I have started a project called Project 11, where every month me and my band mates upload a new song on the 11th every month, some rough, some fully finished, but non of them are proffesionally mixed or mastered.
It is getting good response from people..this project has been on going for a year now
My bands name is kaimsasikun and is based in Bali
All these songs are done within 3-4 days prior to the 11th
I just recorded this original song of mine on Sept 28, 2012 at the Sweetwater Music studio in Fort Wayne, IN with Danny 'Tulsa Time' Flowers. It's the first time I recorded a song. I hope you guys like it.
Here's a song I wrote and recorded back in September 2012. If you like the song, please click LIKE and I'll record and add some more of my originals. I'm int...
First official post on the forum! Let me know what you think of my song. :)
This is a song called "Orphans" by my band "Amos Slade". We are based out of Sioux Falls, SD. This will be one of twelve songs released on our first full length album.
This song has yet to be mastered. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Let me know if you want to hear more. Thanks for listening!
Tell you what Boys, I'm damn proud of this one. It gave me a chance to do what I've been wanting to do for a long long time, and that is give the fat cat label executives in Nashville who publish this kind of bullshit the finger. I'm so sick of hearing about trucks and tractors I literally get nauseous sometimes when I hear the crap these labels are peddling. So here you go, a tongue in cheek version of this silly crap. It would take an artist with a backbone like a T rail to cut this one
Ahhh... this song. Left a comment on it on Soundcloud last week under another account of mine.
I'm no country fan by quite a stretch. I've filled in a few times as a drummer (and been bored to tears as Country's usually a pretty button-down gig for a drummer... especially one dying to do some funk)
Anyway, I do like some old Randy Travis stuff, and some of the old school rock crossovers... and the occasional tear jerker that's just so well written as to be undeniable. I curse "Don't Take the Girl" whenever it comes on. Damn thing makes me weep. I can also dig some of the more fleshed out and polished stuff just for the aesthetics (Little Big Town's "The Boondocks" comes to mind.)
Now, let me preface this by saying I'm the type of guy who's prone to be drawn toward the ironic. I tend to write stuff myself that either pokes fun of the subject, or has an ironic twist. I just consider that to be good songwriting. Also, poking fun at the music industry is nearly a favorite hobby of mine. I love "Sell Out" by Reel Big Fish, for example.
That being said... and speaking as someone with thousands of cd's, and tens of thousands of digital songs in his collection:
This may well be my favorite country song ever.
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PRODUCTION GOAL: Blend ridiculously diverse musical influences into a viable pop signature sound that works for top 40 radio, clubs, earbuds, computer speakers, car stereos, submarine galleys, Australian walkabouts, Turkish prisons, skydiving simulators, volcanic craters, anechoic chambers, Martian discotheques, and all other known and unknown playback scenarios in perpetuity throughout the universe. - AINT NOBODY
Ahhh... this song. Left a comment on it on Soundcloud last week under another account of mine.
I'm no country fan by quite a stretch. I've filled in a few times as a drummer (and been bored to tears as Country's usually a pretty button-down gig for a drummer... especially one dying to do some funk)
Anyway, I do like some old Randy Travis stuff, and some of the old school rock crossovers... and the occasional tear jerker that's just so well written as to be undeniable. I curse "Don't Take the Girl" whenever it comes on. Damn thing makes me weep. I can also dig some of the more fleshed out and polished stuff just for the aesthetics (Little Big Town's "The Boondocks" comes to mind.)
Now, let me preface this by saying I'm the type of guy who's prone to be drawn toward the ironic. I tend to write stuff myself that either pokes fun of the subject, or has an ironic twist. I just consider that to be good songwriting. Also, poking fun at the music industry is nearly a favorite hobby of mine. I love "Sell Out" by Reel Big Fish, for example.
That being said... and speaking as someone with thousands of cd's, and tens of thousands of digital songs in his collection:
This may well be my favorite country song ever.
Thanks, Brother. That's quite the compliment coming from you as I know who you are. I like your stuff, too. There was one you posted a while back that was really really good. I mean radio top 40 stuff. I'd buy some of your tunes if I knew where to look. PM me if you want. Maybe we could collaborate on some out of the box stuff.
Thanks, Brother. That's quite the compliment coming from you as I know who you are. I like your stuff, too. There was one you posted a while back that was really really good. I mean radio top 40 stuff. I'd buy some of your tunes if I knew where to look. PM me if you want. Maybe we could collaborate on some out of the box stuff.
