Mykesbass Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 [quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1333316217' post='1600078'] Yes! Love his solo stuff. Not such a big fan of what his daughter has said about him since his death [/quote] Some very odd stuff in that family - if you ever get to find an affordable copy of his out of print autobiography - that'll make your toes curl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL POSTERS Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Steve Gibbons, Eddie Vortex. Classic Rock n Roll circa 1976. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb_NYVv2P7I"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb_NYVv2P7I[/url] Dave Edmunds, I knew the bride. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sms2ueBW5A8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sms2ueBW5A8[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethFlatlands Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 [quote name='JellyKnees' timestamp='1333363419' post='1600479'] Ok, I know it doesn't actually have any bass guitar on it, but it's a great example of a pop song that manages to be slightly subversive and use non-standard time signatures [/quote] Sounds like there's some double bass on there, unless that's what the low notes on a harpsichord sound like. Great song regardless. As for great pop songs:- Beyonce - Single Ladies Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyKnees Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 [quote name='GarethFlatlands' timestamp='1333386847' post='1601017'] Sounds like there's some double bass on there, unless that's what the low notes on a harpsichord sound like. Great song regardless. [/quote] Apparently not, according to Hugh Cornwell's biography.. it was their biggest selling single and JJ didn't play on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethFlatlands Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1333350109' post='1600231'] Great to see some love and respect for Todd Rundgren here. [/quote] His career's gone off the rails since Rocky IV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faK8TxS-D1w"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faK8TxS-D1w[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejaQ-YA4tz0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejaQ-YA4tz0[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 [url="http://youtu.be/XoUkC5dEO0Y"]http://youtu.be/XoUkC5dEO0Y[/url] [url="http://youtu.be/q-ipH9Ws-zs"]http://youtu.be/q-ipH9Ws-zs[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Love The Raspberries tune. (Don't you just hate it though when people write 'it should [b]of[/b] been' though..? ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMX Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Yes! ^^ Mr Blue Sky by ELO, for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkpegasus4001 Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Quite like 10CC actually. Also Right Next Time by Gerry Rafferty and Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truckstop Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 I'm going to have a session tomorrow and listen to all of these tunes! Truckstop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doddy Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 [quote name='JellyKnees' timestamp='1333363419' post='1600479'] Ok, I know it doesn't actually have any bass guitar on it, but it's a great example of a pop song that manages to be slightly subversive and use non-standard time signatures [/quote] Non-standard time signatures? I'd say that 3/4 is pretty standard and common.The only other bit is the instrumental line that is simply 3 bars of 3/4 and a bar of 4. As you were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) 3/4 was THE common time when folks donned top hats & tails. The Vienna [Viennese] Waltz is a pop tune, maybe an old one, but very much a pop tune of the time. Also with a Bass drum to help you keep time [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoC0mFJrCng[/media] Garry Edited April 3, 2012 by lowdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Cant believe this bunch havent turned up in this thread - criminal that! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-crgQGdpZR0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) [quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1333311124' post='1599958'] 'Good only knows' would probably have been my choice. Both can certainly be described as 'outstanding'. While my contribution may not be the greatest pop [i]song[/i], I think the phenomenal production/arrangement makes it one of the greatest pop [i]records[/i]. I'm Not In Love 10cc [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2BavhwpIJg&feature=player_embedded#[/media]! [/quote] Staggering recording that, here's how they did it accodring to the engineer Eric Stewart (from[url="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun05/articles/classictracks.htm"] Sound On Sound[/url]):- [size=3][i]"I think they'd been at the wacky baccy at this time, and it took me a couple of hours to get my head around the idea. But then I figured how we could physically make the loops and set up the studio to do that. I rigged up a rotary capstan on a mic stand, and the tape loop had to be quite long because the splice edit point on the loop would go through the heads and there'd be a little blip each time it did. So, I had to make the loop as long as I could for it to take a long, long time to get around to the splice again. That way you wouldn't really hear the splice/blip. We're talking about a loop of about 12 feet in length going around the tape heads, around the tape-machine capstans, coming out away from the Studer stereo recorder to a little capstan on a mic stand that had to be dead in line vertically with the heads of the Studer. It was like one of those continuous belts that you see in old factories, running loads of machines, and we had to keep it rigid by putting some blocks on the mic stand legs to keep it dead, dead steady."