She Threw Out the Baby

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Great, reminds me of Pete Townsend "Empty Glass". Chords and melody are very Townsend too, suspensions waiting for the resolve. Little Talking Heads sound too. Real nice recording, (you could add a touch more sub on the bass). Really enjoyed this one! Catchy melody, nice vox. Simplicity at its best. Overall great job.
 
The chorus is quite Townsend solo style.
What a sad story!!
Good stuff mate.
 
It does have a Townsend quality, but sounds more American to me... and way to dry for the Who (hardly Rodger Daltry). I love the close proximity of everything. The most obvious improvement would be to work on the drums... and get everything sounding more like it's about to fall apart.
 
Yea, I'll go with the flow... Pete is lurking spectre like in the hinter ground. Please post the lyric. This tune has definitely got something. Gonna listen again. Needs more dynamic maybe, add a touch of over-driven electric g. maybe. Any chance of a g. solo?

You know, you really should put out a CD - you write consistently great songs! I would buy it for one for sure. Great refrain!

I like this tune very much - three plays - and downloaded.
 
Yep - it has that Townsend vibe to the vocal. I could use some more reverb - personal taste. Great stuff - love the lyrics !
 
PDP said:
Great, reminds me of Pete Townsend "Empty Glass". Chords and melody are very Townsend too, suspensions waiting for the resolve. Little Talking Heads sound too. Real nice recording, (you could add a touch more sub on the bass). Really enjoyed this one! Catchy melody, nice vox. Simplicity at its best. Overall great job.
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Hi PDP, when the music first started to come together I knew I'd heard something like this before, but being not a Pete Townsend listener I never made the connection. I will for sure be checking out "Empty Glass". Thanks for the spin and the kind words.
 
rayc said:
The chorus is quite Townsend solo style.
What a sad story!!
Good stuff mate.
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Hi Ray, thanks for the spin. It did not hit me until the song was complete that there is an element of sadness to this, one of my old friends made the same comment.
 
Tobe said:
It does have a Townsend quality, but sounds more American to me... and way to dry for the Who (hardly Rodger Daltry). I love the close proximity of everything. The most obvious improvement would be to work on the drums... and get everything sounding more like it's about to fall apart.
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Ha Tobe, I love it. I work my fingers to the bone to get this to be the tightest thing I have ever done and you say "get everything sounding more like it's about to fall apart". You should hear some of my usual stuff; talk about loose.
When you say "way to dry", do you mean not enough reverb? On the vocals or everything?
Yeah the drums. The first time I have ever used loops. Short of a real drummer, this is it for now.
Thanks for the spin and the intersting perspective.
 
K Road said:
Yea, I'll go with the flow... Pete is lurking spectre like in the hinter ground. Please post the lyric. This tune has definitely got something. Gonna listen again. Needs more dynamic maybe, add a touch of over-driven electric g. maybe. Any chance of a g. solo?

You know, you really should put out a CD - you write consistently great songs! I would buy it for one for sure. Great refrain!

I like this tune very much - three plays - and downloaded.
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Zup K? Thanks man, I am glad you enjoyed the tune. Well there is a bass solo during the dream sequence so that will have to do.
I guess I did squeeze it a bit at the last minute. Just before I posted I listened with the bass all the way up, it got a little too boomy for me so I dropped the low freq a bit. Then with the treble all the way up still a bit too dark so I cranked the overall treble bands and pushed the compression.
I never really know what to do.
The lyric:

Chorus
In a dark and distant future
A digger with her brush
Finds an un-fused frontal suture
The site falls into hush
With loving care and tenderness
She lifts the tiny skull
To marvel at the splendor
Says murder, we all heard her

V1
She threw the baby out with the bath water
Now he’s reclining in the mud
The brother kids are rollin round the parlor
Watching bugs and Elmer Fud.
The bugs are in the cushion
Black rain falls in the yard
The baby he’s a pushin’
Her blue pill - her dreamless card - she dreams on

