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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Throw Me A Cool BBs Line
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on: September 08, 2010, 08:38:52 AM
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I always thought Brian was a fine lyricist. He writes pop music, and he is just a direct and more or less unvarnished fellow. Consider much of side two of Today! for examples of what are, I think, the most consistent example of Brian's lyric-writing abilities. "Please Let Me Wonder", "Kiss Me Baby", "She Knows Me Too Well", and "In The Back Of My Mind" Wasn't Mike responsible for much of these? That said, I agree he has done some great lyrics...course we need not look any further than the immortal lyrics of Til I Die
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian's morphing tunes
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on: September 01, 2010, 11:30:13 AM
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"Love To Say Dada" ended up being "Cool Cool Water". Part of "Wind Chimes" ended up in "Been Way To Long". The melody to "All This Is That" ends up in "Happy Days". This raises a question though. Exactly how do we tell the difference between melodies morphing into other songs, and "musical references", where something from one song is quoted in another song, in a deliberate way? Let's use Brian's Back as an example. "You Still Believe In Me" is quoted at the end of "Brian's Back", but it's more of a deliberate reference to another song, as apposed to one melody idea progressing from one song to another.
really? explain the whole All This is That being Happy days, I've never heard this theory anyone else know anything about this claim? The melodies for such lines as 'Dusk time the shadows fall / Into the timeless time of all' are rather similar to 'Happy days are here again / The sky is blue and clear again...'
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Interesting article on BWRG
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on: August 27, 2010, 04:08:22 PM
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Surely if he were to remove the artificial reverb, Al would have to have been given the PT session files.
If said reverb was already printed to the tracks he mixed, surely his comments are a bit pointless?
On a side note, the less sparing use of reverb is for me personally a welcome change from the drier sounding TLOS mix, which I think in part contributed to the lukewarm reception the CD received sound-wise.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: TLOS Sound Quality
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on: August 20, 2010, 12:43:44 PM
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SMiLE is another matter entirely. It is a beautiful recording.
How does the CD and vinyl compare here? Also any chance you could indulge me with a little parental mocking in order to demonstrate to me how one or two ripped vinyl TLOS tracks may sound compared to CD? I have no vinyl facilities unfortunately. Cheers
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian & SMiLE
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on: August 19, 2010, 01:37:31 PM
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Has Brian ever performed Heroes and Villains with his band like the single/Smiley version?
Not sure - been a while since I've watched the Radio City DVD. Anyone ? I think the Radio City version is just like the single version with the ascending vocal harmony thing at the end. Or basicallly the BWPS version without the intro, cantina section or tag...?
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Bob Ludwig
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on: August 07, 2010, 12:12:06 PM
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It's funny, in any article that I have read in which Bob Ludwig is quoted, he always comes across as a fierce opponent of the hypercompression trend. Such as here: http://emusician.com/tutorials/emusic_masters_mastering/“To me, it's a fact that highly compressed music is tiring to the ear and doesn't make you want to listen to something over and over again. Could this be one of the reasons for the record industry's demise?
Yet whenever we have a new release from Brian, people always lament Ludwig's participation as the Mastering Engineer. Does pressure from the record companies force him abandon his principles? Or does he simply have a different idea as to what constitutes overly compressed audio compared to the people of this board? Sam
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: \
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on: June 30, 2010, 04:38:13 PM
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If someone is no longer a fan of Brian because he used autotune -- they should have dropped out after BW88. (That used an early type of pitch correction -- or so AGD's site suggests.)
Sorry to return to the subject of autotune/pitch correction, but do you know any more details about any pre-autotune pitch correction; it's interesting, I do for one gather that engineers would sometimes skillfully manipulate tape speeds to correct certain notes (?). Cheers
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