Get It On ( The BBC Radio Scotland remix)

MONDAY


'Feels Like Home' - Bonnie Raitt


I've said it before, and I'll say it again. THIS SONG NEEDS BAGPIPES!


1st verse - as is

1st chorus - as is

2nd verse - a lone piper plays in the background

2nd chorus - many pipers join in, thereby reducing every listening Scot to a flood of tears.

Randy Newman should be telt!

This opens up a whole new genre.




Thinkin cap on

I would like to remix all Bob Dylan tracks to remove the vocals ☺

Some folks get very po- faced about remixes but imho, many remixes are much better than the originals - the updates and introduction of modern recording techniques often enhance the originals and put them into a context that is modern and relevant: i.e. you could and would dance to these in a club in this format: the originals no longer have the power or pace to inspire a modern audience.

Among my favourites are:

Fever - Sarah Vaughan (Adam Freeland Remix)

I've had this played on GIO on a couple of occasions, but absolutely surpasses the original

Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream vs The Hoxtons

although I must be among the most dedicated of Jack Bruce fans, I can honestly say I now much prefer the remix to the original

Pop Muzik - M (Steve Osbourne/U2 Remix)

I just love and adore this

Step Inside Love - Cilla Black (Almighty Radio Edit)

admittedly unlikely, but really first class reworking of McCartney written overlooked classic.

regardez youse

henri

I'd say the same for Smiths' stuff but they don't qualify caws it's a music re-mix

DC

PS how do you do that smiley on a Mac?

PPS other computer systems are available.......

#5 refers to #3

Best remix

U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing (The Perfecto Mix)

#5

Like this? ☺

Aye

DC

☺

I love the Cirque de Solei remixes of Beatles / Elvis so thats a great starting point.

Absolutely right, Norrie. Drive My Car is great - and the Get Back/Glass Onion mix... meanwhile, I forgot about

Riders On The Storm - the Doors Ibizarre Remix

regardez vous

henri

#12 or rapture riders? Blonde vs the doors mash up. I agree with your sunshine of your love by the way. Great version. Are mash ups allowed or is it strictly remixes. Are rerecordings allowed?

Give me the night (chill night remix) / Randy crawford
Africa Unite (will I Am remix) / Bob Marley and the Wailers

Paul Weller --- Wildwood.... ( Portishead Remix )

What Frank said. Superb.

I'm going to plump for

Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds (Viva Elvis remix)

this is superb, the whole show is stunning and if you get the chance to see it I cant recommend it highly enough.

I would also like to reccomend to blog the fantastic re-mix of Moonage Daydream. Ronson at his absolute best. Please check this out if you ever get the chance:

David Bowie - Moonage Daydream

remixed by Alan Moulder and Alan Wright. This version is readily available officialy and was used in a Dunlop Tyre advert i think. It truly is brilliant.

Heaven - Do ~ (Candlelight Mix)

:o)

Previously on the Blog....

Adam - Barry Gibb? Do you have a beard? Who will you be singing for on the 27th of March? And why are you feeling Guilty?

;o)

Presumably the fact that his love can climb any mountain, thereby putting Paul Handkey to shame with his fake restaurant bookings?

Atoms for Peace - Thom Yorke (Four tet remix)

So Young - The Corrs (K-Klass remix)

Skyline Pigeon (piano) - Elton John

I don't suppose it counts, probably not technically a remix, a genre I know little about - but you'll find it on Rocket Man, 2007 and it's way better than 1969 harpsichord version on Empty Sky

#4

Call me po-faced but I don't really see the point of remixes. Where is the creativity and invention in tinkering with the efforts of the more talented?

Those who can make music. Those who can't remix. A sterile dead end.

#17

It's comforting to think that Elvis has achieved immortality of a sort.

Would really like to hear 'Wild Wood (Paul Weller v. PortisheadMix)' ... Paul Weller

Though equally good ...

