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Very very good. Great vocal performance, excellent drum programming, intricate songwriting, especially the chorus. Only a very few mixing comments: I'd like to hear the bass a wee bit louder, just a touch. The hard-panned "arpeggio" guitars soud slightly too "up-front". Maybe bring them in...

Wow, thanks again to everyone who posted! SluiCe - thanks for the EQ tips - I'll try them out. Glad you liked the song. A different vibe from your latest! Which is excellent, by the way. I'll post in your thread when I'm done with this post. W.I.S.C. - thank you very much. I agree about...

Lyrics In case anyone's interested, here are the lyrics. They're almost entirely Alan Robertson's work, not mine. I think they're really cool - yearning for lost youth and all that. Cheers AB Chase Me Down the Street I'm going to get killed Sliding down the hill Well I should have known...

Wow, thanks all for replying so quickly. Macle - great to hear from you again. Glad you like the song. I agree about the hi-hat. I'm not sure what to do with it, though. I'll try a wee bit of taming EQ and maybe a bit of pseudo-analogue warmth. Vocal fluffs - yep, well spotted! I'll sort...

Hi all I've got a new song here: http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=1715&alid=-1 It's called "Chase Me Down The Street". I wrote it with two friends I used to be in a band with. I'd be very grateful for any and all comments on songwriting, arrangement, performance, recording...

JR#97 - thank you very much. AB

JMarcomb - thank you very much! Cheers AB

I didn't hear it before, but I went back and it's definitely there. Could be anything. I used to work somewhere the heating system sounded like that. Or it could be a sheep-powered generator that provides Erland with all his electricity - they're a bit behind the times up North, you know. ;)...

Sorry for being a smartass, chris. I couldn't resist. :) Cheers AB

Chris, I hate to do this to you after your recent guitar-sound-identification issues, but in this here thread: http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47177&highlight=digital Erland was proclaiming the virtues of his digital four track. I could be wrong, but I don't think...

guernica - thank you very much. It was fun to do stuff with someone else's tune - like taking a break from the real work of your own stuff! watyf - there's so many brilliant Scottish-isms. You should come over for a holiday some time. We've got about 500 words for being drunk. Kind of like...

eric - don't worry about the percussion track - I'm going to try it myself, with shaker. And maybe some tambourine too... bpoco - thank you for the comments. I'll try making the organ a bit "bigger". Sorry you didn't like the shaker - maybe I should make it a bit quieter, and put a bit more...

mixmkr - thanks very much. I was careful not to overwhelm the orginal - maybe too careful. I love Erland's voice, and I didn't want to spoil it. I know what you mean about Erland's stuff in general, but personally I love the stripped-back, bare bones sound. Such a good voice, and I think his...

B. Sabbath - thank you. I'd be very grateful for more detail if you could - I'm trying to learn as much as I can about recording and mixing, so any tips would be really useful. Erland's original was only a few cents flat (from A=440Hz) so it wasn't a huge pitch shift. Even so, the artifacts...

...and it's very very good. Your first one was cool, and the harmonies were excellent, but it didn't really grab me. This one does. I particularly like the harmonies near the end where you add in an extra vocal section on the left hand side - amazing. ...and then, of course, you had to...

Lt. Bob - thank you very much. I'd love to hear what you could do with this one. A wee bit of sax could be very cool. Erland - glad you thought my changes were OK. Seriously, if you're ever in the real capital ;) I'd love to do some music. Your voice is so good, and I love your writing, so...

Chris - thanks for posting this. It's good to get some feedback. By the way, you probably noticed that Erland has replied to the original thread. The man from Del Monte, he say "Yes"! (I hope you got that advert in North America, otherwise no-one will have any idea what I'm talking about...)...

Thanks wes. I'd be interested to know what you thought was weird - I've still got a huge amount of learning to do when it comes to mixing, so any tips would be gratefully received. I heard the song as a kind of "lost" REM number circa Automatic for the People. That's the sound I was going...

OK Erland, here is my attempt: http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=1715&alid=-1 I hope I haven't broken it! I tuned your version up to A=440 (to avoid having to retune my guitars). Then I rolled off the lows. I added bass guitar, egg shaker, tambourine, hard-panned acoustic...

Had to resurrect this one - I just found it in my Keepers folder and listened again. I absolutely love it, and wouldn't change a thing. Great stuff, Scott. AB