The Beatles Bible - Topic: can records have any real pathos?

meanmistermustard on can records have any real pathos?

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:06:44 +0000

Certainly from Revolver onwards, maybe some of the Help! album even more on Rubber Soul, The Beatles were becoming more studio minded in their recordings and were more prone to add, delete, add, delete, reduce, add, delete, add... (you get the picture), spending days over songs. Thats one of the reasons they quit touring, they couldnt recreate accurately live what they created in the studio. There is only so much you can do with bass, lead, rhythm, drums and the occassional overdub, especially when only having 4 tracks to record on. The music had to progress and so how they had to go about recording it ...

Rat Salad on can records have any real pathos?

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:15:17 +0000

Food products (maybe most of what we eat) aren't food as we naturally find it. Edible things are dissembled, and their parts are reconstituted into new edible products we never found, or could find, in nature.

Movies and recorded songs are like that. In recorded songs, tracks are laid down, other tracks are laid on top sometimes weeks or months later. Everything is mixed around, re-done, manufactured, created, edited, into a song product. This is why a "song" may take 3 minutes to play but two weeks, or two years, to record. Nothing about the result is "live" or "natural." Nothing about it is ...