Bonnie McKee - Hot City (aka Epic Album)

[Newtooz18]

2 hours ago, Moonchild said:

Yeah! I mean, in the end it's just unreleased stuff lol. You can arrange it the way you like it the most.

I prefer to have it all by eras, and if you ask me, I'm a sucker for downtempo tracks so I have Always on My Mind, Hallelujah, Wings and When Doves Cry all slapped in the same album  

And I'm not pretty much of a party person, but if you'd make one with Bonnie being the main music playing, I'd be down for it! Sounds like real fun  EDIT: When the pandemic is over, 'cause I'm not Rita Ora either  

This might be insane to some of you but aside from Bonnie's first album way back in the day and Thorns + American Girl, I hadn't heard any other songs from her. I am what you call an O.G (older Gay) and we didn't have the technology in the early 2000s to get as much unreleased music as you guys do now. The one good thing the Pandemic has done is give me time to get back into collecting unreleased music from literally like the last 20 years which is amazing for discovering so many amazing bops.

I only ever put unreleased songs together if they are obviously from the same era, otherwise I choose what I think flows well and makes a solid pop album with a few ballads sprinkled in.

I have been collecting and familarising myself with all of Bonnies music and currently have almost 6 full albums worth of music sorted in the last 12 months. The first album I am really happy with I have called In the Wild with the following tracklist

 

1. American Girl

2. Waking Up Diagonal (I may switch this with another track)

3. Restless

4. Easy (I know was released but I fucking love this song)

5. Thorns - Le Youth Remix (As above)

6. In the Wild

7. Speed of Light

8. L.A (Get Paid)  - I changed because I didn't like the original name

9. Diamonds

10. I Can Still Dance

11. S.L.A.Y (I may change this to track 2)

12. Rewind Your Heart

13. Hey Aligator

 

Would anyone suggest some changes? And what is the best way to make your own album artwork? For example, I want to choose a pic and then edit it to say In the Wild - is there a website or software or a man that comes to your house for a fixed price? I'm an old man and have no idea how these things work. 

On a side note and I don't want to bring up shit again but to the guy or girl getting irritated about the delay in leaks - take it down a notch - I understand it's frustrating knowing it is out there and I have spent almost TWENTY years trying to track down some Michelle Branch unreleased from back in the day but like someone pointed out, nobody owes you anything and will be a lot less likely to leak anything when you are demanding like it is your right, when infact, especially legally, it is not. 

Chill out and know that 99% of things leak in the long run, even if it takes 13 bastard years to do so (Avril Lavignes demo of Breakaway) and also remember a part of why you collect this music is not just because you are a fan, it is because you are a fan who wants to be 'better' than the average fan by having music that nobody else does so from the point of whoever is holding these songs (if anybody), they have probably paid out money to have what they do and possibly just want to enjoy what they have exclusively  for a little while longer. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Animal]

1 minute ago, Newtooz18 said:

This might be insane to some of you but aside from Bonnie's first album way back in the day and Thorns + American Girl, I hadn't heard any other songs from her. I am what you call an O.G (older Gay) and we didn't have the technology in the early 2000s to get as much unreleased music as you guys do now. The one good thing the Pandemic has done is give me time to get back into collecting unreleased music from literally like the last 20 years which is amazing for discovering so many amazing bops.

I only ever put unreleased songs together if they are obviously from the same era, otherwise I choose what I think flows well and makes a solid pop album with a few ballads sprinkled in.

I have been collecting and familarising myself with all of Bonnies music and currently have almost 6 full albums worth of music sorted in the last 12 months. The first album I am really happy with I have called In the Wild with the following tracklist

 

1. American Girl

2. Waking Up Diagonal (I may switch this with another track)

3. Restless

4. Easy (I know was released but I fucking love this song)

5. Thorns - Le Youth Remix (As above)

6. In the Wild

7. Speed of Light

8. L.A (Get Paid)  - I changed because I didn't like the original name

9. Diamonds

10. I Can Still Dance

11. S.L.A.Y (I may change this to track 2)

12. Rewind Your Heart

13. Hey Aligator

 

Would anyone suggest some changes? And what is the best way to make your own album artwork? For example, I want to choose a pic and then edit it to say In the Wild - is there a website or software or a man that comes to your house for a fixed price? I'm an old man and have no idea how these things work. 

On a side note and I don't want to bring up shit again but to the guy or girl getting irritated about the delay in leaks - take it down a notch - I understand it's frustrating knowing it is out there and I have spent almost TWENTY years trying to track down some Michelle Branch unreleased from back in the day but like someone pointed out, nobody owes you anything and will be a lot less likely to leak anything when you are demanding like it is your right, when infact, especially legally, it is not. 

