“When I make that error
When I let
Discipline down
There’s only one thing to do
And that’s
Get back on the path
Get back on it!”
(https://go.meaningwave.com/GETBACKONTHEPATH)
As some of you have noticed, I’ve been getting up at 4am for the past couple of weeks. This is antithetical to my usual mode of being, which would have me working until 4am. This goes back to when I was a child, and I’d stay up till 4 or 5 reading under my duvet with a lamp, then have to be kicked out of bed to go to school. Some of my earliest jobs involved having to get up at what I considered ungodly hours - my paper round when I was ten or so, and later my job at Boots The Chemist when I was 14, which had me rising in the dark and walking an hour to get to the job itself, all before the sun rose. I held negative associations with early rising, and so as soon as I had control of my schedule, I went right back into covert book mode and stayed up as late as I could and thus rose accordingly.
But on the rare occasions where ...
Timelapse of me drawing my new avatar
Tools: Procreate on iPad with Apple Pencil
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BACK WITH ANOTHER BANGER FROM BERTON AND THE DON!
TELL THEM NOW!
With lyrics adapted from Berton Braley's poem of 100 years hence!
STREAM https://go.meaningwave.com/TELLTHEMNOW
Art by me!
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It’s that time of the month, where we cast our eyes back over the previous one, and find out…
WHAT ARE THE MOST STREAMED SONGS IN THE MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE?
I just checked and there are a whopping 595 Meaningwave bangers on DSPs right now, that got 1.3 million streams from over 150,000 listeners last month on Spotify alone… and today, we’re counting down the 50 most streamed of those songs. Where’s your favorite? And most importantly… WHAT’S AT NUMBER ONE?
Join us live now and find out!
(https://linktw.in/YjVqKa)
BONUS! We have made the glorious art available as very epic T-shirts! Cop them here! And use code TOP50 at checkout to get 10% off your order!
(https://www.meaningwave.com/products/meaningwave-top-50-men-s-cotton-shirt)
MEANWHILE
A new video, REBEL BY WINNING (https://go.meaningwave.com/REBELBYWINNING) with Jocko Willink just dropped, check that here.
(https://linktw.in/jxroLJ)
I did a special election mix for the Quite Frankly show, check that here.
...
Do you want to rebel
Against your parents?
Cool
Do better
You want to rebel against society?
Cool
Rebel by working harder
Than everyone else…
Behold! A brand new music video from the brand new instant-classic Meaningwave album with Jocko Willink, WARPATH.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/WARPATHALBUM)
Rebel by getting smarter
Rebel by working harder
Rebel by getting stronger
REBEL BY WINNING
(https://go.meaningwave.com/REBELBYWINNING)
Check out the video here now (https://linktw.in/jxroLJ), and if you still haven't heard the album (https://linktw.in/REhFfz), what are you waiting for? GET AFTER IT!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/WARPATHALBUM)
Hold tight for I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE (https://go.meaningwave.com/MADASHELL) hitting DSPs tonight, and thanks for all the kind words about that song and music video that dropped earlier this week (https://linktw.in/vSKzKH). Look out for more surprises in the Meaningwave Universe, and look out for a brand new MEANINGWAVE ...
I don't have to tell you
Things are bad
Everybody knows things are bad
It's a depression…
Finally, it exists. A song I’ve been wanting to make since around 2004 when I first happened upon the source material, 1977’s timely and prophetic dark comedy, Network. A snippet of it nearly went on an early mixtape, then my first album, but ultimately I didn’t do it, as I didn’t want to truncate the sample, and at that time, I was focusing on vocal rap music and had yet to invent Meaningwave, so it wasn’t yet time for a 4-minute plus song with no rapping based around a movie sample.
Early on in the Meaningwave journey, the idea re-presented itself. I could hear it in my head. But I wasn’t skilled enough to bring it into being at that time. So it stayed in my head, and I worked and worked, and song by song developed those skills.
Some six hundred or so songs later, in the year 2024 AD, I was finally able to bring the song I heard in my head into the world.
I’ve been working on this since June, and ...