Or the next day, at the latest
The title of the song “Or the next day, at the latest” dispenses with what I’ll call “interior caps” (although I’m sure there’s a more technical term) because it’s, like, a full sentence. (Or wait — is it a fragment? Hmmmmm)
This is pretty straight-forward. It’s actually written 5 or 6 years ago, I think, and originally recorded on the 4-track out at the farm. (This is the re-recorded version.) I think it’s one of my first songs to have a bridge — most of the time it just doesn’t occur to me to put one in in my mad dash to get three verses out in under two minutes. (Also I find bridges really hard to write.)
The structure is: Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Chorus-Bridge-Chorus (and just a little bit more chorus to finish it up). This is pretty standard, but complex for me.
Instrumentation is straightforward to the point of tears: Autoharp, SR-16, Anders. One main vocal track, one harmony, and some whistlin’. (The whistlin’ is a one-take ad lib.)
(Readers of my LiveJournal may want to note that this version is slightly re-mixed from the last version I posted — less muddy vocals, less annoying intro.)
Lyrics. (Listen to the song first, though!)
March 27th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I like the song a lot, but I don’t think the keyboard suits it. I think if you replace the long keyboard notes with vox (long aaaaaaaaahhhhss) it will go better with what is a really nice song. Also, if you happen to do it, I’d love to hear that version.
March 29th, 2007 at 3:59 am
Interesting. I do my own vox mostly out of necessity, so my solution to things is almost never going to be “I need to sing more!”
It’d be interesting to do something with other people singing, though.
Right now, I’ve got 20-some songs in various stages of completion that I’m trying to force myself to finish up, so going back to this one is going to be a pretty low priority for a while!