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sing you a lullaby
Dec. 1st, 2007 02:18 amplaying around with music again, you know, as I do.
thought I'd do a Penn + Teller on Lullaby.
End of an Error is, for me, that rare creature of EXACTLY what I wanted it to be. It took a few years too long because I had a hard drive crash (BACK YOUR SHIT UP, KIDS) - which gave me time to pick up new skills and me and boys to gig the tracks and re-record them bigger and better.
I'm a worthless fuck by some standards, but I stick my albums as a pole in the sand, something I've done and am happy with. This one is perfect for me, there's nothing I'm unhappy with. There's things we could have done better, but that wouldn't have been right. If you know what I mean. For me, the whole creative bollocks is meant to have a big helping of sand in the sandwich, the fuckup that makes it tasty.
Sorry, losing my point: yes! Hilariously, among the good reviews (hurray! I win and get +10 to fucking your mom) there were quite a few comments that I'd learnt to sing!
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHahhahahahaha.
Have I fuck. (well, ok, I've gigged a bit, but seriously.)
No, I've just learnt some of the tricks for faking it. Of which there are many. Double takes, stereo pairs, auto-tune, melodyne, distortion, vocoders...
Basically, there are a tonne of ways to make you sound good.
If you can't sing for fuck, but you've got something to say, fuck it. SING. Sing anyway.
EVERYTHING you hear in the charts is fixed and fucked and tweaked and corrected. You don't NEED to be able to sing, mate. Not if your producer's any good. You can hear the pitch-correction in every radio1 track you listen to.
Mark Eris said the best thing I've ever heard about my voice:
"You can't sing, but you sound like a man who HAS to sing."
Yip.
So, for your amusement:
Lullaby - Vocals
Lullaby - Full Album Track
(yes, free music from a commercial release - OMG!!!)
If you like the track, the album's available on CD [here] and on download [here].
We're also on iTunes. And your mom.
Anyway, the message is: SING. Don't expect people to like it. But do sing. Anything and everything.
All them people you like wot sing them ace tunes? Reckon you can tell if they can sing any good without 'tools? :)
( EXTRA BONUS POINTS LYRICAL ANALYSIS )
thought I'd do a Penn + Teller on Lullaby.
End of an Error is, for me, that rare creature of EXACTLY what I wanted it to be. It took a few years too long because I had a hard drive crash (BACK YOUR SHIT UP, KIDS) - which gave me time to pick up new skills and me and boys to gig the tracks and re-record them bigger and better.
I'm a worthless fuck by some standards, but I stick my albums as a pole in the sand, something I've done and am happy with. This one is perfect for me, there's nothing I'm unhappy with. There's things we could have done better, but that wouldn't have been right. If you know what I mean. For me, the whole creative bollocks is meant to have a big helping of sand in the sandwich, the fuckup that makes it tasty.
Sorry, losing my point: yes! Hilariously, among the good reviews (hurray! I win and get +10 to fucking your mom) there were quite a few comments that I'd learnt to sing!
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHahhahahahaha.
Have I fuck. (well, ok, I've gigged a bit, but seriously.)
No, I've just learnt some of the tricks for faking it. Of which there are many. Double takes, stereo pairs, auto-tune, melodyne, distortion, vocoders...
Basically, there are a tonne of ways to make you sound good.
If you can't sing for fuck, but you've got something to say, fuck it. SING. Sing anyway.
EVERYTHING you hear in the charts is fixed and fucked and tweaked and corrected. You don't NEED to be able to sing, mate. Not if your producer's any good. You can hear the pitch-correction in every radio1 track you listen to.
Mark Eris said the best thing I've ever heard about my voice:
"You can't sing, but you sound like a man who HAS to sing."
Yip.
So, for your amusement:
Lullaby - Vocals
Lullaby - Full Album Track
(yes, free music from a commercial release - OMG!!!)
If you like the track, the album's available on CD [here] and on download [here].
We're also on iTunes. And your mom.
Anyway, the message is: SING. Don't expect people to like it. But do sing. Anything and everything.
All them people you like wot sing them ace tunes? Reckon you can tell if they can sing any good without 'tools? :)
( EXTRA BONUS POINTS LYRICAL ANALYSIS )