Chill out and know that 99% of things leak in the long run, even if it takes 13 bastard years to do so (Avril Lavignes demo of Breakaway) and also remember a part of why you collect this music is not just because you are a fan, it is because you are a fan who wants to be 'better' than the average fan by having music that nobody else does so from the point of whoever is holding these songs (if anybody), they have probably paid out money to have what they do and possibly just want to enjoy what they have exclusively  for a little while longer. 

 

 

 

 

 

hi!! so happy to have you here. 🤍

[Newtooz18]

Just now, bearsbummer said:

hi!! so happy to have you here. 🤍

Thank you and happy new year!

[Animal]

2 minutes ago, Newtooz18 said:

Thank you and happy new year!

happy new year to you too! 🤍🤍

[Guest]

Ya’ll really going crazy about the track list. Just put all the songs together w a cut cover and call it a day. 😆

[Animal]

Just now, Theprettyymess said:

Ya’ll really going crazy about the track list. Just put all the songs together w a cut cover and call it a day. 😆

girl, that´s not organized. we want the album to sound good, not all over the place.

the hell???

[Ice Prince]

4 minutes ago, Newtooz18 said:

This might be insane to some of you but aside from Bonnie's first album way back in the day and Thorns + American Girl, I hadn't heard any other songs from her. I am what you call an O.G (older Gay) and we didn't have the technology in the early 2000s to get as much unreleased music as you guys do now. The one good thing the Pandemic has done is give me time to get back into collecting unreleased music from literally like the last 20 years which is amazing for discovering so many amazing bops.

I only ever put unreleased songs together if they are obviously from the same era, otherwise I choose what I think flows well and makes a solid pop album with a few ballads sprinkled in.

I have been collecting and familarising myself with all of Bonnies music and currently have almost 6 full albums worth of music sorted in the last 12 months. The first album I am really happy with I have called In the Wild with the following tracklist

 

1. American Girl

2. Waking Up Diagonal (I may switch this with another track)

3. Restless

4. Easy (I know was released but I fucking love this song)

5. Thorns - Le Youth Remix (As above)

6. In the Wild

7. Speed of Light

8. L.A (Get Paid)  - I changed because I didn't like the original name

9. Diamonds

10. I Can Still Dance

11. S.L.A.Y (I may change this to track 2)

12. Rewind Your Heart

13. Hey Aligator

 

Would anyone suggest some changes? And what is the best way to make your own album artwork? For example, I want to choose a pic and then edit it to say In the Wild - is there a website or software or a man that comes to your house for a fixed price? I'm an old man and have no idea how these things work. 

First things first - I'm glad to have you here! It's always great to welcome new members and I'm so glad to see you like Bonnie's music  

See, as for the tracklist, I'm glad you arrange it using both released and unreleased songs, feels like a great bootleg! However, at least personally, I'm not much into mixing eras and stuff lol, but that's because my OCD makes me wanna have everything over-arranged so don't mind me.

For the artwork, you can either request someone to do it for you, or use Photoshop (if I'm not wrong, there must be some free versions online) and you can find easy-to-follow tutorials on YouTube! That's what I use when I need to do something I haven't learned yet, and I must say the amount of things one can learn in YouTube tutorials is INSANE   that's how I've learned to improve my skills in audio and visual editing!

If there's anything I can help you with, just let me know  

[Ice Prince]

1 minute ago, Theprettyymess said:

Ya’ll really going crazy about the track list. Just put all the songs together w a cut cover and call it a day. 😆

Sorry lol it's my OCD. But I get you boo, it really doesn't matter much!

Just now, bearsbummer said:

girl, that´s not organized. we want the album to sound good, not all over the place.

the hell???

Calm down bestie, you do you and organise it as much as you like/need! That's what I do  

[Newtooz18]

4 minutes ago, Moonchild said:

First things first - I'm glad to have you here! It's always great to welcome new members and I'm so glad to see you like Bonnie's music  

See, as for the tracklist, I'm glad you arrange it using both released and unreleased songs, feels like a great bootleg! However, at least personally, I'm not much into mixing eras and stuff lol, but that's because my OCD makes me wanna have everything over-arranged so don't mind me.

For the artwork, you can either request someone to do it for you, or use Photoshop (if I'm not wrong, there must be some free versions online) and you can find easy-to-follow tutorials on YouTube! That's what I use when I need to do something I haven't learned yet, and I must say the amount of things one can learn in YouTube tutorials is INSANE   that's how I've learned to improve my skills in audio and visual editing!

