/mu/ covers David Bowie

Rules for submissions:

>IF YOU CAN'T SING, ASK SOMEONE ELSE IN THE THREAD TO! Really want to push for strong vocals throughout on this project, so don't feel like you have to sing on your track if you don't feel comfortable doing so. There are plenty of good singers on this board who can help you out.

>This is a fairly serious project, and there will be quality control. Harsh noise won't be accepted, because fuck that shit. Please don't make your covers memey, I know there were a few on the Beatles one like that but I want this one to be a bit more serious.

>Poor audio quality will be rejected. By that I mean something like heavy background fuzz, don't worry if your recording equipment is not professional standard. Just listen to the Beatles album for acceptable sound quality.
>Don't send me guerilla mail. I prefer if submissions are wav files but I don't mind converting them myself.

>It has to be an actual cover of the song, not just you saying "We can be heroes" into the mic once and then playing unrelated music you wrote yourself for 5 minutes. Reinterpretations are very welcome though, see Day Tripper or Paperback Writer from the Beatles album as examples.

>Collabs are also welcome, if you need someone to play bass or drums or whatever for you, just ask in the thread. People collaborated numerous times on the last album to great success.

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Weeping Wall, Wild Is The Wind and Slow Burn are also now taken

AVAILABLE SONGS TO CLAIM:

>Strangers When We Meet
>Beauty And The Beast
>Arabia
>Win
>Sweet Thing suite
>Aladdin Sane
>Drive-In Saturday
>Width of a Circle

Meme school

>>71370403
i'll try to send you an update on Five Years tonight. Definitely over the weekend

>memewie

Whoever took Blackstar better be damn good

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>sucess

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>>71370590
Pretty good for a mu album

>>71370450
Sure thing lad

Sound and Vision guy here. Got off to a bit of a slow start but preliminary drum tracks are done and just finished up bass gat. About to start guitars.

Making Station To Station is daunting as fuck 2bh

>>71370669
Good lad

>>71370789
Hey Hanging Dong, which artist is next?

>>71370834
Hoobastank

I look forward to the final product. I bet you guys are gonna have some amazing covers. :)

Looking most forward to Disco King.

>>71371274
I'm really...REALLY tempted to suggest an artist for the next one but I'm not sure there'd be much interest for it aside from me.

>>71371368
No harm is at least saying who that artist is

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>>71371406
Herbie Hancock.

HYPE

>>71371406
I'm thinking either Animal Collective or Death Grips

>>71371638
that way when our covers end up sounding shit no one will notice the difference amirite?

Before all hell breaks loose again

if you want to make a cover album of a band you like but dong doesn't want to do it you can always do it yourselves

>>71371751
I'm tempted to but I'm not sure how to set it up. Is it easy to get a bandcamp?

Claiming drive in saturday

>>71371954
Gotta email him you cuckold

>>71371985
Fuck you nigger

Pink Floyd would be fucking cool. Let me know if you're interested, I've organized one of these in the past so have a little experience.

>>71371807
>Is it easy to get a bandcamp?
Piss easy, anyone can set one up

>>71372022
Pink floyd would be gr8

Emailed about drive in saturday, does anyone want to record bass or drums? I can work something out but that would delay it a few days

>>71372022
Floyd are actually one I have had as a big contender in my mind for a few weeks now

>>71372112
I might actually just do guitar + voice only

>tfw not got good enough to help with this
feels devastating lads
make it a good one

>>71372119
Even better mate.

>>71372119
do it faggot

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TFW you've signed up to do a song but have never recorded shit before and have no instrumental talent so you're just doing an impossibly basic vocals and finger-snapping cover but you don't want to back out on the offchance that it turns out OK.

>>71372622
Can you at least sing?

>>71370347
Who is skilled enough on /mu/ for Aladdin sane or sweet tjing?

>>71372622
throw in some spoons and blow on a jug while ur at it

>>71372622
Which one are you doing?

>>71372648
Think I can.

If nothing else I'm better than the guys who submitted A Hard Day's Night on the Beatles album.

>>71372672
Bewlay Brothers.

>>71372696
>A doo wop/snapping version of Bewelay Brothers

...This might be spicy.

>>71372718
>Doo-wop
>Not just me singing the song as is while snapping to get the stronger instruments and bridge the silences

You have far too much confidence in my music production ability.

