hour of music that has a dozen other musicians, friends and the Bowie, my pet cat, on this cd.

This is the fifth cd release from Sleeping Dogs Lie since 1996. This is widely considered the most popular of all of the cds. The sound is mostly indie rock oriented, but every song stands on its own in some way. It's hard not to be humming at least one of these songs in your head after listening.

The music stays away from conventional chord combinations and harmonies for the most part but still has a strange dissonant appeal. Lyrically, the songs are offbeat and intelligent, but there are lines that will grab you and stick with you.

Sleeping Dogs Lie is a loose group of musicians from the West Palm Beach, Florida area headed up by songwriter Eric Guenette. SDL came to be in 1995 with a Tascam 4-track in my apartment in West Palm Beach, Florida. I had a Thomas organ, two guitars, bass, drum machine (Dr. Uma Chine in the credits) and a $19.95 Radioshack Realistic microphone with the idea of writing music that was purely a cure for my own boredom.

I wrote and recorded everyday for a year and half straight... As I wrote and recorded more songs, the whole thing was becoming more interesting as I stumbled through the creative song writing process ... I wasn't sure where I was going with it or if I could even call myself a real songwriter... Even to this day, for some reason, I don't look at myself as a songwriter... just some guy that's making organized noise? Anyways, There are more and more people out there that seem to really enjoy whatever it is I am doing. So, why stop now? Over the last couple of years, I’ve worked with a variety of musicians to come up with an even more diverse and eclectic collection of songs...

The music is essentially rock, but there’s a lot of experimentation and unique chord arrangements combined with offbeat subject matter in the lyrics that makes Sleeping Dogs Lie what it is.

There are currently five Sleeping Dogs Lie cds that have been released since 1996. Below is more info on all of the Sleeping Dogs Lie releases:

SWIRL (1996) 12-song cassette
JOY (1997) 12-song CD
SLIGHTLY CONFUSING TO A STRANGER (2000) 12-song CD
NUDE (2002) 12-song CD
HEAD FIRST DOWN THE STAIRS (2006) 22-song CD
SWIRL (2007 REMASTER) 12 songs from cassette & 10 new bonus tracks CD

The Box Set is also available on the website for just $30 (plus shipping).
An artistically slathered homemade box with all of the Sleeping Dogs Lie releases and a couple of other CDs from bands/artists that I have recorded with over the years, pictures, stickers, actual hand-written lyric sheets that I used to write some songs, guitar strings & pick and lots of other random things that I found laying around the house... Email me if you are interested.

Enough talking... Take a listen to some of the songs below and judge for yourself... and thanks for supporting the little indie artists.

Quick listening reference:

loud songs:
Track 2: Try not to go headfirst down the stairs
Track 6: Brainiac
Track 11: Kilimanjaro

less loud songs:
Track 4: Ray Liotta
Track 14: Technology
Track 20: 1,000,000

creative songs:
Track 3: Mike fixed my car
Track 19: Go to the sto
Track 20: zzzzzzzzzzzZ


OFFICIAL WEBSITE: sleepingdogslie.com
MYSPACE: http;//www.myspace.com/sleepingdogslie2
EMAIL: sleepingdogslie@yahoo.com


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