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  • The only thing that sucks about this band: The vocalist does not hit his notes......the music is spot on....but not the vocals....HUGE disappointment....good band though....i met them at sxsw fuckin years ago before they got signed to serb tankian's label.....they were pretty big-headed...I have watched interviews with them...they are knocked down a few pegs....which is good because their sound is kind of an acquired taste.....there really is not much to what they do.

  • @TheGoliathsound The vocalist, darroh, does that on purpose if you can't tell. You called it not hitting the notes, but he changes things up. They're not like all the generic stuff you hear everywhere else.

  • @blondeguy32 I get that...absolutely. But I disagree with your notion; what if the whole band "changed things up?" Would it be the same songs you hear on the record, which make you go out to the shows? I heard them at sxsw in 2004 from the backstage and they sounded fuckin PRIME. I do not think there are any excuses. I get it when he makes the notes lower and blah, blah. But, trying to hit that note and continuously cracking? Boo. Getting the crowd to sing the high part is a cheat code.

  • @TheGoliathsound Don't get me wrong, they are a good band, and their music is also as good. It is just disappointing to experience them live, nowadays, due to the vocals being mierda.

    ePeace.

  • T0OLISHHHHHHHHHHHHH SOUND!!!

  • wow :D

  • this is the epitome of well composed new era music. music= creativity. nothing else. and the album version was a severe disappointment

  • Really different from the definitive one (that is REALLY better), but not bad

  • how come i think the demo is better then the original?

  • TOSHIBA? I LOST A FRIEND ON THE BEACH

  • if i were a man, i think i´d have a boner now.

  • @XxPunkerkittyXx Probably.

  • If you guys are wondering why this sounds better than the album version, it's because the final mixing was horrendously compressed and made to sound "loud". Darroh wasn't told to tone it down. The act of compressing and increasing the volume gain on music makes it so that each instrument overpowers one-another--burying the sound and in this case suffocating Darroh's vocals. I might get flack for this, but I suggest googling "Loudness War", and observe what is being done to music these days.

  • @Fibonacci09 "Professional" sound engineers are some of the worst things to happen to music.

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  • @Lunarmemory Only certain producers. I was really disappointed with the mixing on this album too

  • Awesome

  • It's traigc that this "demo" sounds much better than the album version. The album version really puts Darroh into the background. His voice isn't as powerful in the album version. Why did they not just put in this?

  • this sounds better than the album version

  • @Ceedge121 I remember thinking the same thing about versions of songs from their last album.

  • Heard this song on aardschok radio... Omg multiple internal combustions.

  • This is definitely a bit better than the album version. Feels like someone told them to tone it down or something. Unfortunate.

  • i dont see why this is a demo in my book its a finished product.....amazing

  • i prefer this to the album version. just sayin

  • Darroh Sudderth: Master of wordplay.

  • i hope they dont get rid of that cute techno background beat in their album version

  • favorite band ever <3

  • This is my favorite song i cant get enough of this song seriously i wake up and this is the first thing i listen to, i'm about to sleep and this is the last thing i listen to! I am in love with this song!!! best band ever!

  • Apparently we have 2 tasteless shitbags in the mix somewhere.

  • @nonlocality83 I know who one is, however who is the other?

  • @Gundam08thMSteam Make that 3.

  • This band is just too amazing for words. I love everything they do =)

  • July 12th

  • God they are just, the BEST. Musicianship, vocals, lyrics... Perfection.

  • So excited for the new album!!

  • @marky1010 I think we all are.

  • To me Fair to Midland sounds like a mix between System of a Down and Placebo.

  • now heaven knows ive got one short damn fuse so come lets sit down a spell while i light up the room

  • The fact that he's like, mumbling the first part of the lyrics makes it oh so intense.

  • ultimate steampunk vibe im gettin from this pic

  • for just a demo....this is absolutely amazing. this is why i LOVE this band. saw them when they toured with Wednesday 13 and The 69 Eyes in 2007 (i think?)...and didn't know who the hell they were....but i am soo happy i didn't just forget about them.

    i can't begin to express the love i have for this band.

