I'm Gonna Win

[StephenM]

Endorphins endorsing my good mood.  There's a leak in the roof, it's not a big deal.  Act aloof.  Just next week the contractor comes.  50 year shingles, and our house is good like new!  Whistle and dance, shout a thanks to the sky.  It's certainly wonderful to be alive.  There's so many down, but not in the town but live with a perpetual frown.  I'll rise above, looking to the son.  I am free from all the sin penalties.  Some think it's just something to make me feel better or a crutch perhaps.  I know many who have to ride the elevator, that's no big deal.  Take the frown off the wheel and ride a smile straight into the sky.  Dancing with death, laughing at the evil.  It ain't my twin.  I'm gonna win!  To love.  To laugh.  To dance.  To hold.  To have.  To be kind.  Against such there is no law. 

Started with a casio key board stab, a kind of guitar thing... built this little riff... and first recorded a mono drum track from the Casio keyboard for 3 minutes using some variations of the pop setting.  I took the drums to bandlab and doubled the track panned them left and right and added two different effects to them... I like the way they turned out.
Then I recorded that keyboard stab and another variance of it using a sax sound.  Then I did a bass, using my Epiphone that I just replaced the strings on.  I ran it through a $20 Behringer bass overdrive pedal that I added just a smidge of dirty to and ran that to the Zoom L-20. 
Used my new Ibanez acoustic plugged DI to board clean and played a matching chord pattern to the keys and bass.  Then I did vocals 6 tracks, 3 I discarded so I ended up with 3 that I did various effects and panning to.. (used MXL mic to Zoom L-20), mixed everything on the Bandlab software with some clean up and normalize tracks on Audacity first.  Then I added an electric guitar track (Harley Benton, ran through bass overdrive pedal and then effected in Bandlab further).

NEW ROOF AND OUR HOUSE IS GOOD AS NEW!

[Ron D Bowes]

Ha! Well, this is so reflective of me at the moment. Gotta love it. Peter Gabrielle vibe in places.

[Pete C]

Don't know what to say about this other than it's cheered up my afternoon. Another unique song in your own unique style !

Pete

[Zoltan]

I think you've got a big box of win here. It's like Stevie Nicks and Phil Collins era Genesis had a heavy necking session and this came out of it.

The lyrics are positive, the overall sound has a touch of sadness. The melodies are airy and memorable. There's a touch of weirdnes to it, but overall i'd say this is Stephen going commercial! Even the outro makes sense.

[Jean Pierre]

I listened to the music first

It's very well constructed, very well mixed and thanks for the technical details it's always very interesting to have them

..then I read the translation of the lyrics

It starts well

There's a leak in the roof, it's not a big deal.

...I knew that not long ago

Dear Stephen, I would like you to make a little space for me in one of your next productions to add some Weissenborn, Dobro or Lap steel guitar, depending on the style

[des0free]

Heard this on the jukebox and thought it must be a cover of some catchy pop song and clicked to see the post to see who the artist was. An original ?!?! What !?!? Nice job man, you've got some really catchy hooks in there, in the keys, in the guitar, in the vocals. This IS a winner!

[StephenM]

I listened to the music first

It's very well constructed, very well mixed and thanks for the technical details it's always very interesting to have them

..then I read the translation of the lyrics

It starts well

There's a leak in the roof, it's not a big deal.

...I knew that not long ago

Dear Stephen, I would like you to make a little space for me in one of your next productions to add some Weissenborn, Dobro or Lap steel guitar, depending on the style

will do JP!!!!  And I need to hook you up with Dumont, his stuff and your style will be amazing

[DarrenG / The Devil's Toupee]

Hey Stephen, excellent work again. From that little keyboard stab you've built another great catchy song.
The music is all really good, love the keyboards, guitars , drums. Always love your style of lyrics , the different genres you do and your vocals.
Darren

[godinqc]

Really good track Stephen, really liked the beat and the vocals. The other instruments were also great. Great work.

[guitarron]

It's a win every time you sit down to write. Kudos