And here's the YouTube video link if you wish to see Andy doing his Beavis and Butt-head impression
We are deep into Monthly Music Challenge 1.3 - Ignorance, with several submissions already received it is shaping up to be one hell of a show I'm telling you. Our entry (Cosmic Bos) for the #Ignorance challenge is 'Idiots', the version you hear here is the version we put together for the Music Weeklies challenge, they only give you one week to make your song, where as here at Monthly Music Challenge we give you the added bonus time of One Whole Calendar month to make your song.
It's very exciting, you should come get involved, here is the link to the podcast itself, please go and subscribe to it where ever you do your podcasting (it should be there, just search Monthly Music Challenge) or direct link HERE (OFFICIAL PODCAST PAGE)
Our last episode MMC 1.2 - Escape was an absolute blast and a half, check it out!
Thanks for the review Scowsh
Big thanks to New Music Saturday for spinning our weeklies version of Idiots, and also big thanks for crediting us on TexMex Shamans new song, alas, we had nothing to do with it's creation, it was prompted by the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos, we don't deserve any of the credit. Spoiler Alert! we've had a late submission for Escape, by the awesome TexMex Shaman, we will spin it on the next episode in a new segment we will probably call Late Subs, or something equally juvenile knowing us.
In other news, the Lights and Lines Album in a Month competition is returning in May, hosted once again by the enigmatic Mike5, Cosmic Bos will be taking part this year, but in a bit of a different way from last year. More to come on that for sure.
Also, also, while we are doing news, the last hashtag by Music Weeklies was #UpsideDown and I (Andy) made a little song for it, as is my songwriting duty, and here it is for you, on the end of this blog, it's called Down for the Upside
Welcome to Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast, episode 1.2 - Escape
Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos
Episode 1.2 - Escape
Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) are here to guide you through the wonderfully creative set of 25 songs (that's right! 25 chooons for you) all built around the hashtags of Feb 2023 (#Escape, #Freedom, #StandOut & #Family)set by the wonderful peeps of Music Weeklies (check out the community on Twitter) favouring the first one of course, as that is the monthly challenge.
Before we delve deep into this bag of music, so you know what the challenge is for March, the next episode will be MMC 1.3 - #Ignorance - so get writing your ignorance songs to submit to the podcast, closing date 7th April. Okay, business out the way, let's get down to, err, business.
Escape songs
1. Make Good Our Escape (Monthly version) - Cosmic Bos
2. Break Out - Trench Gun
3. Escape - Peter Hawkey
4. Run - Steve 3rd Echo Sounds
5. Scrambling Free - Graham Casey
6. Escape - Scowsh Molosh
7. Escape - Mobidextrous
8. How to Stop Time - Stefan Bohacek
9. Dance (Escape the Week) - Mijimo
10. Endure and Survive - Aaliya Mondesir (Lovely Mango)
11. Escape - ASeaWarren
12. The Fall of Icarus - Andrew Hartshorn
13. Escapist - Notehead
14. 7749 - Hellwaddler
Wowsa! What a line up! Some returning players and some newbies to the MMC, go check out all these amazing artists on Twitter.
Freedom songs
15. But What Does Freedom Mean? - Cosmic Bos
16. Disenfranchised - Trench Gun
17. Watching the Sky - Hellwaddler
18. Price of Freedom is Death - Stefan Bohacek
StandOut songs
19. Stand Out - Cosmic Bos
20. Stand Out There - David Patterson
21. Out Standing - Cosmic Bos
Family songs
22. Muwee Family Nintendo tracker - Scowsh Molosh
23. Family Plan - Mobidextrous
24. Family Tree - Cosmic Bos
And that's all the hashtag songs, Outer Galactic shout out to all the amazing musicians that sent in their tracks, you guys are awesome and we love all of you, let's spread the word and get even more creative, talented musicians involved.
We added a little bonus feature to the end of this show too, as we are evolving this idea and watching it take shape. We were asked by The Word Alchemist to do an instrumental version of one of Nick's older songs, which we did, and then it seemed only natural to add the vocal and before we knew it we had a fully finished song.
So, we launch this new feature into the Monthly Music Challenge by in which, if the inspiration from the hashtag of the month isn't grabbing you, you can raid your musical archive and spruce up, rework or simply redo something from your songbook, we are calling this section
FromTheSongbook songs
And Cosmic Bos are going first with this, so here's the first entry to the Songbook section of the MMC
25. Heart Holder - Cosmic Bos
Heart Holder was originally recorded by Cosmic Bos as part of a special presentation in Season 2 of our podcast, and it's a totally banger, with Nick taking the lead vocal and the guitars pumping it all up. It was fun doing a proper recording of it, and as is the usual Bos way, we will see where this feature goes, we have plenty of songs in our own songbooks which may appear here...
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Thanks for listening, please like, share and subscribe, and leave us a review on your podcasting platform of choice (it helps spread the word and build our musical community)
Straight off the bat I want to say, I love you, you are amazing, thank you for coming to our little corner of the internet, we hope you enjoy your time here.
Family Tree by Cosmic Bos
For the #Family weeklies music challenge, the final hashtag of Feb 2023.
I (Andy) really love and respect my family, they have been instrumental in my development as a human being and I am eternally grateful to them all, and my friends as well, love you all. This song is for all of you, every human that is part of the great human family tree.
Here's the TikTok video I made for it, on youtube
Also, quick heads up, Monthly Music Challenge 1.2 Escape is coming on the 5th March, and our EP of 5 tracks from Feb is available right now on bandcamp (and everywhere else tomorrow). We will do a proper blog about it tomorrow, but in the meanwhile,
Here's the embedded Bandcamp link
Please consider purchasing this fine collection of recently put together songs, we love you either way.
