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| Cynaera (Kenneth's Frequency) | Posted: Jul 30, 2011 - 15:59 LuMax76 wrote: CRAP! :-( Guess you better head for the bathroom soon. Eat more cheese.  |
| LuMax76 | Posted: Jul 15, 2011 - 00:44 CRAP! :-( |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Feb 07, 2011 - 07:08 tompoll wrote: It's a tool (technically a plug-in) used in computer-based audio tools for pitch correction....Auto Tune has been around a long time. It changes the pitch of an audio track based on a set scale or key. It changes the audio to get it to hunt closer to the closest note in the chosen scale or key. If a note is a bit sharp it'll flatten it, and vice-versa.... Auto tune has been used in the music recording industry since the late 1990's. I'm not sure I'd consider that "a long time" in relation to the history of recorded music. |
| sdn (Philadelphia) | Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 08:36 zipper wrote: it's a drag. and it's creepy. it needs to go away. Came here to say exactly this. |
| bluedot (Long Beach, CA) | Posted: Nov 20, 2010 - 15:09 Yikes, first Chicane and now this...two Auto-tuned songs in a row. Make it stop, Bill! I listen to RP to get AWAY from that cheesy, pervasive gimmick! |
| tompoll (Seattle WA USA) | Posted: Nov 04, 2010 - 16:21 fredriley wrote: Ok, I give in. What is auto-tune? I'm not a musician, just an innocent bystander, so all this slagging off of autotune is very confusing. It's a tool (technically a plug-in) used in computer-based audio tools for pitch correction. Just like one can enhance photos using PhotoShop and similar tools, and a myriad of plug-ins, one can work magic (or perform hack jobs) in the digital audio realm using Pro Tools, Logic, or similar tools, and a corresponding myriad of plug-ins. Auto Tune has been around a long time. It changes the pitch of an audio track based on a set scale or key. It changes the audio to get it to hunt closer to the closest note in the chosen scale or key. If a note is a bit sharp it'll flatten it, and vice-versa. Its parameters can all be tweaked, including how aggressive it is in moving the audio. It can be set to make subtle changes, or to literally snap the audio to the nearest note. I personally think it's set too aggressively in this song, as I can hear his sustained notes "step" around, which I find distracting. Fun, huh? |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Nov 04, 2010 - 16:14 zipper wrote: It's blowy and sucky, at the same time. Hahahahaha!!!! |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Nov 04, 2010 - 16:11 Shouldn't they have a tune titled Jethro Tull? |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Aug 17, 2010 - 05:05 tompoll wrote: Sure. I use AutoTune frequently in mixes to smooth out vocals. Like almost anything, it's a great tool, but it can easily be overused. Using the hard correction as a style was cute at first, but now I find it cliche and simply annoying. A little AutoTune (very little!) is great for getting 5% more out of a strong vocal track. AutoTune or similar pitch correction is likely on most vocals you hear, it's just used judiciously and doesn't leave irritating artifacts. Ok, I give in. What is auto-tune? I'm not a musician, just an innocent bystander, so all this slagging off of autotune is very confusing. Nice creepy song, perfectly expressing an unrequited teen crush, of which I had a few, so I can understand what yer man's singing about. Started as a 3, moving up the scale as I listen to it more closely. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jul 16, 2010 - 07:26 tompoll wrote: Sure. I use AutoTune frequently in mixes to smooth out vocals. Like almost anything, it's a great tool, but it can easily be overused. Using the hard correction as a style was cute at first, but now I find it cliche and simply annoying. A little AutoTune (very little!) is great for getting 5% more out of a strong vocal track. AutoTune or similar pitch correction is likely on most vocals you hear, it's just used judiciously and doesn't leave irritating artifacts. It's not too much for me in this tune. It seems more for effect (like using a Leslie amp or a phase-shifter) than it is to "polish the vocals" to sound more professional. |
