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Friday Fun Thread for September 09, 2022

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This obscure album from 1972 has weirdly modern instrumentation and production

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4akPX62OuE4

https://youtube.com/watch?v=utD7t3v3nG0

I'm inclined to agree...but I'm not sure I'd have done so if you hadn't said it first.

What gives you the impression? Something about the...mixing? The more I listen, the less sure I am I can describe production in any meaningful way.

The instruments sound more like layered samples than a band playing together.

The elongated string/horn notes, especially when they overlay each other and the vocal track. And the elongated moaned vocals. And the way the strings comes in for brief seconds at higher and lower registers just to insinuate a scale, especially the screechy high notes. And then the texture of the background female vocalists voices being purposely soft and at a low volume.

In the second song, when the female vocalists come in for that “we’re gonna make a little music”, it strikes me as something I’d hear from an indie band. And that kind of melody is weird for 70s.

We make a little music, it's called - we make a little music.