  • @crazyelmo325 Well it looks like some of the studio songs are just the demos but cleaned up and given more editing. Musical Chairs is like that, and I have a feeling this song will be the same

  • @jonp713 HAHAHAHAHAHA.

  • Release date pushed back to july 12th.

  • June 14th can not come soon enough!!!!!!

  • @brg27 The album drops june 28th now.

  • All this band does is spit out amazing choruses

  • Stop bringing up other people who aren't related to Fair to Midland like Katy Perry and Bieber They suck and this is a rock song not bubble gum pop!!!!

  • super awesome cant wait to buy the album

  • Wow...Gucci man and Katy Perry make a difference in the world? I like some of Katy Perry's songs but to say that they make a difference in the world is...irrelevant. FTM rules.

  • awesome song

  • @jonp713 I recommend practicing your trolling on halo kids.

  • @jonp713 "Smart people talk because they have something to say, Ignorant people talk because they have to say something"

    Think about that and now re-read your post and you tell me which you think you are.

  • @jonp713 Fuck off dude, this band is amazing, do your homework asshole

  • @jonp713 What is REAL music sir? Please inform me so I can, more than likely, shut you down.

  • @jonp713 did you say Gucci Man is real music? Sure, someone repeating that he's "stupid" for 3 minutes for every song is real music.

    Disclaimer, I like hip hop, but the kind that has honest lyrics/music. See Atmosphere for example

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  • @jonp713 you're goin down you're goin down under the ground i hope he takes you too!!!

  • @jonp713 grow some originality buddy

  • @jonp713 Ignorance is bliss huh?

  • @jonp713 I wish I could sound like a bird.

  • @jonp713 you are my roommate...

  • @jonp713 Ok now I know you are 100% not serious hahaha

  • Seeing them tonight. Yeah buddy.

  • I just met these guys last night, i didnt get to stay for their show because of my curfew but i talked to Matt for about 45 mins. And these guys are truely amazing men and they love all the fans that they have and they deserve hundreds of thousands more fans, and i told matt that. I talked to all of them and they are seriously fantastic people. Cliff made sure that since we had to leave we would meet the whole band, and we did. We talked to all of them and they truely are remarkable gods.

  • @princesfan4ever I absolutely agree. I met them at the Victorville show back in February which was the first show of this tour. I talked to Cliff for quite a while and he, as well as the rest of the band, was so humble and welcoming and thankful that there was at least one person out there who loves what they do. After the show I met Darroh and I told him how I had stumbled across them and he was glad that I was there, signed inter.funda.stifle, shook my hand, and gave me man-hug before I left.

  • @cubedfreek yeah i cant wait to finally see them play when they come back to seattle.

    They need to have a bigger fan base, i have been spamming people with their music.

    Hoping to finally get them out there and bigger than ever.

  • I actually talked to Darroh and Cliff at the show last night in Sac.

    Hell of nice group of guys.

    I asked them the date, and they said something like...June 11th is the release date.

    Early June,

  • @ShredMasterDelux9000 At the ace of spades?

  • Since this is a demo, I vote to lose the first 5 seconds of this song. It just doesn't feel like it fits in with the rest of their intricate sound.

  • At 0:42 a new instrument is added. Is that another layered guitar riff or is that just another keyboard riff?

  • god i can't wait for this new album, i LOVE this song

  • In the chorus, after "has to hide somewhere between black and white", does he say "'cuz its safe" or "is he insane"? i thought it was 'safe' but all the sites said otherwise

  • awesome, original band. darroh=amazing vocalist

  • These "Demo" songs better be in the new album this year

  • @LinkMyBoy idk why else they'd put them on here and play them on tour and tell fans theyre going to if they in fact weren't planning on it ;)

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  • @LinkMyBoy here is the final list of songs on the album "Pour the Coal to 'Er" "Bright Bulbs and Sharp Tools" "A Loophole in Limbo" "Musical Chairs" "Rikki Tikki Tavi" "Uh-Oh" "Coppertank Island" "Amarillo Sleeps on My Pillow" "Bravo Sierra" "The Greener Grass" "The Dead Sea" "Golden Parachutes" "Whiskey"
  • FTM is one of the most original bands there is today. Love this, and all the other demos I've heard.

