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Anything wrong with these vocals

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carl-anton

Jan 16, 2000
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Aarhus, Denmark
www.yellowish.dk
#1
Hi guys.

I'm in a band called Yellowish. We're getting along pretty good here in Denmark. We just went straight to number one on a national [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] ('national' in Denmark ain't the same as in the US. It's a small country), and at the same time we're recieving the first reviews from garageband.com which ain't so good. It's the same song in both cases, and I'm wondering why there's such a difference in the reception of this song, and the male vocals in particular, which seems to be what people on garageband.com dislikes the most. Our male singer is sometimes a bit strained by bad monitor sound, nerves and what not playing live, but recorded I allways thinks he sounds good and performs strongly. There's allways room for improvement, but I thinks it's cool now. So, what do you think? Is the male vocals on this song really crap? Why? Is it the accent, the style (he sings with the back of his mouth, with a somewhat reserved pronouncation) or is it just coincidence that 5 out of 7 mentioned it?

You can listen to the song here:

Lisa Could Die For Elvis

Tell me what you think.


Thanks :)
 
#6
carl-anton said:
When you review songs on garageband.com you cannot see who wrote the song or what other reviews it got. So I'm affraid it's not 'bad influence' from the first reviews. Thanks anyway. How's the accent/pronounciation for an englishman?
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Does that mean I couldn't now contribute a further review for the track, having been influenced by the previous ones? Even if there's no way the later reviewers could have seen the earlier comments, there might be a general trend to comment on the vocals, which would have influenced the views expressed.

I've certainly heard a lot worse ;)

Wulf
 
#7
wulf said:
Does that mean I couldn't now contribute a further review for the track, having been influenced by the previous ones? Even if there's no way the later reviewers could have seen the earlier comments, there might be a general trend to comment on the vocals, which would have influenced the views expressed.

I've certainly heard a lot worse ;)

Wulf
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Well, I'm not too familiar with the site yet, but you do reviews to earn credits to upload your own songs so they can be reviewed. So you bassically log on, and click 'review mucis' and randomly chosen songs are presented to you. You can't choose which songs you'll review, and you can't do a review of a song you found and really like. You can list yourself as a fan of the band though. I think that's how it works. Cool site.
 
#8
Interesting - that would greatly reduce the chance of direct influence between reviews of one song, although it's still susceptible to the whims of fashion; perhaps more so if you have to write some kind of review to get credit for uploading your own songs.

I picked on one of the reviewers who wasn't happy with the male vocals and it looks like he writes something about vocals (generally not complimentary) in all of his reviews. Since they are only two or three sentences long, it suggests an area this person tends to focus on above others.

It doesn't look that easy to pull up all the reviews by a single person to get a sense of their style but, if you and your fans are happy with the sound then don't worry about it. Personally I wouldn't gush too much about the vocals but I certainly didn't feel that they detracted from the song - it's just not the kind of thing I normally choose to listen to (subjective opinion rather than objective judgement).

Wulf

ps. I like the bass playing on the track, especially the glissandos in the verses
 
#9
I'm worried because I sometimes think our male singer underperforms, and some of my friends and audienceses thinks so too. But his vocals is very susceptible to bad monitor sound (so are the girls) and especially eq (tends to get lost, and sounds uninteresting). His detached style doesn't help on this. It also struck me that maybe most americans are put off buy the style. Morrisey was never big in the US I think (?)

Thanks for your compliments :) It's a fun song to play.
 
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wulf said:
I've been intrigued enough by the garageband.com website to sign up and get involved. One thing I notice is that when you do a review, there's a note down the side saying "This band has asked for comments on..." followed by three areas. You didn't include "vocals" as one of those three areas did you (out of interest, what did you put)?

Wulf
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No, we didn't include anything. We're just wanted to hear what struck people the most, and didn't want to highlight anything more than the other.

Good luck there. Let me hear how it went (though it'll take some time to get through doing 30 reviews ;) )
 
#14
I heard some great tracks already so the reviewing isn't too painful. Anyway, I'm not sure if any of the recordings I've got with the 'Teeth are yet ready for that kind of exposure (although the songs and and arrangements are, IMO, pretty strong, we haven't quite captured that in a great sounding recording) and although the 'Jones have now got some excellent demo material (available on the website) it's all cover versions and thus doesn't qualify.

Therefore, if it takes me a couple of months to build some uploading credit, that doesn't really hurt in the big scheme of things.

Wulf
 
#18
I find nothing particularily wrong with the whole song. The solo is pretty cool. The guy has a pretty generic/ slightly goofy tone, but it's not a very big turn off, if any.

I felt the first "section" of the songs drags a bit, but the female vox do the whole song good. Cool bassline too.

Definitely a good pop song with a slight original twist.
 

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