What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

wrote this song, http://soundcloud.com/a-guy-called-fieri/thawingoutmp3 , to purposely rip off the lilys but it sounds more like the lucksmiths. I also wrote a vocal melody that mimics the guitar melody. I probably shouldn't have done that.

don't know the lilys, not a huge jangle fan but i bought this lucksmiths used CD once and it really hit a nerve w/me

every lilys album sounds different. eccsame is probably the only one where they sound shoegaze, I think. I like the fingerpicking songs above, ilxors!

thx :)

Those songs are kinda decent if basic. The melodies are impressively direct and hooky for a high school band. The vocalist (dunno if that is you, Sufjan Grafton, or some other guy) is really great. Gets the words out good, no straining.

Thanks, Eyeball Kicks. We all sang. The smoother vocalist is Mark. If you want to pinpoint more clearly what a combination of Sufjan Stevens and Sue Grafton sounds like, you need not look further than "Mannequin Awakes" (http://soundcloud.com/a-guy-called-fieri/mannequinawakesmp3). It confirms that I was one sad, sappy asshole in high school. I also pronounce words in the song like Jesse Pinkman of Breaking Bad.

sh@kedown, you ever try open D tuning? (Just change the G to F#). Also, do you build songs by ear and messing around with finger patterns? Or do you know the chords for tunings other than standard? I'm curious about your process.

Merdeyeux, that drone song is awesome. I kind of like the weird, if low production value, recording.

sh@kedown, you ever try open D tuning? (Just change the G to F#). Also, do you build songs by ear and messing around with finger patterns? Or do you know the chords for tunings other than standard? I'm curious about your process.

― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:27 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep i was doing a lot of stuff in open D before, there's a couple upthread in open d...now i've been doing more D modal just because i'm reading this book about UK folk and bert jansch and davey graham and them used it a lot and i like the spooky "not quite minor not quite major" feel of it

as far as non-standard tunings go, i'm totally in the dark, i just put my fingers in places until it sounds good and figure out picking patterns and build out from that....

i also mess w/open C a bit, which is what fahey and the takoma guys used a lot, really cool, but the lowest string is the C below drop D so it can get pretty floppy and my one guitar (the worse one) can't really handle it without buzzing

Hey Sufjan, in that Mannequin Awakes song the acoustic guitar is kinda like the way I play acoustic guitar - it needs a ton of EQ to stop the beer being shook off the table. But again, a lovely, lovely voice. Wish I could make it sound as easy as that.

haha. I do love to play like that, like Neil Young plays in sections of 'On The Way Home' on Massey Hall. Thanks again for listening and for the comments. Maybe you and I can have a crossroads-esque guitar battle someday where we just play chords REALLY HARD on acoustic guitars.

sh@kedown, I have not messed with open C. I was recently given a Fahey record that I'm obsessed with, though. I may have to try it out. I was obsessed with open D for a while. I think our fingerpicked songwriting processes are similar. It really is a lot of fun. I think the reason I stay away from 'DADGAD' is that people pronounce it like a word instead of saying 'modal D'. I grew up with a lot of Dan Aykroyd sound-alikes who talked about how 'mark kozelek plays in DADGAD' every time I wanted to jam.

If you like fahey check out open c, everything you play will sound kinda like fahey

We did a remix of Boban Petrovic's Daj Mi Sansu you can hear it here: http://soundcloud.com/archaeli/daj-mi-sansu-dub

i posted this a while back, a song i wrote and then recorded with a drony ebow arrangement: http://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1/burning-life
before i hit on that arrangement i had played around with a bunch of other arrangements. i was playing music with my wife and our friend ben and i sprung the song on them and we recorded it on 4-track. then when i mixed it down it turned out the 4-track had crapped out in the middle of the song. so i tried to fill in the gaps with parts i recorded at home. i liked the way it turned out, i dig the patchwork sound, but ben and sarah weren't happy with their performances (they really only had a few minutes to learn it) so i didn't put it online ... UNTIL NOW
http://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1/burning-life-band-version

It sounds kind of like a quieter yo la tengo song combined with with a noisier one. Perhaps "our way to fall" + "sugarcube" solo. I like it! (I apologize if you don't like yo la tengo. Don't read too much into my lazy comparisons).

i like yo la tengo and am an old man indie rocker at heart so that's cool

this is what we look and sound like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjTtypYUCs0

Hello IMM. I'm not really a musician, not like most of you, so this is a bit unnerving for me but I'd like some feedback on the thing I wrote today. I can't play guitar *at all*, but I did this regardless. The plan is this'll be re-recorded with someone who can play guitar and get it mixed properly obviously haha.

http://soundcloud.com/neverembers/stone-guitar-v-2

Those terrible drums are just placeholders, gotta make that clear

That sounds great Trayce, I'm sure I spent my teens listening to you

Gosh thats quite the compliment, thank you.

I guess it's a bit double-edged, I'm not that nice!

Ha!

Good stuff, Trayce. Even the "drums"!

love it!!

what do my wife and I sound like at a wedding where the couple requested people sing instead of clink glasses in order to make them kiss? we sound like this:

http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/y2/r/5l8_EVv_jyW.swf?v=10101687269729743&ev=0

jeez u guys are good singers!

This is my 11th track this year:

http://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/narcissist

hahahaha that is fantastic

good tune

haha. That belongs on '69 break up songs'. Would listen again.

http://soundcloud.com/scraped-face

I did a remix for a friend of mine. Half club banger, half club ballad:

https://soundcloud.com/reverenddollars/cheetah-finesse-want-2-know-u

Just jamming around - this is quite lulzy https://soundcloud.com/discozhivago/disco-alone-extended-version

^^ made after watching 30th Century Man btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXibhIQGD4M&feature=plcp

Our first ever gig: http://youtu.be/V-iQmzb06dA - not completely dreadful if I do say so myself. We do actually have songs after a testing build up.

Well done! Lose the Jamie Oliver guy and you could have a bright future.

LOL

Here's my holiday cover:

https://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/wonderful-christmastime

And with this, I've met my goal of releasing a song each month in 2012.

https://soundcloud.com/djperry1973/01-cooman-the-evening-choir

This is my church choir from our concert this past October; I'm the baritone soloist that comes in around 7:15

Follow djperry1973, Linkin Park, Al Jazeera and more on SoundCloud.

'Fun Police'
'Knob of Butter' (a comedy song about Erectile Dysfunction, so mildly NSFW)

https://soundcloud.com/discozhivago/noncanonus-tinnitus

A single take on hand drum put through multiple effects

did a remix for a friend who made a song with some Ghanaian mc's and singers, it's the closest i've come to making a straight rap production (without many of the elements that i've come to think of as 'my sound'):

https://soundcloud.com/chantssound/asumaya-judicious-bb-and

Steve your song reminds me heavily of TMBG and I hope that isnt an insult becaue it really isnt, it is a compliment!

(sorry I mean Narccisist)

OK so anyway again, Im not someone who indulges in this thread cos I'm not a practiscing muso like most of you but lately Ive had mates who are, helping me out with backing tracks.

Here's one my friend Aaron did earlier that I did vocals on tonight that I'm happy with the result of: I'm startng to get the hang of EQ I thnk.

https://soundcloud.com/neverembers/dreaming-take-1

ie: he sent me the track, I came up with the vox and recorded/mixed em.