Yeah... I've had more than a couple names on here and elsewhere. I'll be sticking with this one now that I've got domains registered, wrote a theme song (in sig) around it, and dropped the name into a couple other tracks, so I guess I'm invested in it at this point. Fits. Unsigned artist and all.
Anyway, I've played your track for a few friends, and they've loved it. You don't really have to BE a county fan to get it... or enjoy it. I think it's got wide appeal for that reason.
As is, it's a clever song and a decent mix. Certainly a cut above as a demo. Frankly, I think it's got the bones... and the soul to be much more than that. I've heard some good stuff here and there on GS over the years, but not too many that I thought really had the right ingredients to be a hit with a wide audience.
I'm no country producer (although I did write a country song a while back just to see if I could), and find myself without half the hours in a day I need to get my own stuff done these days (finishing the album, shooting music videos, launching a website, etc), but let me plant a seed:
Think for a moment about Youtube, and independent artists. Viral videos tend to be things that are funny, quirky, and have a buzzworthy concept that can be boiled down to a sentence or less. (Think: A monkey scratches it's butt, and falls off a branch after sniffing his finger)
A number of artists on Youtube have a huge number of views for this reason. Look at the viewcounts for My Favorite Martian videos, or the Key of Awesome spoofs. These videos are outpacing all but a handfull of major label acts. They're funny. They're entertaining.
Problem for many of them is that the interaction stops there. While funny may bring the views, it doesn't send people scrambling to itunes to buy the single. Now, some of these artists may be making enough money from their Youtube partnership agreement to be happy, but they're missing a big part of the pie in terms of Itunes, soundexchange, etc.
There's no reason these two things can't coexist, though. If something is funny enough to be viral, yet musically good enough to send people to itunes, it will be widely viewed AND able to convert a high percentage of those viewers into customers.
I think your song is a rock solid example of the sort of thing that could do both... get a lot of views (with a quirky, buzzworthy video to match)... AND get a higher than average percentage of those viewers to be willing to pay to own the song.
If what you want is to shop your stuff for major labels to tailor to their artists, then have at it. It's a great gig for those who stay in the labels' good graces... but if that's not going the way you want, don't think for a minute that you need them to reach an audience of millions.
Hi, our self recorded album came out yesterday. We are so proud of it, we recorded it in 'The Fens' a desolate, stark landscape, flat lands with huge skies. Really, out in the sticks, part of the English countryside. We are Straw Bear from South East of the UK. I'd appreciate any critique you can give us, maybe help us define what our music is - hard to be objective when so close to the whole recording/playing process.
It's a DIY project, in the making since I started computer recording in 2002. Learned a lot of useful (and not so useful) things from fellow gearslutz. Appreciate anyone's time if they have a listen.
Here is a tune i recorded one day in 2003, i was sick as a dog and watching the news, when GW Bush came on and was slinging his BS about iraq. His condescension pissed me off, and this was the result.
recorded in my bedroom on Digi 001, with a single sm57, bomb factory plugs and cosmonaut voice(remember that?) I cut and looped a drum track i played for another song, bass direct, telecaster/ silvertone for guitar. My buddy was the 2nd pilot and we improvised those parts. everything else was me and some internet clips. Pretty fun for being sick in a relatively dark moment in time
I like this very much. I can't really make out the lyrics most of the time (I could say the same about many songs I love), but the music and that wonderful voice really work well together.
'the gentleman', the b-side to 'the waitress' you can hear above. intended to be listened to together. really depressing and dirty lo-fi acoustic pop music.
My band mates and I wrote this in 2010 and have played it at every show since.
I am currently working on a solo project and this song is going to come with me, but in a more dance pop sort of way.
Would love feedback.
I'm browsing through this thread and just came to this.
I've never found myself in a situation where I was listening to a song for the first time and could predict every lyric in real time.
This is quite possibly the most universal song I've ever heard since "Happy Birthday." I'm not being sarcastic or saying that as a backhanded compliment.
I'd like to know from the original poster, the story behind this. What was the conversation that led to it? Did someone say, "You know what, guys. Screw it. We're f***ing up. New plan. Let's see what happens if we include everything that we know has worked and use every cliche in the book"?
This is interesting as hell. I bet the lyrics even translate well to different languages.
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