Hi everyone,
 
Here's a new original . . . It's called "Change My Avatar" or maybe "I Changed My Avatar."
 
I'd love some mix help and crits. Especially if someone could talk me out of the steel drums in the beginning.
 
 
https://soundcloud.com/songsbytom-com
 
lyrics are posted here: http://www.songsbytom.com/lyrics
 
 
 
 thanks for the advice!
 
-Tom
 
 

The mix sounds nice here Tom, as to the steel drums and persuading you out of them there are a number of Wookiee methods that could be applied, fortunately they are all painless for me

I do like and the lyrics are amusing. 
 

Very cool song Tom - great vocal. Please post the lyrics.
Listening on crappy speakers - will listen again later in the studio.

Tom, if you can't post the lyrics please send Daryl some better speakers.
 
And please, drop the steel drums.

Very good song Tom! Really enjoy that funky/jazzy groove style you got. Love the bass line/tone too.....just drives this tune. And those lyrics......Oh yeah....nice!!! Mix sounded very good on h-phones, well done!!

Great song.. I liked the rhythm and vocals. Good mix and sounds

love this funky tune, it is very cool. mix is good, lovely use of different keyboard tones. vocals are perfect too.
the guitar sounds a bit early at times, i get you're pushing the rhythm but there's doing that and there's out of time. apart from that loving it

Cool idea -- good demo of this -- I like the 70s sound mixed in with some early New Wave all topped off by a Tom Waits type vocal.  Hmm...  Good one  !
 
Allan
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Sounds great to me!  Cool grooves!
And it looks like you found your "postage stamp size lava lamp". 

Thanks for the comments, they are very helpful!
 
Wookie, glad to know I'm on your good side! And thanks for the comments.
 
Daryl, many thanks! I'll post the lyrics somewhere soon . . . your crappy speakers are apparently making my vocals sound good, so when/if you get to your proper monitors in your studio, prepare yourself for something more like a cat in a wood chipper.  :)   
 
Bapu, thanks, speakers for Daryl, check. Steel drums replaced by . . . uh, that's my trouble. I've tried organ in the intro, other keyboards, more guitar . . . gonna have to get creative. Got any ideas?
 
Mesh, another groove head like myself, many thanks for taking the ride!!!
 
Makke - thanks, I appreciate the listen and the comments.
 
MGH - yes absolutely I need to edit some guitar parts to make them sit perfectly in the pocket. It's on my list for sure, thanks for the encouragement and for the compliments . . .
 
Allan, thanks very much, I appreciate particularly the comments on vocals, because it is definitely Tom Waits territory, but for some reason I have a hard time listening to a lot Tom Waits myself. Small doses are pretty cool for me, though. Other people rave about him, so there we go.
 
Fjz - yep! thanks, I was hoping the lyrics were intelligible in the main, so glad some got through the noise. :)
 
 
 
 
-Tom