Good stuff. Love the feel of this tune...and the breakdown in the
middle. As always, you've created your own unique sound by layering
great sounds. Glad to see a new tmcfate song! :) And a long one too!

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Some new tmcfate music! And it's not even Christmas yet. I love the beat
and rhythm of this, Tim. Guitars are terrific and the other sounds (organ,
etc) were very interesting. You lead MacJams in quirky yet honest lyrics.
Another fine job!

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This is some brilliantly inventive stuff. Great builds and layering and
ramping up. Excellent performance of all parts. The drums sound like
maybe they're overcompressed though, a bit distant and pumping. Great
beats though. Really good music here. Always thoughtful but fun lyrics.

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Great lyrics and stuff!

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that's all there is to it.

"Take a shower with my baby..."

Sorry...I'm laughin my ass off..."silly. sexy man" That's damn funny.

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the first lines are perhaps the most tragic i have ever read. another lively, slice of life, swirling vortex of folksie energy from the basement tapes. you are a silly sexy man!

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Your lyrics are completely transparent, allowing us to glimpse into the
world, and household, of tmcfate. Sometimes it's embarrassing how
much you let us see, but always fun and entertaining, and as Suzanne
said, sometimes sad and tragic. What more could you ask for in a
song? Well, I would ask for a remix. I sometimes disagree with your
placement of voices and instruments, and feel like you sometimes bury
your vocals in the wall of sound and voices.

Hope the family is well. Another fine song. 9-8-10-9

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that is all

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Great to hear something new from you. "When I don't have any money I
tend to think about my dick" is absolutely the best lyric I've heard in a
long time. Cheers mate.

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This song shakes back and forth,
feeling somewhat unsettled,
much like the lyrics,
which as always, never disappoint.

"I never unseal my fate"


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Okay, so allowing for the fact that IMBFoS, here we go:

The mix is real loose. I'm not sure if you know what you're doing or if you're just having a good time and not worrying about tightening the mix. It's spontenaety vs. the tedium of planning and sculpting. Frankly, in this case, the spontenaety works really well. You sound like you're having a good time. BUT, it sounds like either a headphone mix, or you just compressed the hell out of it. It's a very midrange-y mix. Kind of tires the ears.

The lyric you sang is sometimes better, sometimes worse than the lyric you posted. Taken together you have a wonderful lyric. Examples:
"I have three mirrors (beers) in the bathroom (backroom)."
"mirrors" or "beers" works, "bathroom" is more effective for either than "backroom".
After you sing "I could sit all day and think", you wrote, "It's my day off" , but you didn't sing it. It's a good line, and it fits there.

Here's the anal retentive part. I'm a word guy. I love words. You have many wonderful ones. Please spell them correctly. Use paragraphs. Use punctuation. Only e.e. cummings can get away with it. It's easier to read. You can still be real.

The song, the way you've structured it, doesn't change much musically. This makes it seem longer than it needs to be. It would benefit by being 4 lines shorter. Which 4 is up to you. You're a good writer. All the lines are good. You don't have one bad line in there. It's a case of pacing. Time to kill the kids. Or you could change it up a little, musically.

Thanks for the song. It's on my iPod.


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The song hooks my attention right away. Cool beat and instumental
performance. Reminds me a lot of Joe Strummer's type of story telling
without actually sounding like him. The vocals are very good, perhaps
some of the backing vocals could be tightened up a little bit? The story is
very clever, many really awesome lines like: "..traveled with a ghost who
wore the american flag...", how intelligent is that? This is overall a great
song with many different episodes in it and very well performed. Thanks.

M

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First track I have heard from you - I will look up the other tunes you have done.

I like like the shuffle feel of this tune. Good use of multi-tracks for the guitars and vocals. Very original - keep it up.

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If this is what you can accomplish by taking a day off from work, imagine what you could do with a whole week? The story is sprawling, mixing up the silly with the serious, reality with the fantastical, and the loose-layered structure of the mix supports that approach. There's lots to like here!

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This is a hurdy gurdy with a slick filick western kinda flavour going on
with the music its totally WILD love love love this layers and layers of
sound and voice where you pull all this music from god only knows but
how well it always works aaaaaaaaaaaaah here you go again Words I sit all
day just about pulling my hair out trying to find in my mind what you
seem to just have in continuous flow of lyrics silly sexy VERY CLEVER
TALENTED MAN *

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You create a universe with this song, all the textures, the style, the feel.
Well done.

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This is the kind of song which makes me feel like I've been gone from this place (macjams) for too long. Very nicely done, a pleasure to listen to. I downloaded it!

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