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iAlarma! reminded me of the Talking Heads 77 album, the one with "Who Is It?" on it which DA covered at the time in concert.
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Strange Animal
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jiminy
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I hear the Elvis Costello sound of that time too..sort of a Radio Radio vibe goin on.
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John Foxe
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Most of the songs are very catchy with some cool guitar hooks.
Favorites:
Central Theme
Alarma
My Room
Faces...
Colored by
Through the Speakers
Endless Summer
Wall Of Doubt
Ghost of the Heart
anti-favorites:
Props - vocals flat
Mortal Coil - entire song too dissonant and weird
So many favorites. This was a very, very good recording for its time.
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jyroflux
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Props - vocals flat
Mortal Coil - entire song too dissonant and weird
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I always thought the vocals were recorded that way purposefully. I've never read anything to support this (as stated above), but the vocals are part of what I like about the song.
Mortal Coil - I loved that song from the first time I heard it. It's my kind of weird. 
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Dr Rich
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Originally posted by John Foxe
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Props - vocals flat
Mortal Coil - entire song too dissonant and weird
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I always thought the vocals were recorded that way purposefully. I've never read anything to support this (as stated above), but the vocals are part of what I like about the song.
Mortal Coil - I loved that song from the first time I heard it. It's my kind of weird.
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Those two are favorites of mine! 
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jiminy
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AND -- I'm old enough that I'm married, have a mortgage, a home recording studio,
As a musician, sure, ...
OK RR-
We can take the hints.
have you recorded anything (at home) since after all..you ARE a musician with a HOME STUDIO??
Would love to hear it.
pm me or announce!
(the shy ones never get heard- its time for some self promotion..most folks have heard my crap-)
lesse whatcha got
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¡take note ... below is not an i but is an upside down exclamation!
¡Alarma!
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jiminy
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OK I
icheated!
(it just works better with....
iAlarma!
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RoxxRegime
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I thought I read somewhere that they intentionally recorded it in a key that was too high for Marty...
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Dr Rich
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I thought I read somewhere that they intentionally recorded it in a key that was too high for Marty... |
Never heard that but, the vocals are the part of the fun for me on that song. 
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jon eddies
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I love this one! All of the songs are SOOO DA. You can hear this album on Much of their other works from that point on all the way up to MBD. It seems to me that it helped define the quirkiness that is DA. The songs are incredible. There's only one I'm not crazy about and that is Props. It seems to be out of place with the rest of the tunes. It actually always seemed to be a filler, maybe an outtake from HD. It would have fit better on that album(IMHO).
As far as Mortal Coil, I love that tune. My favs are Through The Speakers & Endless Summer. My only criticism is I do wish the production could have been a bit better. It seems sort thin and bright, but the songs are soooo good that it doesn't really matter.
Is it just me or does this one and Kalhoun seem to be almost sister albums. Good stuff.
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Dr Rich
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I love this one! All of the songs are SOOO DA. You can hear this album on Much of their other works from that point on all the way up to MBD. It seems to me that it helped define the quirkiness that is DA. The songs are incredible. |
Oh, so you did say this! 
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you might be surprised about who uses auto tune. there are obvious persons and then there's others you might not even think of.
that's all i have to say about that.
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jyroflux
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you might be surprised about who uses auto tune. there are obvious persons and then there's others you might not even think of.
that's all i have to say about that.
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I didn't know about this. Of course I've heard the Cher 'song'. But the pitch correction part of it is something I should have expected given all that's possible. But this is a bit to robotic sounding to me. Sterile, soul-less 'perfect' vocals. Oh! That explains Celine Dion and why I don't like her.
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wes berlin
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you might be surprised about who uses auto tune. there are obvious persons and then there's others you might not even think of.
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I didn't know about this. Of course I've heard the Cher 'song'. But the pitch correction part of it is something I should have expected given all that's possible. But this is a bit to robotic sounding to me. Sterile, soul-less 'perfect' vocals. Oh! That explains Celine Dion and why I don't like her.
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the cher song was for affect.......there are many many others less well known who use subtle pitch correction (auto tune). and why wouldn't they? people use fake reverb and delay not to mention eq and or chorus. how is auto tune any different? it's not. shine it up........but not to extreme. that's my 2 cents.
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wes berlin
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i can sort of see it for fixing one or two pitchy notes....
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so much can depend on the operator. these things are available to tweak not to create vocals (or instruments). i agree that, like many effects, auto tune has been abused in the the hope of polishing a turd.
and here's a question for all you "purists" out there:
is it "wrong" to record to a click track?
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larryl
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and here's a question for all you "purists" out there:
is it "wrong" to record to a click track?
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not at all... especially these days, when i record one take at my house, another gets recorded at someone else's house, and then we go to the studio with it all........
or when i'm trying to lay a drum loop on something..... almost nobody is good enough to record without a click, and have a loop laid over it, and it line up.
if i could get a drummer to lay his track first, i could probably record without a click.......
for the record... i hate playing to a click track. i use hand claps, a high hat sound... anything but that horrible metallic "click"
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