Members Ferdinandstrat Posted January 16, 2010 Members Share Posted January 16, 2010 What do you think about such thing? I mean something a la Primus's Tommy the Cat. Do you write such stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted January 16, 2010 Members Share Posted January 16, 2010 Like talking blues or those country songs that have the spoken stuff or some Tom Waits? I don't know the Primus tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chicken Monkey Posted January 16, 2010 Members Share Posted January 16, 2010 I think you need A LOT of charisma to be able to pull that off as a vocalist. I do love it in a couple of country songs where the vocalist talks the third verse instead of singing it, but then it's always written as a verse, properly metered and rhymed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted January 16, 2010 Members Share Posted January 16, 2010 I was just listening to Cream's delightful "Pressed Rat and Warthog." It combines something of the tone of Wind in the Willows with a distinctly twisted sensibilty. I've fooled around with a few spoken word type things over guitar. Particularly with regard to preamble type stuff in front of a more conventional song. It's not my forte, delivery-wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted January 16, 2010 Members Share Posted January 16, 2010 Songwriting Challenge 19 - Movie Scene Soundtrack - The Reveal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ferdinandstrat Posted January 17, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 17, 2010 [YOUTUBE]r4OhIU-PmB8[/YOUTUBE] Something like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gizzmo0815 Posted January 17, 2010 Members Share Posted January 17, 2010 I like some of Primus' stuff. You can beat them for bass lines of course. But I don't like this song at all. The drums and bass is cool but the "singing" is awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted January 17, 2010 Members Share Posted January 17, 2010 Something like this.I enjoyed that quite a lot... at least until around the three minute mark, after which it seemed like it was just recycling itself. One thing about in your face music -- you've got to have a good feel for how much is too much. And what works in a sweaty club in the heat of the moment is not necessarily optimal for a record. I loved the Felix-the-Cat inspired illustration/animation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ferdinandstrat Posted January 18, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 18, 2010 I enjoyed that quite a lot... at least until around the three minute mark, after which it seemed like it was just recycling itself. One thing about in your face music -- you've got to have a good feel for how much is too much. And what works in a sweaty club in the heat of the moment is not necessarily optimal for a record.I loved the Felix-the-Cat inspired illustration/animation. Well, you get what I meant in the OP, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlackHatHunter Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 To me, the best example of that is Guy Clark's The Randall Knife. KY5MOUO464Q You'd better have some solid lyrics and tons of charisma, not to mention a hell of readin' voice to pull it off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members saveuplife Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 I like this one... [YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] but then again, there's a singing chorus in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members easilyspooked Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 i would think the hardest thing about that would be the coordination, how to play a melody or rhythm on the guitar while speaking, i've worked on it a couple of times, posted a tune here called The River via my soundclick a while back, that took a lot of vocal experimentation to get right, i worded a lot of gibberish before settling on a clean story. http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7960578 EDIT: that Guy Clark tune is Really Nice, thanks for posting it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Oswlek Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 You'd better have some solid lyrics and tons of charisma, not to mention a hell of readin' voice to pull it off... Moving stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dingoist Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 How about Johnny Cash's "A Boy named Sue" or you might place "One Piece at a Time" in the category though the chorus is sung, the verses are more spoken with a sing-song inflection. [YOUTUBE]M89c3hWx3RQ[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stratman Tigers Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 You'd better have some solid lyrics and tons of charisma, not to mention a hell of readin' voice to pull it off... Wow, that was just beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members easilyspooked Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 what about evolving spoken word into sung lyrics? taking a few words per sentence and putting some melody behind them, then building off that to go from speaking to catchy singing in the space of the story. like this:[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] (blame it on stratman tigers, his avatar reminded me how much i love sifl and olly) (iiiiiiiiiii'm up here in the cab-i-nets, banging on pots and pans...) (dammit, now the entire rest of my workday is going to be shot on youtube) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlackHatHunter Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 I am glad you guys enjoyed that song as much I do. It's a very special song for me, also having lost my dad. I think it's the best song ever written - that I've heard, anyway - about the loss of a father. He also has this song that is sort of talked more than sung: iHxOego2Sso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mike-o Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 I'm a big fan of the half-sing half-talk E7DCFCbkau8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A Happy Crowd Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 I've attempted to write some songs in this style but they never came out the way I envisioned, or seemed worth keeping, so each was discarded ... to be forgotten about until this thread came along. As for examples of other artists writing such songs, I can think of quite a few, but my favorite is probably Arab Strap's "The First Big Weekend." [YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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