More Of You~ a REMIXED trip-hop experiment

I have a hunch this probably isn't most of your most listened to (or favorite) genre so there probably will be cobwebs on this post but i'm pigheaded anyway.
 
I've written a string of trip hoppy-chillout type songs that all require a female vocalists as the songs are from their perspective and the genre is not friendly to male vocalists in general....but i really like the vibe of it.
 
I've sent songs to a friend upstate and she's kindly giving an ear....hopefully she'll give a voice too.
 
Here is a loungy kinda love adventure called "More Of You"
 
it's just bass, drums, keys, vocals.
 
Thanks for the listen.   It means a lot.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=826274&songID=10949148
 
 
oh i almost forgot:  THis is my first attempt with X1 (Essential)....i don't really like it as it requires more steps and the screen is so crowded that i feel clausterphobic but it does have nice toys.
 

Rick, you know us better than that...it seems that no matter what you write, everyone will listen.  Well, anyone that's anyone anyway.  :) 

And funny thing, whatever you call this, it's one of my favorites of yours.  Wish I could sing.  Your wife went on strike, huh?  Good luck with your friend.

Drums sound a little dry to me.  Love all the effects and things flying in and out. And cool tune! :)  Great job once again! 

JB makes mention of the first word that came to my mind as I listened to the cool vibe: Rhodes... man, can I hear one padding behind this!  It's a great tune, and while the strained vocal kinda' adds to the nice quirkiness, I'd suggest try singing it an octave down and see what you think.  Love the tune though... gotta' be a good gal singer out there that will jump all over this.  BTW- Neat synth work too.

One Reason~  Thanks for the listen and good luck wish.  I'll need it.

Janet~ Yes, wife is on strike.  Is fed up with my other-than-her-addiction.  This genre of music is a lot like my martinis, both are on the dry side - especially the drums.
thanks for the listen and comments as always.

Ed~  Yeah, i cleaned up about 25 pops (due to too hot vocal tracks) but there are more.
I'll tweak those tonight.  Thanks for the listen and the notes on X1.  I'll try it out.  My big complaint is in any kind of editing (envelopes for instance) i've got to constantly go back and forth to change tools whereas before i never needed to do this.  I'll keep at it.

JC~  Nice to see you 'roun, sir.   Thanks for the listen and wry smile.

Jon~  Howdie Sir Bouy.  Portishead is a pioneer band IMO.  The whole genre to me, is like the best of the 60s pop, the most intimate of the small cool jazz groups, and the most disciplined (minimalist) of the electronic crowd.  I'm going in to do some de-hisssssing surgery tonight.  Thanks for popping in and sharing your ears.

Phil~  Yes a Rhodes is sweet but i have it as a major instrument in another trip hop tune (i'm too scared to let in public.)   Singing it lower would definately improve on the vocals except for the lyrical content which will make me sound extremely gay....hopefully i'll have it sung by the proper gender soon.  Thank you for coming by to listen!

Philip~ I'm glad you liked the vocals.  It's always my favorite part to do (male or female).
Thank you for listening and kind comments!

Janet


"Is fed up with my other-than-her-addiction." ....I totally understand...

...and , of course, you're both right.  It's not right.  ...but it was this 'addiction' that actually brought us together in the first place.  I have toned it down substantially in the last 6 months.  I'm getting better....and it only makes me love and understand my women folk more.

No, Rick, you didn't read that right.  I've got the same addiction as you, remember?  :)

Hello stillnotbanned.....you know, you could call your ficticious (like mine) band:
"Still Knot Band".  It might catch on. LOL.   funny you mentioned drum continuity because it's almost a drum machine it's so repetitive (oh, baby sooo retro). 
Thanks for the ears and comments.

Hi Manny..............You're perspective is refreshing and chock full of a writers glance.  My through-looking-glass journeys are mostly from keeping the lurking glass full (as emptying it is so fun).  After trying to write 'enlightened' or social commentary songs and being sooo bored with myself i've come to accept (at least for me) that there is nothing in the human experience more inexhaustable then the telling and retelling of love, broken love, imaginary love, twisted love, long ago love, up above love, gone south love.......Also....it's a private game i play to try and not rhyme alone with phone...now i'll try bone...LOL.
sorry to ramble...I sit in a cubicle and look at spreadsheets all day.
Thank you so much for your friendly ears!!!

Right, so last time we had Mrs NoHow sounding like Mr NoHow and it seems this time we have Mr NoHow trying to sound more like Mrs Nohow ;) Or is that just me ?

I like the feel of it for sure, but not my favourite of your vocals if I'm to be honest, which I always try to be. Only listening on lappy, but something is making the sound distort quite a lot when I turn the volume up.  Some tunes seem to do this and I don't know why that is - it's prolly the crappy speakers but I've listened to a few tonight and this is the only one that's doing it, so I'm guessing there's maybe some frequencies in yours that it doesn't like ? Sorry that's not very helpful really, but maybe someone who knows what they're talking about will chime in.

I've heard many fantastic songs from you over the years Rick. Unfortunately, this didn't do it for me. I can't put my finger on why, i think maybe there was too much going on at some points that i didn't know which part to concentrate on?

Some nice elements in there though.

Mark.

Hi Rick,

Very cool. I'm listening on the worst speakers in the world so it's a little difficult to hear the chords/harmony behind the lead vocal, though.

This will be really nice if/when you add the female vox.

There is a sorta 'plinking' sounding instrument/synth in there that I like a lot. Very nice.

Hey, Rick,

How are you, buddy? Doing great, I hope!

This is a bit different than your usual stuff, but it was still very cool, and had your trademark "classy" Reckless Gents stamp on it.

The songwriting was cool and quirky, the vocals were outstanding as usual, and the instrument performances and mix were right on the money.  My only very minor nit, was that at some places I found the "clinky" keyboard hits a little abrupt and distracting from the rest of the song's smooth vibe.  Not really a showstopper, but it took my mind off of the actual core of the song in a couple of spots.  As always, that's just my personal opinion, and totally subjective.

Anyway, both the song and mix sound excellent, and I really enjoyed it, nice work, Rick!
Bob