Songs and compositions by W. Stubbs, 1990 - 2017

Opus List
All songs and compositions

Key: (1),(2),(3)… = song lyrics only / 1, 2, 3… = songs with music & lyrics / i.1 = instrumentals

1990 - 1993
45 songs were written, and an additional 128 song lyrics (without composed music beyond a sung melody), but most were early juvenile attempts based on hair-metal bands I listened to at the time. The following is a truncated list that represents some of the better songs before heading into 1994.

1a. Cooking Up A Thunderstorm
1b. Just Another Outlaw
03. Winter Breeze

__. When the Trees Fall Down
__. Dangerous Water Ways
__. Living in Silence

__. The Song of Age
__. Scrambling

i.1 Night Lights
i.2 Talking With Saturn
i.3 In A Calm Moment
i.4 (The other one in G)
i.5 Let the Dragon Sleep
__. The Yorkshire Pudding
__. Philistine Pilgrim

36. Saying Goodbye
37. Lament for Dead Blackbird
38. The Cold Song
39. I Didn’t Need
40. Chicago Weeps
41. Wet Summer
42. 10˚ Below the Expected High
43. The Resting Place
44. Pockets Of Love
45. Crater Lake

1994

46. ‘94’s 1st
47. One More Funeral
48. General leave
49. The Midnight Prowler
(129) Ef Cofay
50. Maple Dream
(131) The Face in the Mirror
(132) The Man Inside the Dream
51. Doubt It… Honey!
52. Oohma
(135) Stand Behind
(136) Wherd
53. Downsleep
54. Level Again
(139) “It was just jealousy…”
55. Rosewood
(141) Feed On
(142) Viewing
56. The Branded Crew
57. The Big Picture
58. Song 21
(146) “She used to be…”
(147) To A Head
59. Hardstone Bridge
(149) The Hunter’s Knife
60. The Tragic Romantic
61. Under the Fall
62. Cellar Below
63. Dimensions Of Sorrow
64. Sleep Inside
65. All I Have to Do
66. Blank Spaces
67. Person I Knew
68. “It’s Dangerous…”
69. I’m O.K., You’re O.K.
70. Pepper Tree
71. Water and Soil
72. Love is in My Life
73. Far Behind Me
74. Tonight
75. Landing
76. Friend
77. Love Ain’t that Hard to Find
78. Blame
79. Brittle Sleep
80. Lost in the Rain
81. Findle
82. Sweet is the Taste
83. Invader
84. I Got A Mind
85. Our Line
i.6 Frank’s Peach

1995

86. Did You Know
87. Frantic
88. The Big Roll
89. The Last Tear
90. Run Away (No Real Desire)
91. Floorboards
92. I Can Feel
93. Kicked In The Head
94. The Hunter’s Knife
95. Oooh Baby
96. Cruel Fate
97. Run For The Jungle
98. Suicide On The Highway
99. Moving Pictures
100. Basic Requirements
101. You!
102. Psycho Looney Toon
103. Customer
104. Just Me
105. Reef
106. Home
107. Here Comes the Fall
108. This Ain’t Love Anymore
109. Paddocks of Deceit
110. Warren
111. Nothing to Fear
112. White Linen
113. Someone to Lean On
114. The Reckoning
115. Long and Hard
116. Falling Leaves
117. Shadow Sun
118. Sitting on a Bench
119. Scapegoat
120. Trying
121. Trail
122. All Our Heroes
123. Damages to My Heart
i.7 Stronger by the Day
i.8 The Swamps of My Mess Age
i.9 Caribbean Hideaway

1996

i.10 Italian Cat Scratches
124. Somebody Else
125. It’s Not Over Yet
126. Because of You
127. Film Noir
128. Search
- Score / Lyrics
- Bedroom Recording | Garage Recording
129. One More Day
130. Believe in Me
131. Polly
132. Soup
133. Even Dreams
134. Your Own Way
135. Harvest Time
136. Crepolow
137. Diamond Betrayal
138. Betrayed
139. Guesses
140. Go to the Well
141. Ukulele Babe
142. Dope Mother
143. Pigeon Street
144. Daughter Don’t Cry
145. Run and Hide
146. The Hound-brothers
147. No lights *
148. You Know It’s Cold *
(i.11) Run Rabbit Run

1997

i.11 All Things
i.12 (Instrumental from “King” album)
149. The Critic *
150. You Decide *
151. It’s All Happening Again *
152. Filler #1
153. Spread Your Wings
154. A Doll Tree
155. Noble Liar
156. Chorumatica
157. Pack Your Bags
158. Heather
159. Dullfish Angler
160. The Last Threads of Life
161. Industrial Slave
162. Paroxide