  • I never sighn in to comment on a song, but this band, this song, is to f'n good not to. Good stuff!!!

  • Cliff and who you guys call Darroh are my mentors, and I miss 'em. They're recording with the guy who recorded w/ Tool, Coheed and Cambria, and Stone Temple Pilots. I'm happy for 'em, but they need to come back! >:O

  • What if god was one of us? 0:42

  • @RedYoshi123 I hear it too

  • Is this not one of the best bands not to mention orginal music youve ever heard?

  • Darroh and Cliff are a pair of the coolest effin' cats out there. (I'm sure the rest of the guys are too, just don't know them as well.) On top of that they're skilled as all fuckin' hell. They really ought to be big.

  • They should totally keep the songs like this. These songs've reached the ultimate amount of awesome any song can possibly achieve.

  • If I would die listening this song ( with a suffocating cry inside) I would be one of the luckiest persons ever in history. Hurts so much and makes you feel SO ALIVE!!! I Love love this and hope that the the end product is up to the ftm par!!!

  • I forgot how much I love this band.

  • Chorus is gorgeous.

  • FTM FTW

  • Fair to midland= BRILLIANCE. best singer in music, no question!!

  • best song instrumentally. the keys are beautiful and the bass line is fucking awesome, and the drum beat is really creative.

  • Thirding the statement that Karnivool is awesome. FTM is too. I also recommend checking out Rishloo. Great band as well.

  • i didnt think there was any one else who was as smart as me. loving FTM AND fallout?? you sir are a genius

  • omg this song sounds amazing...cant wait to hear the finished product!

  • So good.

  • I LOVE IT! i cant wait. XD

  • For those of you arguing about the leaks, Cliff leaked them. I asked him at a show at Scout Bar in Houston a while back and he told me he leaked them.

  • @indielove456 ....well said! I agree 100 percent (:

    now my thought: FTM is a unique band. I love the fact that I've never once heard any other band like them. I love how I can't compare them to any other band because that's just how different they are <3

  • One thing I really admire about this band is that they don't need profanity in their lyrics to really emphasize a sense of intensity or anything. :)

  • @indielove456 frackin A!

  • @indielove456 I noticed this same thing. after listening to them for 5 years I just realized with their new album they never or rarely have any profanity. they dont need F bombs to impress an audience which is what is amazing about them. too many bands rely on the shock value of the F word

  • One of the best songs i have heard in years. Period.

  • In my opinion, these guys are basically one of the two promising new bands that there even ARE in this barren era of radio post-grunge and fake emo punk. And they're touring with the other one.

  • @Lepiotaphage

    10 Years is the other band you are referring to I hope

  • @Tool78Maynard

    Never heard 10 Years, I guess I'll check them out. But I was actually referring to Karnivool. You seem like you're...probably...a Tool fan, I think you would appreciate them too. Their new album is really good.

  • @Lepiotaphage

    Yes a big Tool fan..Check out 10 years man..They are awesome as well and ill Check out Karnivool..Ive heard of them before but never really listened to their music

  • @Tool78Maynard Karnivool is fantastic.

  • When they came through Seattle this last month my boyfriend and i went to see just them they were opening for 10 years and flyleaf, damn these guys are hundred times better then both those bands combine, Cant what for them to be headlining there own big tour like that, anyways they were only giving like 5 songs which is total bull and well we meet the guys and they where really nice guys almost to humble !!

  • @13FallenAngela i think theyre the fucking future of music dude

  • I don't understand how they haven't made soundtrack for a movie yet. Epic movies need Epic music like this.

  • Very well done! hope it comes soon

  • If they ever made a film about Castlevania these guys should be on the soundtrack.

  • Definitely their most prog song yet I'd say.

  • i wish i could write lyrics like Darroh. All their songs have the most creative lyrics

  • Demo or not i still think this rocks!! i cant wait for the real deal!!!

    i love how they do demos for songs because it is like getting double the amount of songs from them because the demo is usually completely dif from the the final.. anyways ^^ I LOVE YOU FTM!!! <3 cant wait to see you this may!

