18 year old covers entire Pet Sounds album, note for note..

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  1. Fullbug

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    So it's decided then. He's out of the music biz for life.
     
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  2. watchnerd

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    Well, since you asked, I was playing trombone and electric bass in a jazz band, and acoustic bass in both a jazz band and a youth symphony at age 16.

    No software, Cubase, MIDI sequencing, or programability involved in those efforts, though, so pretty apples vs oranges.
     
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  3. watchnerd

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    Nah, he can have a great future as an EDM DJ making scads of money with his computer and no singing required.
     
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  4. And that's out of place here because....?
     
  5. Mr. H

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    Hate to break it to you, but there are no instruments in karaoke.
     
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  6. motionoftheocean

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    and why are you addressing that to me
     
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  7. Mr. H

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    Because you addressed that post to me.
     
  8. motionoftheocean

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    I haven't said a word about karaoke
     
  9. Mr. H

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    My post was in regards to the karaoke comment made by the poster quoted in my post. For further clarity reread the discussion or PM me directly so we don't further derail this thread.
     
  10. watchnerd

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    "it turned into mediocre karaoke" is a metaphor.

    I'm aware that it isn't literally karaoke.
     
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  11. motionoftheocean

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    it's not that impressive that he recorded the music himself. and in future please try to address your criticisms to the correct poster.
     
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  12. Mr. H

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    Thanks for the clarification.
     
  13. Mr. H

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    Sure thing. :rolleyes:
     
  14. Fullbug

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    Gloves are being thrown down all over the hockey rink now. :realmad:
     
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  16. watchnerd

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    I think the kid has a bright future as a producer. As a musician, hard to tell from this evidence.
     
  17. guy incognito

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    Hey, if it was good enough for Todd...

    [​IMG]
     
  18. T'mershi Duween

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    Yeah... but those music tracks sounds completely like MIDI tracks. Easily downloaded all over the net. Prefabricated. Worse than Karaoke actually.

    Karaoke backing tracks usually use real instrumental recreations, not synthetic emulations.

    It's basically a computer player piano triggering general MIDI sounds with a guy warbling tunelessly over the top.

    Effort and craft are just too hard in the 21st century, yo.
     
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  19. motionoftheocean

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    thank you for pointing out what should have been obvious to anyone on this forum, in general, or anyone who's even bothered paying attention for about 5 minutes over the course of the past decade. I happen to believe most of the people whining about the merits of this guy's work are too busy handing out imaginary runner-up medals to even hear the relatively lackluster quality of the work the kid posted.
     
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  20. EdgarFitzgerald

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    Here's someone else's equally impressive recreation of the first suite of Smile:

     
  21. bigmikerocks

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    wow, tough crowd in here

    i thought he did a pretty good job of picking those vocal harmonies out and reproducing them.

    as far as the voice 'cracking', i'm pretty sure that's him just trying to riff on the whinyness of brian's lead vocals, and just taking it too far
    if it were a legitimate 'crack', there's no way he would have left it in after going to all the trouble of doing the entire rest of the album.

    when i heard it i thought 'that's a bit much' but it certainly wasn't enough to make me turn it off.
    i mean check out the first minute of SMILE and tell me you think the kid is lacking musically
     
  22. Gugaz

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    Didn't care much about the Pet Sounds recreation but, just out of curiosity, I listened to his original music on headphones while working on my computer and it was really enjoyable...
    :hide:
     
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  23. Picca

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    Time to find a girlfriend
     
  24. carrolls

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    One guy as opposed to a studio full of musicians, producers and instruments. Fair play to the guy, I say.
    Would Brian Wilson be any better if he did the whole thing himself?
    Maybe its the sacred cow thing again.
    He should do Sgt. Pepper next. That would really get people going here.
     
  25. Tristero

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    To be honest, I'm not sure that I see the point of an attempted note for note recreation of these classic albums. If you're not going to do something different with the material, why not just go back to the originals?
     
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