Hello Folks,
This song is incomplete - I'm waiting on solos for the intro and change but am struggling with too many options for the intro.
I had considered placing this in the sad song section but I need feedback on other aspects so it's here - sorry.
The song is "in the style of" or inspired by Magazine. As a result there're a lot of effects on the guitars etc. to give it an 80s feel.
BIAB built the drums, though I did some cuting n pasting for the intro, and a background Blues B3 Organ, (it was a stereo file but I rendered it to mono and threw a high pass filter across it) with the rest being a Squire Mustang HH guitar through various effects:
Mel 9 for strings/orchestra, ACTone for chime up the middle in the chorus, Yamaha FX500 for the phased/flanged/wooshing shoe gaze sounds drenched in delay/reverb excess and a Vantage bass - verses DI through a BDI21 while choruses are through a straight bass preset in FX500.
Sadly, I'm singing on this one as I was unable to find a volunteer who felt inclined to approximate Howard Devoto.
Any comments are most welcome and specifics regarding the appropriateness of the intro are particularly sort after.
Construction Paper Heart incomplete Lyrically this is typically, (for me & HD I think), misanthropic:
A construction paper globe,
Turning beneath a strobe.
From each construction paper heart,
I cut out a little part,
And I glue it to my own.
Which sits unused beside my phone,
As yet to take a single call,
See, I have no hope at all.
See, I have no hope at all.
In my construction paper world,
I make plans that aren't unfurled.
But each brightly coloured page,
Sublimates my mounting rage.
And I glue it to my own.
Which sits unused beside my phone,
Today I pinned them to the wall,
See, I have no hope at all.
See, I have no hope at all.
And I glue it to my own.
Which sits unused beside my phone,
Your number written in my scrawl,
See, I have no hope at all.
See, I have no hope at all.
Now I cut and fold and glue,
So I don't take it out on you