I'm very excited about this concept. Both the title and the change of process sound fab. Could be an amazing album.
Here's what happened to me this week. I filled my head with some of the remastered Beatles albums on Wednesday and Thursday then, on Friday night - very late -I went into the attic with 2 cans of Marks and Spencers lager (Yes thats's right - 2 cans!). When I woke up I had written sketches for 2 songs. One, a bar song delivered by Jo Jo the dog faced man, and the second a large ensemble piece with a cast of circus announcers and a chorus of singing freaks which sounds suspiciously like Sgt Pepper for some reason. hmmmm.
Might try the same thing tonight but with Tesco's lager and see what happens.
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I just looked up Jo-Jo - beautiful.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of the Sgt Pepper similarity, an ensemble circus piece is, I would think, a necessity on this album. If you don't nail it, someone must - unless we go the way of the sea shanty and get everyone involved in a tradtional circus song of some kind ... do circus standards exist?! ... no, probably not.
As for the influence of supermarket lager, I bought a crate of Morrisson's lager once, but ended up drunkenly slapping myself on the arse for several continuous hours and had to go to hospital.
Remember we used to get supermarket beer as a rider at Long Road? Disgusting.
ReplyDeleteAnyway - well done! Glad to hear the process is working for you.
How are you finding the remasters - apart from the great added photos?
The remasters are great! loads more presence on the vocals, lots more detail on the top end and a really warm phat bass on it all - Macca's bass playing sounds incredible and really upfront in the mix. Revolver and the White album seem to benefit most with 'Tomorrow never knows' totally leaping out at you from the first second.
ReplyDeleteI just wish they had remixed that prehistoric stereo panning which has the vocals hard left and drums hard right on some tracks. A brilliant track like Taxman is a really uncomfortable headphone listen, even remastered, and ironically sounds so much better in mono!
I've muttered to a few of you already that it might be nice to do this as a double album, one side (sides, what the hell am I talking about, this virtual stuff doesn't HAVE sides anymore) devoted to Greeks, and one to Freaks. Think The Love Below/Speakerboxxxxxxxx by Outkast. Of course this concept would rely on a lot of content coming forth from people but I can't help feeling that some people might put two tracks out. If they DO, it would be great if they did one in each realm. The realm of the Greekans, and the realm of the Freakans.
ReplyDeleteBEATLES: Yeah - some of that panning is hard to listen to, but that's why those albums were'nt mixed in stereo until the 80s. My boss is a collector (a REAL collector) and he A-B'd the new remasters with the best versions to date - and he reckons they are very slightly better sounding. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteFREAKS: I kind of like the wrongness of having the subjects juxtaposed randomly - makes sense of the title. Hoping to hear some more chat online about who's contributing this time around.