| nerakdon (Colorado) | Posted: Jun 30, 2010 - 05:30 I was very groggy when this played, but not too out of it to hear horrendous autotune. WTF rp? |
| zipper | Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 10:20 it's a drag. and it's creepy. it needs to go away. |
| Sjaaks (Horst, Netherlands) | Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 06:43 Well..... I love it! 9 |
| Felix_The_Cat (Buenos Aires, Argentina) | Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 06:41 Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful Chicane - Autumn Tactics As good as this segue is, both songs could be actually one! |
| Cagey ([RPT+8] Hartlepool, England, UK) | Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 07:51 Bill should really play more Aqualung, this is a good song and all but most people here are correct in suggesting it's over-produced and starting to sound a bit dated. Sucks to be on a major label is all I can say to that. I prefer Still Life and Memory Man albums, which are hugely under-rated imho, I find it a bit strange Aqualung are represented on RP with Strange and Beautiful, their most "commercial" and mainstream song. It's a bit like representing the Beatles through "I wanna hold your hand".....their best (selling) song. ;) |
| zair99 (In Cognito) | Posted: Dec 06, 2009 - 22:51 His auto-tuned warbling is distracting! |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Nov 21, 2009 - 04:57  pitch control please ! |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Nov 05, 2009 - 13:35 meh^meh |
| beatle (Jena, Germany) | Posted: Sep 03, 2009 - 12:11 Very nice transition from Chicane to Aqualung!  |
| tompoll (Seattle WA USA) | Posted: Aug 18, 2009 - 17:15 lewie221 wrote: Hear hear. Can anyone point out a song not rendered awful by auto-tune? My hypothesis is that there isn't one. Sure. I use AutoTune frequently in mixes to smooth out vocals. Like almost anything, it's a great tool, but it can easily be overused. Using the hard correction as a style was cute at first, but now I find it cliche and simply annoying. A little AutoTune (very little!) is great for getting 5% more out of a strong vocal track. AutoTune or similar pitch correction is likely on most vocals you hear, it's just used judiciously and doesn't leave irritating artifacts. |
| lewie221 (Silicon Valley) | Posted: Aug 18, 2009 - 17:09 spaceman wrote: I can not unterstand why people have to go and ruin their songs with this stupid pitch correction effect. This isn't a Cher song! He doesn't even need it - I've listened to a live set by Aqualung, and he has a good voice. Makes me angry... grrrr!  Hear hear. Can anyone point out a song not rendered awful by auto-tune? My hypothesis is that there isn't one. |
| Decoy (Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe) | Posted: Jun 16, 2009 - 06:37 it sounds like elevator music slowed down...and some guy signing karaoke in that same elevator.... I have no strong feelings one way or the other...just meh. |
| coldatlantic (Toronto) | Posted: Jun 16, 2009 - 06:37 Maybe it's because this is the first time I've heard this song while listening to the 192kbps channel, but I never noticed someone rocking out on the triangle toward the end. Kinda weak. |
| vit | Posted: Jun 16, 2009 - 06:34 Quick question: are you really "secretly falling apart" if you're singing about it? |
| zipper | Posted: May 15, 2009 - 12:14 It's blowy and sucky, at the same time. |
| pannaramma (not from around here) | Posted: Mar 13, 2009 - 09:18 Creepy stalker song - it could be used as background on CSI. |
| Papernapkin (Mountain View, CA) | Posted: Mar 13, 2009 - 09:16 Whew, for a moment I thought this might be Jethro Tull. |
| Danimal174 (Upstate South Carolina) | Posted: Dec 08, 2008 - 14:01 old_shep wrote: N Sync ? Not that I would blame you, but you must have never heard any of N Sync's music, if you confuse it with this. |
