Do we need to mention the crappy distortion on "Litte Red Corvette" and the horrible sound of "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker"? I know Susan Rogers already explained why the latter sound so murky, the board or something was operating at half strength or something, due to Prince's impatience or something like that when she was trying to set up a new console. But why the hell doe Little Red Corvette have all of that distortion?
Peggy Mac screwed something up - she thought Prince was going to kill her but he heard it and thought it must have been meant to be. The weird vocal distortion gives the song a unique character - I love it.
People don't accidentally start playing a song by mistake on a recording. That's like saying the Can You Take Me Back part at the end of Cry Baby Cry by The Beatles is a mistake. There's lots of songs that change into another sound:
Stevie Wonder - Superwoman Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight Genesis - The Musical Box The Jacksons - Destiny Jackson 5 - I Am Love Hall & Oates - Lady Rain
Sade - Smooth Operator (the Red Eye part on the long version)
George Michael - I Want Your Sex (Monogamy Mix) Teena Marie - Portuguese Love
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
Every time I hear the Jackson 5´s version of Never Can Say Goodbye, I could swear that Michael sings STAY and not SAY during the very first time he says those words around the 11 seconds mark.
But people keep telling me that there must be something wrong with my ears.
For some odd reason some of you are okay with this, but at 6:00 the beat suddenly falls out of it's groove, skips a kickdrum and keyboards come into a whole new groove with the same drums but new percussion and bass. I am sure this song has an extended version in the vault, but this has bugged me for years.
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That was on purpose
What I wanna know is......WHAT THE HELL is that other Groove? An WHY wasn't it ever released?
Speaking of Michael B., there is a mistake in "The Morning Papers". Michael B. told the story.
During the end of the song during the "la la la la"s, there is a break in the drums just before the end of the song. The pause happens in the drums, and it ends up sounding like a false ending. They come back when Prince says "G'on play!". That pause is when Michael B was playing so hard that his headphones slid backward on his head. He stopped to pull them back on, then came back in on the next downbeat to finish the song. Prince liked it in the playback and it stayed in the song. It has become so natural sounding, you would think it was meant to be that way all along.
Al B. Sure! recorded a demo vocal on Guy's song You Can Call Me Crazy that was supposed to be replaced by Timothy Gatling. Tim left the group before the album was released (but was still on the album art). So they just put out the demo but left Al uncredited.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
This is exactly why I love coming on the org. Thank you TrivalPursuit!
TrivialPursuit said:
Speaking of Michael B., there is a mistake in "The Morning Papers". Michael B. told the story.
During the end of the song during the "la la la la"s, there is a break in the drums just before the end of the song. The pause happens in the drums, and it ends up sounding like a false ending. They come back when Prince says "G'on play!". That pause is when Michael B was playing so hard that his headphones slid backward on his head. He stopped to pull them back on, then came back in on the next downbeat to finish the song. Prince liked it in the playback and it stayed in the song. It has become so natural sounding, you would think it was meant to be that way all along.
People don't accidentally start playing a song by mistake on a recording. That's like saying the Can You Take Me Back part at the end of Cry Baby Cry by The Beatles is a mistake. There's lots of songs that change into another sound:
No thats not the point it is fine to change into another groove, however the problem is that a snare got skipped, which is an editing error. Obviously Prince heard this and didnt care in the end, however to an average listener it sounds like a poor cut job still to me. Those other songs you mentioned dont change on top of a flow error, although Prince is known for doing things like this on Life Can Be So Nice and If The Kid Can't Make U Come...however with the latter tune we see that the original is 9 minutes and is a relief to hear that song unfaded in the midsection.
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I got another one... Mariah Carey: "Infinity". There is a error in verse leading up to the chorus that is infuriating. She didnt want to just remove or shorten that "Everything you own boy you still owe.." line as it runs right into the last clap of the verse....FORCING the chorus to end up out of sync with the rest. Smh. Never understood who let that go. Im halftempted to find the acapella and instrumental and fix it my damn self. 2:23
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There was an upright piano in the studio, which Sting sat on thinking the lid was closed. Tape was rolling for his vocal, so the sound of his butt hitting the piano and his subsequent laughter were recorded. These sounds were mixed into the intro, providing a unique texture.
Awesome! I've always wondered why he was laughing.
In the Jackson 5 recording of "I'll Be There" Michael sings, "Just look over your shoulders!" at 3:05. Of course, it's impossible to look over both shoulders - the lyric was supposed to be "shoulder".
In the Jackson 5 recording of "I'll Be There" Michael sings, "Just look over your shoulders!" at 3:05. Of course, it's impossible to look over both shoulders - the lyric was supposed to be "shoulder".
LOL! In "The American Dream" it shows Berry was the one that told him to say that in the studio suddenly.
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In the Jackson 5 recording of "I'll Be There" Michael sings, "Just look over your shoulders!" at 3:05. Of course, it's impossible to look over both shoulders - the lyric was supposed to be "shoulder".
LOL! In "The American Dream" it shows Berry was the one that told him to say that in the studio suddenly.
It's an allusion to what Levi Stubbs had said in The Four Tops' "Reach Out I'll Be There". The flubbed plural of shoulder was left in on purpose.
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and keyboards come into a whole new groove with the same drums but new percussion and bass. I am sure this song has an extended version in the vault, but this has bugged me for years.
