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Title: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: The Cincinnati Kid on November 06, 2015, 09:12:07 AM Here it is, not bad at all!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-mike-loves-spirited-bittersweet-new-christmas-song-20151106 Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: Seaside Woman on November 06, 2015, 09:46:36 AM I didn't think it was good either ...
Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: SMiLE Brian on November 06, 2015, 10:07:04 AM What a dumpster fire of autotune, Mike's voice sounds like he is drowning in it and Foskett's shrill falsetto. BW really is miles ahead of this clown.
Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: The LEGENDARY OSD on November 06, 2015, 11:26:21 AM What a dumpster fire of autotune, Mike's voice sounds like he is drowning in it and Foskett's shrill falsetto. BW really is miles ahead of this clown. Ranks right up there with the his eternally boring, mundane and embarrassing output. :tm Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: Mike's Beard on November 06, 2015, 12:24:30 PM Well on the plus side it's better than Santa's Going to Kokomo.
Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: Cool Cool Water on November 06, 2015, 12:39:11 PM Here it is, not bad at all! http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-mike-loves-spirited-bittersweet-new-christmas-song-20151106 Great '79 track to be revamped. Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: drbeachboy on November 06, 2015, 12:54:23 PM Well on the plus side it's better than Santa's Going to Kokomo. Musically maybe, but not vocally. I'll take the original over this one. Processed Mike Love does not sound good to my ears. Your ears may vary. ;)Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: CenturyDeprived on November 06, 2015, 03:02:06 PM Well on the plus side it's better than Santa's Going to Kokomo. That could be said about literally every single released BB and BB solo track ever. Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: ontor pertawst on November 06, 2015, 03:10:28 PM Or almost every song, ever.
Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: Tony S on November 07, 2015, 03:16:38 AM I also prefer the original version from 79. Don't care for this one at all.......should have cleaned up Go and Get That Girl, with a great driving beat and Carl vocal!
Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: puni puni on November 07, 2015, 04:10:15 AM New backing track = improvement over the original, can't go wrong with Spectoresque
New vocals/autotune = ...why? I wonder who mixed this. That mistake at 2:54... ___ I thought I'd heard of "French rock band Phoenix" before... Quote In 1995, Laurent Brancowitz, Mazzalai's older brother, permanently joined the band on guitar after the end of Darlin', a short-lived band that Brancowitz had formed with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Bangalter and de Homem-Christo later formed Daft Punk It sure is characteristic of Love to be approached by 'artier' rock musicians to record one of his songs, only for him to go, 'Uh, actually, I can do better.' (He must have heard their cover of Darlin' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67-ZDI-MmaA) beforehand.) Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: phirnis on November 07, 2015, 05:38:04 AM By the way, do we know who produced the original late-70s recording? It sounds very MIU, so I figure Al was involved? After a few listens I find that older version quite fabulous! Considering songs like this one and Winter Symphony it's pretty clear they had a decent Christmas album in them at the time. Just leave off Santa's Got an Airplane no matter what!
Title: Re: Alone On Christmas Day Post by: Andrew G. Doe on November 10, 2015, 12:58:15 AM Recorded at MIU concurrently with the non-seasonal material, so l'd guess production credit would be Jardine/Altbach.
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