Compadres, love to get some feedback on this track. It's finished apart from the final mixing.
Ostensibly it's a Guy Ritchie-esque story of an East End robbery, but it's actually about something completely different. I'm curious to see if that comes across though, so won't reveal it - answers on a postcard please.
This is a bit cheeky but if anyone has got the time / enthusiasm to listen to it twice, I've attached two links here to alternative mixes that we're currently debating over. As well as any opinions on the song itself, any preferences / suggestions on either mix 1 or 2 would be highly useful. Of course, I'm equally grateful if you just have time to listen to 1 mix.
https://soundcloud.com/elastic-justice/ram-raid-at-the-palace-of-wonder-demo-mix-1/s-A0ZBohttps://soundcloud.com/elastic-justice/ram-raid-at-the-palace-of-wonder-demo-mix-2/s-qCYNvLyrics below (with some footnotes at the bottom for the non-Brits).
Pauly
Ram Raid at the Palace of WonderIt was cats and dogs, it was 2 in the morning, and everything was going to plan
There was Bishop and Dawkins, Watson and Hawkins, sitting in the back of the van
Yes we'd all done our time, our time on the inside, mapping out the route to the vault
Now we're wheel-spinning up the boot-worn steps leaving skid marks on the asphalt
It's a...
Ram raid at the Palace of Wonder
Foot right to the floor
I thought we had the measure of the treasures
But we bounced right off the door
It's a...
Ram raid at the Palace of Wonder
All the guards are on the payroll
We had faith, we had science, we had crowbars and semtex
We're still looking through the keyhole
I was gonna get with the programme, once I had all the answers
I was gonna build a villa in Sevilla and walk around in my pyjamas, but
Did you hear the Doppler effect when the Rozzers drove past
Everything I knew went down a semitone and
All that they could do was laugh
It's a...
Ram raid at the Palace of Wonder
Foot right to the floor
I thought we had the measure of the treasures
But we bounced right off the door
It's a...
Ram raid at the Palace of Wonder
All the guards are on the payroll
We had faith, we had science, we had crowbars and semtex
We're still looking through the keyhole
Footnotes for non-East End gangsters:
- Cats & dogs = 'raining cats and dogs' = raining heavily
- Time on the inside = time in prison
- Rozzers = the Police