"mAte" (1999)

Mate

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A collection of mods with vocals added, from the classic greatFox era. These files have been sweetened a bit with some modern processing, but they definitely are a bit rusty sounding, mainly due to the limitations of the mod tracker. Oh yeah, and the vocals were recorded on the stock microphone that came with my Packard Bell. Hah! I hope you still enjoy the songs! I plan to revisit this album with a version 2.0 in the coming years. Enjoy!

1 Mediocre 04:22 Free

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2 Syndrome 04:49 Free

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3 Gave Up 05:25 Free

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4 Dragged Around 05:09 Free

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5 Let Us Alone 05:27 Free

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6 If Life 04:33 Free

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7 Devil's Arms 05:03 Free

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8 Justify 04:11 Free

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9 Too Late 05:43 Free

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10 One Weekend 04:52 Free

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11 Revenge and Extortion 09:14 Free

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12 Scratch 04:31 Free

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Produced, arranged and performed by Todd Guilmette except where otherwise noted.

Written by Todd Guilmette except “Gave Up” written by Trent Reznor
Copyright 1992 leaving hope/tvt music.
“Gave Up” contains a sample from “Of These, Hope - Reprise” as performed by Peter Gabriel
Copyright 1989 Realworld/Virgin Records Ltd.

Composed on the Fasttracker modtracker.
Thanks to Triton productions.

Thanks to various individuals on efnet #trax, exiles, r00t and hate98.

Special thanks to Delphis. I will not forget you. --Love Todd.

Respect to all the real electronic engineers on earth, Europe and the UK, and all American devotees of the next genre. All American fools who still rock out, wake up. Rock is dead.

I get my spirituality from an electronic mentality.

Mediocre

You said you'd comfort me you said you'd be with me
Spend your whole life with me now I can hardly see
You'd never trouble me never be a burden to me
Always have value to me now I can't see

You said you didn't want me to be a mediocre man
Couldn't stand to see me as a mediocre man
But if I were always with you even though all we've been through
I could very gladly be a mediocre man

I'm floating without your love can't focus without your love
No direction without your love and you're so high above
Say you're OK without my love you can deal without my love
Was all a burden all along my love so high above

Syndrome

Excuse me mister violin let me tell you
About my life about my life
You think your petty chores and troubles
Qualify you in strife so much strife

Well let me tap you on your privileged shoulder
Look at what you see what you see
What do your little tribulations compare to
What is built in me built in me

I have the syndrome
I cannot walk I cannot sleep
Everything hurts to me
Everything you take for granted everyday

I have to fight always fight
Imagine what you'd have to do just to make it
Through to the night to the night
So stuff your chubby self and throw your

Little problems to the wind to the wind
What I have to do to face another day
You couldn’t begin couldn’t even begin
I'll see better on the night side

Dragged Around

I can see your delusion from your eyes
And that confusion on your face
That I can walk around existing
In my personal contradiction with myself

The world could end around me
And you'll never see me moving from my place
Sticks and stones and missile launchers
Could never get me down from my shelf

I get dragged around when I'm with you
I get paralyzed when I'm not
I get lost when I'm looking for you
But I'm in apathy when I'm not
If I could just only be with you
And be fully a man when I'm not
I'd be strong and happy when with you
And be just as well when I'm not

You could say I'm only trapped in myself
Just hanging on to someone else
I can't even tell the difference between
The world and me other and self
You might be right but listen

Let Us Alone

I'm sure I go against your sensibilities and purity
I'm everything that you're afraid of
The dirty scum of society
You'd like to change me
Change who I am and go away
But you can't dismiss me
No I'm here to stay

Can't you see who I'm in love with?
Can't you see who I'm in love with?
Can't you see?
Why can't you just let us be?

Everything you see in me
Warning bells go off in your head
But the more you try and push me back
The closer I come instead
I'm not going to stay away from the one I love because of you
It's too late for your tactics now
There's nothing you can do

If Life

Crudely-designed marked chemical stains
Actions gone but thought remains
Through everyday it's all the same
Energy lost but nothing is gained

You try so hard to deal with you
Racing fears and self-doubt anew
From fertile soil bitter flowers grew
Nothing in life remains true

If life just gets too hard don't let it get to you

But through all of this there has to be
A shining stone in this black I see
There has to be some hope for me
Crumpling stone on wounded knee

And then I crack and stand alone
I'll challenge you I won't atone
I've found within new strength has grown
And look at these bright new seeds that I've sewn

Devil's Arms

The new year begins with new and sharp emotions from my mind
Strange thoughts and fears intensely growing more as passes time
I strive again just when I thought I had myself explained
I’m starting over again just struggling to stay maintained

And I was lost in devil's arms
And I was lost with you

I feel helpless as a child and sometimes as a child is what I am
My mood and temper owns me and sometimes I don’t really give a damn
I want to smash the foot of my boot into a condescending patronizing face
And punch a hole in all the walls of every fucking side of this place

But sometimes I just lay here and cry
I don’t know where it comes from and why
Someone protect me from this life
From all the happens and what might

Justify

I try to live up to your expectations
I try to live down with your aggravation
Somehow I get lost in your aggregation
Brought into your life by assimilation

I got something better to do than to justify myself to you

Everything I do is never good enough for you
Every idea is never good enough to fly
All my feelings are always just beside the point
You never let me up so I can fly

I'm doing something better than you
I want something better than you
I need something more than you
I can stand right up to you

Too Late

You feel like a loser and you got it bad
So many things going on in life
Think you can live the American dream
With 6 rugrats and a husband or wife

You think you can get along by yourself
Without a care or a life to live
But you can only go so far alone
Without feeling hope and a need to give

Come on and dance now before it’s too late
Get on the dance floor and seal your fate
Come on and dance now before it’s too late
It’s all on you so you better not wait

You feel like the whole world will end
Just because someone tells you when to go to bed
You're a grown up now and you can do anything
You just can't get it through their head

But I can tell you when you're out on your own
You're gonna want the security and freedom you had
The reality of life will smack you hard
And then you'll know you never really had it so bad

One Weekend

Hello everyone and welcome once again to my pride
To all my fears and uncertainties that I have packed inside
You see I've meddled with powers and emotions that I can't control
Every wrong turn and mistake I make takes it's unknown toll

We got so much hours in a day
So many days in a year
But we got only one weekend together

I feel that all of this responsibility is on me
Cause you're just starting out
How could you know what to do or be?
What’s that you say?
That I can't take all of this on my head?
Then forget about what I just said and let's just go to bed

Scratch

Who am I to say what I can do one day
Who am I to know how high or low I can go
Who am I to care what happens anywhere
Look inside myself or do I dare?

If I have all this potential why am I stuck in this shell
Or is constant frustration someone's idea of hell
Everyone tells me i have so much to say
But who will notice if no one pays attention anyway?

I’m getting out to the light self-proclamation

Where am I supposed to find the energy to be
What everyone demands and expects of me
I don't understand how people can face a new day
How am I supposed to win when I don’t know how to play?