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Post by Jules on Aug 13, 2023 21:45:38 GMT
TFF are notorious perfectionists, but what do you think did they not get right? Or what would you like to have as an alternative to the version we know? How would an album of "TFF songs improved" look like?
I'll start with an example. I dearly love "Badman's Song" but I can't help but wonder how it would've sounded with real brass/horns instead of the synth.
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elbuhin
Young at Heart
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Favourite TFF Album: Songs from the Big Chair
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Post by elbuhin on Sept 1, 2023 3:23:41 GMT
Hello! After so long I have reappeared! There are a couple of things in song production that have always made a bit of noise for me. Sowing the seeds of love: at the moment when a small guitar solo plays while the drums repeat the hits that begins the song, just before the lyric continues with "time to eat all your words..." It always seemed to me that this little solo goes unnoticed if you don't listen to the song at a somewhat high volume. It's a pity that that happened... with so much production on the album. And the same can I say with Woman in Chains: the effect with the congas during the intro. It is also heard too low if the song is not listened to at a high volume. The Tipping Point: I like the live versions a little more than the studio one for a small detail, but I like it a lot: the arrangements that Chralton Pettus has added in the part where the boys sing " to that vague and distant void where the sunlight splits the eye" and that such an arrangement is also repeated in the keyboard solo... it just seems sublime to me. And it adds "something more" to the song, which the first times I've heard it since they released the song... has It seemed a bit empty, I always thought a little arrangement or guitar solo would have been great, and the live addition seems quite satisfying to me, without being too intrusive and neither does it go unnoticed. Finally, since they are presenting the new album, Roland now has an acoustic guitar to play two of the new songs... why doesn't he use it for Pale Shelter too? For the love of God! Hahaha I always wondered why he didn't do it before, and I answered myself thinking that it would be impractical to carry an acoustic guitar for just one song. But now was the ideal opportunity to do it, since now he would do it for 3 songs. Anyway, surely there must be a cause for it, and I love the boys and their music just the same. Greetings!
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Post by Jules on Sept 1, 2023 8:24:31 GMT
Hello! After so long I have reappeared! Welcome back! The Tipping Point: I like the live versions a little more than the studio one for a small detail, but I like it a lot: the arrangements that Chralton Pettus has added in the part where the boys sing " to that vague and distant void where the sunlight splits the eye" and that such an arrangement is also repeated in the keyboard solo... it just seems sublime to me. And it adds "something more" to the song, which the first times I've heard it since they released the song... has It seemed a bit empty, I always thought a little arrangement or guitar solo would have been great, and the live addition seems quite satisfying to me, without being too intrusive and neither does it go unnoticed. I need to relisten to some live recordings of that, thanks for pointing this out. Finally, since they are presenting the new album, Roland now has an acoustic guitar to play two of the new songs... why doesn't he use it for Pale Shelter too? For the love of God! Hahaha I always wondered why I didn't do it before, and I answered myself thinking that it would be impractical to carry an acoustic guitar for just one song. But now was the ideal opportunity to do it, since now he would do it for 3 songs. Anyway, surely there must be a cause for it, and I love the boys and their music just the same. Very good point. I guess maybe they're just used to doing it with electric guitars? He did play an acoustic guitar on the song ages ago, in late 1983 at the Hammersmith Odeon show (IMME):
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