I enjoyed listening to this the first time through, which I usually don't do. It's catchy, the lyrics are a cut above, it's damned honest, the vocals are well done / mixed, and it sounds like you really went for it, which drives the whole thing along really well. Give an inspired performance, no one will really care which Waves plugins you used!

More critically, I find that the backing instrumental is sometimes a bit of a soup of competing instruments -- I think we all know what BIAB can sound like when you first audition a new RealStyle, for example, with all the faders set the same -- in which nice individual instruments sort of drown.

For example, I could hear the electric guitar arrive, but couldn't really make out what it was trying to say until the very end.

I would suggest having some dynamic changes, not only by playing with the volume faders, but through the variety in the arrangement; let it on occasion, at least once, quiet down / thin out, so then when it returns later with the whole band going, it's a welcome reprise. Otherwise, even the best backing, if it is constantly "loud and proud," can be too much of a good thing.

I think the strummed RT which opens the track (one of my staple RTs, by the way) is often too loud, and sounds too bright on my pretty neutral mixing headphones. I would guess it might benefit by an EQ cut around 2.2 khz and / or maybe a reducing high shelf from around 10K?

The whole track also sounds a little bit too compressed to me, although that could be an artifact of the Soundcloud conversion.

Anyway, my 2 cents. I do fundamentally like the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tDj_VanH3g