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The more I listen to the tune, the better it just gets. It just sticks into one's brains. Everything is just in a right place there. You know, all the musical ideas, the way the song is build up, the melodic hooks, Mick's delivery, the use of instruments... Delicious. That's genius actually. A wonderful example of how one can make old cliches work so well. To sound so damn fresh. They haven't managed this in that this well for ages.
- Doxa
It took about 5 listens to go Ohhhh, got it.
KILLER track. Just enough of everything necessary - just the right attitude, Mick; the fwanging riffs, just the right riffage, just the right minor key "bridge", it swings and pumps, the awkward gap pre-guitar solo... the excellent outro: stellar single, stellar track.
Best single since Start Me Up.
And I do love Living In A Ghost Town - but that's completely different, that's more sneaky, Angry is right on top of the head.
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There's a bit of "vocoder" in Living In A Ghost Town (it's got a specific name I can't recall at the moment, it's somewhere in that song's thread).
U2 did similar on their 2017 album.
Nothing in Angry sounds like he's been tweaked in the verses.
The bridge is obvious ala Ghost Town - two completely different aspects of the song.
He should be do something on Motley Crue's fake live sound.
His guitar bits, though... a bit more simple than vocals, ha ha. What's really cool is how he smiles and nods while listening - clearly he knows it's a killer track - and enjoys not exactly figuring out how Keith and Ronnie are just clamming about bending etc - no thought put into it other than the moment, just playing, no tweaking, and here's this person scientifically... figuring out if any guitars were tweaked ha ha.
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GasLightStreet
There's a bit of "vocoder" in Living In A Ghost Town (it's got a specific name I can't recall at the moment, it's somewhere in that song's thread).
U2 did similar on their 2017 album.
Nothing in Angry sounds like he's been tweaked in the verses.
The bridge is obvious ala Ghost Town - two completely different aspects of the song.
He should be do something on Motley Crue's fake live sound.
His guitar bits, though... a bit more simple than vocals, ha ha. What's really cool is how he smiles and nods while listening - clearly he knows it's a killer track - and enjoys not exactly figuring out how Keith and Ronnie are just clamming about bending etc - no thought put into it other than the moment, just playing, no tweaking, and here's this person scientifically... figuring out if any guitars were tweaked ha ha.
The verses in Angry have autotune, 100% sure.
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GasLightStreet
There's a bit of "vocoder" in Living In A Ghost Town (it's got a specific name I can't recall at the moment, it's somewhere in that song's thread).
U2 did similar on their 2017 album.
Nothing in Angry sounds like he's been tweaked in the verses.
The bridge is obvious ala Ghost Town - two completely different aspects of the song.
He should be do something on Motley Crue's fake live sound.
His guitar bits, though... a bit more simple than vocals, ha ha. What's really cool is how he smiles and nods while listening - clearly he knows it's a killer track - and enjoys not exactly figuring out how Keith and Ronnie are just clamming about bending etc - no thought put into it other than the moment, just playing, no tweaking, and here's this person scientifically... figuring out if any guitars were tweaked ha ha.
The verses in Angry have autotune, 100% sure.
There's not one reason at all to believe they used autotune. A vocoder, sure, but they used Melodyne for parts of Living In A Ghost Town.
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GasLightStreet
There's a bit of "vocoder" in Living In A Ghost Town (it's got a specific name I can't recall at the moment, it's somewhere in that song's thread).
U2 did similar on their 2017 album.
Nothing in Angry sounds like he's been tweaked in the verses.
The bridge is obvious ala Ghost Town - two completely different aspects of the song.
He should be do something on Motley Crue's fake live sound.
His guitar bits, though... a bit more simple than vocals, ha ha. What's really cool is how he smiles and nods while listening - clearly he knows it's a killer track - and enjoys not exactly figuring out how Keith and Ronnie are just clamming about bending etc - no thought put into it other than the moment, just playing, no tweaking, and here's this person scientifically... figuring out if any guitars were tweaked ha ha.