Miami 2 ibiza (Clean Radio Edit Mix)' ... Swedish House Mafia v. Tinie Tempah
'Xtatic Truth (Xtra Loud Mix)' ... Crystal Fighters
'Public Pervert (Carlos D Remix) ... Interpol
'Somebody Told Me (Mylo Remix) ... The Killers
'The Tower That Ate People (Remix) ... Peter Gabriel
'American Dream (Afterlife Remix) ... Jakatta

#23 I have to agree Glen

I can't think of any rehash worth suggesting





DC (sitting down with friends to have a fondue bourginonne or however it's spelt)

#23 Glen - you are po-faced. Or maybe just a little old-fashioned, no' gettin' wid da homies ..........and the new way folk work with technology and existing tracks.
You could be right, but you may also be wrong.
Remixes aren't about replacing or surplanting the original. They are usually a rework of something someone has enjoyed and chosen to take a wee twist on as an homage of sorts. Not out of disrespect to the original - usually the reverse. As for "those who can, do, those who can't...." reminds me of that argument about teachers. Have never bought into that one.
Relative lack of talent is not a prerequisite for remixing someone else's music.
I'm offering no examples for this theme as the main remix music I enjoy won't fit this station.

Saying that - not all remixes are good. Let's hope this theme won't include any of those. Call me captain obvious, I assumed that they weren't appealing for rubbish.
And....there's nothing new under the sun.

#25, #23 well you are wrong. Not only are my suggestions superb, tell me this did not benefit from the remix

Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix)

#26 #27

For me music is what The Blues Band played night not the pointless noodlings of some nerd with a computer, too much time, too little ability and all the inventiveness of an ironing board..

#19
Nah, nae beard.
Whats happening on the 27th of March??

Music is inclusive - that's why people relate to it. Doesn't mean that any Tom, Dick or Harry can replicate someone else's work in some way and make it work as well. But also doesn't mean there aren't some who can give it an interesting rework whilst still acknowledging the origins.
I'm sure whoever decided red was a nice colour wouldn't have minded someone else adding in a bit of yellow to make various shades of orange. Red is still red.

BRING ME THE RED IS STILL RED OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like!

My instinctive opinion is; if it can't be played by musicians on a stage during a live performance then it lacks honesty.



#29

I don't know anything about football, but even I know what's happening on March 27th.!

>8-D

Well, as I was saying, some folks are really po-faced about remixes.

Do you not think you're being a bit po-faced about this theme, faither?

Even the Jazz afficiandos at Verve records (though I suppose they are naturally inclined to improvisation)had all their standards remixed.

It's just a different skill set, different techology, another way of looking at the same thing.

Is You Is or Is You No My Baby - Dinah Washington ( Rae & Christian Remix)

I think it's time we took you clubbing, faither:-))

regardez- youse

henri

#34

Henri,

Po-faced? And there was me thinking I was merely expressing an opinion! Here's another opinion. I wouldn't choose any of your requests over the original. Nor am I swayed by adjectives such as "enhanced", "modern" or "relevant".

And that Randy Newman song suffers for the want of bagpipes!




















po-faced git

Goodness - is SG GM? I hope not - I have them in different GIO mind compartments. My brain is shrunken enough as it is. Please don't say it has to be even more reduced to accept both as one. NOOOOO!!

I enjoy good remixes. Another take on something I enjoy, if done well. Why not?

yes, what is happening on 27th March?


I must admit when they announced a theme in keeping with the presenter shuffle I thought it might be songs different from what the singer or band is normally associated with, a wee theme idea I had before.

As far as remixes go,I don't mind listening to something I've got no knowledge of whatsoever, but the ones I Spotified today mostly didn't sound much different from the original, just had a few more layers on or were the sort of thing you get in the exercise class. The couple I picked I did like the remixed sound better.

But I don't think we should be insulting people for saying they don't like the idea at all.

Anyway, I'm for an early night and looking forward to cornflakes for Sunday breakfast.

#37

we're taking faither clubbing?

#36

G.M.? Moi?

>8-D

#38

I would rather be clubbed

#39

Scotch moii?

still confused...




Wake me up Tuesday

BRING ME THE SLEEPY HEAD O' THON FELLY

Dont mind remixes but they're not my forte:

For The Daughter then...
Little Boots - 'New In Town' (Fred Falke remix)
Justin Bieber - 'Somebody to love' (remix feat Usher)

#43 - Julie - Are the boys being silly again? I think Henri noticed remix is an anagram of mixer! LOL!!!


#27 - Norrie - I'm not sure that benefit is the right word. I find the remix even more excruciating than the original. But hey! What do I know? Before you answer let me tell you what more than one man has told me - If you don't want to hear the answer don't ask the question!