V2
She woke up with a head ache
And smelled smoke from too baked cake
Blamed it on the washer
Then said for goodness sake
Hard rain drops on the metal
Drowned out the baby cries
She only wants to settle
And therefore the baby dies

Chorus

Bridge
He left her when she missed it
Come morning he was gone
That night she tossed and twisted
From the moon rise till the dawn
When the baby came she bought six
And turned the volume up
To drown out the sound of the clock ticks
Poured whiskey, dirty cup

Chorus/Verse mash up

(Dream sequence)

Chorus - reprise
In a dark and distant future
The digger with her brush
Finds an un-fused frontal suture
The site falls into hush
With loving care and tenderness
She lifts the tiny skull
To marvel at the splendor
Says murder, we all heard her
 
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ido1957 said:
Yep - it has that Townsend vibe to the vocal. I could use some more reverb - personal taste. Great stuff - love the lyrics !
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Hi ido1957. More reverb. Man that is an effect I find so hard to judge properly. I'm just a very dry kind of guy I guess.
Thanks for the spin. :)
 
It's Townshend, people. ;) :p

It does have a Townshend quality to it. Mostly, to me, because of the strained and pitchy vocals. The song is nice, but a little repetitive and sterile. It is very tight and tidy. A little more energy would be good.
 
I am glad someone mentioned the “strained and pitchy vocals”. I believe this is take 99.

And aren’t they way too loud?

More energy? That is in short supply these days.

Thanks for the spin Greg.
 
Manslick said:
Ha Tobe, I love it. I work my fingers to the bone to get this to be the tightest thing I have ever done and you say "get everything sounding more like it's about to fall apart". You should hear some of my usual stuff; talk about loose.
When you say "way to dry", do you mean not enough reverb? On the vocals or everything?
Yeah the drums. The first time I have ever used loops. Short of a real drummer, this is it for now.
Thanks for the spin and the intersting perspective.
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Hi Manslick, pay no attention to the "dry" comment... I like dry. I had deviated from Townsend to the Who... which made sense to me at the time after a few beers.

Tight is good... In my own experience with "being tight" at first made my sound a bit dead, but now I'm getting to the point (I hope) where I can express much better than just relying on a general sloppiness for energy/electricity. It's a 1 step back 2 steps forward thing in terms of adding energy and interest.
 
Not too shabby, Manslick. I don't listen to much music like this at all, but the mix seemed balanced to me. If anything, the bottom end needed to come up a bit, but for this song, I'm not even sure that'd be possible. Maybe raise the kick just a hair or two? Very interesting, if a bit dark, lyrics... Quite sad. Good mix, though.
 
PoeticIntensity said:
Not too shabby, Manslick. I don't listen to much music like this at all, but the mix seemed balanced to me. If anything, the bottom end needed to come up a bit, but for this song, I'm not even sure that'd be possible. Maybe raise the kick just a hair or two? Very interesting, if a bit dark, lyrics... Quite sad. Good mix, though.
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The bottom end is pretty much in the middle of my home stereo system. I don’t use cans so it may sound light if you do. I crank the bass all the way up on the home system then back it off in the mix. I think that is a safe approach since the alternative could lead to too much low end for those who just crank everything.
The kick? No problem.
Yeah these lyrics, a black joke – ha ha.

Thanks for the spin.
 
Good tune, very catchy.
Very nice recording, everything sounds in its place. Voice fits the tune like a glove.
Good work.
 
dewhitt said:
I really like this one...great writing, both music and lyrics. The hook is great, "In a dark and distant future..."...love that part. I don't have any mix nits, I think the mix is just right for the song and the style. Great work, thanks for sharing!

Best Regards,

Dave
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Hi dewhitt. You’re too kind.

My first draft was “In a far and distant future.”

That is much like star wars.
I pondered, and changed it to dark and distant.
Then I pondered some more and concluded that I must have heard that somewhere.
Google told me it’s a line from some video game. I don’t play video games so I left it.

Thanks for the spin.
 
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