Author Topic: Almost perfect tracks spoiled (Read 5569 times)

Torslanda · « **Reply #25 on:** 02 April, 2011, 10:35:31 am »

Talking of syn drums. Rose Royce 'Love Don't Live Here Any More'

Talking of which, Jimmy Nail's annihilation of same.

Just don't! Already

Redlight · « **Reply #26 on:** 03 April, 2011, 10:29:31 pm »

has anyone mentioned the "Unplugged" version of Layla? Makes you long for the pointless piano outro.

red marley · « **Reply #27 on:** 03 April, 2011, 11:34:12 pm »

The "Oi" right at the end of The Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper".

IanDG · « **Reply #28 on:** 04 April, 2011, 10:59:38 am »

The drum solo in the middle of 'Moby Dick'

mattc · « **Reply #29 on:** 04 April, 2011, 11:03:47 am »

Quote from: Redlight on 03 April, 2011, 10:29:31 pm

has anyone mentioned the "Unplugged" version of Layla? Makes you long for the pointless piano outro.

The "Unplugged" version of many perfectly good tracks could qualify.

The "Unplugged" concept demonstrated that some artists really were dependent on all the recording studio trickery. And some really didn't know how to get the best out of acoustic/traditional instruments, and looked pretty stupid trying..

clarion · « **Reply #30 on:** 04 April, 2011, 11:04:30 am »

True. But Nirvana Unplugged was still awesome.

IanDG · « **Reply #31 on:** 04 April, 2011, 11:06:18 am »

as was Neil Young's show (I also enjoyed the Zep one too)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #32 on:** 04 April, 2011, 12:40:39 pm »

My FLJS mate Samfast once interviewed Eddy Grant and says he's a jolly nice chap. Something possibly not unconnected with an open invite to drop in on Eddy's island off Guyana if he's ever in the neighbourhood.

Has anyone mentioned that piano outro at the end of Layla yet?

mattc · « **Reply #33 on:** 04 April, 2011, 12:55:15 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 04 April, 2011, 12:40:39 pm

Has anyone mentioned that piano outro at the end of Layla yet?

It's a thing of beauty, and should be mentioned more often. Without it, Layla would be too short, too noisy, and just too rock-n-roll for the more sophisticated listener.

Snakehips · « **Reply #34 on:** 04 April, 2011, 12:56:20 pm »

Most , if not all , of the I knows in the I know interlude in Ain't No Sunshine could usefully have been omitted if you ask me.

Snake

clarion · « **Reply #35 on:** 04 April, 2011, 12:57:11 pm »

I know.

Woofage · « **Reply #36 on:** 04 April, 2011, 01:00:49 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 01 April, 2011, 02:53:06 pm

The crowd noises on Hendrix' Voodoo Chile.

I'll see your original version and raise you the cover with Clapton replacing Hendrix. Yawwwnnnn......

Manotea · « **Reply #37 on:** 04 April, 2011, 01:03:35 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 04 April, 2011, 11:04:30 am

True. But Nirvana Unplugged was still awesome.

Indeedy.

On a different point, bands and especially vocalists should not be allowed to get old or otherwise muck about with classic tracks just because they've got bored over thirty 30 odd years or so of repetition.

fuzzy · « **Reply #38 on:** 04 April, 2011, 01:26:15 pm »

Walking in Memphis by Marc Cohn. A truely wonderful track until that little bit where it was covered by Cher

PaulF · « **Reply #39 on:** 04 April, 2011, 02:35:39 pm »

Whilst we're on Neil Young Unplugged. The whoop at the start of Needle and the Damage Done. I think one reviewer at the same said "I hope whoever did it is haunted by it for life"

itsbruce · « **Reply #40 on:** 05 April, 2011, 01:42:37 am »

The Piano Has Been Drinking by Tom Waits. What spoils it is that the great live version is really hard to find and the version with the conventional tune is banal and pollutes the memory of it. I just have my aged tape of Bounced Cheques to nourish me on that one. I should find one of those tape-to-digital things before it snaps.

Billy Weir · « **Reply #41 on:** 05 April, 2011, 07:59:35 pm »

I hate the interlude at 2'15" in John Cage's 4'33". Why John? Why?

nicknack · « **Reply #42 on:** 05 April, 2011, 08:55:20 pm »

Quote from: Billy on 05 April, 2011, 07:59:35 pm

I hate the interlude at 2'15" in John Cage's 4'33". Why John? Why?

Is this the live at the Festival Hall version with the muffled cough at 1' 34"?

I know what you mean.

Flying_Monkey · « **Reply #43 on:** 06 April, 2011, 06:35:34 pm »

Quote from: PaulF on 04 April, 2011, 02:35:39 pm

Whilst we're on Neil Young Unplugged. The whoop at the start of Needle and the Damage Done. I think one reviewer at the same said "I hope whoever did it is haunted by it for life"

Luckily the original version is also live and relatively unplugged anyway.

Redlight · « **Reply #44 on:** 06 April, 2011, 11:17:20 pm »

Quote from: Flying_Monkey on 06 April, 2011, 06:35:34 pm

Quote from: PaulF on 04 April, 2011, 02:35:39 pm
Whilst we're on Neil Young Unplugged. The whoop at the start of Needle and the Damage Done. I think one reviewer at the same said "I hope whoever did it is haunted by it for life"

Luckily the original version is also live and relatively unplugged anyway.

There's also the bunch who fail to recognise the intro to Like A Hurricane until he starts singing and then start whooping

Flying_Monkey · « **Reply #45 on:** 07 April, 2011, 01:51:12 pm »

Quote from: Redlight on 06 April, 2011, 11:17:20 pm

There's also the bunch who fail to recognise the intro to Like A Hurricane until he starts singing and then start whooping

Perhaps they could one day release a remastered version and eliminate the audience. Shouldn't be too difficult.

RJ · « **Reply #46 on:** 07 April, 2011, 10:05:32 pm »

Quote from: Flying_Monkey on 07 April, 2011, 01:51:12 pm

Quote from: Redlight on 06 April, 2011, 11:17:20 pm
There's also the bunch who fail to recognise the intro to Like A Hurricane until he starts singing and then start whooping

Perhaps they could one day release a remastered version and eliminate the audience. Shouldn't be too difficult.

He has form ...

clarion · « **Reply #47 on:** 11 April, 2011, 09:08:17 pm »

Not anywhere near perfect, but a damn good record.

Till he bloody yodels!

Hocus Pocus by Focus.

Legs · « **Reply #48 on:** 22 April, 2011, 11:41:57 am »

Some of the 'movie' parts and sound effects in The Friends of Mr Cairo.

I'm not sure whether what David Lindley does at 7:17 in this

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/jtuvXrTz8DY&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/jtuvXrTz8DY&rel=1</a> is quite funny or not? He redeems himself with the lap guitar solo, though...

Author Topic: Almost perfect tracks spoiled (Read 5569 times)

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