20 posts tagged “vox hunt”
"This would be so much more satisfying online! 'Sensitive thugs, y'all need blogs.' Or Second Life, or something."
Show us a cityscape.
Audio: If you could sing like anyone, living or dead, who would you choose to sound like? Share a song of theirs.
Submitted by aa.
I like my singing voice, but I think of it as a fat crayon and myself as a bit of a toddler. One day I aspire to pencildom, and perhaps simple line drawings. Not everyone can be Leonardo da Vinci. That's why I'm glad Wacom tablets GarageBand or Pro Tools and autotune came along. (Not everyone should use them on every Top 40 hit, mind you, but I can appreciate technology without advocating its indiscriminate use.)
When I was a kid? Lou Rawls, Johnnie Wilder Jr. or Bobby Womack. When I was a teenager? Prince, George Michael, Lionel Richie or Sade. When I was twentysomething? Philippe Wynne, N'Dea Davenport or Maxwell. Now? I don't know, someone who could just plant their feet in front of you and saloon-croon or pub-belt it out.
Audio: Share one of your favorite songs from 2006.
MH: I'm not. I'm really not. I know I have patterns and I've always
tried hard to avoid them. There are definitely certain things in my
music, if I'm looking back, "Well, that was a period where I was
experimenting with a certain kind of chord structure or a certain kind
of sound." I've tried really hard, but I'd be hard pressed to tell you
what that sound, what that tangible sound of "me" is. I think rhythm
is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that
I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar
to the audience. Other than rhythm, the only thing I could say is that
I take a great deal of pride in every single sound I use. I'm always
making sure that I'm not using a pre-set or something that everyone
else has done. I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and
of course I probably fail every time.
Pitchfork: Let me ask you-- that moment in "Something Isn't Right" where he sings, "Do you re-mem-ber?" First time I heard that it reminded me of "September" by Earth Wind & Fire. I was sitting with my wife and I asked her, Do you think that's a direct reference to that song, or is it just a few notes that sound similar?
MH: There is a very slight reference there. It's a reference to the 11th of September because that's what the Earth Wind & Fire tune was called. I almost had it "Do you remember? The 11th of September?" But there was no way I could possibly put that in.
Pitchfork: So that's the kind of reference you're talking about, where you embed those kinds of things in the music.
MH: Exactly. And the record's full of them in different places. It's kind of like, trying to use every weapon in your arsenal to point people in a certain direction.Show us a picture of someone or something jumping.
Submitted by Elizabeth Lee.
Show us your favorite place to get a cup of coffee.
Submitted by danatmedog.
At this summer's CampCamp, I started off the day with several cups. I blame the rich, dark, thrilling smell hanging around. (Um, I failed to bring along the tea I like to drink, and I'm now more of a energy-drink guy in the mornings.)
