Sounds cool! :D:D  There's more exploring of time ahead, I fear.  Time heals..no?

John,
 
Great song, performance and mix.   Your voice reminds me of Tommy Shaw:)   Very enjoyable listen.
 
Regards

 
 
 

jmasno5
Daniel, I listened at 3:30.  "had to go" is at 2:30 but I didn't hear anything but I could be wrong.  Possibly a SoundCloud glitch?
 

2:30 of course, typo..sorry ... but as Dan says, it's human and it doesn't hurt the performance. A bit nitpicking from my side I guess and as mentioned it can come across charming ...and it does actually ; )
I really, really like it!
 
Cheers,
Daniel

Well done!  The 2:30 glitch for tired old ears such as mine is barely noticeable.  In fact, IMHO, it adds a wee bit of emotion.  Your vocals are excellent and really sell the song.

I'm on my semi-decent headphones and the mix sounds very distinct. I'd maybe offer the bass is just a bit prominient, and the vocals in the chorus are getting drowned out by cool guitar rifffage, I'd volume automate the guitar noodling down a hair while the vocals are happening.
 
The string part at the end was EXTREMELY cool! Loved it! but the very end of the ending sounded meh - maybe keep the jam going, and fade it out?
 
great effort, cool bounce, Squeeze lives!
 
-Tom
 
 

Dan,  Thanks again.  Yes, just my singing.  Like a little shake.
Steve, thanks.  Good analogy.  I don't like perfect/sterile.  Keep it human as much as possible.
Ken, thank you.  I switch to my little Logitech speakers a lot during mixing/mastering.  I switch to mono a lot too.  At some point I will post the lyrics with all my songs.  It's a good idea.
David, Thanks.  Todd Rundgren "Time heals the wounds that no one can see..."  But this song is more about, "Let's see how this break from each other goes."  It's not from my point of view either.
Daniel, Nitpicking is welcome.  I want to hear it.  I am a OCD mixer!
Freddy, thank you. Much appreciated.
Tom, Thank you.  I agree on the bottom.  I have since reduce the makeup gain by 1db on the sub of the multi-band compressor.  (I replaced the track on SoundCloud) Hopefully to knock the edge off a little. As far as the vocal during the chorus goes I intentionally made the choice to keep them level with the instrumentation.  It's only a couple notes that I'm singing and six words so I figured I can get away with it.  When I set the volume of my monitors to the lowest possible volume I can hear every word.  I don't like fade outs too much but hear you.

This is a well written song, good build up to the chorus, memorable hook, nice middle 8 into the break - all good! Excellent vocals  too.

Nice work, John!   Loved the layers and layers of guitar.  I understand why you went crazy.      But the drums and bass hold it all down really well.   And FWIW, now that Mark said it, I too hear a bit of Tommy Shaw in your vocals.   And the sting lines at the end?   Perfect way to take it out...
 
 
 
PS... you write some catchy songs!
 

Mark, sorry I missed your comments.  Thank you.  I used to sing "Blue Collar Man," in a cover band.  LOL
James and Steve, thank you both. 
James, I didn't know how to make the vocal a little different in the bridge so I tried a free Izotope plugin called Vinyl.  I set it for 1960.  It came out well.