Does this track need vocals?

http://daddyslap.com/MoreMP3s.html (you have to click the triangle to play the track)

The recording's kind of thin, it was done on a regular tape deck and squished into an MP3, but all the parts come through. It is the last thing we recorded before we broke up, and I can't decide if lyrics would complete the piece or take away from it.




PS.: please reserve your comments on the picture for the "Banned From MySpace" thread

Boombats wrote:PS.: please reserve your comments on the picture for the "Banned From MySpace" thread

Dickholed!

It's just peachy the way it is... although...

The chorusy pedal makes it sound a bit like Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss... even then I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

Sounds good to me. Is that repetitious sound at the beginning supposed to be evocative of the hooker's head bouncing across the pavement?

Colonel Panic wrote:Sounds good to me. Is that repetitious sound at the beginning supposed to be evocative of the hooker's head bouncing across the pavement?

Ha ha, it's not a HookerDragger song, it's a Daddy's Lap song, my old band with the drummer from HookerDragger. I never mention them here because EA hates funky bass.

You must have young women throwing themselves at you. I don't kid.

And my pussy ass has no idea why I said the before mentioned crassness.

I rather like funky bass.

Hmmm.. maybe that belongs in the indie confessions thread.

Hey man, I enjoyed listening to this. It's too bad your band broke up. The two things I don't like about it are when it gets too Tool (sparser playing to create atmosphere that ends up sounding melodramatic) and when the "do this riff four times, then do this riff four times" aspect becomes too apparent. I don't know what voices you have at your disposal, but it's possible that adding vocals would exacerbate the neo-prog aspect while alleviating the repetitive aspect. That basic rock repetition is much more apparent in instrumentals, but it doesn't really matter if you have vocals to change things up a bit each time.

Boombats wrote:Does this track need vocals?

http://daddyslap.com/MoreMP3s.html (you have to click the triangle to play the track)

The recording's kind of thin, it was done on a regular tape deck and squished into an MP3, but all the parts come through. It is the last thing we recorded before we broke up, and I can't decide if lyrics would complete the piece or take away from it.




PS.: please reserve your comments on the picture for the "Banned From MySpace" thread

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That's a great track.


Sounds great without vocals.


I could only picture vocals ruining that jam.

busbus wrote:You must have young women throwing themselves at you. I don't kid.

And my pussy ass has no idea why I said the before mentioned crassness.

Whaaa?

Get dog costumes wrote:Hey man, I enjoyed listening to this. It's too bad your band broke up. The two things I don't like about it are when it gets too Tool (sparser playing to create atmosphere that ends up sounding melodramatic) and when the "do this riff four times, then do this riff four times" aspect becomes too apparent. I don't know what voices you have at your disposal, but it's possible that adding vocals would exacerbate the neo-prog aspect while alleviating the repetitive aspect. That basic rock repetition is much more apparent in instrumentals, but it doesn't really matter if you have vocals to change things up a bit each time.

That's pretty perceptive, actually when I revisited this the other day I got a Tool impression too! Weird. And the 4, 4, 4 etc. structure reveals the incompletion of the band as a whole because we spent 3 years waiting for a singer to materialize. We kept a standard structure because we figured there'd be lyrics to make room for. Turns out we should have forgot about that and let the instruments do the talking.

If anyone would like to download the complete recordings of Daddy's Lap, PM me.