Apologies if this has been posted, someone just sent it to me and I thought it was pretty great: Fables producer Joe Boyd discusses working with the band:
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Joe Boyd discusses Wendell Gee & Stipe's love of "cut-up" technique
Started by jumping151, Jan 15 2013 01:16 PM
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Posted 16 January 2013 - 12:52 AM
Many thanks, nice video
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Posted 16 January 2013 - 11:33 AM
That was great fun to watch thank you.
I really wish the band would elaborate on the changes they went through in 85 into 86....I read an interview with them where Peter says around that time they made a decision that they would no longer "live like hippies and make a weird record every now and then", and basically it seemed he implied they wanted to change their sound from the old R.E.M. sound to the one on Lifes Rich Pageant...
I really wish the band would elaborate on the changes they went through in 85 into 86....I read an interview with them where Peter says around that time they made a decision that they would no longer "live like hippies and make a weird record every now and then", and basically it seemed he implied they wanted to change their sound from the old R.E.M. sound to the one on Lifes Rich Pageant...
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Posted 16 January 2013 - 11:45 AM
To me, there wasn't a huge leap made on Pageant as far as the jangle was concerned, otherwise it was just a much brighter sounding record with a very big drum sound. A leap, yes but not so radically different than what preceded it. I think a bit of the murk returned with Document even if it was more refined sounding record production-wise, which continued with Green.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids
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Posted 16 January 2013 - 12:30 PM
I might be wrong but I seem to remember reading that it was Bill Berry who was most discouraged by the muddy murkiness of FOTR (not really the biggest drum sound, huh).
Man I love Fables. Wendell Gee always breaks my heart. I remember asking someone in the R.E.M. camp once what Mike Mills is singing in the background. His answer was that he doubted even Mills knew what he was singing.
Man I love Fables. Wendell Gee always breaks my heart. I remember asking someone in the R.E.M. camp once what Mike Mills is singing in the background. His answer was that he doubted even Mills knew what he was singing.
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Posted 17 January 2013 - 06:28 AM
Driver Nate, on 16 January 2013 - 11:45 AM, said:
To me, there wasn't a huge leap made on Pageant as far as the jangle was concerned, otherwise it was just a much brighter sounding record with a very big drum sound. A leap, yes but not so radically different than what preceded it. I think a bit of the murk returned with Document even if it was more refined sounding record production-wise, which continued with Green.
True, good points. I guess I was thinking of the brighter, punchier sound of LRP, and the drum sound was probably a big part of it. The guitars sounded louder in the mix, to me, at least. But, yeah, it wasn't that big of a change unlike Document and Green were (to me).
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