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> So my idea is, why don't bands produce a dozen or so "radio edits" of their better songs? I had that exact same thought today when listening to Snarky Puppy’
by simondotau 2y ago
> So my idea is, why don't bands produce a dozen or so "radio edits" of their better songs?
I had that exact same thought today when listening to Snarky Puppy’s re-release of We Like It Here. I have become so familiar with the original release that all of the differences in the remixes sound like mistakes, and the alternative takes sound like the musician forgot to read the music.
Yes, I realise they’re improvised. Which is the point. Because they only published one canonical improvisation (until now) my conception of their music was made rigid in a way that probably wasn’t intended by the artists.
(It also makes me appreciate the work that Giles Martin did on The Beatles’ remixes, that any deviation would be seen as heresy, and yet he’s managed to avoid any substantive controversy.)
- WalterBright 2y agoI happen to like the Herb Alpert remixes of the Beatles' songs even better than the originals.
- eleveriven 2y agoThat’s a great example of how a fresh take can sometimes resonate even more than the original
- simondotau 2y agoRemixes or covers? I can find the latter but not the former.
- simondotau 2y agoMaybe in the future, recordings could have an AI component to them, such that every time you play it, you get a subtly different performance. Some artists may choose to lean in the technology more than others, with one extreme being soloists and improvisations published in the form of a bespoke model, trained on the entire history of jazz and refined by the artist to suit their tastes and the particular piece of music.