Albums ruined with fake applause.

You can tell it's going to be awful the moment you hear the "announcer" introduce him as "the first American Beatle".

 

Can't prove it but both Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet live albums sound like they have enhanced applause and, in particular, Nine Tonight. The crowd seems way too enthusiastic at inappropriate times on that one.

 

Grand Funk LIVE Album! First thing that popped into my head. A smokin' LIVE performance that desperately needs the crowd noise turned down.

 

Santana & Buddy Miles "Live"

Gahhhh!

I'd rather just hear the naked studio tracks as they were recorded

 

The applause at the end of Black Sabbath's "Spiral Architect" from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - not ruined, just unnecessary.

 

My number one Gripe :

The Ventures "On Stage" Lp. Liberty Records had the Ventures come to United Western one summer afternoon, and record one of their tried and true live sets. The Ventures just breezed thru a bunch of tracks, with absolute brilliance, precision and energy. Liberty then overdubbed fake crowd applause and fake announcers to make it seem like a real "live" album.

Even with the fake applause, the Lp is one of my favorite Ventures albums. Their playing was just incredible.

Luckily, ACE has now issued all the tracks from this Lp on CD without the applause, so we can make our own clean version .

 

The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl. They overdubbed so much screaming and crowd noise that you can barely hear the band.

 

SLAYER - Live Undead

Sounds like they play a studiotape in a nuthouse...

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Live In Hyde Park has the only known performance of Rolling Sly Stone. They could easily have mixed out the cheering, being a soundboard recording, but instead made it loud and noticeable.

 

That audience loop drives me nuts. You keep hearing the same whistle about every 10 seconds! And even more bizarre is that they reverse the loop about halfway through the first side.

 

Caetano e Chico - juntos e ao vivo is a 1972 live album by Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque. It was recorded in Salvador's Teatro Castro Alves shortly after Veloso returned from his exile in London, imposed by the ruling Brazilian military dictatorship. Because of the political connotation of the songs and the repressive nature of the regime at the time, audience shouts and clapping were made intentionally louder in some parts of the album which contained verses that the censors had vetted.

 

Speaking of the Monkees...


What is up with the crowd noise on this CD? As I understand it, this is from a soundboard recording (mono or close to it), but there is applause that drifts in and out throughout which is very fake sounding. Micky Dolenz did a solo live CD a couple years after this and on that one, I can hardly hear any crowd sound at all. Maybe it just wasn't audible on the original tape and whoever mixed the 2001 CD felt they needed to add some crowd noise? If so, they did a horrible job of it.

 

So maybe it is an accurate representation of really being there.
Brilliant!

 

Ah?... all of them (ruin)?!

Discriminating audiophiles listen for, only real hand claps.

Like on: Dave Bailey's One Foot in the Gutter or perhaps even
The Beatles cover of Buddy Holly's Words of Love from Beatles For Sale.

 

Only exceptions I'd offer are the things like "Bennie And The Jets" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" where the song is about a show and the canned applause fits into its presentation.

There's also an irony factor. Gram Parsons uses canned applause, along with canned shouts and canned smashing glasses, in his medley on GP supposedly recorded in some dive in Northern Quebec, "Cash On The Barrelhead/Hickory Wind."

 

One of the most annoying Discs I own, inserting fake-looped applause, before during and after every song with someone whistling over and over.

Family - “BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert”

 

The fake applause on The Searchers Live at the Star Club doesn't ruin the album... it just makes it sound weird.

The tracks themselves have a great live feel and ambiance to them (with that slapback echo and all) as they were recorded at the Star Club... when it was closed in the afternoon.

The overdubbed applause just comes in so tight and cleanly at the beginning and end of each track. When listening to the middle of the tracks, you don't hear any audience at all, but then at the end of the track, the roar of a big crowd.

 

Yeah, I prefer the "Rockin' Pneumonia" lp to this. Reminds me of the "hooter" in Sherwood Schwartz laugh tracks. Still it doesn't really wreck the awesome heaviosity of that band. I guess this forum has already discussed the Beck Group's "Blues Deluxe" .

 

Thanks for the heads up on the ACE CD! What is the name of it?

 

Agreed, and it is from a complete 12 track fake live album, first released 30+ years later on a Bear Family CD - 'Promises'

 

And to think, I'd been seeking out that CD under the assumption those dozen tracks were genuine live performances. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

Oh ? Bugger ! I didn't know that. Is that the 'In the Volcano' album ? I guess there is only one right ?

 

Yup...

For shame...

FOR SHAAAME!!!