Backing tracks that ruin the song they're in

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This thread brought to you by the keyboard obbligato in "Loose Translation" off the new New Pornographers disc. "Ruin" might be too harsh, but I'd sure pay extra for a remastered edition of the record with the keyboards turned down on a few of those songs.

Also, Robyn Hitchcock's "Driving Aloud (Radio Storm)": hang on, my alarm watch is going off -- oh no, that's in the song! All the way through!

These are examples of a particular way of ruining a song, but surely there are others.

Anyone?

Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 15 May 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Driving Aloud (Radio Storm)": hang on, my alarm watch is going off -- oh no, that's in the song! All the way through!

Hmmmm....never noticed that. Must listen again.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 15 May 2003 23:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you talking about the repeated piano note?

Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 16 May 2003 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

everytime i hear that bass player dude in REM try to sing harmony on any of their songs i cringe and wanna die.I think it was Fall On Me where i first noticed how awful he sounds and how distracting it could be. But the best example would be the way that he says shiny happy people on the song Shiny Happy People. He sounds like Alfalfa about to be sick.Um, but his voice isn't really a backing track and i haven't listened to REM in years and years so forget everything i just said.

scott seward, Friday, 16 May 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

The cowbell has ruined so many songs in so many ways, it's absurd to even attempt to chronofile it. Howevah, this does not change the fact that I have a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 May 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

On the Hitchcock, Colin? I guess it could be a piano sample ... I can't quite tell.

That noodly lead guitar on Merle Haggard's "Carolyn" is bugging me today.

Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 16 May 2003 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Almost every single Eminem song has a backing track which nearly ruins the song for me. I think Eminem's a good MC, I really wish that he'd get some better production work. "Lose Yourself" and "Without Me" work, but pretty much everything else is vastly superior in bootleg/mash up form.

Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 16 May 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)


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