Radiohead meets Coldplay

Posted on Mar 22, 2007 03:26 pm
opensky
Member Since: Jul 24, 2005

Please give any thoughts you may have on Supper's Ready (the dream is over). Thanks.

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thermocaster
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Since: Dec 13, 2004

Mar 22, 2007 10:20 pm

Man, that's some supremely dissonant stuff. I like it.

You might want to give the lead vocal a little more frequency to itself. When it drops in pitch during the chorus, it sorta gets lost among all the other stuff going on.

Also, I like both of those lead guitar lines that pop up in the beginning and at about the 2:40 mark, but again, they could use a little more EQ separation, I think...they meld a bit too much together.

Overall though, good job.

Loki
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Since: Apr 07, 2002

Mar 23, 2007 02:08 am

I love it man. Everything about it screams "Hey charlie, burn this to CD and show your friends".

Kaos62
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Since: Feb 03, 2005

Mar 23, 2007 02:28 am

Good stuff! I agree with thermocaster - also the distorted bass at around 1:40 could do with some more top end to it, it seems a little flat for the song. (i just live distorted bass listen to mclusky!)

fortymile
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Since: Jan 18, 2003

Mar 23, 2007 04:17 am

some seriously great parts in this song. i love the verse riff especially. but i'm not a coldplay fan (only a radiohead fan here, for specific reasons). so the chorus doesn't grab me.

main criticism: i wonder if the song perhaps flirts with too many discrete moods or ideas.

the gentle pulsing throbbing drums in verse two seem self-conscious, too great a departure from everything else. seems like maybe you wanted to add them just to add them, throw in another spice just to do it. contrast this 'light' section with the sort of more hardcore riffing at 1:40, and i guess i just don't get the shifts--the song doesn't seem to hang together in a unified way.

take this with a grain of salt please. i'm just in a critical mood! you're a great songwriter.

(the chorus sounds so very much like coldplay and keane. do you want to come *that* close? why?)

opensky
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Since: Jul 24, 2005

Mar 24, 2007 02:56 am

Thanks Thermocaster, Loki, Kaos62 and fortymile! Thanks for pointing out those weak areas. Those are some good suggestions about the guitars and the vocals. They kind of confirmed what I've been feeling all along. As far as flirting with too many discrete moods or ideas, that's certainly a possibility. I think my tastes are so varied to where i tend to become a little schizoid musically. Thanks again for the listen.

Noize2u
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Mar 25, 2007 04:11 pm

I do have to agree with some of the comments above indeed. Although I can also listen and feel the drama of the push and pull of the different movements you are creating in the song. I as well om not a huge coldplay fan either, but it is only a momentary burst so it doesn't hit me as hard. I do like the collision of some of the sounds that add to as you stated the musical schizoid feel of the piece. I must say I did enjoy it a good deal and would listen again.

Tadpui
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Mar 26, 2007 04:06 pm

Bravo!

I like everything about it. (I love Radiohead and like Coldplay so I was bound to like it from the get-go).

Great production. The lead vocals are a bit boxy sounding but that's the only possible criticism I could pull out of this listen. Terrific. Schizo is good, very Paranoid Android. I love multi-movement songs, this one included.

fortymile
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Since: Jan 18, 2003

Mar 27, 2007 12:40 am

schizo is good (or can be) but those very gentle drums in the one verse sound straight out of a completely different song. if there's just one thing i'd change, it's that.