I have the flu. I've been sick since Sunday. My tummy hurts :( But I think I'll be better by tomorrow. These are two mixes of a song I did over the summer. One was unmixed and had no vocals, then I added vocals recently and don't really like them at all. The chord progression lends itself so well to melody, so I wished it was more catchy. That's all.
Blowbop
Water Lover
oh, and did you know that Farley is in the DR until the 28th?
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I think it's a song by a flower. A little animated flower singing a song about his third favorite thing.
3rd fav. -
The first being bees, the second is, I don't know, "Friends?" (Cause flowers don't like anything cutting edge.)
I will be down here for a bit, and I think it's gonna take a lot of patience to hear your song... I'll comment in a bit. Still, I heard "blowbop" before - it's hyper, right?
well having watched the tuesday nite stuff I am hesitant to really say much cuz you clearly already got ALOT of FRIENDS, but that really can be a pain, especially when you get old, which flowers sometimes do, AND AT SOME POINT THEY STOP CARING ABOUT FRIENDS AND STOP DRINKING WATER...... but it is also important to note that they prefer only the finest water, glass bottles clinking might be a nice addition to the song, like a specialty water delivery serviceman who passes all the fine flowers
The guitar arpeggio stuff is really nice -- it's somewhere between a lightning bolt song and a sort of George Harrison Beatles track -- ok that's a stretch, but that's what I heard ok!!. I think it's a great start to a song, but that it should be two and a half minutes longer. And maybe it doesn't even have to continue at the same pace or anything, but it can really slow down and get smooth for a bit and than come back and bite you in the butt again at the end. I mean, we all think flowers have this easy time and everything, but they're all struggling for exposure to the sun, right?
sunlight seems to be of little important to these flowers as though their thirst is not only for water but for fast living, I say keep the pace hard and fast
BOTH of these songs rock me out of my chair. 'Water Lover' is so obviously sung by a flower, who is joined by other water-loving beings during the WA WA WA part. CONSIDER: not just the chlorophiloids, ALL creatures need water. 'we can all hold hands'. when i think of the flower, he has a walt disney akward bounce to him, wears shades (oakley? blue blockers? YOU are the artist), but is not set in a b&w 40s landscape, but somewhere far more colorful that we visit at a brain-boilingly FAST pace. huh?
I am finally able to download -
Tinny speakers....
The song rocks - it's pretty much one of the fastest tracks I've heard you record, and it was def influenced by the whole Tuesday Night Music Club thing (if people don't know what I'm talking about (not S.C.), you can see the documentary on Chet's YouTube page). Again, it's hard to tell how hard it rocks cause of the speakers. TO me it sounds like light and fast - more like caffeine.
This to me sounds just like one section of a suite of songs. I would have done more combinatronics with the wa wa part, considering that it goes right along with the melody - I might have madde it more like the hallelujia chorus - I still feel like there could be a place for that on the album - I can tell that you've been influenced by Xuan Zhou - Chinese music does that melody thing a lot... I also feel like this song needs a coda similar to the one at the end of "I'm fighting the metric system". And I also feel like it has to follow a long slow song. I'm not saying it doesn't stand alone - it just seems so melodramatic and because of the mix, it sounds really "live". I see it as being like the fast part of a play where the giant bunny and the guy riding the hobbyhorse run around the proscenium while spotlights with flower silhouettes spin around everywhere and meanwhile the stagehands in black are whisking away the set from the previous scene (which was probably a cozy little homely cottage inside of a treetrunk or something).
This is how I talk to Chet when we are recording together - I imagine it must be terrible frustrating... I'm also overly-critical, but what we all know is that Chester has the skills that pay the bills.
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