Throw That Cat Away

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Flamingo!
Another long one. :)


I feel better about this one than the last.


 
I'm not sure the cat feels as well disposed.
Another Flaming Lipsish track - seems more real than them though.
The intro is interesting - suggest something entirely different and more likely to be a campfire cassette recording.
 
Thanks for listening! And thanks for introducing me to the Flaming Lips. I like what I'm hearing so far, especial Phoebe Battles the Pink Robots. :cool:

I'm not sure what I was going for with this song. Pretty sure I was a little :drunk: when I wrote it. It's been sitting in my computer for many months and I've only just now added a bit to it.
 
I like it. It's stuff like this that keeps me in this forum. The whole damn thing is so lo-fi that nits are out of the question. Nice work. I'm not sure about that twangy Indian sounding instrument that comes in at different places. It needs to be heard better. EQ could maybe achieve that.

Nice work.
 
Thanks dobro! That's one of the nicest compliments I've received here. :)
 
Yeah, I know this forum is all about mix comments, but actually one of the best mix comments you can get is 'I like it'.
 
Phoebe? That's funny.
That's their most popular album - really big in the UK.
Your song sounds less contrived than the Lips of today.
 
Sound of the mix sounded pretty honest. The verb really sounded like a room and not an effect.

Good work.
 
Make amends is a good message. I believe that's what I'm hearing. I really dig it.
 
When I write these songs, I just mumble words to fit the melody I have in my head. I start making more distinctive sounds, which turns into words and then don't really change it. All my songs are really melody emphasized; hence "throw that cat away" is the main verse of the song. It was pretty unusual that the chorus would have the cliche love and forgiveness message--but that's what I was hearing.

Thanks for listening!
 
I think (I wish Grim would show up, he is really good at pontificating) that a song takes on its own life. It becomes a spirit that will touch someone. For me, my songs tell me who they are, I just try and keep up.

For me, when I finish a song, it is almost like the first time to hear it. I am often amazed at what was created from thin air. I wish I could take credit for it.
 
yeah but who is the cat? You're not talking about an animal, you mean a person right?
edit - yeah dude, life is TOO SHORT. Making amends is so important, something I just happened to be going through in a way. I seemed to hear your song at just the right time. But life can be sad sometimes. Sometimes we don't get to make amends. We wish we could go back to Feb 2010 and start all over again. Pain can be so real, but these songs help....
 
MusicalSound said:
yeah but who is the cat? You're not talking about an animal, you mean a person right?
edit - yeah dude, life is TOO SHORT. Making amends is so important, something I just happened to be going through in a way. I seemed to hear your song at just the right time. But life can be sad sometimes. Sometimes we don't get to make amends. We wish we could go back to Feb 2010 and start all over again. Pain can be so real, but these songs help....
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That cat isn't a real person. I could totally make up some BS metaphor for what the cat represents, but it's just a string of words that I threw together when I was developing the melody. I wrote this when I was :drunk:
 
CrowsofFritz said:
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That cat isn't a real person. I could totally make up some BS metaphor for what the cat represents, but it's just a string of words that I threw together when I was developing the melody. I wrote this when I was :drunk:
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Dude, it is not what you think, it is about how people hear it. Come one man, be an artist ;) :drunk: Just to stay in the spirit.
 
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Dude, it is not what you think, it is about how people hear it. Come one man, be an artist ;) :drunk: Just to stay in the spirit.
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Well of course! There is a great playwright named Wole Soyinka, and one of his great plays is Death of the King's Horseman. In the play there is a very clear clashing between two cultures. Everyone can see this overt clash; even though nearly every reader perceives this clash, Soyinka keeps adamantly stating the the play is NOT one of Post-Colonialism (a literary theory involving multiple cultures).

Our response? "Yeah, whatever man." Soyinka can say that the play is not about Post-Colonialism all he wants, but in the end, it's the thoughts of the audience that matters most.

The same thing can apply to this song. But if you were to ask my thought process when writing my song (like Musical Sound did), I'll tell you that I had no intention to create a metaphor. That having been said, if one wants to say the cat represents a person or the cat represents angst towards that person, and we should throw that angst away and make amends, then that's a perfectly legitimate interpretation. It's just as legitimate as the author's, and it's certainly a more enthralling interpretation than mine. But even if one million people have that interpretation, it doesn't change my thought process when writing the song. It's still no less correct than my interpretation, but at the end of the day, I still just strung together some words while :drunk:
 
CrowsofFritz said:
Well of course! There is a great playwright named Wole Soyinka, and one of his great plays is Death of the King's Horseman. In the play there is a very clear clashing between two cultures. Everyone can see this overt clash; even though nearly every reader perceives this clash, Soyinka keeps adamantly stating the the play is NOT one of Post-Colonialism (a literary theory involving multiple cultures).

Our response? "Yeah, whatever man." Soyinka can say that the play is not about Post-Colonialism all he wants, but in the end, it's the thoughts of the audience that matters most.

The same thing can apply to this song. But if you were to ask my thought process when writing my song (like Musical Sound did), I'll tell you that I had no intention to create a metaphor. That having been said, if one wants to say the cat represents a person or the cat represents angst towards that person, and we should throw that angst away and make amends, then that's a perfectly legitimate interpretation. It's just as legitimate as the author's, and it's certainly a more enthralling interpretation than mine. But even if one million people have that interpretation, it doesn't change my thought process when writing the song. It's still no less correct than my interpretation, but at the end of the day, I still just strung together some words while :drunk:
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And therefore I say, cheers :drunk:

But we do have to let our children live their own lives.

By the way, did I say :drunk: cheers!
 
This is awesome. Sure the lyrics are whimsical. But it's got some of that Bon Iver kind of unintelligible falsetto that could be about anything and still sound engaging. What are you singing through? It sounds smooth, it suits your voice very well. It's a good psych-folk kind of vibe.

The hand claps get off track somewhere soon after they come in, but are back on track for the rest of the song. That nylon string is struggling with intonation, but it works here. I've got to learn to let that kind of thing go, it's actually charming here. Kind of a Devendra Banhart thing. 5:00 is a little long for this idea, I'd trim it down. I say that as I'm setting up to record 3 5+ minute songs over the coming weeks, so glass houses and all...

Honestly though, this is right up my alley. This screams independent musician, and I respect the hell outta that. Nice job.
 
Thanks Tadpui! Bon Iver is one of my favorites, and I was actually kind of going for that kind of sound here. That's a nice compliment. :)
 
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