| old_shep (Iowa) | Posted: Dec 08, 2008 - 13:23 N Sync ? |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: Nov 07, 2008 - 00:34 rcurrier wrote: Instead of the scuba tank, how about a photo of some frilly panties running? Ah, Aqualung my friend, don't ya run away uneasy......................... |
| Kittee (NC- Dreaming of the Mountains) | Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 08:45 Looove this. Especially the piano! *Edit, oops apparently I love it so much I double posted. /ducks* |
| surreal1221 (Atlanta, GA) | Posted: Oct 06, 2008 - 10:26 My wife and I have fallen in love with this song. Had it played at our wedding coming up on three years ago. Just a simply beautiful piece. |
| Kittee (NC- Dreaming of the Mountains) | Posted: Oct 06, 2008 - 10:22 I love this song. What genre does this fall into though?  |
| rcurrier (San Juan Capistrano, CA) | Posted: Jul 03, 2008 - 15:37 Instead of the scuba tank, how about a photo of some frilly panties running? |
| donpdonp (Portland, Or) | Posted: Jul 03, 2008 - 15:36 the 'spell' from this song is to not buy aqualung music. ZZZzzzzzzzz |
| superfido (Sweden) | Posted: May 17, 2008 - 13:11 THIS IS JUST SIMPLY CORNY AND DULL.  |
| spaceman (Vienna, Austria) | Posted: May 01, 2008 - 17:12 I can not unterstand why people have to go and ruin their songs with this stupid pitch correction effect. This isn't a Cher song! He doesn't even need it - I've listened to a live set by Aqualung, and he has a good voice. Makes me angry... grrrr! |
| anniebear (chapel hill, nc) | Posted: Feb 28, 2008 - 16:56 |
| Kerly (Estonia) | Posted: Feb 13, 2008 - 01:49 |
| Frater_Kork (Uppsala, Sweden) | Posted: Jan 28, 2008 - 06:53 MTlady wrote: Yes, this is strange but beautiful, but why the tank? Maybe I need more java. Aqualung is one of the largest makers of SCUBA equipment, as premiered by Jacques Cosuteau: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua-lung |
| CatMan | Posted: Jan 28, 2008 - 06:33 tiresome dull uninspired yawn zzzzzzzzzzz |
| tobstar (I'm behind you...BOO!) | Posted: Dec 12, 2007 - 04:57 MTlady wrote: Yes, this is strange but beautiful, but why the tank? Maybe I need more java. aqualung me thinks |
| rluking (Underground) | Posted: Nov 26, 2007 - 10:45 bupanishad2012 wrote: This has nothing to do with this song (which is quite excellent), but I finished reading a book by Kierkegaard today---the whole thing! It's like climbing Everest or something! Wow! I just had to say this to someone! Well, then, congrats, uh, I think....Or should that be condolences? |
| bupanishad2012 (Springfield, Missouri) | Posted: Nov 10, 2007 - 19:05 This has nothing to do with this song (which is quite excellent), but I finished reading a book by Kierkegaard today---the whole thing! It's like climbing Everest or something! Wow! I just had to say this to someone! |
| kmh | Posted: Oct 10, 2007 - 08:54 MTlady wrote: Yes, this is strange but beautiful, but why the tank? Maybe I need more java. Oxygen...... need some? |
| xkolibuul (Pacific Rim, salmon, big trees) | Posted: Sep 08, 2007 - 22:42 Kinda like Eels for the dead. horstman wrote: Kinda like the Eels for the timid. |
| d00kie (In Cubicle Hell!) | Posted: Aug 08, 2007 - 12:34 thewaxtadpole wrote: The sentiment in this song is disturbing to me.
Yah almost as if some stalker or SK wrote this about his next victim... Kinda spooky.  |
| pannaramma (not from around here) | Posted: Aug 08, 2007 - 12:31 I'm going to sleep - without the creepy spell |
| MTlady (The other side of OZ) | Posted: Jun 22, 2007 - 08:04 slartibart_O wrote:  Yes, this is strange but beautiful, but why the tank? Maybe I need more java. |
| Gambrinus (On The Ice) | Posted: Jun 22, 2007 - 08:04 ploafmaster wrote: man...I haven't heard this much Vocoder since my wife was listening to the Top 40 station in her car...
I never noticed until you mentioned it. But am I really hearing it now, or just imagining it because i want to hear it, and want not to like it? |