What Else Sounds Familiar?
Sep. 27th, 2004 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomAs I mention this morning at the main site, I'm starting work on Sounds Familiar, the project wherein I finally create new, fancy-shmancy recordings of some stuff.
307 Ale
A Boy And His Frog
PQR
Hellraiser
Starlight & Saxophone
Storm Dancing
I Want To Be Peter Lorre
Return of the King, Uh Huh
Sheep Marketing Ploy
500 Hats
Making Buddha's Hard To Do
Walking Along The Beach...
Operation: Desert Storm
Domino Death
Anybody have anything to add to this list? Keep in mind that this is already fourteen songs. I'm just trying to see if there's anything I really, really need to do over now.
Update: I guess I need to specify something. The really big idea here is that these are, modesty aside, a lot of my greatest hits that I don't own the recordings of. I want "definitive" studio version of all of 'em, because there are live versions out there, and I want to do 'em now, as most of the original recordings were done at least ten years ago, and I like to think I've improved a little since then. ;)
"Five Years" and "Rocket Ride" are on the "maybe" list, meaning that if I don't re-do 'em for this I'll re-do 'em sometime in the near future, because I think they both could benefit from revised arrangement. "Superman SLB" is not, because, while it would sound good and probably sound better, it would not be substantially different from the version on Plugged. Same with "Bermuda Triangle", and most of the stuff on Plugged; arrangements would be improved, but -- except for "Rocket Ride" -- not substantially different. The only other big change would be cutting the reverb way back.
I hope this helps you see what I'm trying to do. And thanks for all the feedback so far -- keep it coming!
Anybody have anything to add to this list? Keep in mind that this is already fourteen songs. I'm just trying to see if there's anything I really, really need to do over now.
Update: I guess I need to specify something. The really big idea here is that these are, modesty aside, a lot of my greatest hits that I don't own the recordings of. I want "definitive" studio version of all of 'em, because there are live versions out there, and I want to do 'em now, as most of the original recordings were done at least ten years ago, and I like to think I've improved a little since then. ;)
"Five Years" and "Rocket Ride" are on the "maybe" list, meaning that if I don't re-do 'em for this I'll re-do 'em sometime in the near future, because I think they both could benefit from revised arrangement. "Superman SLB" is not, because, while it would sound good and probably sound better, it would not be substantially different from the version on Plugged. Same with "Bermuda Triangle", and most of the stuff on Plugged; arrangements would be improved, but -- except for "Rocket Ride" -- not substantially different. The only other big change would be cutting the reverb way back.
I hope this helps you see what I'm trying to do. And thanks for all the feedback so far -- keep it coming!
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Date: 2004-09-27 07:25 am (UTC)I love that song. I wouldn't mind hearing a redo of it but it is one of my all time faveorites.
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Date: 2004-09-27 06:51 am (UTC)For that matter, any other "Skullrose and Tourmaline" work you have bouncing around in there...
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Date: 2004-09-27 08:09 am (UTC)I am very keen on the idea of a high production value version of "Five Years" though.
I really, really want to make up a good black leather "Elvis-Aragorn" outfit for Honourable Husband for him to perform You-Know-What at a con sometime, but if I don't get off the dime soon it will have to be the Older Elvis jumpsuit instead and I don't think that will really work as well.
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Date: 2004-09-27 08:41 am (UTC)(ahem.)
And you've hit all my "old favorites" with the rest of the list. If I were to add another one, it would probably be "Rocket Ride".
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Date: 2004-09-27 09:50 am (UTC)That was always one of my favorite songs, and I've always been miffed that it's not in a songbook. I'd be interested to hear a new arrangement.
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Date: 2004-09-27 10:10 am (UTC)I've always imagined Hellraiser as a symphonic rock number, with strong strings and harpsichord. And PQR is gonna be gritty metal with a quietly screaming lead guitar and a hell of a bass line.
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Date: 2004-09-27 09:53 am (UTC)And yes, I'll drive to Ann Arbor to record it with you if you're at all interested. :)
Using my wife's LJ to post this,
the great Luke Ski
www.LukeSki.com
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Date: 2004-09-27 10:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-27 10:11 am (UTC)Silly thought just came to me, a project I know you'd never do: Pick some songs you like by other artists, get their permissions for you to do 'em, and title the album Tom Smith: Cover Band (or Tom Smith: Attack of the Lounge Lizard)
Have to find me some work so I can get your current new album, durnit!
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Date: 2004-09-27 10:13 am (UTC)HotB -- not for this one. As mentioned above, I actually am working on S&T, and that's for that. But the cover album would be a hoot, and I think the track list would not be what you'd expect. And Attack of the Lounge Lizard is a great title.
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Date: 2004-09-27 12:52 pm (UTC)I love the fact that you're calling the project Sounds Familiar, though it does mean those of us at Central Florida Filk may need to change the working title (currently about the only thing working, due to scheduling problems) of our a cappella thing (it's not quite a group yet; like I said, scheduling): Sounds Ridiculous.
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Date: 2004-09-27 12:56 pm (UTC)One of these years, for purely selfish reasons, I'd like to do a version of that with you, with me on alto sax.
That track reminds me of "Final Rendezvous" by Jean-Michel Jarre. Ron McNair was supposed to play a sax track for that song while up in space on the shuttle. Alas, it was not to be.
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Date: 2004-09-27 11:04 pm (UTC)More seriously... I can pass on Hand of Ron, but one that I would like to see on CD (or at least a download) is -
The Worst Job There Is....
That one I went looking thru the tapes and there are over 250 published tapes (85% filk) in that drawer looking for the song at one point.
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