This is what I get for trying to use a $200 audio interface instead of my usual $20 USB mic.

http://thepottshouse.org/pub/movies/Polly%20Loves%20the%20Rain%20(featuring%20Joe%20Covenant).m4v

I think I’m also talking to you on YouTube… let me know when you’ve got it and whether you can work with that format, and I’ll take down the file.

When you mix it please use the latest audio in the highest quality you can (for example, get it as FLAC from bandcamp, and turn it back into WAV). Otherwise you’ll get generations of MP3 compression artifacts, and YouTube’s compression sounds pretty bad already.

I _still_ have a sore throat — another preschool kid virus — so my throat is still raw. I tried to mitigate this a little bit with EQ, and actually put a slight phaser on the backing parts to smooth out that raspy sore-throat sound a bit. I’m just hoping it clears up enough to record a reasonably clean vocal for round 2!

Darrell, I just listened to your remixes. Love them. “Football is Good (The Football Song)” had me grinning and chuckling all over again. Did you add the ‘chipmunk voices’ since the original, or had I just not remembered them in the (too long) time since I last listened to it?

Further to Buckethat (if I can call you that) and Darrell’s comments to Front Porch Music: in addition to being mean, comments like “Um…what?” are just pointless. If you don’t like it, fine, you don’t have to; but if you’re going to say so, then have the class to say why.

For instance, you might say, “I felt that the metaphor of the water cycle to the ups and downs of life was a little overstretched. The tuning was a bit off at times, which, I’m afraid, made me cringe a bit. I agree with Caleb that the fuzzy vocals detracted from the song, but I’m glad he recognized it and is planning to address it for next time.”

Yay! Excited to hear about your bandcamp! Will totally go!

Yes! Please shadow the next round. It will be SUCH fun to have you around. I’m SO stoked!

🙂

Yeah, we should totally get Jarrett back in here as well. We should start bugging him to come shadow or come back into play or something … also, where are our snuggie-wearing friends (the only folks I’ll allow in snuggies in MY presence!) 🙂

Too many ones I’ve moved into my ‘keep’ folder to mention this time, but in terms of people I’ve not previously given shoutouts to – this one is definitely my favourite Godz Poodlz song so far, and Leigh & Hoover are a real find, straight out of nowhere. Edric and Denise and everyone else know I love them – take that as a given. You are my Fu brethren, and I grant you my undivided attention whenever you pop something new out.

If anybody still cares about Song Fu 4 three million years ago, I’ve finally got around to remixing my songs and making them available as an EP on BandCamp at http://darrellmaclaine.bandcamp.com/ – I’ve been writing some new songs too so this is merely a start! You can pay for them if you wish but they’re free if you’d rather not.

~ Darrell

P.S. To FrontPorchMusic – this is an amateur songwriting competition contributed to by people purely for the fun and love of music and as a learning exercise. It’s not the done thing to criticise people’s work here, especially not someone as brilliant and prolific as Edric. I don’t think anyone is submitting their work with any sort of ego, so please take these songs and this competition in the spirit in which it is intended.

P.P.S. I do miss Jarrett Heather, and I would love to hear some more of his songs. ‘Trapped In Your Sofa’ comes second only to ‘Space Doggity’ as my all-time Song Fu favourite.

P.P.P.S. An idea if there’s a Song Fu 7 (which I promise not to miss this time!) – how about the results and votes are not viewable on the page after voting, rather held back until they are formally revealed with the next challenge? It keeps the competitive element but takes a bit of the stress out for the entrants and makes it a bit less vicious.

http://spintown79.blogspot.com/2010/02/song-fu-6-round-1-review.html

BTW… I love minor chords as well, but not EVERY song needs them. 😉

MY intended one was “2” !! ;’ )

Groovy!
I’m more Referencetastic than I *thought* ! ; ‘)

1. Rain (Fu 6, Round 1)
2. I Know (Hank Green, Fu 3, Round 2)
3. At The Moon (Jeff MacDougall, Fu 2, Round 1)
4. Today’s The Day (Inverse T. Clown, Not a Fu song)
5. Happiness (Edric Haleen, Fu 3, Round
6. Throw Me Away (Sara Parsons, Fu 4, Round 1)
7. Mistakes Were Made (Denise Hudson, Fu 5, Round 3)