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  • 13-07-2006 11:28pm
    #1
    MagnumForce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 630 ✭✭✭


    Not sure where to put this so I'll throw it here, Its nothing like any of the music from my other bands so i figured id create a new thread...

    This is the video for a song I threw together, sort of recentish Tom Waits sort of thing...All the percussion is made using various DIY/Garden tools like measuring tape, a saw, two hammers, a metal watering can....that sort of thing...The basic story is that a guy meets a girl, they fall in love, move to California(its set in america) to his home town, she cheats on him, he drowns her, anyway, give it a watch. Its my first attempt at piecing together a video so it could be better, but im happy with how it came out anyway:

    Knock On Wood


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  • #2
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,295 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    Gave it a watch there, and i think its good, well done. The music is the best aspect for me, especially since you created the percussion with the garden tools - dont think i would have guessed that without you saying :) , it worked really well.

    The voice is a bit angry for me to like it, the voice in music is a big thing for me - but in saying that i do appreciate that it fits in with the story being told, so again well done on that.

    As for the video, for a first attempt id be quite happy with it too. The grainy dark effect works well, a bit repetitive but its only a first atempt.


  • #3
    MagnumForce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 630 ✭✭✭MagnumForce


    ctrl-alt-delete wrote:
    Gave it a watch there, and i think its good, well done. The music is the best aspect for me, especially since you created the percussion with the garden tools - dont think i would have guessed that without you saying :) , it worked really well.

    The voice is a bit angry for me to like it, the voice in music is a big thing for me - but in saying that i do appreciate that it fits in with the story being told, so again well done on that.

    As for the video, for a first attempt id be quite happy with it too. The grainy dark effect works well, a bit repetitive but its only a first atempt.

    why thank you, appreciate the feedback, i really do. the vocals are a bit angry alright, i was tryin to keep it raw, i only did one take of everything, except once when i f*cked up the lyrics, at the time i was thinkin i should tone down the vocals a bit, maybe even take off the distortion, but then i thought the best of it cos as you said it fits the content. i figured it made it sound rawer, and like it was through a megaphone, like Tom Waits started doing sometime in the 90s. The song is really a sort of tribute to him. I usually write classic metal/rock but sometimes i do things a little different to keep my self amused, like write a gangster rap or an early nineties Vanilla Ice style hip hop song, or a reggae song, which i still have no lyrics for...or this sort of thing.

    yeah i was thinking the bit of the video before the vocals with the bottles and stuff was a bit repetitive alright, and i was going to add more, and change it but then i thought screw it! why bother? I was trying for a kind of 1930's feel to the video, cos i thought the song sort of gave off that feel when i was listening back to it. the footage of the rivers in the video is from some documentary about rivers made in 1936.


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