Enjoyed this.  I'm listening on crappy speakers qua Daryl.  The horns could use some subtle change ups IFF you want to make them *pass* *e.g. occasional roll offs .  IFF you like the sound of early synth keys strings and horns then I'd keep them.  Are they samples?  As Jerry Gerber said somewhere else, everyone here already knows what they want so why bother giving suggestions.  :D:DThanks for sharing!

I vote to keep the steel drums.  Oh, and keep everything else too.  Great track.
 
AMB
 

I'm out and about at the moment and as soon as I get back to a decent wi-fi connection I will spin this up.

Cheers

andy

I was smiling all the way through. Great lyrics on this one!

Hi there Tom.

Finally got home and managed to listen to this new song of yours.

Excellent lyrics... Made me chuckle. You certainly have a penchant for light hearted songs

Mix sounded great to me too.

Cheers

andy

Hey Tom!
 
I'd leave it the way it is, steel drums and all. It's quirky, and nothing says quirky like steel drums. Even the corny synthy horns sound perfect, in context.  Great job on this and I think you did a fine job on the mix.
 
And I'm with you on Tom Waits...small doses only...though I did listen to this all the way through, LOL.
 
Regards,
Dan

esoul,  this is amazing.  What I mean is that it is very well crafted.  This is not your straight up git up and go.  So many nuances, in out, up down.
 
In my dream world, you slow this down a tad, and get that skinny bones bones girl to sing it.  I know I'm out of line, but I had this hallucination about that.
 
Now then, besides that, what we have here is simply a well constructed piece.  You could study this for a semester and still not know everything about it.
 
Jesse Q. Sceed
 
 

Eph, I get now what you were referring to, pretty spot on. Thanks for giving this a spin.
 
AntManB, thanks for the steel drum vote, I think it's a keeper because it has a cheese factor, and because of inertia. Glad you liked the tune, thanks. Let's hear some of yours?
 
Thanks, stringjammer, it's kind of lyrics-heavy ain't it? Glad you found it amusing, I do, too!
 
Synkrotron/Andy, I appreciate your comments and thanks for having a sense of humor, which I think one needs,  particularly with this song. 
 
Dan, thanks - those synth horns are Cinebrass, in the wrong hands, used for a purpose they were entirely not designed for! I'm waiting to add a real jazz-funk kick-ass horns library,  any suggestions? Anyone? Bueller?
 
JesseQ - I think that skinnybones girl would be great on this, she would make it inimitable. Thanks for the listen, keep it unreal!
 
-Tom

There's this: http://www.bigfishaudio.com/MOJO-Horn-Section
 
But I've always heard that this is the one to beat: http://www.chrishein.net/web/CHH_Overview.html
 
Regards,
Dan

Yeah, that was pretty cool...   I don't think I'd change anything.    It's got a great slinky groove with just a sprinkle of cheese on top, works well IMO.   Some really nice chord changes in there too.