Mediocre Savior

Another SongFight! entry. Features children's instruments, plucked ukulele and my best impression of a man who's going to die of a head cold.

Mediocre Savior is the song that was frustrating me earlier this week, mentioned here. Previously I couldn't get the vocals right, but last night I had the advantage of an oncoming illness to get the gravel going; this is as close to sounding like Tom Waits as I could ever hope to pull off.

Recorded from scratch last night, a few lyrics written but most improvised, did four takes with different lyrics/approaches and went with the last one. Features a tambourine and xylophone poached from our toybox, ukulele and egg shaker, everything else is GarageBand.

Vocals and real instruments all recorded through my MacBook's internal mic.

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posted by davejay (3 comments total)

I'm sometimes accused of sounding like Tom Waits, because I sometimes just growl my songs, but this is actually a really good Waits impression, particularly instrumentally. And, honestly, it would be a pretty good Waits song as well.
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:04 AM on August 9, 2008

You're very kind, thank you.
posted by davejay at 3:29 PM on August 13, 2008

A very good one indeed. You should add the tomwaitsimpression tag to it.
posted by micayetoca at 10:41 AM on August 27, 2008