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Post by Phantom Engineer on Apr 21, 2010 22:11:40 GMT -5
I don't know if this is just a musician thing do you ever hear music you wish you could have a stab at remixing? I don't mean complaining about the mastering, like too much compression (a common issue) but wanting to actually drop out or raise parts?
I'm a big Who fan but I'd love to sit at the mixer and redo "Who's Next." My problem is the synthesizer. I think this was the first rock album to use a synth so extensively and it was cutting edge at the time but now the Moog just sounds dated. It's hard to imagine Bab O'Riley or Won't Get Fooled again without their loops but a lot of other songs use a wash of synth for color and I'd drop it out. Goin' Mobile is a good example. I love the song but the synth in the background bugs me. And The guitar solo was plugged into the Moog instead of an amp. In the Classic Albums DVD they play a little of the original solo and I like it WAY better.
Yeah there's a lot of songs I'd remix...if only they'd let me!
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Post by Chuck on Apr 23, 2010 6:14:21 GMT -5
Sometime remixes backfire. The Small Faces' classic lp, "Odgen's Nut Gone Flake", for example. It opens with piano chords played through a Leslie Tone Cabinet. They would flow from speaker to speaker.
Not in the remix. Sony should be kicked in the behind.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Apr 24, 2010 13:09:45 GMT -5
I'd also like to drop The Jordanaires out of the early Elvis RCA records. I just don't like those kind of slick back-up vocals. The same with Buddy Holly. I have a bootleg of Oh Boy before the back-up vocals were added and I like it a lot better. Just more raw and, well, rock & rolly.
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Post by Gripweed on Apr 24, 2010 13:57:58 GMT -5
I'd get rid of the female vocals from Pink Floyd's "What Do You Want From Me."
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Apr 24, 2010 14:20:41 GMT -5
I'd also like to sit at the mixer for U2 albums from Achtung Baby on. I'd drop some stuff out and simplify many of the mix's.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Sept 24, 2010 5:09:35 GMT -5
Hmm, I didn't see this thread before.
"Good Morning, Good Morning", The Beatles
Underneath all those horns and animal noise is a nice, straight forward rocker. I actually prefer the boot with Paul and Ringo chugging away - only problem there is that George's great lead guitar is missing. So I'd remix it by taking out all the horns and just let the Beatles rock out.
Alice Cooper's "From The Inside" is one his best written albums... but it's too slick and polished. It's a clean album that could be greatly improved if you scrubbed away the glitz and allowed some of that dirty Detroit rock to show through.
I know Alice the showman liked all that grand, overblown stuff (and I do too a lot of the times), but in the process he buried Alice, the guy with the blood and the snake and the guillotine. And that was criminal.
(saying all that, I wouldn't touch one hair on the head of the Tubes "White Punks On Dope" - all that grand, big sweeping, female chorus, etc... was a thing of beauty. I just wanted to say that so that you didn't think I was totally anti big production. I like a big production, when it works and it fits the song)
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 26, 2010 0:18:15 GMT -5
"Good Morning, Good Morning", The Beatles Underneath all those horns and animal noise is a nice, straight forward rocker. I actually prefer the boot with Paul and Ringo chugging away - only problem there is that George's great lead guitar is missing. So I'd remix it by taking out all the horns and just let the Beatles rock out. Agreed. The version from Anthology is much better IMO. Speaking of that song, I just listened to Cheap Trick's phenomenal live cover of the Sgt. Pepper album and it made me wish for a lot of the '60s classics to be updated with current production values (like deeper drum tones, better guitar presence, and a whole lot more oomph). As for the thread, I've recently been listening to a lot of Stevie Wonder. His stuff is so good, but he often ruins it with talking or odd sound effects. I would totally remix "Isn't She Lovely" without the baby crying and all the invasive noise during the last half (Sounds of giving the baby a bath? Really?). Or "Do I Do" without the last 5 minutes of nonsense. Or "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" without the awful talking at the beginning. Such great songs with such distracting junk in them. |
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