>>71372677
Not to be a party pooper but I think Dong's being a bit pickier this time round as far as the production value and performance level, so if it's not up to scratch you may not make the cut buddy.
Vacaroo yourself singing, I'll let you know if you've got what it takes:^)
>rubs hands together in anticipation of brutal critique

>>71372773
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1xCI46TqjGJ
Quick and dirty first verse.

Five Years anon. I am thinking of altering the lyrics from queer to OP
>A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and OP threw up at the site of that
Thoughts?

>>71372830
I don't think dong wants memeing

Meme School

>>71372828
What song have you picked?

>>71372910
Exact same one I'm doing here.

>>71372119
YEEEES

>>71372771
Not mixing it up with some powerful knee-slapping, do you even kino my man?

In all honestly good luck with the Bewlay Brothers, i have special feelings attached to that song.

>>71373181
There might not be knee-slapping, but I can promise teeth champing.

>>71372917
Orr yep. I think if you could somehow come up with a bit of cool cool instrumentation to fortify your voice you might just pull it off. Not sure an acapella would work.

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>>71373204
Is that 'champ' or 'chomp'?

>>71373286
Thirty white horses on a red hill.
First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.

>>71372828
I don't know pal it sounds kind of amateurish for lack of a better word, kind of when a shy guy sings but is barely trying in fear to be judged.

You should go all out and give it your all, just be yourself :<)

>>71373371
Some of that may be due to lack of familiarity with the mic. I've been trying to keep it down for fear of audio distortion.

I'll give the vocals another go tomorrow, see if I can't work out something better sounding.

Making this song is a good excuse to just listen to it on repeat over and over

It's okay to cry while driving alone at night listening to Sound and Vision.

>>71373254
>>71372917
different person, but if you were wanting some kind of guitar on your track, i'd probably be able to help?

>>71373791
Perhaps.

I did note in my email to Hanging Dong that I was only going to submit some vocals, so maybe if I can pump some out tomorrow, I could send them your way and see how things turn out?

ITS NOT THE SIDE EFFECTS OF THE COCAINE

>>71374305
sure, i'll ask d0ng to put us in touch so we can talk over email

>>71374305
If you're gonna do it that way, you really need to be singing over the backing track. Trying to write music around an out of time/key vocal is a fucking nightmare.

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Just waiting for Suffragette City to be available again...

Beatles album is unironically aoty

>>71374999
tru dat

>>71372696
Interesting, Dong cleared me to do that song too.

I knew the bass was going to be an essential ingredient in doing this track justice so that was my mission for the day.
Did I make it into the ballpark?

https://clyp.it/qrcjs24z

>>71375468
real nice imho desu

>>71375468
Good shit anon. You gonna do vocals?

>>71375564
Cheers bro.

>>71375659
Yeah man, I'm gonna do the fucking lot. Vocals are usually last in my process.

>>71372119
Dude, do /mu/ covers The Residents. There are so many interesting things we could do with taht

>>71376362
You ask this a lot. Just make it yourself.

>>71375468
P good

>>71376362
Barely know their music tbqh, feel free to organise it yourself though

meme school

MEME SCHOOL

>>71373440
I've been doing this with the song I've selected

Whoever got Ashes to Ashes, do me proud anon

will there be a nirvana one? result would prolly be good since most of his songs are easy

>>71380128
Nirvana was a band, not an artist.

>>71380128
Not so much variety in their songs

>>71380169
so what, before bowie it was beatles covers

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Changes anon here. This is the first time I have ever recorded anything, so it will probably be shit, but I'm actually enjoying myself a lot. I have the bass all done, and I'm working on the guitar and the vocals now.

>>71380350
>will there be a nirvana one
>his songs are easy

still looking for someone to do vocals for disco king

If we do a Nirvana one I'm taking Scoff

>>71370347
>no john i'm only dancing
shame desu

>>71380603
I just gave the song a listen for the first time.
I could probably do the vocals, but I'm not sure I like the song enough to bother.
The title is remarkably out of sync with the actual sound of the song.

>>71381859
It was originally meant for Black Tie, and the sound of that album definitely fits the song title

>>71375468
Sounds good, but isn't it too close to the original? (sonically speaking)

Dong sent you an update of Sons of the Silent Age, having a lot of fun with this cover

Feel like a right tit singing Station To Station with my flatmates in earshot

What if I tried to do a song that is not mentioned in list, but very recognizable and def Bowie?