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Topic History of: One of the best pop tracks ever... Listen Here 18
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Richard Ely |
Yes, that generic 80s drum sound really was dreadful, wasn't it?
I believe it was originally the invention of Phil Collins and his engineer Hugh Padgham - and made its debut on Collins' 'In The Air Tonight'.
I, too, bought 'Rubber Bullets' in 1973 (or, rather, had it bought for me - I was only six years old); I was too young to appreciate its sophistication (though the line 'it's a shame those slugs aint real' made perfect sense to me, at the time), but I loved it as a good-timey, exciting pop track that I could do my own version of idiot dancing to. 33 years later, I love it as a perfect bit of songwriting/performance/production, which you can still pop around to!
Pop music disposable? Not when it's as good as this, it aint!  |
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Martin K |
I like "biscuit tin indie drumming", at the moment, but probably won`t in ten years! |
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MC MC |
I also can't abide that treble-heavy biscuit-tin indie drumming production you get on records by the Arctic Monkeys and similar.
Bring back the Fairchild compressor I say... |
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JK2006 |
You're right about the 80's drums (those awful "syn" drums as on Eastenders make many 80's hits sound far more dated than 70's and 60's ones; I spend hours removing them from multi tracks on new mixes/fresh songs using the tracks).
Put-put-phow! |
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Martin K |
Are you doing this as download only/physical or both?
Call me old fashioned but I still have my immaculate vinyl copy.
"Rubber Bullets", still sounds brilliant too.
Isn`t it amazing how we can simply record the sounds of instruments and they stand the test of time.
The sampled , and over the top drum sounds on many 80`/90`s tracks render them unlistenable still. |
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