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| All The Things You Are by LaFayette | 3 years ago |
| Pleasant enough treatment of the tune. It may be "common", but, as I would credit you for your work, I would have liked to see the Song Information read: ".. our own vision on Jerome Kern's song..." | |
| another day with you by paulhenrys | 6 years ago |
| Dave, Thanks. And thanks for the listen. -Paul |
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| 22 Years(remaster) by gcooke | 6 years ago |
 Anyone, and I mean anyone who uses "topologist" in a pop song, is okay in my book. Your vocal wanders some in the beginning, but seems to settles down as the song progresses. I really liked the sparseness of the arrangement. There's no wasted energy here. I'd be curious to hear how the song would feel if you sped it up a little. We all have our own internal "groove"-meter. Mine says that this tune would slip into a perfect groove if it was slightly faster, say around 108 bpm. But, as always, IMBFoS. |
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| hawk overhead by thatshimthatstheguy | 6 years ago |
 Another fine song. I think you can do with one less verse and not loose any impact. I love the Frost reference. I really enjoy listening to your words. Can you print the lyrics? My old ears missed a couple of them. |
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| unmentionables by thatshimthatstheguy | 6 years ago |
Okay, thatshim, another really cool song. It didn't need the "explicit". You can edit that out if you feel like it. Again, a scratch track, so I'm not going to comment on the production or performance. I have two comments about the song: 1. The driving, two-chord phrase that makes up your verse, gets kind of oppressive after a while. It just may be that the guitar was way up front in the scratch track, so that may be a simple question of arrangement. Or you might consider more musical material, tho' not much. 2. I think you need a bridge. With the current musical structure, by the end of the 2nd chorus, I want some relief from the 2 chord verse, and also, lyrically, a comment on this guys obsession with her underwear drawer. Have you heard Richard Thompson's "Cold Kisses" from his "you? me? us?" album? |
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| small when they were made by thatshimthatstheguy | 6 years ago |
 Really wonderful song. You don't waste a word. The melody is evocative without being melodramatic. It reminds me of, oh, I don't know, melodic British invasion ballads from the 60's. "Mrs. Brown you have a lovely daughter..." Sorry about that. I don't know how you fell about comparisons. But, well, there are only 12 notes to play with...In any case, this ones on my iPod. |
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| Everything is Flat by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| Another fine song. Listen gcooke, would you mind posting lyrics, too? Your vocal is totally audible, I just like to look at the words. A crutch, I suppose, but there you are. You a Tom Waits fan? |
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| words for this by paulhenrys | 6 years ago |
| Thanks, Ed. My biggest problem with songwriting these days is the words. I've given up on the notion of complete communication. But, that's poetry isn't it, what you don't say? | |
| iComp Puts The I by enicholsIC | 6 years ago |
| I finally had a chance over the last couple of days to listen to everybody's IC Theme song (Many thanks to jlgerk for the podcast). I'm in the contest, too, and now I'm really pissed off because there's such solid songwiters here. Lyrics are really important to me, so I feel compelled to comment on yours. There are some really great touches in here that round off the song. It's not the kind of song I write, so that makes it even more interesting to me. First of all, the title and the use throughout of "iComp puts the I", is a great, play on words hook. And the great couplets you get out of it that are so relevent to what this place is about. It also reaches back historically to a whole period when that kind of joke was common. (The only reference I can remember is from Archy and Mehitabel and the line a mummy says: "I put the cough in sarcophagus"  . So it's great to hear that being used again.And then the nice interjections like "We're not climbing ladders, we're tearing down walls." And rhymes that are both on target and funny, like putting together "liposuction" with "art destruction". Makes me laugh just typing it. Great lyric. Goodluck. You scare me. |
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| iComp blues! by anDroidfrisBee | 6 years ago |
| Great. A straight ahead blues. And funny! (I love the beer line). This ones on my iPod. | |
| iCompositions Theme Song by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| You are a consistently good and also varied writer. So I have a lot of fun listening to your stuff. I've been staying out of commenting because I'm in the contest, too. But today, I thought, f*** it, there's a lot of great stuff here, and I want to say so. It's really interesting the different approaches we all have taken. I've heard several that touch on different aspects of what brings me to this site. You speak well of the notion that iComp (and sites like it) are creating a new way to bring music into the world that has nothing, nothing to do with a bunch of businesspeole sitting around a conference room trying to be cool and figuring out what artist/performer they can wring the most money out of. Any artist can be a listener. Any listener can be an artist. And there's no middleman! This song says that really well. Thanks, and good luck! |
