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yellowviolet

yellowviolet | something audibly different.

About Me


Who is yellowviolet?
One man band from Wisconsin. yellowviolet is lyrically driven original music powered with bass and percussion.
yellowviolet is the former front man for the Green Situation - Wisconsin's premier leader of the Wisco-Rock movement for over ten years.
But yellowviolet is something audibly different...
The idea is simple. The raw energy that is obtained when a song is created can never be emulated. yellowviolet captures that energy by literally recording at that moment, instead of trying to copy it later. In a strange sense, every song is a live recording... recorded one track at a time, as it is conceived.
For over 12 years, yellowviolet has been coming up with things that your ears could never have expected - and can't seem to forget. The f'd up subject matter, the catchy rhythms, the constant surprises - yellowviolet can only be described by listening to it.
...and listening to it is incredibly easy at yellowviolet.org with quite possibly the largest library of completely free music by any band on the web. While you're there, check out the song of the every other week - a brand new song guaranteed every other week!
yellowviolet | something audibly different

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Member Since: 3/24/2006
Band Website: yellowviolet.org
Band Members: yellowviolet
Influences: ween, mr. bungle, tom waits, captain beefheart, laurie anderson, the beatles, zappa, nirvana, pink floyd, flaming lips, moe., umphreys mcgee, beck, radiohead
Sounds Like: a monkey with bongos.
a monkey with bongos and a jawharp.
a monkey with bongos, a jawharp, and a bass.
a monkey with bongos, a jawharp, a bass and machines.
mainly a monkey.
Record Label: yvrecords
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Final Words [new song]

Hey fellow Myspacians.It has been a couple months since two weeks ago... but a new song has arrived. This song, Final Words (now he's dead) is a great song to play for someone who wants you to do some...
Posted by yellowviolet on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:48:00 PST

Im not dead.

So... was I on a trip for the past few weeks? Did I slip on a rock and trap my arm in a narrow crevice? Was I grounded from the internet? Did someone tie the ends of my socks together so that every ti...
Posted by yellowviolet on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:59:00 PST

The Mama from the Mountain [new song]

This week's song of the every other week was made nearly entirely on a little hand held digital voice recorder. Alright, maybe more like half of the song. But half of the drums, 90% of the vocals, som...
Posted by yellowviolet on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:38:00 PST

shoes [new song]

Ever seen a pair of shoes hanging from a power line? Ever wonder how or why it happened? Well, this song tackles these important questions... from the shoes perspective, of course.shoesI got up in the...
Posted by yellowviolet on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:40:00 PST

Drinking a Martini and Writing Love Songs [new song]

This week's (or technically last week's) Song of the Every Other Week is called Drinking a Martini and Writing Love Songs... a song written about writing songs and being abandoned.For those of you who...
Posted by yellowviolet on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:27:00 PST

Wheres my money?

I wrote this one a long time ago - the original was called thank you very much for calling on the album reversed polarities back in '96.Well, I'm wrapping up the next album - which I'll probably call ...
Posted by yellowviolet on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:07:00 PST

Almighty Good Buy [new song]

I'm not as messed up as you think I am.I'm sure others would argue differently, but it is true.There is a totally rational explanation for nearly every song written. Sometimes they are explained, some...
Posted by yellowviolet on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:08:00 PST

squirrels have sex [new song]

Alright... not a whole lot to comment on about this one. This is a true story. The link below is mixed quite a bit differently than the one on myspace. squirrels have sexand I'm just sitting here watc...
Posted by yellowviolet on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:41:00 PST

Feeding the Birds [new song]

So... another song about birds. This one is different from the last bird song ('nother dead bird), because this one's about all the other things that happen to them before they die.The next song will ...
Posted by yellowviolet on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:52:00 PST

Kinda Freaking Out [new song]

A few weeks ago, I went to Voyageurs National Park on the Minnesota/Canada border. We were one one of a handful of canoes in the entire park - probably the only canoe not registered (as is apparently ...
Posted by yellowviolet on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:29:00 PST