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Song Of The Month Club - October 2024
What is the Song of the Month Club?
It's a place where musicians come to give and receive feedback on their work. Anyone is welcome, whatever their level of ability.
The spirit of the club is to contribute: if you submit a song for others to comment on, you should also have the courtesy to listen to everyone else's contributions and give as much feedback as possible. Posting a track and not listening and commenting on others is not cool.
The purpose of feedback is to be honest. Essentially you should give your truthful impressions of the song, whether good or bad. Negative feedback, if done in the right spirit and with courtesy, can be the most useful and can help the artist to grow.
All submissions are welcome, don't hesitate if you want to contribute. We like all kinds of music and we are particularly fond of vocals (but of course we still love a great instrumental). If you are thinking of experimenting with vocals this is a good place to get started.
We ask that you only post one song per month in this thread - if you're lucky enough to be able to produce more, then please just submit your strongest material
And finally, iOS is not a requirement for posting here. If you've recorded your song using nothing but a ukulele and a Fostex 4 track, that's fine.
Comments
My entry for the month, lyrics in the spoiler:
Watch the clouds pass overhead
The air feels ripe for rain
You watch the leaves fall to the ground
So here you are again
Sweet September rain
You’re lost and sad again
And so, you know
The past is done so let it go
Time passes slow
And everything will flow
Shimmering wet streets are quiet
No-one can see your pain
But you are hurt you can’t deny it
As you stand here in the rain
Sweet September rain
You’re lost and sad again
And so, you know
The past is done so let it go
Time passes slow
And everything will flow
This sounds very 1990s indie jangly take on the Byrds! As always, really accomplished songwriting. I like the way the 'rain' note at the end of the chorus makes the chord less 'major'-ey soungin (You can tell I'm accomplished in music theory!). One day I'll find out about how to play those major chords, honest. (maybe not).
I love your guitar tone(s), the jangly guitars have just the right amount of jangle and the overdriven solo adds a nice contrast and stops it all sounding too sweet.
Catchy stuff as always. Really strong chorus.
But you should have uploaded this last month.
Lyrics:
CHANGE x 4
Give me all your spare change
Give him a career change
Now we need a sea change
Switch it up a gear change
Hold the front page
Put it up on centre stage
Now we need a sea change
Switch it up a gear change
CHANGE x 8
Last stop
All change
Keep them off the main stage
Landslide
New Page
Rip it up and
Start again
Now we need a sea change
Switch it up a gear change
Hold the front page
Put it up on centre stage
CHANGE x 5
Thanks for the detailed comment, it means a lot
And yes by rights I should have uploaded this in September, but you see I wrote it in September
Maybe I should have waited until next year to upload it 😅
The slinky lead synth is the highlight for me, but I also love the overall vibe with the pounding dark bass and the distorted computer vocal. It's very gritty and nasty sounding, but still engaging and catchy - the perfect blend of edginess and melody (and that for me is the holy grail).
From 2.24 till the end of the track I really loved what you did. I could listen to a whole track of that!
I felt a few NIN vibes with the drums at first, but the subtle lead sound took the track in a different direction. The increase in intensity at the end I enjoyed. Personally I would have liked something to change in the middle to split the track up more, but that’s more my preference in music and I could understand how a change (no pun intended) in flow could be off putting for some.
Very cool, I’m getting psychadelic furs off this for some reason and was getting teenage fanclub even before the everything flows line.
Like klownshed I love the (long time since I’ve studied theory so most likely wrong…) deceptive cadence at the end of the chorus. The ears expecting the perfect resolution and staying on the note plays with that.
Also love the mix of the guitars and wether by fx settings and/or eq, you’ve dialled back that solo so it contrast well but blends nicely. It feels like there’s commonality there. I’d like the last note to ring out just a smidge longer before it stops. Feels a little abrupt but then that could be SoundCloud. Very nice song. 👍
Thanks - I'm not sure if guitar solos are still a thing in contemporary music, but glad to hear some people still like them
Thanks, that's really nice detailed feedback that warms my heart. I think the deceptive cadence is a 7th, one semitone below the root, I wouldn't normally be brave enough to deliberately do that but I wrote the low harmony part first (which resolves on the 5th), and then the higher harmony part, so it's actually a happy accident.
I'll take a listen to the ending, I can probably stretch that final note out a little more. I abused the compression on the solo with two compressors in series, which might be what you're hearing with the blending of the guitar sounds, the transients on the lead guitar are squashed to oblivion.
I wouldn't have a clue to be honest about contemporary music trends. I still have heart that the latest Cure album sounds like it's going to be the same great stuff they made decades earlier. I do wonder what Zappa would be making if he was still alive lol.
As mentioned your track sounds to have some nineties influences, but maybe some seventies too?
Mostly 90s in my case
And yes I'm excited about the upcoming Cure album. Alone is awesome, even with that insanely long intro 😅
Has it ended yet? I pressed play a couple of days ago… waiting for the first verse
😅
Thank you for that :-) I love it being described as gritty and nasty!
I thought it also sounded a bit sleazy maybe? :-)
Thanks for the feedback.
I know what you mean about a change in the middle. I usually do that — many of my tracks have exactly that kind of middle ‘8’ but I felt this one needed the relentless simplicity of the drums and offbeat bass. I may make an extended 12” remix version one day, and that might just need such a section.
