This is one of our revised versions of the original Friends Forever.  This is my friend and his older brother singing and playing.  I'm not sure what the program they put it together on was.  My friend isn't a drummer but he got a lot of good stuff in there by generating it in the program.  tell me what you guys think about this one.

Well you asked me to listen and post, so I'm going to give you some feedback that I hope you don't take the wrong way.
The chord progression is very predictable, look at this post: http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/1078.html
I get stuck in a musical rut sometimes, too, when every song I began to write sounds like the other 10 songs I've written. So hopefully Substitutions will help with creativity.
The recording is noisy. Meaning there's that slight space of air you can hear between the music, which makes it sound like a home recording. As I posted on your other song: I'm not a mixing/mastering guru. I play around with level, gain, and volume and can't tell any difference. But maybe if you play around with it, you could. Also, as I said on the other song, there are some really great threads in the Gear Talk and Recording forums that will help you out.
The mixing levels are a little off, IMO, you should bring the crashing cymbals (or whatever they're called) down. Bring the vox up, the backup vox a little bit more up.
As far as playing ability, that sounds great.
The vox need some work, sing from your diaphram. Take a deep breath and the bottom of your stomach should move outward. Push the air out thru your vocal chords by slowly pushing the bottom of your stomach where your diaphram is. Learning how to sing (controlling your voice) with your diaphram and not your lungs or your throat will give you great power. It will give you control of your voice so that you can, not necessarily sing louder, but sing the right way and accomplish what you want to with your voice, and it will also help pitch and ability to stay on key when holding out long phrases.
It sounds like you've got a pretty decent song, however it's all about the details, right? And most of us can't afford to pay someone to take care of the details so we have to figure out how to do it on our own.
Hope this helps
EDIT: I just listened to the original version of this song and the noice level is very low, so whatever you did the first time, do it again. And I always tell first timers this, listen to DaveUK, he knows of what he speaks, even though he is the AntiChrist of BandAmp (right Dave )

IMO vocals are too quiet, they might sound much better with a stronger reverb. And the snare drum sounds too sharp! It's terrible!
Anyway, the song is good, but you need to improve the recording, mixing and mastering techniques

nice ideas.  a little predictable and i agree with creative control that you ought to have a word with daveuk if you wanna improve your production.  he knows his stuff.

Alrigtht, I like the instruments here. Particularly the guitar solos go over nicely. Lead vocals are also nice, which is why the need to be much LOUDER in the mix. Backing vocals are nice.

Now two things that need work are the production and the 'ideas'. I personally think the band would sound just fine live, which means first work on the ideas. Get wild with the lyrics, and indeed, change up the chords a bit. And good luck.

RJ

just listening to the song- for all of the suggestions, you have got something good. The timing is off is some places- but then again, that happens to be my biggest problem... so keep at it, sounds better than most of my stuff

Production issues aside, I think the biggest improvement would come from stronger vocals. The singer's voice is fine, but he needs to have more confidence in it and sing more powerfully. See CreativeControl's bit on singing. This is a good (re)start to what could become a catchy tune.

Thanks a lot everyone for posting.  This is helping out a ton for me to figure out how to get things better.  I appreciate it very much

Yes, the chords progression is predictable (but so is every blues) and, yes, you need to practice your guitar, etc., but there is something about the way you sing that makes for a pleasant listening. Your voice is always on the note which can not be said about many a site member (incl. yours truly).  So keep trying, something good will come out of it.

i'm not going to give a long crtitique... just that i thought the song was good, the drums were a little out of place, maybe drop them, maybe bring up both voices a little, the second up a bit more but still lower in volume than the first - but i like the song