Chacopoyan Love Beads

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david42 said:
I might've told you the songwriting is the strongest point of this MP3, and no-one seems to disagree. Since some can't understand the lyrics, here they are.


Lyrics:


Cloud people feathered by the air
Proud spirit find your bones down there
Somewhere
Long ages passed your ruins were found
Small dark ones tore your temples down
Macchu Picchu won't tell all it knows
She's something more than what she shows me

I wanna know most everything
Tell me Chacopoyan love beads sing

See the star that's brightest overhead?
You're at the top of the world (top of the world)
Where you'll be wed
From the mountaintop the trickling flow
Becomes the raging torrent far below you
River questing seeking finds the sea
Fire of love that can't be meant to be

I wanna show you most everything
Tell me Chacopoyan love beads sing

See the quipu taut from me and you
its knotted strings might tell you what to do
Says a people left us are no more
A clue left for you by your door
But if they call you will you hear
their parable's for those with ears

Haven't I shown you most everything?
Tell me Chacopoyan love beads sing

Come on now alpine evergreen
You're the one who makes Chacopoyan dreams

Golden Huascar! Last right Incan King!
Now know your chain binds everything
Sacrificial virgin so proud to be
Chosen to die to wed her deity
But one last moment life knows reprive
Love's not for vaulted treasures in Pizarro's deep



(You might say this is an argument I have with a girl in Wichita.)
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I deplore the lack of Axolotls. :mad:

And the misplaced apostrophe. :)
 
I hear a lot of potential in the song and the lyrics are really interesting (even reading along I had trouble following though the way that the vocals are processed).

The recording sounds really strange to me though. The drums sound very small and tinny, and while I generally like distorted vocals, these are a bit too much I think?

I would've commented sooner, but the $2k monitor thing was too intimidating. It's like when someone here says they want the "pros" opinions.

Anyway, I see you've gotten a lot of good feedback already and I think the song sounds like it's worth re-recording. I think cleaner, fuller sounds at the source combined with better timing will lead to a much easier mixing stage.
 
heatmiser said:
I hear a lot of potential in the song and the lyrics are really interesting (even reading along I had trouble following though the way that the vocals are processed).

The recording sounds really strange to me though. The drums sound very small and tinny, and while I generally like distorted vocals, these are a bit too much I think?

I would've commented sooner, but the $2k monitor thing was too intimidating. It's like when someone here says they want the "pros" opinions.

Anyway, I see you've gotten a lot of good feedback already and I think the song sounds like it's worth re-recording. I think cleaner, fuller sounds at the source combined with better timing will lead to a much easier mixing stage.
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OK, the 2k monitor thing I realize is a weighty faux pas. I apologize all around. In my defense I might ask that the issue be dropped or a review of my very first posts and thread be done as evidence of the major area of concern I had that I'm just not hearing it right. The board has a number of complaints I wasn't aware of and obviously need to be. Please see my first thread, or let's make up everyone over the issue?

I really didn't consider that anyone would be sore--I'm just wondering what it was like really flat, which I can't do.
 
I thought the song was pretty cool.

The vocal is so full of effects it wasn't intelligible to me. If that's what you wanted, you got it.

Timing, as people have said, is all over the place.

The piano and guitars are fighting each other. They're both bloody. Neither of them won. It gives the mix a messy sound.
 
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