;o)

I bite B.J. Nurse

#44

Steady Senga, my comments were,of course, reflecting anecdotal observation before anything specific was said, like ' what else is on the White Album?' :-))

I've forgotten how to link it - but - todays BBC UK News front page carries a story and video of a new piece of mixing softwear which can break music down to its component parts.

The inventor of the softwear has demonstrated its capabilities by remixing the BBC news signature tune.

Quite an improvement, I'd say - it would be nice for a change.

Check it out.

Turning to the subject of what I'd personally like to remix - and at the risk of being accused of being an imbecile - I think both The Beatles albums - Revolver & Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band are in serious need of revision.

They were caught in that unhappy moment of being ahead of their time conceptually and imaginatively but in my view, listening from now, the limitations of equipment available could not deliver the soundscape required. They remain a remarkable achievement for a four track recording, but to my ears, ironically, sound dated and old fashioned.

Although it was doubtless thought clever at the time, the backwards orchestra thing at the end of A Day In The Life just grates on my nerves any time I hear it and I would love to hear it differently.

regardez youse

henri

This software is very impressive. I agree with you about the orchestra on A Day In The Life. Now you'll be able to do something about it. There were 40 instruments which you can now re-score with a mouse and six months of your life. It might be simpler to jump straight to the piano chord.

So now they can actually tell how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall?

I have managed to use the new software to remove the inexplicable high-pitched screeching which mars many editions of Get It On.

#47

well, we agree on something, faither.

I forgot our hero asks us to explain what we'd do to those tracks we'd remix:

In 'A Day In the Life', I'd scrap the backwards orchestra in the middle and build a simple piano/acoustic guitar bridge to the McCartney part of the song and then after the Lennon vocal over the orchestra I'd re run the track from the beginning for the 2nd part of John's contribution.

The song now culminates in the quite magnificent Lennon vocal over the orchestra at the end i.e.- replayed from the middle of the track - and I'd spin this out for maybe another couple of minutes by multi-layering it to a melodic climatic ending rather than the discordant one we have inherited from all that experimental hippie trippiedom.

This might make the track less experimental or cutting edge but a hell of lot more pleasant.

The magnificent melodic Lennon vocal over the orchestra is probably my favourite bit of Sgt Pepper - the backwards orchestra was doubtless supposed to contrast with it - but it just spoils the dream like quality of the track in a really disturbingly unnecessary way.

regardez youse

henri

I think some of you may be looking to launch a different programme that better suits your very particular needs better. One that doesn't involve 90% of the other listening public. Good luck with that one and I mean that most sincerely. I sometimes wish I were more of a Camus fan. Instead I'm stuck with Sartre.

#51

Very intuitive, MD - but I feel certain that heard once, it'll be 90% tuned in. It's coming along nicely and close to completion.The team working on it are giving it the thumbs up.

When I think about Camus, I find the logic inescapable but then I get up in the morning and push that rock back up the hill. I don't know whether this means I'm in favour of optimism about the future or the resigned acceptance of the hopelessness of everything.

I don't know much about Sartre except that song he did with Jane Birkin - he seemed to have the right idea.

regardez vous

henri

The Daughter recommends 'Starry Eyed' (Jakwob remix) - Ellie Goulding, or Jakwob's remix of 'Under The Sheets'. I like Ellie Goulding...The Daughter's seen her twice and says she's very good live.

What's keeping you Glen?

Kaw Jobs

Ahhh the 27th of March. Now I know what you are referring to Senga.

I`m afraid Scotland stopped being a footballing nation around 1986.

We often wonder what the GIO theme meetings are like but I cant imagine for the life of me the hell Chick Young et al must go through every day trying to come up with stuff on Scottish Fitba to fill two hours of programming.

When the friendly was announced last week a TV presenter here made the observation that as Brazil had lost their last two games (Argentina and France)the new(ish) manager needed a banker.

And there's me thinkin that wis the date o' the royal wedding

Monday

I quite liked what Mylo did with my old Miami Sound Machine fave, Dr Beat.

Dr Pressure

I think it was called.

#50

The orchestra included the likes of David McCallum (leader of the Royal Philarmonic and Ilya Kuryakin's father), Alan Civil (on the horn as Viv Stanshall would say) and Jack Brymer (I used to play the clarinet myself). I feel that much better use could have been made of all this talent if The Beatles hadn't been burning the fields of Lebanon.

