CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
As we previously hinted, a sound designer from Denmark's video game developer IO Interactive requested a Neons Gone Mad cover of a song from PlayStation's Dissidia Final Fantasy, for an album of Square Enix video game franchise music. For fun, we anagrammed every phrase of the original lyrics so as to decode a second song hidden within.
Our cover version is by permission of Square Enix; Harry Fox license #1000000009493.
We're honored that the Australian band Neuropa commissioned us to "translate" their song "Father" through our Tesla spirit radio connected to a haunted grandfather clock.
We're honored by DJ Tundra of Patronus Records, who praised our clockwork cover of The Cure's "Close to Me": "AWESOME work in the creation of this rendition and in the artistic way in which you really made the song your own. And the music video adds greatly to the overall allure of the production and is done so very well. A sensational audio/visual experience!!"
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Produced by permission of Fiction Records (license #1000000005538). "Lullaby" written by Robert Smith / The Cure. Neons Gone Mad cover performed by Michael Warwick.
Produced with the permission of Warner - Tamerlane - Universal - Polygram (license 1000000004769). "Cemetry Gates" written by Morrissey and Marr, The Smiths. Neons Gone Mad Clockwork/Spirit Radio cover performed by Michael Warwick.
The Tesla spirit radio tunes into the Black Iron Prison world described by Philip K. Dick ... a time-forsaken dystopia, blending past, present, and future and cast in wicked darkness. Apocalyptic cyberpunk wavelengths bleed through.
"In My Mind" lyricized and performed by Neons Gone Mad. Based upon "Overland (In My Mind)" by Forces(by kind permission). Dedicated to Alexander Akers & Thomas Kernot.
"Gifted duo makes great version! Bravo!" says Sweden's Sigfus, of our cover of The Cure's "Close To Me."
"Great joy for my ears. I want to keep listening," says Japan's Chihiro Matsumoto.
"Genius!" says Nottingham's R. Smith of Arse-Myth.
"A wonder of a track!" says Freddie Maier López of MTM.
"Wow!! Such a cool atmosphere you created with the church bells. Takes the listener off to a wonderous world of magic and bliss. Has a meditative and beautiful energy to it. Masterfully crafted; thank you" says Azar Breakey of Spirit Sound Innovators.
We're honored!
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Produced with the permission of Universal Music (license #1000000004087). "Close To Me" written by Robert Smith, The Cure. Neons Gone Mad Clockwork/Spirit Radio cover performed by Michael Warwick.
