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| From | Mark London <mrl@psfc.mit.edu> |
| Subject | Re: unexpected covers |
| Date | Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:37:36 -0400 |
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Daniel & Bill - And I thought I had heard of everything! On youtube,
people are both slowing down songs, and speeding them up. With videos to
go along with it!
Someone else speeded up a well known male performer, to make them sound
LIKE Dolly Parton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtNecByo1o
Youtube has confirmed theory that some people have WAY too much time on
their hands.
Of course it's a well known fact that some REAL music has been speeded
up, to make them sound better. I've actually done that myself, during
my vinyl ripping days. I was amazed to find that just a little change,
could make a song sound significantly better.
Is that still done in the music industry?
On 6/6/2016 2:04 PM, Daniel Gackle wrote:
> Hi Bill and Mark,
>
>> Well...actually Tracey Ullman's cover of Kirsty MacColl's song,
>> played at the wrong speed, which *sounds* like another famous band
>> is covering the song.
> Good lord. That's brilliant! I love these.
>
> Sometimes speed changes reveal amazing new details, like in the
> slowed-down Jolene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMrfM711vXI.
>
> And then there's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-MYe0SL9Q,
> which has to be heard to be believed, first that it exists, and second
> that it actually kind of works.
>
> Daniel
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