song feedback

Wow. What an intro! Love the clarinet. Is that a drop in or did you play that? I like the vocal feel -- but I couldn't really make out the lyrics much at all.

Now... what the heck happened to the music? It's barely there and sounds like it's deep under murky water or behind a thick curtain. It also sounds weirdly out of phase... and then there are all those seemingly out of place elements, the blasts of lead underneath the vocals. Maybe a seriously reinvented remix with a lot less reverb and a lot more immediacy would help bring the music back into focus.

The melody has a very Beatle-ish feel -- a little bit unfocused but fairly enticing.

With regard to the vocal and melody and song, certainly very promising but I think you need to rethink the musical context to let us more easily find the song amid the out-of-focus chaos.

I'll be keeping an eye out to see what you do with this, because I think it's so promising but as yet not fulfilling that promise.

Full disclosure - while I do enjoy Johnny Marr's guitar playing from time to time, I loathe Morrissey.

So, all in all, pretty good. The bridge is a little out of control, but I'm not hearing the mix weirdness that TK is getting. I could see this being quite successful with an audience of huge Smiths/Britpop fans.

Maybe I'll try it again. It was extreme.

[back now from DLing it instead of letting FF play it in a window] Hmm... maybe I'm just getting old. Well, no question on that. But I've been hearing a lot of lo fi as well as a lot of low fidelity lately so it's not like I'm a stranger to muddied mixes and buckets of reverb.

I dunno... sounds pretty extreme to me. The back tracks are drenched and indistinct and the vocal seems much, much louder than anything else. It kind of reminds me of what happens when you mono something that someone has used a heavy-handed stereoizer on. Except I'm not monoing anything and I've been listening to other stuff that sounded as I would expect, so it wouldn't appear to be an issue on my end.

Interesting. Anyhow, sorry to go on about non-songwriting issues. But it did make it hard to really appreciate the music.

PS... I do have a soft spot for the Smiths (better Johnny Marr with Morrissey, even if he's singing about some dude's underpants than Johnny Marr with the blindingly banal Katrina and the Waves, if one were to ask me)... but I can't say that I hear either M-dude in this track.

eh i forgot to say these are just demos really recorded in garageband to a drum loop

i got my roommate to record the clarinet solo in the beginning

and there are supposed to be blasts of leads in between the vocals.... i like dueling my leads with my vocals

Yikes!!! LOOOOOVE that intro! The gypsy-style clarinet (I wouldn't have known it was a clarinet if Blue didn't mention it)

This song is WEIRD...is it really called Clownface? That freaks me out cause I have a (joke) fear of clowns. lol

good its supposed to be like nothing you've ever heard before

beatles/smiths/oasis type melodies combined with eddie van halen heroics and straight ahead smashing pumpkins guitar rock

tapping part at the end im really proud of