Jolene 33 rpm hoax1/30/2024 Slowing these songs down can be a fun exercise in trying to figure out how James composes a song, or otherwise just a new way to appreciate his music. The original song became Parton’s second solo number-one single on the. Some listeners even compared the end result with Cher’s and Tracy Chapman’s voices. Instead of 33 minutes, you actually get 45, you understand? And there you have it, an album of standard length.” (Source)Īphex Twin records are incredibly complex, multi-layered, rule-breaking and mind-shattering and slowing them down not only changes the feel of the song, it actually allows your brain to more easily pick out and process each layer. While this usually leads to some uncanny sounds, slowing down Dolly Parton’s Jolene to 33 RPM (revolutions per minute) creates a different, but awesome version of the track. That’s also the real reason why my album ended up so short. If they go for too long, then they don’t fit onto the vinyl-and then you can’t play them slower. That’s also why my pieces are so short: you can only press them onto maxi singles if they are short at 45 rpm. As Andrea DenHoed notes in The New Yorker, Slow Ass Jolene, below, transforms Parton’s baby-high soprano into something deep, soulful and seemingly, male. “Many of my tracks are better if you play them at 33 rpm. A 45 of Dolly Parton’s 1973 hit Jolene played at 33RPM not only sounds cool, it also manages to change the meaning, if only through the actual sound of her voice. James explained in an interview that a lot of his music is meant to be played slower than it appears on his records. And to make things even weirder, she kind of sounds just like Jay-Z.īack in ’96, Richard D. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Discussion in Music Corner started by enocaster, Aug 18, 2013. Home Forums > Discussions > Music Corner > Dolly Partons Jolene 45 played at 33 sounds fantastic. It seems ridiculous at first but some of these tunes are actually really intricately crafted pop/electronic songs, and slowing them down helps to distinguish all the layers within them. Rushs Closer to the Heart 45 sounds like Tom Jones at 33 1/3. Seriously, don’t be so quick to skip this one. At any moment I could drop into a different level of time.” (Source) So I could slip into half-time I could slip into a third of a time. “All the music in the score is subdivisions and multiplications of the tempo of the Édith Piaf track. Is this another build up to say that commercially successful songs are better/worse, or that there is a definite one way that music can be expressed with regards to song structure.Playing off the concept of time-dilation used in the film, Zimmer explained how he constructed the score in an interview with The New York Times: I am curious what the “definition” of shit music is, as what is shit to you may be gold to another listener. Then there was always the late night dulcet tones of Zamfir or Kenny G as they flogged off their latest instrumental set of LPs, but were they any shittier than the played out super groups of the 70s, or the New Wave inspired sounds of the 80s, or the ever present generic pop sound since the 90s? Demento who is considered to be a purveyor of some of the finest shit music around. I grew up on much delta blues inspired rock, but at the same time when i was a pre-teen I was absolutely enamored with Dr. This gets into some seriously subjective taste, especially re: what exactly is shit. One example that made me stop and take note of might even be an interesting exercise to refer to:ĭolly Parton’s “Jolene” slowed down from a 45 to 33rpm (from her 1973 album of the same name)Īnd here why, if you are not already Reply giving a chance to a second listen to a song I would have otherwise passed on, or not listened to in the first place. I listen more and more to CBC’s under the covers. A song that you might like/ love might say nothing to me. shit songs by whose criteria, bad lyrics? wrong voice, commercialized, in a style the listener does not like. it comes across as so fake to me, that i often don’t bother giving the lyrics a chance.īut your question also makes wonder. Hearing a vocal treated by autotune also drives me to change the channel too. Very few songs make me want to immediately change a station if I come across it.
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