Our cover of "Your Funny Uncle" is here (sort of)

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Our cover of "Your Funny Uncle" is here (sort of)

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Hey there. I haven’t really made my presence felt on this board for a while due to just being busy as hell in general. I’ve gotten married and have been on my honeymoon for once. But, here I am to present a new track to anyone who might be interested. It most certainly has a PSB twist as it is the song that started life as a cover version of “You Funny Uncle”. To induce a true PSB mood we had an intro reminiscent of West End Girls and did the whole song in the style of New York City Boy. There was really only one problem: it didn’t work! The songmelody of “Your Funny Uncle” simply didn’t suit the track. However, we liked the instrumental so we wrote an entirely new melody on top of it and called it “Never See Me Run”. We had major disagreements on whether the song was brilliant or pants, though, so we never ever put it up on MyMusic.dk or anywhere else.

Over the years we tried remixing it, but were never really successful. Until this year where we started from scratch again and rerecorded everything. Now it is a ballad of sorts with a strange housy middle section. It doesn’t really follow mainstream pop rules at all, but we think it is a strong tune, so give it a listen.

Listen to or download “Never See Me Run” here: http://blueswan.mymusic.dk/diskografi – please note that the site has changed layout recently. To listen to the track press the small speaker icon. To download the track press the “arrow-down” icon.

Please give us some feedback on it as it is a style we’ve never attempted before!
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#2 Post by Your Funny Uncle »

Great track! Different to your other stuff but very good. again you reminded me of Jean-Michel Jarre, but just the opening swooshy wind type noise, which made me think of Oxygene part 4...

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Your Funny Uncle wrote:Great track! Different to your other stuff but very good. again you reminded me of Jean-Michel Jarre, but just the opening swooshy wind type noise, which made me think of Oxygene part 4...
Thanks! Actually, we're doing a genuinely Jarre-esque track soon. I've done a backing track using a pad-sound and a chord-progression that just screams early Jarre. We've done no vocals or anything yet, but I think it's gonna be interesting!
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#4 Post by shamelessbehave »

Do the Boys know about your music??? It´s got quality!!
http://www.myspace.com/shamelesssilvia

"It´s fundamental that we do only exist in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world. This is absolutely crucial to our entire outlook...what we do has an incredibly strong identity and applies only to us. It´s a case of not recognising the existence of anybody else!". Neil Tennant.

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#5 Post by One of the crowd »

I thought the beginning sounded like OMD

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#6 Post by BlueSwan »

shamelessbehave wrote:Do the Boys know about your music??? It's got quality!!
Probably not. I'd be surprised if they did. They might know our cover of "A New Life" if they've heard the proposed Attribute tracklisting, but other than that, I don't think so.

But thank you for your comment! :D
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Bowesy wrote:I thought the beginning sounded like OMD
Really? How so?
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#8 Post by BlueSwan »

BTW, Mas uploaded a remix of our "When It Rains" yesterday and it is absolutely brilliant! Check it out here: http://mas.mymusic.dk
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#9 Post by Glenny4 »

Beautiful track BlueSwan, you never disappoint :wink:

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#10 Post by Flaffer »

congratulations on your recent marriage - all the best for the future
Still waiting to hear the Adam Freeland, Manhattan Clique and Axwell mixes of Integral.

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#11 Post by Avalon »

I still don't know how to get it...

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#12 Post by rags »

Image

That is the image you are looking for Avalon :)
Make sure you are logged in of course, and you always have to right click and save target as once you are in the download page.

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Avalon wrote:I still don't know how to get it...
Me neither.
rags wrote:Image

That is the image you are looking for Avalon :)
Make sure you are logged in of course, and you always have to right click and save target as once you are in the download page.
This is exactly what I did ... and I dl'ed a html ... :roll: :oops:

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#14 Post by Avalon »

Where do I get the bleedin' log-in?

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#15 Post by rags »

Paninaro-Dancer wrote:This is exactly what I did ... and I dl'ed a html ... :roll: :oops:
Right... You are supposed to click the arrow normally, then it takes you to a download page, and on that download page you have to right click and save target as... I worded that wrong.

And logging in, on the left side panel, the ONLY two formfields are:
Brugernavn (meaning username)
Password (password)

And if you are not registered you click "Ny bruger" I suppose it means as much as new user... I don't see why you don't understand that Avalon... You are closer to that language then I am...! :)

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