1998

i.13 Destination: X (Anywhere away from here)
i.14 Loot
- Original garage recording
- Score
163. In This House
164. In The Game
165. Waster
166. In My Mind
167. A New Child
168. The Boy Down The Well *
169. How Far I Fell
170. Great Expectations
171. Briar Rose
172. Old Man River *
173. Clarke’s Nova *
174. Compare
175. AYL
176. Wandering Days
177. A Whisper in the Dark
178. Modern Day Blues
i.15 Dreams A’ Flight
179. Snow
180. Free Pies
181. Let Love Be Your Home (98 or 99) *

1999

182. Run Rabbit Run
183. The Antler Song
184. Black Pool
185. Cellophane
186. Another Dream
187. The Weight Of Time
188. Live To Forget

My Sickness, My Health ('98/'99)

A random "piece" of music I chucked together and recorded in the storage shed my Auckland band used as a practice space. All performed by myself (in other words, absolutely no one else is to blame).

Young stag with a velvet antler
Charged head-first for the gates today,
Young stag grow me a picture so perfect
Before blood and bone reaches your eyes.

Young stag whose home was raided
Hear the shots ring out through the night,
And now a dark storm is raging
Oh our lives are in so much danger.

Watch the blood as it flows like tears,
How many times do you have to cry
Before they understand why you're so scared?
Will they hurt you again and again?

I heard you crushed your head one day
In a story told by the deep forest,
And I heard all the flowers died that day
The day they took your pain away.

Young stag with a broken antler
They shut the gates and locked you out,
Young stag with so much anger
But you were in the wrong my friend.

2000

i.16 The Only Feeling That’s Left (I was Robbed Of Everything That Was Me) *
189. The 'Young Mother' Trilogy:
- Part 1 - We All Wonder
i.17 Gunfire Like Rain
190. Holly
191. Asleep in the Dark
i.18 Almost Everything
i.19 Tomorrow Times Seven (When Mum Comes Home)
192. The 'Young Mother' Trilogy:
- Part 2 - When Mum Comes Home
i.20 The 'Young Mother' Trilogy:
- Part 3 - Head of the Table
i.21 Severance
i.22 The Western Trilogy:
- Part 2 - Hombre on the Run
i.23 The Western Trilogy:
- Part 3 - The Drowning Cowboy
193. Around My Head
i.24 Honolulu Goodbyes
194. Brandy
195. Gone From Me
196. Atmospherapy
197. Scream And Seek
198. (Doesn’t Seem Fair…)

2001

- The Friendly Heavy Metal Song (in 2003 this music had lyrics put to it and became 'King By A Quest')
i.25 General M. Forth
i.[?] (Reminds me of spider legs) [This may be lost. I recorded the basic guitars, but it was never completed as a fully-fledged composition. It probably exists on a tape somewhere]
i.26 Mountainair
i.27 (Upbeat & Electric) [I don't even know if this is a finished composition.]
199. No Bodyguards Required
200. Ode To Thyself
i.28 H.Q.G.P. (Carpet Bombing)
i.29 Butterflies Over Urban Monad 116
i.30 A Game of Chess in the Midnight Garden
i.31 The Western Trilogy:
- Part 1 - The Swift Swiss Sheriff

2002

i.32 The Blue Condition
201. Oh Mona (Where’re the Aliens?)
- An arrangement/rewrite of the Pennywise song 'Alien'
- Elfland’s Daughter
i.33 In Fields We Know
202. Wild Storm
203. Stone Statues
204. December Friends
- W. Stubbs/B. Thompson
i.34 Aeronaught (A Sparrow In The Water)
i.35 Holidays Intravenous
205. The Sign of the Locust

2003

i.36 Cast in Sin
206. This Night Will Bring
- Lyrics
207. Decisions On The Autumn Run
208. King By A Quest
209. No More Ghosts
210. Swamp Blues
- W. Stubbs/B. Thompson
211. Ever Hopeful
- W. Stubbs/B. Thompson
212. Island Tides
- w/ B. Thompson
213. Pec
214. Atop A Hill
- W. Stubbs/B. Thompson
215. Old Home
216. Someone Else’s Arms
217. A Fool In Error *
218. Oh Joyous Song
219. Fragments
i.37 Guarding the Fortress Alone
220. Please *
i.38 Noah Rests
221. Dustmite
i.39 Ettrickery

2004

222. Elfland’s Daughter
223. Don’t Wanna Hide
i.40 Ettricity
224. Stigmartyr
i.41 Ettrick Spiders
225. Condemnium
- W. Stubbs/A. Fitzgerald
226. Seafarer
i. [#] Symphony No.1 ("for Small Orchestra")

2005

227. Basket Case
228. "Without End"
229. "Girl Go Spinning Around…"
230. Terrapart
- W. Stubbs/A. Fitzgerald/J. Stuck
231. "Daddy never came home…"
i. [#] Symphony No.2
i. [#] The Road to Almondegas
- C. Stevenson/W. Stubbs/A. Fitzgerald/J. Stuck