The verses in Angry have autotune, 100% sure.
There's not one reason at all to believe they used autotune. A vocoder, sure, but they used Melodyne for parts of Living In A Ghost Town.
On Living in a Ghost Town you have both: In the bridge, there's a vocoder (as an an effect, doubt that they used an analog one) on the backing vocals but on the lead line there's autotune (the one note step in "be-ed"gives it a way). But in LIAGT both are used as an effect, meant to be noticed.
On Angry, there's autotune during the verses and also on the falsetto backing vocals in the chorus. But here it's used as pitch correction, not as an obvious effect. So it's not a Cher-style autotune. It's just used to move the notes right on to the frequencies. Mick just doesn't sing like that naturally, as he bends the notes a lot. Some of the lines in Angry are untouched, correction-wise. But the autotune is very noticable on the "Whyyyy"-melody line and the clean changes between major and minor thirds throughout. You can also hear it well on the jumps in the melody of the pre-chorus.
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Well MonkeyMan2000 the same happens with younger artist in the twentys and thirties.Lots of these top artist have used it for years,so if the Stones use some of it in their eighties it,s not so strange
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Spud
We around here are never going to like the idea of the Stones sound being sanitised to please the casual listener...
But I suppose needs must...and a successful album may arguably justify it ?
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And in Angry it's especially noticable, and IMO badly done, as we all know how Mick actually sounds. His voice is still so powerful and probably more "in tune" than ever, as can be heard on the less processed vocals on Get Close and alike.
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And in Angry it's especially noticable, and IMO badly done, as we all know how Mick actually sounds. His voice is still so powerful and probably more "in tune" than ever, as can be heard on the less processed vocals on Get Close and alike.
I think it was supposed to be as it is. It is not a fix. The artistic decision is to have a contrast between the "modernized" Mick and the real one.
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We're probably not talking about the same thing, Gas Light.
Yes, LIAGT uses a vocoder effect on the backing vocals in the bridge (and autotuned pitch correction on the lead line). On Angry, there's no vocoder! We have the heavy processed layers of backing vocals in the chorus, which may sound something like a vocoder because they have been edited, consonant-aligned and pitch corrected, but they are just heavily processed vocal recordings. Throughout the song autotune is used as pitch-correction, not because Mick can't sing, but because the ears of most people are accustommed to that vocal sound. This is what the market demands. You can hear it everytime a note is being helt for a sec or in the melody-runs. The distinction between the notes is so clean and Mick doesn't sing like that. Nobody does.
Watch the video on the last page: This gives a good explanation and you see which parts have been messed with and which parts of the vocals are untouched to still provide a somewhat authentic "Mick-experience".
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LeonidP
I'll probably get lambasted, but to me, it's every bit as great as Start Me Up
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It's an excellent song, even slightly underrated imho. It tends to get stuck in my head.
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MadMetaphoricalMax
It's so good. And so well constructed, detailed, layered. It accumulates. And it still explodes at the end, after innumerable listens.
People often decry the new when there is a long trail of the old - in five years time this will be hailed a Stones classic among the best of them, as will the album, which is magnificent, after all this time, and as soon as I have played this song, I find I have to play the whole album. There are very few albums like that, now or ever.
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It's so good. And so well constructed, detailed, layered. It accumulates. And it still explodes at the end, after innumerable listens.
People often decry the new when there is a long trail of the old - in five years time this will be hailed a Stones classic among the best of them, as will the album, which is magnificent, after all this time, and as soon as I have played this song, I find I have to play the whole album. There are very few albums like that, now or ever.
It's funny, while that last line sounds hyperbolic, it really isn't.
It's almost unimaginable they could have come up with something this good. The only issue is now that we know what they're still capable of, the follow-up will never be able to live up to this one, even if it's great.
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Spud
It's just a fact that virtually everything is overproduced these days...