My Tourette's Queen - produced by Greg Sphinctor

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This is my lame-ass attempt at sounding Spector-ish without having an ounce of his skill or equipment. I have his batshit looniness down cold though, so that was a start. It started out as a joke, and just kind of grew. I used natural room sounds for everything I could, except for the strings. That shit is MIDI. I played it on a keyboard though. No drawing in notes or anything. The drums were quintruple (is that a word?) tracked in my front entryway with mics hanging down from upstairs. 5 unique drum tracks. 10 guitar tracks. 2 bass tracks. About 20 vocal tracks. Handclaps, shakers, tambos, castanets, everything. About 80 tracks in all. Anyway, here ya go......

My Tourette's Queen


and......in MONO!


Enjoy, if you can. :)

Greg


I met a girl at the free clinic
She knocked me out with her nervous ticks
It might have been a twitch but I swear she winked her eye
Then I heard her speak and I had to be her guy
Like a choir of angels shouting profanity
They wanna give her a lobotomy
Lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy

She's my tourettes queen, She aint being mean
She can't help it, That she's so obscene
She'll call you a bitch, Or maybe worse
It's not her fault, All she does is curse
She's my tourettes queen

She's got such a beautiful smile
But everything that comes out is vile
I can't bring her home to mom
Because she's always dropping F-bombs
She doesn't even want to have sex
Because she's got a broken cerebral cortex
There's no sex with a broken cerebral cortex

She's my tourettes queen, She aint being mean
She can't help it, That she's so obscene
She'll call you a dick, Or maybe worse
It's not her fault, All she does is curse

Alright, that girl is impossible to know
That girl is impossible to control
Control, control, control.

She's my tourettes queen, She aint being mean
She can't help it, That she's so obscene
She'll call you a c.unt - fucking c.unt, fucking c.unt
Or maybe worse - shit, piss, fucking c.unt
It's not her fault, All she does is curse
She's my tourettes queen
 
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Aside from the lyrics, this is a cross between Phil Spector and Jeff Lynn, except funnier.
 
I like it! You are truly a unique dood. I like you. Not in the gay way tho.....
 
I think it sounds pretty stupidly awesome....i think its pulled off that wall of sound shit...the one on the album your chick digs, the one that charts, the one us guys hate (I think i said that before)

mustve been a nightmare to to mix....the midi gives a taste of what real strings would sound like, I wonder how much it is to hire a texan orchestra :)

my favourite part is the backing coming up to the choruses...classic


get it in the competition and out of the clinic...everyone should hear how stupid you are bud, lol


btw "She knocked me out with her nervous ticks"


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I laughed, I cried, I kissed 3 minutes goodbye! The backup singers (you) were hilarious, you should called "Greg L and the Tourettes". ......crickets..... :o
Anyway, for being so funny, it was seriously good. I'm not sure what quintuple tracked drums are or are supposed to sound like; perhaps I don't know my 'Spector' well enough. :confused: They sounded great as usual, so maybe you can enlighten me...are there really 5 complete drum tracks stacked on top of each other?

:drunk::D
 
Richard King said:
Aside from the lyrics, this is a cross between Phil Spector and Jeff Lynn, except funnier.
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jimmys69 said:
I like it! You are truly a unique dood. I like you. Not in the gay way tho.....
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Thanks guys. :D

kcearl said:
I think it sounds pretty stupidly awesome....i think its pulled off that wall of sound shit...the one on the album your chick digs, the one that charts, the one us guys hate (I think i said that before)

mustve been a nightmare to to mix....the midi gives a taste of what real strings would sound like, I wonder how much it is to hire a texan orchestra :)

my favourite part is the backing coming up to the choruses...classic


get it in the competition and out of the clinic...everyone should hear how stupid you are bud, lol


btw "She knocked me out with her nervous ticks"


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Lol. Thanks. It wasn't too hard to mix because I didn't spend much time worrying about EQ or seperation. I wanted it to sound like a mash of crap in a blender, and it kind of does! :D

I'm not putting it in that gay contest.

maximusbs said:
I laughed, I cried, I kissed 3 minutes goodbye! The backup singers (you) were hilarious, you should called "Greg L and the Tourettes". ......crickets..... :o
Anyway, for being so funny, it was seriously good. I'm not sure what quintuple tracked drums are or are supposed to sound like; perhaps I don't know my 'Spector' well enough. :confused: They sounded great as usual, so maybe you can enlighten me...are there really 5 complete drum tracks stacked on top of each other?

:drunk::D
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Thanks dude. Yup, 5 drum tracks. Played and recorded 5 times. Stacked on top of eachother. I only used cymbals on one of them though. The first drum tracks were recorded my usual way with overheads and close mics. The other 4 are just kick, snare, and toms with room mics. 5 tracks of cymbals would be too messy.
 
l,o and l.


