A little something I wrote recently for Songfight -

Ring Them Bells

Excellent song human! Keep up the good work.

Awesome catchy song! Makes me think of a cross between the band 'The The' and They Might Be Giants.

Brian

fun, catchy, quirky... what's not to like?!! Love that ragtime vibe oddbod

Very, very nice. Thanks, oddbod.

Excellent!


Sounds like it should be in 'The Lost Boys'

perfect and mousse au chocolat

Nice one, Tim.

Off to check your tracks for the Oct. contest

Excellent and very catchy song. Not sure if this is a feedback thread as most posts are all positive responses, but do those vocals need a bit of compression? Or am I the room darkener here? Could be my crappy earphones.

i think, it's a matter of taste;
i suppose, you mean the chorus 'be -els', where the 's' is barely audible.

The thing is I liked the whole thing a LOT. Just.

To me the vocals were either

1. low in the mix or
2. needed a bit of compression

but they seemed a bit thin. I sometimes think singers often are too critical of their voices and in the mixing room (or on their lappys these days) pull out their (perceived) "bad bits" or mix themselves a bit low.

No I liked the stuff so much I've downloaded the Feb songs and, as someone who's trying to learn more about this stuff, will listen to the songs on my iPod while i ride around my city's beautiful river tomorrow.

with 'a matter of taste' i meant this fragile kind of singing, not the song as a whole. There's a lot of oddbod stuff in the monthly contest, btw.

Top stuff, unsurprisingly.

A slight post-chorus slump is the only thing I can scrounge up to complain about. It's a pre-chorus kind of chorus, feels like it's leading somewhere big, then whump, straight back into another verse. The kazoo choir is pretty good compensation though.

Do I hear Mrs Bod in the background there?

Thanks for all the comments peoples



You do indeed, I manage to coax her every now and then into singing something.

As for the compression thing, I'll have to have a re-listen. I always compress my lead vox but not always the harmonies so you may well have a point.

Loved it