Fulfilled Custom Song Requests
Let us make music for you – custom-made music! Fill out the online form or send an email – every month we’ll pick one of the custom song requests to turn into a real song for the next Mozomedia Music Podcast!
Custom Requests We’ve Fulfilled
So Far:
- Jessica Christian from Virginia requested a song titled either “Dress Down Heroes” or “Heroes in Jeans” that would encourage faculty and staff at the school she works at to participate in “dress down” weeks. Staff can contribute $10 and get to dress casual for the week, and the money goes to Relay for Life, a cancer research charity. To craft this epic ballad, Karl enlisted Ryan Murphy on drums, Grant Sutton on bass, Sean Shipley on lead guitar and Josh Lawrence on brass keyboards/lyric tweaking. (Photo by Marcos AndrÈ).
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- Phatemokid from Los Angeles, CA requested a song titled Death to Apple ^_^, which would incorporate Pop, Electronica, Acoustic, Prog, New Wave and Rockabilly. He directed “Think natural disaster meets 5 minute roller coaster that ends with a clear vision of the Pacific ocean.” (Note: No Macs were harmed in the making of this song – in fact, two Macs were used to create it.)
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- Craig Denniston from Omaha requested Brrrrrrraaaaaaaains, so The New Old Men zombied it up for him.
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- Kai Balbin from Orange County, CA suggested the song title Diwata, which is a Filipino word for ‘goddess’ or ‘fairy’, and requested the song sound like ‘maybe sigur ros meet radiohead meet the album leaf/roots of orchis.’
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- Panchitah from LA, California requested Forget It – ‘a fun song to make me smile while I’m all borked and stuff. You know, “Dont worry be happy” style. Also, about how forgetful I am’. Karl says: ‘I may have missed the mark a little bit as far as the actual request goes, but I think I acheived a sort of Bobby-McFerrin-sings-Tom-Cruise’s-opinions-on-the-pharmaceutical-industry vibe, and hope this helps the executive producer feel less borked in general.’
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- Aaron Belcher from CA requested the song title Freedom Poodle, provided full lyrics and suggested “I was thinking Frank Black’s Calistan meets the theme from Gilligans Island… but, well, I’m unwell in the head.” We added more Pixie-ish than Frank-Black-solo touches to the final song, but hopefully Aaron is still happy with Freedom Poodle’s realization in song.
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- Mr San from New Zealand requested a song called Mr San’s World Tour to commemorate his upcoming vacation with stops around the world. Based on his itinerary, here’s what JJ Sonick came up with.
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- Joanne Fong from San Francisco, CA challenged us to make a song based on this photo. Here’s the result – a tale of a heroic(?) canine vs. possessed…well, you’ll just have to listen:
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(Special guest Eileen Rivera as the dog owner)
- Vinita Chhahira requested a song done in a Bollywood / Bhangra style that would include the dentist-visit-related lyrics ‘I wore cool shades”, “There’s protein in my saliva” & “My teeth were media-blasted”.
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- Steve Dobkins from Fort Worth, Texas requested a song to be titled I Drug My Rope Through the Cow Pasture and said ‘feel free to improvise’ for the genre. We couldn’t resist country-ing it up. Also, we changed the conjugation in the title to ‘Dragging My Rope Through the Cow Pasture’, but Steve has forgiven our goof!
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- Breanne Kato from California requested a reggae song about Pete, her ‘algae-eating aquarium fish’ who ‘couldn’t care less that Skeletor the goldfish [his previous aquarium roommate] is dead.’ Karl obliged:
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- Mighty_Meh (aka xoes) from Rotterdam, the Netherlands said she “would like a bluesballad named What about the Daisies“. The New Old Men have provided such a blues ballad, even drifting it into space at parts. Hope you enjoy it, Mighty_Meh!
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- Mr San from New Zealand requested the song title On my next holiday I will travel to Atiu where I will eat succulent beche de mer and corned beef (!), and that it be done as a “smooth jazz / country fusion – my two least favorite genres”. You’ve been warned!
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- Panchitah from Los Angeles, California asked for a song in tribute to the ‘unknown errors are happening’ error message that occasionally can be seen on the fun social communication site plurk.com. The music was produced with an 8-bit Apple II computer.
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