Fuck. Man it sounds good. for that much shit going on.


You've heard all my comments before.


Lyrics are great too.
 
There's the castanets!!!!!! And harmonies!!!!

This sounds perfect for what you were trying to do. Sounds "vintage".

Very cool that you did something outside of your comfort zone...or maybe you were totally comfortable with it. Who knows? Either way, it sounds effortless.

I really like it.

Besides all that, it's just a great tune.
 
Greg_L said:
The only reason to enter is to win, and I can't win with the membership voting, so fuck that dumb shit. :D
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its your choice obviously dude...i just more folks should hear your stuff

and i think you'd be surprised at the response you'd get despite your "virtual" persona...youve helped way more than youve made gay love too...I mean abused :D

but your choice of course...and still a great tune G
 
"now sponsored by Anheuser Busch, Amp'd and Taco Bell" I've been away too long Keith; I just noticed! It used to be King Kobra, crack cocaine, and Joe's Crab Shack! You're movin' on up! :D
 
RAMI said:
There's the castanets!!!!!! And harmonies!!!!

This sounds perfect for what you were trying to do. Sounds "vintage".

Very cool that you did something outside of your comfort zone...or maybe you were totally comfortable with it. Who knows? Either way, it sounds effortless.

I really like it.

Besides all that, it's just a great tune.
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Thanks a lot Rami. It is outside of my comfort zone, but really, it wasn't that bad. It really was kind of fun. It just grew and grew. I just rolled with it and let it go wherever it wanted to go. I wasn't burdened with stuff like getting the snare just right because there's 5 of them. Lol. :D

kcearl said:
its your choice obviously dude...i just more folks should hear your stuff

and i think you'd be surprised at the response you'd get despite your "virtual" persona...youve helped way more than youve made gay love too...I mean abused :D

but your choice of course...and still a great tune G
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Maybe. I don't really care. I've got till the end of the day to submit it. Maybe I will.
 
Goes without saying that this is pretty far and away from your usual offering. That said, I really enjoyed it. Mash of sound, indeed.

Gotta mention the vocals, though... To me, these were by far your best vocals - ever. They sounded on pitch, and effortless. Yup. Good stuff.

Thanks for sharing, Greg!
 
PoeticIntensity said:
Goes without saying that this is pretty far and away from your usual offering. That said, I really enjoyed it. Mash of sound, indeed.

Gotta mention the vocals, though... To me, these were by far your best vocals - ever. They sounded on pitch, and effortless. Yup. Good stuff.

Thanks for sharing, Greg!
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Thanks a lot man. I lucked out with the vocals. I recorded the music without giving any thought to the key it was in. It just happened to be a key that I could actually somewhat sing in without having to shout. :o
 
Great work Greg L - definitely some Spector era Ramones on here. Hearing backing singers cooing 'fucking ****, fucking ****' is definitely a first :D
 
Cool Greg - great song - big sound - Phil would be envious. Love the lyrics :D Great mixing of so many tracks. Did you group tracks together to make it more manageable? Any mixing headaches you encountered with this many tracks? Would be good to learn from your experience.
 
Bubba po said:
PMSL, monstrous. :D :thumbup:
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robgreen said:
Great work Greg L - definitely some Spector era Ramones on here. Hearing backing singers cooing 'fucking ****, fucking ****' is definitely a first :D
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Thanks guys. The Spector produced Ramones album was one of my reference materials for this thing.

RAMI said:
You need this to be the video:

YouTube - Curb Your Enthusiasm Tourettes - Clip
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Lol. That was awesome. Tourettes is definitely my favorite mental malfunction. :D

ido1957 said:
Cool Greg - great song - big sound - Phil would be envious. Love the lyrics :D Great mixing of so many tracks. Did you group tracks together to make it more manageable? Any mixing headaches you encountered with this many tracks? Would be good to learn from your experience.
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Thanks Ido. No headaches really. This many tracks bogged down the old computer though, so I did use group tracks. Everything was recorded with several layers and everything got their own respective group. There was an acoustic group, electric gtr group, drum group, vocal group, strings group, percussion group, etc. The individual tracks got no processing. They stayed as they were recorded. The groups got a little EQ and some compression in some instances. The overall low end was the main problem area. This many tracks recorded in a boomy front entryway to a house had a lot of mud buildup. The kick sounded awesome in there though. Anyway, most of the instrumentation got high-passed in some form. I don't usually do that, but it needed it with this monstrosity. The drums and bass are the only items with an untouched bottom end. The handclaps and tambos, were tracked like 5-8 times each and got a lot of EQ work to make fit. The castanets were a bitch. Hard to play and hard to get sounding just right. The percussive knick-knacks all went into one group track. So yeah, a bunch of group tracks. It made it much easier to deal with. Maybe like 10 faders to move around for the final mixing.
 
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