  • i listen to all these songs everyday after work, i cant stop listening, there is no other bands like FTM, i cant wait to hear this full blast in my car, at work and while i sleep :)

  • @YngwieK1

    Ditto man! You stole my line :)

  • @mallianimal AND U STOLE MY DITTO MALL! FTM IS AMAZING

  • @mallianimal lol my bad...cheers :)

  • That's such a hot picture. I can't wait to see em in 2 days!!! :)

  • I can't stop listening to these demos. Seriously, I've never been this addicted to a band. I don't know what it is about these guys but the music is so captivating. I'm fucking thrilled I get to see them twice next week.

  • my favorite of all these "incomplete" demos. i hope this one doesnt change at all. it kicks so much ass

  • 5/5 !!!!

  • guys, we don't don't know if this is a demo or a complete song, all we know is that the record is incomplete

  • pure win, just pure win

  • Thats my cousin Matt in the back he plays keyboards

  • What's up with your screen name? Why didn't you at least spell the band name right?

  • maybe his name is Tim lol

  • back left right? ling ling or something?

  • don't know if you are but the first time i saw them in orlando( i believe 2nd time they played here) i met Matts Dad and some of their family while they were playing and then he(Matts Dad) told the band backstage about me and when they came out to sign cd's they talked to me by my name. Fuckin awesome guys!

  • the lyrics for this song are sick

  • What are you talking about sick?gross or cool?

  • cool haha

  • sick generally means cool

  • Best band ever.

  • Man, these guys are so talented. I'm definitely going to have to get some concert tickets lined up!!!!

  • the only thing that ftm wants, is that they don't want people to think it's a finished product. But honestly i hope that they won't chance anything to there demo's whenn there on the album cause they all sound briliant!

  • Who cares if this demo got leaked, it's free publicity isn't it? This band is awesome anyway!

  • yeah and were all gonna buy the cd anyway!!!

    awesome!!

  • best dallas band of ALL time!

  • Fair to Midland is one of my most favorite bands. I cannot wait for this album. For months and months I've been wondering how they're gonna top FFAMF.

  • I'm not upset about the leaks only because it's a given that i will buy this album when it comes out. this band has my respect

  • @Firebreather01 it's a demo not a leak.

  • @jeffjpeterson This is true. It's been a year since I posted that and had it not been your comment, I wouldn't have ever noticed I said "leak" and not "demo". And I knew this was a demo too lol. Whoops

  • i know this shouldnt be here but time and time again ftm proves that they are still the greatest band alive

  • I'm torn about this. I love that I can hear a more polished than live version of their new stuff, but at the same time I'm with those that think it shouldn't be posted. I dunno what to think about it all...if the band was the one posting this, then cheers to that...if not, who leaked it? and why? and should I be mad about it?? baaahhh until then, I have this repeating on my desktop 24/7

  • This Really shouldn't be here

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  • take the video down

  • Their musical creativity give me so much hope.

  • Stick "Demo" at the end of the title so newbies get the idea.

  • Done.

  • you should take this down now

  • :S :S

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  • Holy. Fucking. Shit.

    I LOVE Fair to Midland, and I've wanted a new CD for quite awhile, but this song has made me crave it like crazy.

    This is my first time hearing this song, and I have already fallen in love with it.

  • I talked to Darroh about it, his main concern is that people are judging it as a final product. The band doesn't seem to be all that strongly against people listening, but everyone needs to keep in mind that this is a work in progress.

  • Hm, it's a logical concern, now I have been making and working with music for years now, trying to learn how to mix now, so I can easily hear that it is an unfinished product. However, if I let my roomies listen to it, they probably wont realise it that much. Oh well.

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  • Amazing verses, as well as the drums. I really like that they evolve like this and remain to keep their own style. God I am so curious for the album. And for so far I heard, even Darroh himself could be behind this leak, as he wants everything to be heard as soon as possible. However, we'll never know.

  • Haha, Darroh behind the leak? Well, it is true that all artists are show offs, so I can believe that :)