And why did it die out? It was big there, in the 60s...
― Joe, Monday, 22 September 2008 18:30 (seventeen years ago)
Are we talking like "Bills, Bills, Bills" or a more traditional implementation?
― some dude, Monday, 22 September 2008 18:44 (seventeen years ago)
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/13051.jpg
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 22 September 2008 22:41 (seventeen years ago)
No.
― Moka, Monday, 22 September 2008 22:45 (seventeen years ago)
No, because it makes it more special when Shiina Ringo uses it, and uses it well.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Monday, 22 September 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)
Yes, but only in a song more perfect than this one.
― sparkletuna, Monday, 22 September 2008 22:59 (seventeen years ago)
The harpsicord is featured prominently on several light powerpop albums. Jellyfish, in particular, used a lot of it.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 22 September 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)
That is a wicked song on sparkletuna's example.
I apologize for the brief answer before, but you have to consider Pop music in 2008 is too far away from what pop music was in the 60's. I just don't see Harpsichordes working on pop nowadays, perhaps in some sort of ironic hip-hop summer hit but I really don't see it working as a common tool in the studio.
Horns on the other side...
― Moka, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 04:32 (seventeen years ago)
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1396/wtfdudexb7.gif
― Shushtari (res), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 04:49 (seventeen years ago)
― homosex quarterly (velko), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 05:14 (seventeen years ago)
most people can't even record a piano properly and you want more HARPSICHORD? goodness.
― ian, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 05:49 (seventeen years ago)
I just don't see Harpsichordes working on pop nowadays, perhaps in some sort of ironic hip-hop summer hit but I really don't see it working as a common tool in the studio.
It wouldn't work in hip-hop, but thankfully pop is still more than hip-hop. It would sound great when used by somebody like Coldplay, for instance.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 08:15 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.modern-worker.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/kick-me-sign.jpg
― SHOT INTO A FAN LIKE A CHRIS ROCK ROBOT (John Justen), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 08:17 (seventeen years ago)
The last time I heard a harpsichord was on Maria McKee's re-recording of "A Good Heart", from 2007's Late December. It worked just lovely.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 09:19 (seventeen years ago)
― Soukesian, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:30 (seventeen years ago)
Harpsichordes
Moka, are you secretly Francis Bacon?
― snoball, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:46 (seventeen years ago)