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Songs That MUST Have Vocals Or Else They Don't Work! (pg. 4)
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| Renegade |
Personally I think it comes down to whether the vocals have been written to support the music, or whether the music has been written to support the vocals. It's usually pretty easy to tell them apart: in the former case the vocals seem drab and unimaginative, and the song, which would have originally been written as a non-vocal piece but only had vocals added on haphazardly at the last stage of production to add commercial appeal, would be quite capable of standing up on its own without the vocals. Some songs that fall into this category of having vocals needlessly added at the end are:
Rank 1 - Airwave ("I can feel you over the airwave")
Hi Gate - Pitchin (In Every Direction) (I'm Pitchin in every direction")
Choo Choo Project - Hazin and Phazin ("I'm Hazin and Phazin")
Cass & Slide - Perception ("You can see forever".... etc)
And so on. These tracks were originally written as non-vocal tracks, but had vocals added in rushedly to the final release to try and boost commercial appeal. These, needless to say, are the vocals I don't like.
However many songs have the vocals written before the background music, and are considered to be central to the production, and thus the music is written to fit in with the vocals, not the other way round as is so often the case. This is particularly noticable in remixes of non-electronica tracks, such as the remixes of Delerium - Silence and of Garbage - Milk, where the productions would be meaningless without the vocals. But even in vocal tracks written as electronic music initially, very often, depite the heavy dependance on the musical elements within the genre, vocals are the "raison d'etre" for many tracks. For instance, Iio - Rapture, Fatboy Slim - Star 69, Freefall - Skydive and many other would make little sense if you took away the vocals and left just the music. The musical element, where it has been written into these tracks simply as a support for the vocals, is generally quite weak and purely incidental, and thus would not be able to stand up as a track on its own, without the vocals.
Personally, I don't usually like vocals in tracks unless they are especially unique, worthy, and capable of leading a track on their own (Delerium - Silence, Creamer and K - I Wish U Were Here, Jean Jacque Smoothie - 2 People etc.) or if they have been doctored or distorted in some way so as to become part of the musical element of the track as opposed to a seperate vocal element (Blu Peter - Funky Suite (James Holden Remix), Divider - Stereo Rides (Brancaccio and Aisher Remix) etc).
Interesting eh? :) |
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| pnuemo |
| ING... LUSTRAL - EVERYTIME!!! |
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| Bender |
As posted before.. Alena - Turn it around Killer tune!!
And:
Taste Experience - Summersault (I dunno if you can call it vocals..)
Taste Experience - I am on pause
Highland - No way out
Mix - He's all i want (i'm not 100% sure on the artistname)
Oaky played all this tunes when he toured the world with radio 1 back in 1999. Those were the years..! =)
greetz =) |
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| boy_luke_y2k |
| Can't see it but Chicane - Saltwater, vocals are more of a pad effect tho |
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| eXeTik |
| quote: | Originally posted by trance[]control-fan
All Ayumi tracks. |
Actually... ayumi tracks are the exact opposite- they would be alot better without the vocals :) |
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| sector.30 |
| Sipping Soma - Superconscious.......wouldn't be half as good without those sweet vocals. |
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| Az_1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by boy_luke_y2k
Can't see it but Chicane - Saltwater, vocals are more of a pad effect tho |
Maire Brennans Vocals on this are amazing IMO, this is a definate example of the music written for the vocals. Classic. |
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| BLuEOcEaN420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by infinity
Infernal - Sunrise
without a doubT!! =p |
GRrrrrrrrrrrrrr :mad: :mad: :mad:
my intuition that u were gonna name that tune was correct :o go figure :rolleyes: :rolleyes: lol
/me kix infinity
Renegade: i understand where u are coming from BUT, if that was true in practice, then how come ayumi tune sounds ALOT ALOT ALOT better w/o the vocals :o :eek: :p hehehehehe ...the irnony... :) but yah i totally hear where ur coming from! Jan Johnston tunes were def written to enhance the vocals :)
-BLuEOcEaN420
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| xenderz |
| quote: | Originally posted by eXeTik
Actually... ayumi tracks are the exact opposite- they would be alot better without the vocals :) |
can't really agree on this.
i prefer them with SOME vocals. not ALL vocals..
some...like dub versions would be fine ..
ferry corsten's remix of ayumi's WHATEVER.
it wouldnt be the same without the voice effects. |
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| nesher |
i dont have power to read it all, but if no one wrote that. than
Ratty - Sunrsie(Here I Am)
cant work without lyrics |
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| oDrori |
Well, the break itself is almost completely dependant on teh vocals...
Try to check the instrumental mix.. they've changed the break there.
Also, I think
Riva - Who Do You Love? (Stringer)
Would not be as exciting without Dannii Minougues vocals and also the original version of iio's Rapture, that sux anyways but will be a complete junkpiece w/o any vocals... |
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| xenderz |
someone probably said it ..
but ....
COAST TO COAST - HOME (DJ TIESTO REMIX) |
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