Haha. I'm weirdly pleased with this criticism.
Also (not related to these reviews) I just woke up this morning with the BSS song looping in my head.
Haha. I'm weirdly pleased with this criticism.
It was my first impression, and it grew on me as I did my rankings. It's still not my cup of tea in terms of pace, but it's quality work. And if I mention it might be a keeper that's high praise because I normally only keep 0-2 songs from each round. But that song needed completely reworked in terms of lyrics.grumpymike wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 5:03 am“I’ll have to see how much I enjoy this after repeated listens”
Seems written as an initial impression. Maybe he’s the onlyjudgeperson in the world who gave it a second chance.
Fun listen as usual - my apologies for angering you both by having a spare 45 minutes to send in a shadow song, thus undermining the integrity of the competition! I used the downtime that I have acquired by not recording a weekly podcastbennyharv3 wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 4:30 amNew Ugly review of round 3 went up last night! http://podcast.songlander.com/?name=201 ... in14-3.mp3
Nothing, frank. I have clearly learned nothing.frankie big face wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 5:40 amSam, stop trying to apply logic to the judging. Have you learned nothing in your 150 years of competing in Nur Ein!?!?
Hey you guys. I appreciated all of your comments about my song, good and bad. They make sense and the criticism is reasonable. I do feel like maybe I've heard the complaint before that you're not sure exactly what the lyrics mean or what the song is about. As someone who has been traditionally quite literal in his lyrics, I've been trying to move away from that. I'm finding the lyrics I am really enjoying these days (Jeff Tweedy comes to mind) aren't always clear but express enough sentiment that a feeling is suggested while the meaning is obscured. Does that make sense? Again, I have no problem with the criticism, but since I'm trying to move away from literal writing, it's probably not going to get better.
Uh, you won. What are you defending exactly?ariskofrain wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 9:41 amcan i just defend myself: the "i missed out" is a sample, i did copy it straight across, pitch shifted two copies to form the harmony, promise!!
It makes sense. I don't think it's necessary to write a literal song for me to enjoy it -- it can paint a picture or evoke a feeling and I'm just as happy. I often get hung up trying to figure out what the songs are about when I don't otherwise have a lot to say about it, not because I think it's important for songs to clearly be about something or mean something.frankie big face wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 9:21 amI do feel like maybe I've heard the complaint before that you're not sure exactly what the lyrics mean or what the song is about. As someone who has been traditionally quite literal in his lyrics, I've been trying to move away from that. I'm finding the lyrics I am really enjoying these days (Jeff Tweedy comes to mind) aren't always clear but express enough sentiment that a feeling is suggested while the meaning is obscured. Does that make sense? Again, I have no problem with the criticism, but since I'm trying to move away from literal writing, it's probably not going to get better.
Also, could you introduce yourselves at the beginning to I know who the low voice is and who the high voice is?
I admit so far I have only skipped forward to listen to our bit so far, will listen to the rest soon... but I am DEEPLY disappointed that this link doesn't seem to be working so I can't listen to your rendition of "Enjoy the Silence." You should fix it! We want Depeche Mode!
Glad to hear it! Also, color me impressed with how good your tuning software sounds, is it Melodyne? Every time we do this there are pretty obvious artifacts, probably because we're using flex-pitch, our out-of-the-box DAW tuner.ariskofrain wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 9:41 amcan i just defend myself: the "i missed out" is a sample, i did copy it straight across, pitch shifted two copies to form the harmony, promise!!
I listened to this (finally). I enjoy your banter.bennyharv3 wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 4:30 amNew Ugly review of round 3 went up last night! http://podcast.songlander.com/?name=201 ... in14-3.mp3
I was wondering if anyone would do something like this, like using Bruce Springsteen singing "Cover Me" as "Color Me".Lunkhead wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 12:05 pmNow that the round is over, I can reveal that our sample of Neko Case singing "The shadow" is actually a mondegreen. Too late after I'd set down the path of using that sample did I realize the words "the shadow" made no sense in the context of the original line she was singing. So I looked up the lyrics for the song it's from and she's actually singing "the shuttle"! But I was hoping that through the power of suggestion and her loose pronunciation that we could pass it off as "the shadow". I'm curious if anybody noticed anything amiss there?
Thanks for tying us in!