Songs with top-notch production that still amazes you
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- KVRAF
- 4907 posts since 10 Aug, 2004 from Colorado Springs
Promised You a Miracle by Simple Minds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX55HEX0hb0
Funny thing, the video shows the band playing analog/acoustic instruments. There are some places where the bass does sound like a fat Fender, but clearly at other places the bass-line is some type of synth.
There's everything that was good about 80's new wave pop (yes there were some great songs out of that) - this one has a simply killer bass line that rivals anything by Chic from the 70's/80's. And that opening synth chordal riff is one of the best opening phrase. Now I'm off listening to other Simple Minds like "Up on the Catwalk" (Killer sound on the drums - remember that was 1983 when recorded - Steve Lillywhite, thank you!) Waterfront, Speed Your Love to Me, all had that huge Lillywhite drum sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX55HEX0hb0
Funny thing, the video shows the band playing analog/acoustic instruments. There are some places where the bass does sound like a fat Fender, but clearly at other places the bass-line is some type of synth.
There's everything that was good about 80's new wave pop (yes there were some great songs out of that) - this one has a simply killer bass line that rivals anything by Chic from the 70's/80's. And that opening synth chordal riff is one of the best opening phrase. Now I'm off listening to other Simple Minds like "Up on the Catwalk" (Killer sound on the drums - remember that was 1983 when recorded - Steve Lillywhite, thank you!) Waterfront, Speed Your Love to Me, all had that huge Lillywhite drum sound.
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silversurfer91 silversurfer91 https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=334591
- KVRer
- 15 posts since 20 Jul, 2014
- KVRAF
- 40137 posts since 11 Aug, 2008 from clown world
I was just watching a video about the making of the album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHcF1aJhJbc
Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
What an amazing track, singing, production, playing etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHcF1aJhJbc
Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
What an amazing track, singing, production, playing etc.
Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
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- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
Yes, good, repetitive riffs are quite a mighty tool.rockstar_not wrote:Promised You a Miracle by Simple Minds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX55HEX0hb0
Funny thing, the video shows the band playing analog/acoustic instruments. There are some places where the bass does sound like a fat Fender, but clearly at other places the bass-line is some type of synth.
There's everything that was good about 80's new wave pop (yes there were some great songs out of that) - this one has a simply killer bass line that rivals anything by Chic from the 70's/80's. And that opening synth chordal riff is one of the best opening phrase. Now I'm off listening to other Simple Minds like "Up on the Catwalk" (Killer sound on the drums - remember that was 1983 when recorded - Steve Lillywhite, thank you!) Waterfront, Speed Your Love to Me, all had that huge Lillywhite drum sound.
I did not know that song, but I love their old song Someone somewhere in summertime, always been a favorite of mine
There are several songs where I never really knew whether the bass was electric or synth, like Ain't nobody by Rufus, which also sounds very good, but it is so famous that we don't really pay attention to it anymore in terms of music (although it has been named one of the best songs in music history by the Rolling Stones magazine). It often plays in the background, which is a shame.
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- KVRist
- 436 posts since 18 Aug, 2004
Time for some Soul in yer hole?
3 Classics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOg_8hCC4u4
RIP Bobby Womack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw
and this'un
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGGRi2CEFu8
You know tunes are good when you play 'em to kids who've never heard 'em before and they start shaking booty within hearing the opening couple of bars.
3 Classics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOg_8hCC4u4
RIP Bobby Womack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw
and this'un
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGGRi2CEFu8
You know tunes are good when you play 'em to kids who've never heard 'em before and they start shaking booty within hearing the opening couple of bars.
Just make the music that you enjoy (failing that go for a walk, watch some porn, have a fight with a random bloke until something else happens).
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
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- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
Speaking of Rufus, there were a couple of great tracks on Chaka Khan's first solo album (1984, same year as Ain't nobody). Her songs tend to increase a lot in density towards the end...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGC2AtF7xw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpGPROEg-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGC2AtF7xw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpGPROEg-I
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
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- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
I remember the first time I heard this song by the Temptations, I had the volume on my stereo too loud, almost fell from my chair. I did not see that kind of bass drum and bass coming from the Temptations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBJpCjw0B_s
They often had one or two great songs on their albums, while the rest was mediocre at best.
Like this on an older album of theirs, sounded also pretty good back then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L44TOrHyBcU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBJpCjw0B_s
They often had one or two great songs on their albums, while the rest was mediocre at best.
Like this on an older album of theirs, sounded also pretty good back then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L44TOrHyBcU
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- KVRian
- 643 posts since 28 Apr, 2004 from location: location
Amazing album!!!!!!!! The production is perfect.Yeager wrote:And this : It SOUNDS very beautiful detailed and open,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-o3l8uKloM
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- KVRAF
- 6241 posts since 25 May, 2002 from Bobo-dioulasso\BF__Geneva/CH
If you allow me...
A self-produced song based around the singer's voice and lyrics,
A bit outdated perhaps, but unique IMO, at every aspects (quality and intelligence of the lyrics as well as the originality of the theme/subject, uniqueness of the background orchestration, richness of the melody and their ornaments when played by background instrument and, of course because being "the jimi hendrix of vocalist" the expressiveness of the voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdtFHLT8u4Q
Here the lyrics page from the site of the artist :
http://sofasound.com/phcds/iclyrics.htm#5
A self-produced song based around the singer's voice and lyrics,
A bit outdated perhaps, but unique IMO, at every aspects (quality and intelligence of the lyrics as well as the originality of the theme/subject, uniqueness of the background orchestration, richness of the melody and their ornaments when played by background instrument and, of course because being "the jimi hendrix of vocalist" the expressiveness of the voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdtFHLT8u4Q
Here the lyrics page from the site of the artist :
http://sofasound.com/phcds/iclyrics.htm#5
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- KVRAF
- 4005 posts since 8 Jan, 2005 from Hamilton, New Zealand
Everything from the last Boards of Canada album, Tomorrow's Harvest.
I make music: progressive-acoustic | electronica/game-soundtrack work | progressive alt-metal
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- KVRist
- 464 posts since 4 Nov, 2011 from Tleat
- KVRian
- 974 posts since 16 Jan, 2012 from UK
just listening to these at the mo on my phone:
The Flat Earth
Therapy/Growth
Leipzig.. all Thomas Dolby
the hissing of summer lawns by Joni Mitchel .. astonishing there is not one note out of true,, amazing work...
think of some more shortly i would think..
The Flat Earth
Therapy/Growth
Leipzig.. all Thomas Dolby
the hissing of summer lawns by Joni Mitchel .. astonishing there is not one note out of true,, amazing work...
think of some more shortly i would think..
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
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- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
- KVRAF
- 3303 posts since 6 Jul, 2012 from Sick-cily
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
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- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
Sure, the sound quality as such is better today, but I think they did a great job for what was possible back then, a classic instrumental piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP1_1DpeBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP1_1DpeBE