Description : This song is about where I used to live (The shit end of town). I used a nice five piece section on the intro, three saxophones and two flutes, I love using percussion , it just helps to add that little extra rhythmical interest working with the drums. I placed an alto solo in the bridge between the vocal phrases just to help it lift. This tune just fell out a couple of weeks ago, when I started thinking back to where I used to live, I am so glad I don't live there anymore, it's just been voted worst place to live in Britain... I hope you enjoy it..
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This reminds me of a place I useta live back in the last few years of High school. Man, it was hell. Country parts of NC are kinda boring, but atleast we had the beach to kick it on during the summer (lived on the second row in from it). The nearest town was about 25 miles away (depending on if you went through base or used the civilian roads). And it evolved from one-horse-town. So yeah, it stunk (it was also the poorest county in NC, oddly enough).
So this song does a good job of taking me back there. I could picture sitting in one of those hole-in-the-wall bars just to the south of town on high way 17, with all of the regulars (good ole boys) off in their corners, and this comin on the jukebox. Sitting at the bar with an almost empty bottle of Corona in hand. Wishing like mad that I could be anywhere else, but there. Course, on the bright side, the chicks in that area were easy. So (shrugs)... Thanks (not so much) for taking me back. Haha, later on mate!
nice song structure and good woodwind section........most of your tracks have special live atmo like a one take recording or do you play every instrument step by step ?
p.s.thx for your comment on the "elephant"
There's quite a few "worst towns" in the UK - Luton, Hull and Reading are always near the top. I shudder to think what the shit end of a shit town looks like.
Stylistically the song reminds me of Graham Parker, but slower, or the melodic moments of John Cooper Clarke, without John Cooper Clarke. It's interesting to hear a conventional, classically-structured pop song on the internet. The chord progression in the chorus reminds me of "To Earth with Love" by Gay Dad (e.g. "just to walk away" vs "hills I cannot climb").
My first suggestion is that you cut the first twenty-three seconds, because they are the same as the next twenty-three seconds. Move the bridge somewhere earlier than 3:00, because it deserves to be heard. Aim to fade out by 3:33. The ending is a bit weak. Then again, I would probably smother everything in strings.
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So this song does a good job of taking me back there. I could picture sitting in one of those hole-in-the-wall bars just to the south of town on high way 17, with all of the regulars (good ole boys) off in their corners, and this comin on the jukebox. Sitting at the bar with an almost empty bottle of Corona in hand. Wishing like mad that I could be anywhere else, but there. Course, on the bright side, the chicks in that area were easy. So (shrugs)... Thanks (not so much) for taking me back. Haha, later on mate!
p.s.thx for your comment on the "elephant"
Stylistically the song reminds me of Graham Parker, but slower, or the melodic moments of John Cooper Clarke, without John Cooper Clarke. It's interesting to hear a conventional, classically-structured pop song on the internet. The chord progression in the chorus reminds me of "To Earth with Love" by Gay Dad (e.g. "just to walk away" vs "hills I cannot climb").
My first suggestion is that you cut the first twenty-three seconds, because they are the same as the next twenty-three seconds. Move the bridge somewhere earlier than 3:00, because it deserves to be heard. Aim to fade out by 3:33. The ending is a bit weak. Then again, I would probably smother everything in strings.