Cast your votes! November 23, 2009
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Michael and I have posted 6 original songs so far, and we’re curious which one you like best… You can hear them all in one giant list at our Song List page.
So, cast your vote and let us know what you like best!
I Fell in Love Today November 21, 2009
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False alarm! Neither Mark nor I actually fell today.
However, we did write this song. We hope you enjoy it!
Right-click here and choose “Save” to download:I Fell in Love Today
Don’t Say It November 14, 2009
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Don’t Say It is a song that Michael and I wrote about a month ago when Michael drove down for a few days of intensive songwriting. This is recorded with a full band arrangement in a bit more of a “pop” style than some of the previous recordings posted on this site, so we hope you like it.
In other news, I spent a large part of the day at a music store keeping a friend company while he shopped for amps. He ended up buying a 70-pound behemoth of an amp, a Mesa Boogie Rect-O-Verb 50, which sounded pretty awesome, especially for the more heavy songs he plays. Maybe Michael and I will have to write a metal song at some point =)
Last thing I’ll mention is that this blog reached and surpassed 500 views last week, and we’d like to thank everyone for actually visiting the blog and listening to our music. Pretty soon we’ll be posting some polls and things like that to try to get more feedback about which songs have the most potential or need the most work, so hopefully all of you regular readers will participate in those.
So, without further ado, here’s the new song…
Right-click here and choose “Save” to download: Don’t Say It
A Good Critique Of Broken Up… November 10, 2009
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In addition to publishing our songs on this blog, I’ve also been trying to post links to our songs to various songwriting sites and forums in the hopes of getting unbiased reviews and publicizing our songs in general.
One nice songwriting community can be found at http://forums.songstuff.com/. I posted a link to Broken Up there a few days in this forum topic.
And there, Michael and I received our best review to date from Tom Hoffman (http://www.tune-smith.com). It’s not really a rave review of the song, but it is our best review in the sense that it was a well-balanced commentary that offered very specific feedback. And so I’m sharing it here (with Tom’s permission).
Nice job….I actually thought the song was pretty cool! You really didn’t give much guidance about what aspects of this you’d like critiqued, so I’ll just give some random thoughts….
– as a general rule, it’s really helpful to the reviewers if you post the lyrics up with the song link
– It really didn’t seem like the imagery presented by the first 2 lines of lyrics were a good fit for the musical feel of the song. Birds & plants brought things to mind for me that didn’t set me up very well for where you took the rest of the song. Those 2 lines come off a little weak, a little too popish and they are the first 2 things sung to the listener…..you know what they say about 1rst impressions
– I’m not sure how well the non-ryhme at the end of the last line of that verse worked….it sounded a little akward. If you decide to rewrite thoses first lines, it might be good to give some thought to meshing them somehow better with the final one.
– I thought the song was a cool mixing of styles. The verses come off kind of grungy-pop & the choruses reggae….I thought keeping the bridge reggae was a good choice, loved the harmony lead sections….very nicely done. This player format doesn’t give the listener a way to fast forward or rewind, so I’m not possitive, but I thought you changed the format of the 3rd verse to reggae also? If I’m remembering right, I thought that worked well also. Up to the point of that first lead, that verse-to-chorus format shifts twice on the listener….after that lead I liked the style maintaining a more consistant feel throught to the end….another good choice!
Overall I thought it was interesting & well done…..nice job guys! Welcome to the site!
I Know November 7, 2009
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I Know is a song that Michael and I started in our senior year of college. I can remember sitting outside of Young Orchard Apartments at Brown with a couple of guitars composing it.
The idea behind the song is pretty clear when you start listening to it — knowing someone well enough that you know all of their secrets and having the trust that you won’t divulge them to anyone else.
We’ve recorded various studio and live versions of I Know over the years. This most recent version features Michael’s piano skills and gives a different feel to the song — a bit more reflective than our previous guitar/rock versions.
As always, we’re experimenting with different recording techniques, so if you like something about this better or worse than Broken Up, please let us know — we’re happy to hear the feedback.
Right-click here and choose “Save” to download: I Know
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