If there's anything I can help you with, just let me know  

Thank you so much for your message!

And yeah with released songs I think its fine generally if like in Bonnie's case, only 1 or 2 songs are up on streaming and you want to hear them in a full body of work.

For the older artists like Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Billie Piper etc I make a Live, Acoustic & B-Sides (Vol. 1, 2, 3) etc album of (like the name suggests) Live, Acoustic, B-Sides (not on streaming), Unreleased, Remixes, Demos, Alternative Versions etc OR if it just a pop star who is not known for lives of unreleaseds then I can normally source enough music to make a Best B-Sides album.

I am very OCD with compiling everything and setting the mood of an album - today I went on a BeBe Rexha spree and downloaded everything I could get my grubby tits on. I have made the first album I am really happy with which is just a standard 14 song pop, bop and ballad affair but I have also grouped together 14 songs without listening to most of them, just based off of song titles and lyrics to make a 'death' concept album - I just hope the songs can fit together in some natural flowing order otherwise my life is over or something.

I will defo check out some YouTube vids as I am literally making about 200 albums right now of different genres old and new and want my own personalised artwork for each one.

P.S sorry for the long posts but I am a hardcore stoner and I get carried away.

P.P.S The elusive song I have been looking for almost 20 years is a studio version of Fall by Michelle Branch if anybody knows a damn thing??

P.P.S I only discovered DBree like two weeks ago and I feel like a woman who has just discovered her Gina G spot for the first time. 

 

  

[TakeYouToHell]

What do we know about 22nd Century? is this Bonnie demo even legit? because she isn't credited as a writer on Kelis song 

[Volcanion]

9 minutes ago, SunIsUp said:

What do we know about 22nd Century? is this Bonnie demo even legit? because she isn't credited as a writer on Kelis song 

22nd Century is a legitimate song that leaked around the same time as Restless, Earthquake and Thunder.

IDK where my file was, but I don't remember it being all that great.

[Ice Prince]

10 minutes ago, SunIsUp said:

What do we know about 22nd Century? is this Bonnie demo even legit? because she isn't credited as a writer on Kelis song 

Afaik it's not even Bonnie's vocals, so I just didn't include it in the tracker  

I thought it was Priscilla Renea's vocals.

[TakeYouToHell]

1 minute ago, Volcanion said:

22nd Century is a legitimate song that leaked around the same time as Restless, Earthquake and Thunder.

IDK where my file was, but I don't remember it being all that great.

 

1 minute ago, Moonchild said:

Afaik it's not even Bonnie's vocals, so I just didn't include it in the tracker  

I thought it was Priscilla Renea's vocals.

there's also another guy vocals in the demo. I checked Priscilla and she sounds way different.

[Animal]

31 minutes ago, Newtooz18 said:

Thank you so much for your message!

And yeah with released songs I think its fine generally if like in Bonnie's case, only 1 or 2 songs are up on streaming and you want to hear them in a full body of work.

For the older artists like Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Billie Piper etc I make a Live, Acoustic & B-Sides (Vol. 1, 2, 3) etc album of (like the name suggests) Live, Acoustic, B-Sides (not on streaming), Unreleased, Remixes, Demos, Alternative Versions etc OR if it just a pop star who is not known for lives of unreleaseds then I can normally source enough music to make a Best B-Sides album.

I am very OCD with compiling everything and setting the mood of an album - today I went on a BeBe Rexha spree and downloaded everything I could get my grubby tits on. I have made the first album I am really happy with which is just a standard 14 song pop, bop and ballad affair but I have also grouped together 14 songs without listening to most of them, just based off of song titles and lyrics to make a 'death' concept album - I just hope the songs can fit together in some natural flowing order otherwise my life is over or something.

I will defo check out some YouTube vids as I am literally making about 200 albums right now of different genres old and new and want my own personalised artwork for each one.

P.S sorry for the long posts but I am a hardcore stoner and I get carried away.

P.P.S The elusive song I have been looking for almost 20 years is a studio version of Fall by Michelle Branch if anybody knows a damn thing??

P.P.S I only discovered DBree like two weeks ago and I feel like a woman who has just discovered her Gina G spot for the first time. 

 

  

you like avril too? taste! :))

[Ice Prince]

2 minutes ago, SunIsUp said:

 

there's also another guy vocals in the demo. I checked Priscilla and she sounds way different.

Eek, sorry, I was not aware. The first time I heard the song I was not really into it, and then I read something about it not being Bonnie and so I just forgot about that track lol.