#52

I'm tempted to recycle the old joke:

To be is to do - Descartes
To do is to be - Sartre
Do be do be do - Sinatra

but I won't.

I know as much about remixes as I do about booking restauarants so I can't even fake a suggestion for this theme. It's gonna be a long day.....

#60 Was that Frank Sinatra? Jeez!


All this time i thought it was Scooby Doo.


The stuff you learn on here.

The XX seem to go in for remixes quite a lot. I like the Delorean take on Islands - quite different. I think this is just current bands making use of the technology and expertise that's there - and why not? If it's there to be used, then go for it. At least they call it a remix and don't pass it off as a new song by changing the lyrics.

Islands (Delorean Remix) - The XX

If I were to have access to the remixing techno I'd maybe take something like Vashti Bunyan's Train Song *folkies lynch blogger* and see what I could do by way of enhancing the backing, adding a couple of instruments maybe, making more of an overall sound while allowing the voice to stay on top - I don't have the words or terminology as you can see.

Bay Nut Vanish

i once had a atripped back version of Style Councils ' My ever changing Moods' which was much better than the original. Would be good to hear again but I can't remember what it was on.

Alternatively the stripped back Live Version of Mr Jones from Counting Crows 'Across a Wire' album is superb and better than the studio version.

Less is more. - Robert Browning

More is more. - Dolly Parton

:o)

#56 - Adam - Or a bunch of bankers.

;o)

Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Present company excepted. - Senga

;o)

Natural pee jars

# 69
Is that why you're po-face then?

#62

It's where they got the name though, Paolo:

"Silverman was inspired by Old Blue Eye's scat "doo-be-doo-be-doo" at the end of his recording of "Strangers in the Night" on a flight to one of the development meetings, and decided to rename the dog "Scooby-Doo" and re-rechristen the show Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"

Scatological

Some folks get very poo-faced about remixes.

;o)

Ag!!!! Colic toast!

After all, what are anagrams but remixed words? - El Gremlin L

Ell Gremlin

Miller Glen
Ell Mingler
Rem Glen Ill

my the fun is just endless.......

Carnal men moan

#72

#72 Well, I hope so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've learnt from being in the Army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a Major, who got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh. He pooh-poohed it! Fatal error! 'Cos it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment. Morale totally destroyed... by pooh-pooh!

They should re-mix the White Album. The sound on that has always been awful. I bought the Mono Box set and it is even worse on that version.

wonder how strict they're going to be on this one? - seems to be more covers on fb than remixes..

Nice moral near

MASTER BUILDER from YOU REMIXED by GONG – THE SHAMEN REMIX

#80

Given the content and the sound quality, perhaps the title is a misprint.

I'd do Pink Floyd's Money as a Dub Reggae track.

Oh look, someone already did (actually, the whole album as Dub Side of the Moon):
* Gary "Nesta" Pine and Dollarman - Money

I'd also like Walk This Way in Bluegrass:
* Hayseed Dixie - Walk This Way

No it is Mono Box, all the albums are in mono.

You could go a long way with
* adding the guitar track to Every Breath You Take to Stand By Me
* adding the Piano track to Clocks to Papa Was A Rolling Stone.

Not convinced? Try them out

Finally, I'll give you a couple of my remixes:

First off, adding a backing track to Martin Carthy's wonderful recording of The January Man
* Carthy/Ramius - The January Man
And then, Peter Gabriel's Real World Records provide regular download packs of the multitrack originals for music on the label specifically to enable & encourage remixers.

One such was The Imagined Village's Cold, Hailey Rainy Night
* Imagined Village/Ramius - Cold Hailey Rainy Night

Reconsider Me - Zevon/Miller - I decided this was fine as it was

Turns out Glen was right. Some Of this is brutal.

#90 Agreed. Apologies, Glen and Scotch - you were right, based on most of what's been played tonight. I've got earache after that Candi Statton. If I nevee hear it again it would be too soon.

it has rendered me illiterate.
never.
let's hope we get Depeche.....

Brass Bands tomorrow...yay! When an old cricketer...

#92 yep. dire.

Youse wis telt

DC

Didn't manage to hear the show tonight....

What's next week's themes?

I knew you'd be lurkin. This build ups awfy slow

Oh well