Labels were flush with cash, sales of LPs and singles were brisk, and record stores were everywhere. Home stereos were a standard part of middle-class culture. Analog recording technology was at its zenith, FM radio was ascendant, and the AM dial still focused on music. The children of ...
with lines like“I smoke two joints in time of peace / And two in time of war / I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints / And then I smoke two more.”Even though the track received some local radio airplay in Hawaii, where the Toyes were based,...
Lana provides lead vocals on the debut single from Emile Haynie, the main producer behindBorn to Die’s cinematic hip-hop sound. The chorus pairs a beautiful melody with grim lyrics: “I wait for life to end/ But it never comes around.” Surprisingly for Haynie, “Wait For Life” has l...
"Funk #49" appeared on the James Gang's sophomore release, following "Funk #48" from their debut. There was a "Funk #50" too, but not until Walsh's 2012 solo album 'Analog Man.' Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Gimme Three Steps" (1973) MCA Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Gimme Three Steps" (1973) This song...
Atop bobbing synth melodies indebted to ABBA, Nami frantically wrestles with romantic uncertainties: She’s unable to say “I love you,” and she fears that her lover will drift away. The legendary lyricist Park Gun-ho intended the titular hook to be longer, but decided to keep it brief,...
With Cho Yong Pil’s whimsical falsetto, otherworldly analog synths, and major seventh chords, “Short Hair” was a revolutionary force in Korean pop, offering listeners an escape from the pentatonic melancholy of trot. While the influential balladeer had already established himself through the rock...
Still riding the momentum of 1981’s blockbusterMoving Pictures,this album signaled another audacious leap in Rush’s trailblazing embrace of technology. But it's all put to good use on great songs like "The Analog Kid," "New World Man" and the utterly colossal "Subdivisions." ...
If you thought the notes couldn’t get any higher (or stranger), enter Max Crook’s irresistibly unhinged solo, played on an early analog synthesizer that sounds beamed in from Planet X – which arguably makes “Runaway” the first synth-pop Hot 100 topper. — JOE LYNCH 99. LMFAO ...
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Analog EQ has a lot of phase shift in it, so when you start adding all the different mics, like on a drum kit, each one is interacting with the other one and bleeding, unless you gate it all to death, which hopefully we're over (re: the '80s). I just find you get a lot of...