Do Something Challenge - Director's Cut Thread
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Did some work to my Season 1 Week 4 submission - it was the craziest mix I've done and I wanted to tweak it just a bit to make it sit more where I wanted it to.
I've remixed the drums -- making the snare more present, added some upper mid EQ to the guitars, decreased vocal levels, and had to do some massive finagling to get the intro drums to stick to what they were doing before. This was submitted sometime in February I think? So much had changed in the way I route things that I pulled this project up and didn't know WTF kind of sense to make from it.
I've remixed the drums -- making the snare more present, added some upper mid EQ to the guitars, decreased vocal levels, and had to do some massive finagling to get the intro drums to stick to what they were doing before. This was submitted sometime in February I think? So much had changed in the way I route things that I pulled this project up and didn't know WTF kind of sense to make from it.
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Bumping the Director's cut thread here with an update to the lyrics for my S2W3 "Do Something Challenge" entry "Lyricitis". Here is the post that inspired this song and here is the entry in the Challenge! Below are the updated lyrics. I will get a recorded version up here in the next few days ;~)) I will reiterate, I mean nobody any disrespect with this song, just thought it would be fun to take lyrics people hate and build a song with them!!!
Lyricitis - Copyright May 23, 2024 (updated May 28, 2024) - ANO Publishing, LLC - All Rights Reserved
<Verse 1>
Break the chains
Tear down the walls
Love is all you need
Pick me up when I fall
I get up at 7
Rush to work my back
Baby baby I feel pains train
Rolling down life's track
<Chorus>
And so the lyric police
In a fit of anger
Display their disapproval
Of the word arrangers
Tellin' you that
You should hate those strangers
Because they used the words
That trigger some fragile dangers
<Verse 2>
All I wanna say
Da doo doo doo
Do you hate that song
Am I a bit like you
Fire and desire
Burns the Fuzzy Ace
I wrote this song with many of
The words we hate
<Chorus>
And so the lyric police
In a fit of anger
Display their disapproval
Of the word arrangers
Tellin' you that
You gotta' hate those strangers
Because they used the words
That trigger some fragile dangers
<Bridge>
Rise my friend
Shun the haters
Falling into grace
Ain't gonna do no favors
Ashes float
To another world
But what about the swine
And the casting of the pearls
<Verse 3>
It could be worse
Please stop the rain
Sick and tired of hearing
Bout those gravy trains
Breakin' the law
As the levee breaks
Cuttin like a knife
Is what is is what's at stake
<Outro>
And so the lyric police
In a fit of anger
Display their disapproval
Of the word arrangers
Tellin' you that
You outa' hate those strangers
Because they used the words
That trigger some fragile dangers
Because they used the words
That trigger some fragile dangers
Please don't use the words
That trigger my fragile dangers
Don't know how to change a channel
So I'll instead voice my anger
<Verse 1>
Break the chains
Tear down the walls
Love is all you need
Pick me up when I fall
I get up at 7
Rush to work my back
Baby baby I feel pains train
Rolling down life's track
<Chorus>
And so the lyric police
In a fit of anger
Display their disapproval
Of the word arrangers
Tellin' you that
You should hate those strangers
Because they used the words
That trigger some fragile dangers
<Verse 2>
All I wanna say
Da doo doo doo
Do you hate that song
Am I a bit like you
Fire and desire
Burns the Fuzzy Ace
I wrote this song with many of
The words we hate
<Chorus>
And so the lyric police
In a fit of anger
Display their disapproval
Of the word arrangers
Tellin' you that
You gotta' hate those strangers
Because they used the words
That trigger some fragile dangers
<Bridge>
Rise my friend
Shun the haters
Falling into grace
Ain't gonna do no favors
Ashes float
To another world
But what about the swine
And the casting of the pearls
<Verse 3>
It could be worse
Please stop the rain
Sick and tired of hearing
Bout those gravy trains
Breakin' the law
As the levee breaks
Cuttin like a knife
Is what is is what's at stake
<Outro>
And so the lyric police
In a fit of anger
Display their disapproval
Of the word arrangers
Tellin' you that
You outa' hate those strangers
Because they used the words
That trigger some fragile dangers
Because they used the words
That trigger some fragile dangers
Please don't use the words
That trigger my fragile dangers
Don't know how to change a channel
So I'll instead voice my anger
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It is was it is. Right, @Stone ?
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That's in there! "Is what is is what's at stake", last line of verse 3!! I will modify it though to "Is what it is, is what's at stake"!!!
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I will try to work that in next time I record a version ;~)) Thanks for the whooping idea!
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I originally entered this song in the "Do Something Challenge" S7W2, but I am putting it here because I just did a pretty cool video for it (IMO) so check it out if you get a chance. It is also a new recording as of Oct 23, 2024 and it is a lot better than the recording I originally posted a few weeks back ;~))
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Here is another one that I had entered in the "Do Something Challenge". This is a much better take, plus it has a cool video to go along with it (IMO) ;~)) This is me covering David Bowie's "Queen Bitch" ;~)) The audio is me performing live in studio on Nov. 1, 2024 playing cajon, singing and playing guitar. No punch ins, no overdubs, no instruments added, no fancy studio effects or corrections, just the capture of a live performance in my studio on November 1, 2024! I know I have much better takes in me, but wanted to get a copy up here as the holiday season is more or less upon us and I will have less time to have fun with stuff like this ;~)) Enjoy~
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