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« Reply #620 on: November 26, 2024, 10:55:57 AM » |
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I like auto-tune when it's used creatively. Not when it's used to make up for deficiencies in a singer.
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It's such a weird thing isn't it - because most of the best (ok, scrub that, my favourite) singers have multiple 'deficiencies'. It's all about how the emotion is transferred to my ears. Some people almost literally 'can't sing' but it still works. Other people are entirely technically proficient but you never want to hear again...it's the same with guitar playing - Yngwie Malmsteen can play all the notes, but do you ever want to listen to him playing them a second time? To get bang up to date - Robert Fripp or Steve Vai (KC v BEAT playing KC)? No contest - less is always more. The funny thing about this particular case is that I might actually prefer an autotuned Freddie  |
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« Reply #621 on: November 26, 2024, 11:43:54 AM » |
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It's such a weird thing isn't it - because most of the best (ok, scrub that, my favourite) singers have multiple 'deficiencies'. It's all about how the emotion is transferred to my ears. Some people almost literally 'can't sing' but it still works. Other people are entirely technically proficient but you never want to hear again...it's the same with guitar playing - Yngwie Malmsteen can play all the notes, but do you ever want to listen to him playing them a second time? To get bang up to date - Robert Fripp or Steve Vai (KC v BEAT playing KC)? No contest - less is always more.
I agree with all that. I like "stylists". I like artists with charisma, intelligence, and the ability to get emotions over to the audience. When I talked about "deficiencies", I was thinking more about pop singers than people like Bob Dylan or [insert name here]. Jules |
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« Reply #622 on: November 26, 2024, 01:02:16 PM » |
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I've employed Autotune in a studio-based environment, principally when we knew that hearing that bum note would bug the perpetrator from here until eternity.
Also, when the fiddle player is 104, getting a bit tired after the sixteenth take, and we're on the clock.
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« Reply #623 on: November 26, 2024, 05:01:29 PM » |
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I like auto-tune when it's used creatively. Not when it's used to make up for deficiencies in a singer.
Jules
It's such a weird thing isn't it - because most of the best (ok, scrub that, my favourite) singers have multiple 'deficiencies'. It's all about how the emotion is transferred to my ears. Some people almost literally 'can't sing' but it still works. Other people are entirely technically proficient but you never want to hear again...it's the same with guitar playing - Yngwie Malmsteen can play all the notes, but do you ever want to listen to him playing them a second time? To get bang up to date - Robert Fripp or Steve Vai (KC v BEAT playing KC)? No contest - less is always more. The funny thing about this particular case is that I might actually prefer an autotuned Freddie Yngwie, eh ? The late Jeff Buckley made the following observation about the aforementioned Mr Malmsteen : "Do I like Yngwie Malmsteen ? Ha ! He says he loves the guitar yet it's obvious to me that the guitar hates him. He can't write a song at all. I remember hearing a bit of an album of his after reading so much about him...it was a complete joke. He's no threat to anything or anyone whatsoever - except maybe his own bowels." Bit harsh, I thought...  |
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« Reply #624 on: November 26, 2024, 05:33:56 PM » |
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Bit harsh, I thought... You might say that, I couldn't possibly comment... |
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« Reply #626 on: December 13, 2024, 04:11:43 PM » |
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Ordered, but i did't go for the most expensive option. |
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« Reply #627 on: January 08, 2025, 03:03:04 PM » |
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A new Throwing Muses album on March.
Cheered me up that has.
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« Reply #628 on: January 08, 2025, 05:37:32 PM » |
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A brief snippet of the new Jethro Tull record, Curious Ruminant, has been released on social media. I like it….
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« Reply #629 on: January 08, 2025, 09:33:13 PM » |
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A new Throwing Muses album on March.
Cheered me up that has.
March 14th that is 🙂 |
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« Reply #630 on: January 09, 2025, 11:12:33 AM » |
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Bob Mould releases his long-awaited (by me, anyway - has it really been 5 years since his last effort, Blue Hearts ?) new album Here We Go Crazy on March 7th. Here's the title track - concise and snappy, under 3 minutes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9WNAhNrmEM |
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« Reply #631 on: January 09, 2025, 11:28:17 AM » |
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Bob Mould releases his long-awaited (by me, anyway - has it really been 5 years since his last effort, Blue Hearts ?) new album Here We Go Crazy on March 7th. Here's the title track - concise and snappy, under 3 minutes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9WNAhNrmEMExcellent  |
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« Reply #632 on: January 09, 2025, 08:25:40 PM » |
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Really really good , hope there's more like this on the forthcoming recordings
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« Reply #633 on: January 16, 2025, 06:07:48 PM » |
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New supergroup alert : Butler Blake & Grant Featuring original Suede guitarist Bernard Butler, Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and singer-songwriter James Grant, they're releasing an album on March 28th, 2025. Here's their first single "Bring An End" - quite mature sounding, a bit like the Finn Brothers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vsZaQkRJiU&t=269sAnother release to look forward to... |
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« Reply #634 on: January 16, 2025, 08:11:49 PM » |
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." Albert Einstein
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« Reply #635 on: January 16, 2025, 08:16:02 PM » |
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« Reply #636 on: March 14, 2025, 09:10:15 PM » |
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« Reply #637 on: March 15, 2025, 08:49:28 AM » |
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Oooh thanks for posting! This I must have. Still have 'The First Cut' ep on Shagrat from ages ago, and that 7" single. Edit- can't get the ordering link to work. |
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« Reply #638 on: March 15, 2025, 12:01:13 PM » |
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...and of course the Betsey Trotwood record.
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« Reply #639 on: March 15, 2025, 12:37:09 PM » |
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Just found the 18CD Rory Gallagher at the BBC box set, released last year.
Insanely expensive from Amazon (suspiciously much cheaper on eBay) and for completists only.
The veritable Grateful Dead archive of Rory Gallagher performances.
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