[/i] [i]"It worked, but the loop itself — and this is where it gets interesting — had to be made up from multiple voices we'd done on the 16-track machine. Each note of a chromatic scale was sung 16 times, so we got 16 tracks of three people singing for each note. That was Kevin, Lol and GiGi standing around a valve Neumann U67 in the studio, singing 'Aahhh' for around three weeks. I'm telling you; three bloody weeks. We eventually had 48 voices for each note of the chromatic scale, and since there are 13 notes in the chromatic scale, this made a total of 624 voices. My next problem was how to get all that into the track."[/i] [i]"I mixed down 48 voices of each note of the chromatic scale from the 16-track to the Studer stereo machine to make a loop of each separate note, and then I bounced back these loops one at a time to a new piece of 16-track tape, and just kept them running for about seven minutes. Because we had people singing 'Aahhh' for a long time, there were slight tuning discrepancies that added a lovely flavour, like you get with a whole string section, with a lot of people playing. Some are not quite in time, some have slightly different tuning, but musically a lovely thing happens to that. It's a gorgeous sound. A very human sound, very warm and moving all the time. Anyway, after putting the 13 chromatic scale notes back onto the 16-track, it meant there were only three open tracks left!"[/i][/size] One of my all time favourite stories about recording a track Edited April 3, 2012 by 51m0n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamPodmore Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 2 of my favourite, both by Tyler Ward: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECRg_Vo0TX0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECRg_Vo0TX0[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff2lz6hnQRA&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff2lz6hnQRA&feature=related[/url] I wouldn't say either of them are strictly pop, but both very poppy to me. He's outstanding live, i was on the tour the first video is from (I think you can see me somewhere, on the left of a girl with a panda hat on) and although he made many lyrical mistakes, it was a phenomenal night. Liam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyKnees Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 [quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1333410102' post='1601453'] Non-standard time signatures? I'd say that 3/4 is pretty standard and common.The only other bit is the instrumental line that is simply 3 bars of 3/4 and a bar of 4. As you were. [/quote] Fair enough, although I think it's fairly unusual for a pop song to go from 3/4 to 4/4, which is kind of what I meant... In a similar vein, how about this... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMwn_hnoS5Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMwn_hnoS5Y[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Listening to 70s Genesis I always feel like they're drawing attention to the funny time signatures, but there's Gabriel on his own with a naturally flowing 7/4. Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) And here's a great pop song built entirely around Mr Herbie Flowers' bassline(s):- [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRqBG1ov07A&feature=related[/media] Edited April 3, 2012 by 51m0n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1333444870' post='1601674'] Cant believe this bunch havent turned up in this thread - criminal that! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-crgQGdpZR0[/media] [/quote] Beat me to it. End of discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Nah, this is always the end of the discussion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md70JWL49GU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinB Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 [quote name='ColinB' timestamp='1333467534' post='1602141'] The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing. [/quote] I was just wondering if that bunch had been mentioned... my vote would be for Hey Jude, which seems to have entered into mass consciousness... my little daughter knew it when she was five or six. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinB Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 [quote name='ras52' timestamp='1333469220' post='1602192'] I was just wondering if that bunch had been mentioned... my vote would be for Hey Jude, which seems to have entered into mass consciousness... my little daughter knew it when she was five or six. [/quote] That's always our last song.... and we do the "OK, all the bridesmaids now..." na-na-na-nana-na-naaa etc. Very cheesey, but it goes down really well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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