garretg wrote on Sat, 06 January 2007 15:19 |
I guess everyone's entitled to an opinion... Here's mine.
There's a ton of good in these tracks. The sum is greater than the parts... I've listened to my (semi) final mix now about 10 times today, just because I can't stop. And it's one of the better things I've worked on in a while... My three year old loves it too, and he's got good taste, honest.
Folks, this is an indie rock forum... if you don't get indie rawk, maybe you should:
a) buy some: pixies, fugazi, sonic youth, minutemen, guided by voices, yo la tengo, built to spill, pavement, and modest mouse records, and get up to speed or b) find something else to do.
-Garret
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You know what, I've heard lots of indie rock that, allthough not edited to a grid, feels great. This is simply, IMO, bad playing. I'm fien when things move around tempowise. This is not the case here.
A good exampel of excellent playing where the tempo moves around, for me, is "Brand new caddilliac" by The Clash. That was a first take recording. When they finished the beds for that track, the produicer said "great, that ones in the can". The band protested and said it was the first take, and the tempo moved around. The producer said, it's great, let's move on.
And that song rocks.
So, learn how to play togetehr first, before you go into a studio and try to be one take wonders.
I've seen many an indie band put on their release that they recorded all their songs in 2 days, and it wa sall one take. So, they're starting off by putting an excuse on the label.
The Beatles recorded their first album in an afternoon.
The Stray cats recorded their first album in 5 days, and if you listen to "Rock this Town", you'll hear part where Setzer plays a lick in the completely wrong key. But it deosn't matter, becasue it rocks.