12” remixes are fun. And incredibly self-indulgent. Which given then context of being a bedroom producer is more than acceptable :-)
Yes very acceptable!
This one is a blast from the past (roughly 30-years ago).
I improvised the music using two synthesizers: a Yamaha EX5 and a Korg Triton Pro. I also used a Lexicon PCM 80 to give the track more depth. Remastered it in 2018 and added the visuals in 2020.
It's titled Near the Taj Mahal.
I abused the compression on the solo with two compressors in series, which might be what you're hearing with the blending of the guitar sounds, the transients on the lead guitar are squashed to oblivion.
Ah, nice tip!
Great Work!!!
Must be my advanced age, but for me it’s more late 60s than 90s (by the end of that decade I had four kids under the age of 8 and didn’t notice any music to speak of!)
This is a really great song, and let’s get this out there - for me, your best vocals to date. Really well sung! I didn’t get any of the 5ths or 7ths or cadences or major or minor stuff others have picked up on, I just enjoyed the listen.
I always love a guitar solo and it’s a lovely way to end a song. I’d have personally dialled back the reverb a tad, but I know that’s what you were going for and it really is personal taste. Some unexpected notes in there which are most welcome and keep up the interest until the final bar. Very well crafted.
Woooaahhh! Downright scary stuff! Clever discordant vibes at their very best…it’s all so angry! Very well put together. It would be good to read the lyrics too - although I suspect it’s not a delicate love song.
Thanks for the feedback! I've added the lyrics to my post above in the spoiler, as is now traditional around here :-)
No, no delicate love song. And it won't be winning any Ivor Novellos either :-)
Thanks
There is a definite 60s influence with the two-part harmony, but a lot of 90s guitar bands (Teenage Fanclub for example) borrowed heavily from bands like the Byrds, so the 60s sound is filtered through those influences as well.
I mean I like and listen to a lot of stuff from the 60s, as well as the 90s, but I think my sound is more heavily influenced from those 90s guitar bands. The guitar tone in particular is directly lifted from Galaxie 500, an 80s/90s band not many people have heard of
This is one I posted separately last month. Think it’s the first song I’ve ever written with this sort of beat / rhythm, which was good fun.
In the shadow of a war-torn dawn, he journeyed west to carry on
From fields of Poland, skies of grey, to the island’s shore a world away
A fighter pilot in the night, wings of freedom for the fight
But when the battles came to cease, he failed to find his inner peace
Oh Stan you wandered far from home
A ghost among the streets you roamed
Those winter nights, a photograph, a memory
Of a man who lost his destiny
English rose with eyes of blue, a love he thought would see him through
But with her gone his world unwound, his luck had finally run aground
He made his bed in the station’s fold, a silent sentinel in the cold
No drink, no smoke, no words to say, his life had seemed to slip away
Oh Stan, you wandered far from home
A ghost among the streets you roamed
North London’s alleys Camden’s lights
A man who lost his will to fight
As your story starts to fade, there’s those who still know your name
Stan the Polish, the story goes, weaved into every cobblestone
Forgotten few but still remembered , in those hearts is how it ended
To fight, to love, to lose, to roam, until the day you find your home
You've been remarkably consistent musically over the decades! This differs from your more recent pieces in instrumentation rather than the slow, meditative and contemplative music we've come to expect.
And PCM80! Nice. I'd have loved one of those in 1994. I had a (very) cheap ART Multiverb preset box reverb back then and a BOSS SE-70 for reverbs.
Do you still have it? IIRC they were about £2k at the time (more than my Sampler, replete with 1MB RAM).
I like the contrast between the jauntiness of the tune and the sadness of the lyrics, and the story is very engaging and original. The guitar licks are great, and the whole production is extremely professional and polished.
If I was in the producer's chair I might have suggested doubling the vocals on the refrain, just to make it stand out more from the rest of the song, maybe even sing a harmony, it would also fit well with the folk-themed style.
The ambience and the sounds are very nicely crafted, and the production sounds great, especially considering it was recorded 30 years ago. I love the way the track slowly evolves, it's hauntingly beautiful.
Another quintessential folk song, well written and performed. I like it and it's really cool story telling.
I think the beat is cool and the song and arrangement works well. I can also imagine a version where it's just you busking with the guitar, a foot stomp for a Bass Drum and a slap of the guitar body for snare. I think that's the beauty of these kind of folk songs and I'm a little envious you could actually do that live. An unplugged version of my song would be 4 minutes of silence. (Which, no joke, has been copyrighted so I couldn't even upload it to YouTube!).
Thanks! A lot of my recent output has been getting back to basics, stripped down productions. Maybe it’s a reaction to the ever advancing creep of AI assisted music tools. I mean, I experimented with logic’s new session players for example, they sound great and it was good fun. But (A) I can’t compete with AI in terms of musical dexterity and (B), the more I employ these tools, the less personal satisfaction I get from making music.
My thing has always been songwriting and production rather than having any illusions of being an accomplished musician, so when I play real instruments there’ll always be faults but at least it’s fairly honest. Same goes for singing - can’t remember the last time I used Melodyne, whereas a few years back I couldn’t bear to ‘release’ anything without it being pretty high pitch perfect. It’s taken a long time for the penny to drop, but I just prefer it this way!