1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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... We could stick that fvcking auto tune nonsense in Room 101 and never have to hear it again ?
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Would modern pop music be better if....
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AmexRuislip
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Good God yes, first time I heard it was when Cher started warbling it out, terrifying
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
....those Radiohead chaps decided to open an organic, fair-trade coffee shop instead
Whitechapel
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Yes, because we all know that only modern pop music is terrible.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Auto-tune, the refuge of those who either can't sing or should know better.
1066familyman
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Good God yes, first time I heard it was when Cher started warbling it out, terrifying
There may not be much left of Cher that is original, bar auto tune
1066familyman
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To be fair, I don't believe the former, but agree with the latter.
Randsta
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Auto tune used correctly can enhance a record on some occasions it's a no for me
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What is auto tune? (Genuine question)
Weststander
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Duran Duran's members had taken up bricklaying instead.
boik
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Mr f@@king Blue Sky is my most hated track of all time. Probably not the first to use a vocoder, but definitely the worst.
1066familyman
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Laurie Anderson's, O Superman, is easily one of my favourite pieces of music. Used creatively, modern technology is and can be brilliant. The vocoder in that particular piece is absolutely perfect and fitting.
My objection is for a good number of years now so many musicians around the world, from all sorts of genres are just using Auto Tune as standard and it sounds bloody terrible....to my ears.
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A vocoder was used on Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain way - mid 1970's?
(edit - just checked - 1973 to be precise)
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
In spite of my earlier post, i concur with that. It's overused and definitely abused. In my book, if it's obvious, then it's crap.
And to the poster who said there'd be no Duran Duran, he's probably right. I had a mate who worked at a recording studio and he worked on one of their albums. He started at the time that Simon Le Bon's voice had every possible effect done to it as he couldn't sing.
1234andcounting
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Thomas Edison inventing the phonograph - it's been downhill all the way since then.
.......all the DJs from Heart FM were locked in a cupboard for a day and replaced by dogs playing kazoos.
Ditto.