For your listening pleasure, I present the 9th release from my little "Ear Candy" compilation. It's a bit of a throwback to early 90's romantic & syrupy-sweet R&Bsongs (but in a more modern & diet friendly fashion)...

Girl (You Blow My Mind)

http://www.soundclick.com/dustindeboer

As always, enjoy.

DD

I didn't like it Dustin. The mix is not good - what is your DAW set up?

And the verse sections are mostly inaudible and its melody is non-existent.

The hook is kinda catchy but only because its so bad. You are not a compelling

vocalist and now I'm hearing the section after the 2nd chorus and its awful -

what is going on here?

What are you trying to do with this song?

You obviously enjoy this as you have quite a lot of material. But I don't think you're listening to yourself when you sing. Playing good music may involve more listening that it does playing itself. Keep it simple and keep it IN TUNE.

whoa this is really bad. i guess u enjoy making this, but i think you should keep it for yourself.

I'm sorry, man. But I was crying laughing at pretty much every song. I think you have some good ideas [in terms of the music], but The mixing was terrible. Your vocals are extremely out of tune [Pretty much tone deaf]. I hope you're just joking around with these tracks.

[Edited 10/28/11 9:32am]

Dude. "Cray Zay" is almost so good that it makes me wonder if you're a genius prankster. It's a good song. Your solo bit at 1:40 is crazy funky.

ear candy

Wow. I hadn't checked this post in awhile. To quote Anchorman: "You know how to cut to the core of me, Baxter."

I've never claimed to be an awesome singer, but I figure as long as it doesn't sound like two alley cats f*cking, it's just part of the character of the music (plus give me credit for having the balls to introduce my projects to the world for public opinion).

I do remember a time when the unique sound of a musician's voice was an identifying characteristic of the music, i.e., before autotune. Reviewing history of pop music prior to over-production, we see a long list of artists who didn't sing like angels and still made enjoyable works of art, e.g., Madonna, REM, and even ours truly, Prince (not traditional vocal styles, but it worked with their music).

The great thing about the internet is that you can always move your cursor up to the upper right hand corner of the webpage and click on the "x" when you don't like something you see or hear and move onto the next video of a panda crapping on his cage mate.

But I digress. Thank you to all for the comments, good, bad or otherwise.

DD

(BTW: All songs are written, produced and recorded by yours truly using a laptop, session recoding software, keyboard, guitar and mic.)

No one expects you to sound like Pavoratti or Jagger but seriously, you don't have " IT " .

crazymf said:

Wow. I hadn't checked this post in awhile. To quote Anchorman: "You know how to cut to the core of me, Baxter."

I've never claimed to be an awesome singer, but I figure as long as it doesn't sound like two alley cats f*cking, it's just part of the character of the music (plus give me credit for having the balls to introduce my projects to the world for public opinion).

I do remember a time when the unique sound of a musician's voice was an identifying characteristic of the music, i.e., before autotune. Reviewing history of pop music prior to over-production, we see a long list of artists who didn't sing like angels and still made enjoyable works of art, e.g., Madonna, REM, and even ours truly, Prince (not traditional vocal styles, but it worked with their music).

The great thing about the internet is that you can always move your cursor up to the upper right hand corner of the webpage and click on the "x" when you don't like something you see or hear and move onto the next video of a panda crapping on his cage mate.

But I digress. Thank you to all for the comments, good, bad or otherwise.

DD

(BTW: All songs are written, produced and recorded by yours truly using a laptop, session recoding software, keyboard, guitar and mic.)

Dude, I make music too. But you're going to have to accept all forms of criticism, you know? I actually enjoyed listening to quite a few of your songs...it was just for all the wrong reasons. I think you actually have some good ideas musically....I'm just not sure about your execution of them....maybe if you got a better singer & mixer for the tracks, that would work too....