I've always loved this bizarre and cool song by Incubus, so I decided to try to cover it.  It involved lots of head scratching on the time signature, then lots of knob twisting on a mini moog.  It's got a real Floyd-ish thing going.  I used synths and VSTs I have never even touched before!  Super fun and educational.
 
If anything sounds bad, or can be improved, let me know.  Otherwise enjoy!
 
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I'm not familiar with the original, but I thought this was really well done!  The mix sounds good here, and the performances are all real solid - vocals sound great.
 
FWIW, as best I can tell the time sigs seem to be mostly 7/8+5/4 and 7/8+7/4.   As a long time odd time-signature fan it works for me.  
 

I do like unusual time signatures, and this pleases me.  Ditto on the fine performances, plus, I especially like the reverb on the lead vocal.  It did not obscure the song or lyrics, but gave it depth.  Kudos!

I too enjoyed this. Great vocals!

Great stuff. Everything worked together nicely there. I would be interested in knowing what you are using for vocal input.

Thanks all.  I actually couldn't figure out the time signature, so I just sort of memorized how to play the song, then did drums and bass like that.  
 
Schafe:  The main vocals were just a single track from my MXL V69 into an Art MPA Gold preamp .  Both the mic and the preamp are kind of cheap-ish but good sounding bits of gear (the bass guitar is just a DI into the MPA Gold also).  It think they each cost about $300.   I had two different delays set up--the cakewalk tempo delay and the sonitus--then a big hall reverb.
That was about it.  There is a 2nd harmony track that kicks in towards the middle, but that just had more of that hall verb.  
 
Thanks for listening!

Cool stuff - Jerry Goodman is a prog violinist that uses combinations of different meters throughout his songs, and I am a BIG fan of that sort of thing.  Check out his On the Future of Aviation tunes on YouTube.
 
I think of it as being like taking Genesis further out, as they tend to get a groove going in 5 or 7, but then they stay with that for long periods of time.
 
Good job with this, 
 
Bob Bone
 

This sounds great, don't know the song but I like this. I does have an odd time sig/sigs, but they don't draw attention, it all flows smoothly.

Yup - Seal also does alternating measures where the meter changes from even to odd from measure to measure.   I like the effect when it serves the song, but do not like it so much if it is just an exercise in math.  :)
 
Bob Bone