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| Now I Compose by pooey | 6 years ago |
| Excellent entry. The lyrics and the tune are well structured, kind of Beatles-esque (is that a word?). If I wasn't in the contest, too, you'd have my vote! I really like the sentiment. You know, a lot of these songs talk about a variety of aspects of this great place. Yours focuses on the writer, and that great moment when you realize that "Wow! I can do this myself!" It really rings true and resonates with me, and why I come here. The production sounded a little muddy to me on my car speakers, and on both the car and in the headphones, I wanted Lisa's voice to come further out front. But, as far as the contest goes, I don't really care about the production. I'm listening for the heart, and man, you nailed it. Good luck! |
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| If I Didn't Have a Body by gcooke | 6 years ago |
Okay, I finally have a cogent comment besides "Wow", or "Great", or "Wonderful", etc. I like all your songs so far. All of them. That said, I have a request. I haven't heard all your posted stuff yet (but I will). I've noticed that you tend to process your voice pretty heavily. I'd love to hear a tune with your voice up front, maybe a little reverb, not doubled. Just you. You have a nice voice. You tend to downplay it. |
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| These Are The Hours We Are Given by gcooke | 6 years ago |
Another wonderful song. Nothing else to say. Downloaded...on the the next one! |
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| Motorcycle Girl by gcooke | 6 years ago |
Man, I'm just going thru your stuff, nodding and smiling and downloading... |
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| Gonna Set Them Pins Down by gcooke | 6 years ago |
Wow. That's just about all I can say. Wow. Well, okay, a few more words. After listening to "She's My Little Frances", I thought I'd check out some other tunes of yours. I'm very glad I did. This is a great song. |
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| She's My Little Frances by gcooke | 6 years ago |
I really enjoyed this. It's a breath of fresh air in the ambient electronic buzz. On my speakers, everything comes up a little left of center. The separation and clarity of the parts is reduced. Spreading the parts across the stereo field would improve the sound, as well as tweaking the EQ on the harp and the guitar, which come across as less defined than the banjo. The minimal but perfect lyric is a wonderful touch. You could have gushed all over the place, as have many who wrote songs about their children. My songs about my young daughters have come out terribly. Your sweet, happy, and sincere piece about your daughter has inspired me to try again. Thanks for the learning experience, as well as the song. |
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| The Prince Of Peace by paulhenrys | 6 years ago |
| Merry Christmas to you, too! And thanks for all the kind words. | |
| I Won't Follow You Down by jkane | 6 years ago |
Nice tune. I'm relatively new to iCompositions, so I think I ought to explain my ratings in more detail. I've noticed that everyone is very nice here. I like that. On the other hand, I can see from all the "5" ratings all over the place that most folks are too "nice". Constructive criticism is often mixed up with dissing, so people are understandably afraid to try it. I hope you take my words as they are meant to be, a critique based on my own subjective opionions. And, as always, IMBFoS. (I May Be Full of S* !) Okay, the ratings. 5 stars, to me, means outstanding. You know, the best the Beatles ever did. Or Beethoven. Or Duke Ellington. 3 stars is average. This means good. It also means that there's a lot of good stuff out there and 3 stars is on a par with that. I think we can all agree on 1 star. the others, 2 and 4 are in-betweeners, that highly subjective zone, better (or worse) than average, but not great (or terrible). Okay, now I can explain my ratings Concept: 3 stars. This song is political protest rock, not satirical, which is harder to pull off, but simply critical. Well done, on a par with a lot of other stuff out there. Creativity: 3 stars. This is a squirrely category, and I'm not sure how it's distinct from Concept. I take it to mean how original one's execution of the concept is. Again, the execution is good and on a par with a lot of stuff out there. Performance: 4 stars. The performance/arrangement is good across the board. The vocals are especially good, better than average and the strongest part of the tune. Production: 3 stars. Again, production is generally good, but needs improvement. That would imply a two star rating, but the production values here are kind of along the iCompositions average. Two things are noteable here. One, you kind of ramp up the intros of the instruments and you're running on all cylinders by the end of the 1st verse. You have no place to go after that, arrangement-wise, so the dramatic arc of the song stalls. Two, your mix needs tweeking. It comes across my speakers as kind of flat, probably over-compressed. Was this a headphone mix? It's kind of midrange-y. I hear that a lot in headphone mixed. On the whole, a nicely done track. It's going on my iPod. Thanks. |
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| Jive Turkey by pgreenstone | 6 years ago |
Another fine pgreenstone production. A seasoned, make that seasonal number that will trot out every year about this time on my iPod. |
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