"Memory Almost Full" medley question
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Hendrix Ibsen:
Here is a track I found with Nitin Sawhney featuring a fragile sounding Paul McCartney on vocals. It's beautiful to my ears and fits the song and lyrics perfectly.
He's using that "You Tell Me" soft voice, which I don't like. He sounds like the creepy old man on Family Guy. Also, his vocal is way too loud in that mix. I love the effect on his vocal around the 2:30 mark -- shoulda' done the whole track like that. It sells it. I like the song.
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Creepy old guy? I think he sounds like a vulnerable guy.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
Creepy old guy? I think he sounds like a vulnerable guy.
Tomato, tomahta.
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McCartney only sounds that way when he uses that particular vocal style. I'd much rather hear his whispering-falsetto, like he did on much of Kisses On The Bottom.
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I hope and believe that his voice will find/write the right songs to sing. That's what my point is that he expresses himself in terms of where he is in life. Can you fail then? Some thought Luciano Pavarotti and Frank Sintara sounded so bad at the end of their careers that people left the concert hall but McCartney is a little freer, I think, a little more Come as you are. It's rock, pop... It's not a requirement to be technically perfect. Well, time will tell... I don't think he has a tendency to quit.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
...Some thought Luciano Pavarotti and Frank Sintara sounded so bad at the end of their careers that people left the concert hall but McCartney is a little freer, I think, a little more Come as you are...
I hear comments about Sinatra's failing vocals at his last concerts all the time, and, yet, I never seem to find any audio evidence of such. I thought he sounded fantastic on his 80th Birthday Concert live-album.
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I've never heard it myself, only read about it, I guess there's always people out there who want to find mistakes and take you down.
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Well, it's probably time for me to catch some sleep instead of writing broken english, it's 5:30 in the morning. Me and sleep... and... memory almost empty...
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audi:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Listen to "A Hundred Highways" by Johnny Cash, with the last recordings he ever did. It's some of the most touching recordings I've heard. He's not strong sounding like in his early days, it's very fragile, with one foot in the hospital and the other in the grave. but it's s trong on emotion, you feel what he sings, like with few others. Many treat music like it is sports, but for me it is a matter of expressing emotions. You don't have to be fit for fight, look at music history and many of the greatest singers were like wrecks, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Elvis in the 70s... I know that young artists sells, a pretty face and a... but old people have to be able to express themselves also. You don't have to win the olympics.
Elvis's voice rarely failed him -- even during the most destructive phase of his life. In his final year, his breathing issues did compromise some of his fluidity, but he could still muster a full-voice bellow.
Yep, I reckon there was never an issue with Elvis' voice. He still sounded great to me. Might have fluffed his lines towards the end or had some (influenced) fun with the lyrics, like in Are you Lonesome Tonight, but his voice always still sounded great to me, even at the end.
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toris:
audi:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Listen to "A Hundred Highways" by Johnny Cash, with the last recordings he ever did. It's some of the most touching recordings I've heard. He's not strong sounding like in his early days, it's very fragile, with one foot in the hospital and the other in the grave. but it's s trong on emotion, you feel what he sings, like with few others. Many treat music like it is sports, but for me it is a matter of expressing emotions. You don't have to be fit for fight, look at music history and many of the greatest singers were like wrecks, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Elvis in the 70s... I know that young artists sells, a pretty face and a... but old people have to be able to express themselves also. You don't have to win the olympics.
Elvis's voice rarely failed him -- even during the most destructive phase of his life. In his final year, his breathing issues did compromise some of his fluidity, but he could still muster a full-voice bellow.
Yep, I reckon there was never an issue with Elvis' voice. He still sounded great to me. Might have fluffed his lines towards the end or had some (influenced) fun with the lyrics, like in Are you Lonesome Tonight, but his voice always still sounded great to me, even at the end.
I agree with you guys. Heck, he was only 42 when he died!
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Nancy R:
toris:
audi:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Listen to "A Hundred Highways" by Johnny Cash, with the last recordings he ever did. It's some of the most touching recordings I've heard. He's not strong sounding like in his early days, it's very fragile, with one foot in the hospital and the other in the grave. but it's s trong on emotion, you feel what he sings, like with few others. Many treat music like it is sports, but for me it is a matter of expressing emotions. You don't have to be fit for fight, look at music history and many of the greatest singers were like wrecks, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Elvis in the 70s... I know that young artists sells, a pretty face and a... but old people have to be able to express themselves also. You don't have to win the olympics.
Elvis's voice rarely failed him -- even during the most destructive phase of his life. In his final year, his breathing issues did compromise some of his fluidity, but he could still muster a full-voice bellow.
Yep, I reckon there was never an issue with Elvis' voice. He still sounded great to me. Might have fluffed his lines towards the end or had some (influenced) fun with the lyrics, like in Are you Lonesome Tonight, but his voice always still sounded great to me, even at the end.
I agree with you guys. Heck, he was only 42 when he died!
agree...shame what happens when one ages...
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I don't think age bothers anyone, as long as you are healthy and feel good. It seems as if McCartney is fresh and enjoy what he does.
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Yes he totally enjoys what he is doing.
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Lucky man.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
I don't think age bothers anyone, as long as you are healthy and feel good. It seems as if McCartney is fresh and enjoy what he does.
True, but the voice declines.
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I call it rugged, weathered. Just like a tree that has been through many seasons.
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Yes, there are more than a few variations of this album, indeed. Even the vinyl versions - now super rare - are different. I've got the EU vinyl, which has the fold-out "poster" type of sleeve. The US vinyl is similar, but different executed. Then, for the CD's...
Here's that deluxe edition, including all bonus tracks and interview disc and a shitload of cool extras. 
This is that Daily Mail promo 
And here is yet another deluxe edition, this time with DVD. And a regular CD version, with round corners, on the right. (Yeah, still sealed, don't judge me). Also, there's a version without these round corners, which I'm pretty confident I have somewhere as well, but from which I'm too lazy to dig up now. And none of these versions sound good.... -
I was too late with the LP, I have not the album on vinyl, which I've always wondered how sounds, the CD is digital and suffers a bit from what they call the loudness war.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
I was too late with the LP, I have not the album on vinyl, which I've always wondered how sounds, the CD is digital and suffers a bit from what they call the loudness war.
The vinyl sounds just as lousy. The damage is already done in the mix. And the EU pressing itself also isn't great.
