imagine if some classic albums were re-released with a DVD-style producer's commentary on them

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go on, imagine it

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 15 December 2002 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

If I wanted to hear Alan Parsons mumble about the engineering job he did on Dark Side of the Moon while it dimly plays below his words, I think I could just hire the guy himself.

Kevin Shields on Loveless would be amusing, though, since he's such a motormouth.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 December 2002 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone thinks it's a huge mess and a disaster and ridiculous, but goddamn would I love to hear a commentary track for Sandinista! I want to know what the hell they were thinking for that "Career Opportunities" remake.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 15 December 2002 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd really like to listen to some DJs ramble on about the track selections for their mix albums in that wonderful dialect of theirs.

Also listening to any sort of combative team-ups (The Police!) sit in a room together and go on about the songs would really be entertaining.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 15 December 2002 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

There have been. All of the Michael Jackson reissues have commentary inbetween all the bonus tracks at the end. Quincy Jones, Bruce Swedien, et al. Nostalgia.

― maria b (maria b), Sunday, 15 December 2002 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

what is this wonderful DJ dialect you speak of Tom?

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 15 December 2002 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The first Runaways album. I'd love to hear Joan, Cherie, Lita, Sandy and Jackie take on Kim Fowley. "Take that, Failure Cock!"

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 15 December 2002 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd pay lots to hear Steve Albini's commentary on the Bush album he produced. "And this is where the dumb fucks ruined an otherwise boring and generic chord sequence by playing it too fast and not accenting the G..."

― Ian Johnson, Monday, 16 December 2002 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Sloan's Twice Removed would be a riot. Big Star's Sister Lovers would be interesting since the album sounds like a band falling apart.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

imagine if some classic albums were re-released with a DVD-style producer's commentary on them
Interesting idea, but that would also be an excuse for the RIAA would charge you $33 for the average EP release.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 16 December 2002 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Twin Infinitives!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 16 December 2002 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Syd Barrett - he could give commentary on any recording - even if it's not his ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 December 2002 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Julian Cope would be, um, good at this.

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 16 December 2002 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd love to hear a running rambley not-entirely-in-touch-with-this-reality Brian Eno commentary for every album he's ever produced.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 December 2002 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, and TEO MACERO.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 December 2002 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Dj dialect = like the letters section in Urb or Source etc. but worse by several hundred degrees of incomprehensiblity, like some kind of ebonic cockney slang that changes every three months.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Burzum, cuz it'd be funny hearing all the evil sinisterness delivered in an accent like Beaker from the Muppets

― dave q, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

this was a 'good' idea

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

NY Times
The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip Side Is a DVD
By ROBERT LEVINE
Published: March 21, 2005
The major labels are introducing DualDisc, a CD-size format that contains music content on one side and DVD content on the other and, more importantly, that can’t be pirated

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

Yet again do I mention Green Gartside. His commentary would be amazing.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

xpost I have the Kasabian album that's like that.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I've got a column running in Pitchfork this Friday about artists who record and sell commentary (and demos, and other materials about their work) - and the nutty fans who get into it. This is becoming a popular revenue stream for a lot of independent artists. The great thing is that because CDs don't have the technology to build in a commentary track or an extensive "special features" section, musicians get to sell stuff that you expect to get for free from movies.

I highly recommend, for just one, Andy Partridge's "How ____ Came to Be" downloads, which he sells at a euro a pop from his website. I was listening to the twenty minute commentary on "The Wheel and the Maypole" this morning and it was fantastic.

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

(it's quite possible to sing most of this thread's title to the tune of "imagine", yo!)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

20 mins on how he wrote "This is Pop"? cheeky get. It didn't cost £1.18 at the time!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I think there was another thread disparaging Partridge for cashing in on this stuff, but now that I've heard the commentaries, they're really fucking good. He's hilarious to listen to and the insites are interesting. I mean, it's a buck, and it goes straight in his pocket. Right now, Partridge says he makes more money off the Fuzzy Warbles than the actual (Virgin-owned) XTC back catalog. I've got no problem with him doing this stuff.

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

The other thing I like about this, as opposed to the value-add DVD that that NYT article talks about, is that it's really for the die-hard fans - the nutters who seek out Partridge's (or whoever's) website and really need to know that much about every detail of the guy's life. That creates a strange one-sided relationship, and puts the artist in a weird position of trying to take advantage of that relationship with his audience while not actually wanting these people tromping around his yard and looking in his windows. I found some other examples that were more extreme.

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to street team myself, but here's the article - I especially like the Andy Partridge quotes.

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I want to hear Stewart Copeland and Sting bickering over Zenyatta Mondatta, with a complete meltdown occuring somewhere aound Behind My Camel. Then Andy just kind of hummms the rest of side B...

― Octavio Coleman (Bobby Peru), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

I think it'd rock if there were sportcasters passionately bantering stuff like "OOOOOOH, Crushing Defeat, Ladies and Gentlemen!" when it gets to the intense bit in a speed thrash rekkid. But it would get stale pretty quick if they sounded like golf or cricket commentators during a Norah Jones rekkid.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

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