Comments on: Song-A-Week: Say Now

By: Dan Costalis

Dan Costalis — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:37:05 +0000

God… The second I hit play I thought I still had a “Beta Band” track in my media player. The first line of “It’s not too beautiful” : “You like to feel that I will float away someday”.
Not a pothead, but I would LOVE to sit around, smoke a big hookah stuffed with some sticky icky and listen to that song on repeat.

By: Chase

Chase — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:56:35 +0000

I was thinking harmonies too, cept Rufus Wainwright or like “No Surprises.” Especially on the chorus. But I think some spuratic (sp?) ones like on “I’m not getting no rest these nights” or something.
I think a bridge may or may not be necessary. What you have already is really good, so unless a bridge is just as good I say screw it.
Only other thought it perhaps do the vocals an octave down on the verse(s)? Or maybe a “bridge” third verse vocals octave down…

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:12:12 +0000

matt, i love you. i love the song. it’s funny that john said it, but the first thing i thought when i heard the song was, “this sounds very Sea Change-ish”. and we all know who produced Sea Change. great job. i think an instrumental bridge would be great and showcase like your violin or the little organ thing that you have or bells ro something. heck, i could even hear hear just a whistling solo or something, haha. but i know whatever you do will be gold in the end. i’m excited to hear one matt good song a week. love you man.

By: joel

joel — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:01:01 +0000

your vocals seriously keep getting better and better. i played it and said -yep, matt good. But then i thought – holy crap, he’s got better vocal tone! So, congratulations on getting better at things . I, still suck.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:23:07 +0000

I like. Not much to say, I pretty much like whatever you do. I didn’t notice the contrite thing either until it was pointed out…

By: matty

matty — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:08:43 +0000

bloh!!

By: mallio

mallio — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:40:17 +0000

Nice. A little birdie told me last night you hadn’t even written a song yet, and here i am this morning listening to it. Maybe the song of the week should be a song of the day! I’ve created a schedule for you:
9am-5pm: Work
5pm-11:59pm: Record a song
Do it.
Or maybe you could spend some time during the rest of the week incorporating the drunk beach boys harmonies that really need to be there…

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:35:36 +0000

I liked the song a lot, as I do all your songs I’ve ever heard pretty much. I didn’t notice the “contrite” thing, but now that it’s been pointed out, I think John is right. Unfortunately I can’t think of a good word to replace it.
You’ve re-inspired me now. I’m not going to make any promises, but I think I might start a poems of the week deal on my bloh.

By: Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:48:30 +0000

I love this song! I think it even has a Lennonesque sound with the reverb chain you set up! I’d almost like to hear a bridge, whether it be vocal or instrumental, mostly just to be able to hear the chorus again. The song is so short, I just want it to keep going.
Thanks for sharing this song, Matt, and I look forward to hearing more!

By: matty

matty — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:27:36 +0000

yeah – that’s probably a songwriting ERROR. I don’t always write particularly left-brained and sometimes baddies like that will sneak in, and I don’t necessarily notice them until i’ve lived with the song for a while or somebody points it out. Most of the time, you set words to music, make them rhyme, and even nonsense sounds good. I’ve got a few ideas how to fix it.
yeah – drunk beach boys. yeah. The sea change bits would be nice too, i hadn’t really thought of that.
As a side nerdy note: the reverb chain is this:
1) overdrive
2) light tremolo
3) reverb
4) bad ugly eq.