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Pink
Elephance
Band: Silence Dugood
Genre: Folk Rock
This song won awards:
Best Melody in Folk, week of 8May2006
You
can listen to this song on garageband click
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Reviews from other musicians on garageband.com:
heart
broken I wonder??
Picture yourself lonely in your room, your heart broken by too many people,in
love with a girl who doesn't even notice you...
This artist takes you purely into his sad heart and makes you feel moved by his
grief. Melancholy vocals, tender and surreal guitar picking...well done,
- TheLoveBus from
Australia on 8May2006
lyrics to your song
first of all i must tell you,these are really nice lyrics,very inspireing to me.your vocals are good,sincere.you deliver each word with your heart i believe.the guitar is beautiful.i believe youve put your all in this one.i wish you the best of luck.
- gsa00021 from Herold, West Virginia on 3May2006
And I Wonder...
Interesting vocal approach. The song seems to be lacking a bit of bite that grabs the attention of the listener, though the positive vibe is nice to hear in the music. Overall good narrative thread throughout the storytelling.
- Minordetailsrecords from Orange, California on 22May2006
nice vibe
enjoyable quiet intro that reminds me of Simon and Garfunkel, and when the vocal comes in I am put in mind of Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.
the guitar is intricate and sensitively played.
The lyrics are well written, although I feel the song could do with a hook.
- QatarLa from Liverpool / Doha on 21May2006
Gentle
NIce start - good guitar playing.
Elliott Smith sort of voice mixed with James Taylor.
Good melody and quality to the voice.
The lyric is not appealing to me - it's a bit twee or something although i can sense the honesty of intention.
Nice sound, great guitar and voice but the song is not my cup of tea.
- tonytyrrell from Dublin, N/A, Ireland on 21May2006
NOT BAD
The recording of this song needed to be louder. Your song came in really soft compared to the others I have reviewed today.
The singer is really heart felt. I like his voice. It is perfect for this style. The music is a little boring. Try a counter melody with a second guitar. But, this may be what you are after, so I won't press too much.
In the end, I felt the song needed some sort of closure. A dynamic section to come in and bring things full closure. I understand this is folk, but that is not reason to stay in a box with your song. I did like the edition of the spanish sounding guitar. That was a start in the right direction.
- phantommusicbox from In A Box, With A Lock on 20May2006
wonder away..
A little too much effect on the vocals... but there's a feeling ringing through...
A very quiet recording, but as far as the songwriting goes, I really like it... just the execution of it lacks a little a bit... I'd like to here it with the acoustic ringing a little louder, the vocals to not have as much 'stuff' on it, and without the volume jumping up so much when that one intense part hits.
Like I said, the writing is damn good.
genius*boots.
- geniusboots from Calgary, Alberta, Canada on 18May2006
pretty little melody
good little melody. i like the searching lyrics behind this. it's questions i think. production is good . couldn't be better mixed. good job
- merkinball94 from Wilburton, Oklahoma on 17May2006
Feedback
The song is really boring...but i think that might be the intention for this song...the guitar is nice....the vox are average ....add some tone and melody to the vox/song.....keep it up...its got potential
- AcadianVelena from Birdseye, Indiana on 16May2006
I wonder...
This song is refreshing. I was starting to wonder where all the good Folk songs were. This song has a nice acoustic guitar part which is cleanly played and recorded. The lead guitar toward the middle and end of the song adds a nice element to the song, sort of Spanish sounding. The vocals are smooth and you used the right amount of effects on the vocals I liked it. The subject matter is grabbing and makes you think. I also like the part where the emotion and volume pick up towards the middle of the song I always think it is good to change something in a song or else it gets boring and you keep the attention here with this part.
Overall this song is good and your vocal delivery is good the only thing that I can think to improve upon about this song is that I could hear a breath at the beginning of the recording before the vocals came in but in my opinion this is no big deal.
4 out of 5 for me.
Jason
www.rocknrolltravel.o
- jasondale from Kansas City, Kansas on 14May2006
Great melody and Lyrics
Not much for negatives, but a couple important details…the guitar suffered in affectivity of derivation for emotional prowess…probably because it was out-of-tune. Also, the energy and the ambient nature found in “muscling emotion” was slack…there are time limits that should be upheld in order to derive the most effective response
The good…when the instrumental became filled, with the second guitar, it was extremely effective and produced an emotional sense of attachment, had it been regulated in the production so that it came just a little bit sooner, it might have produced a larger emotional effect. The addition of breath was wonderful, many times the breathing parts are taken out, and they are crucial, they are a part of the music as well and in this case they were an extremely important part…The lyrics were also very good, you avoided cliché rhyming schemes and the melodic attachment to the lyrics, especially “I wonder”, was giftedly presented…overall, extremely well written, wonderful vocal presence, great melodic hook, but a slight disdain of production.
- maierdown from Billings, Montana on 7May2006
Good vocals!
Lovely deep vocals over nice picking guitar part. Quite a simple song but effective. Like the part best when it starts to build up and you have the lead guitar part. Think this works well. I think that the song would also benefit form some harmonies added
- davidhelmore from London, England, United Kingdom on 7May2006
Like the guitar
I really like the guitar, here but the breathing in the intro is overly cheesy and takes away any believability. The lead riffs that come in are awesome. I don't like the vocal double at all... or effect on the voice. I like the melody quite a bit and I think the lyrics are quite good. The songwriting is here.. just a few issues. I think a better recording could help out too, its a little buried and muffled sounding.
- JFinck from Spokane, Washington on 6May2006
Social Commentary
The lyrics speaks to me in a unique way. There is a very strong message, which
I hope everybody hearing it will take to heart.
Male vocal is very clear, and is well suited for the track. The guitar accompaniment
alone is sufficient for the track; anything more would have been overdone.
- ephsharp from Heidelberg,
Gauteng, South Africa on 5May2006
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WOW!! I am not real impressed with many bands I review here but yours blew me away. I was suprised because I don't usually like this genre of music. After i reviewed "With the Leaves" I started making all kinds of plans for this song! Like how it would be great music to play for my husband during a romantic dinner or how nice it would be to hear during a country drive or even just a bubble bath! lolIt has a definate mood to it. I am sending you a friend request on MySpace too. I think you really have talent and it's good to hear originality in a world of cookie cutter tunes.
Rock on!
~Heather.
7/28/06
Epic
Let's start with the fact that it takes balls of steel to upload a nearly
eight minute song for the notoriously attention-deficit garageband.com
crew to review. I admit I probably groaned audibly when the time indicator
popped up.
But, then I was catapulted into the song by that lovely acoustic guitar and
the harmonics, and we were off . . This song builds nicely up to the 'So
Alone' line.
An interesting call and response type of vocal in the first segment. Very
tight. The female voice particularly is wonderfully racked with emotion,
she seems like she would be comfortable in many different genres. Overall
the music itself and the performance particularly were very strong
An interesting cross pollenation of styles. There are elements of a lot of
different styles at work here
The banjo and harp passage was particularly delightful then the dobro slides
in and the mood is painted wonderfully.
The weakness, (if there was one) I felt was in the lyrics. With an obvious
attempt at something truly epic, here . . . a few of the phrases seemed a
little contrived; ie. 'feeling so abused'.
I didn't care too much for the dischordant vocal slide at around 3:07. Other
than that, it's an extrordinary effort, and I'm very excited to hear more
from this band. Good luck!
Extra
Credit: Female Vocals, Originality.
knotlenny
Mucklands
(Upstate), New York
May 4th, 2006
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They were featured on
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www.myspace.com/silencedugood
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