They Don’t Make ‘Em Like The Used To: Original

February 25th, 2009

This is the original Autotune® sound, by the way. I was looking for a good example before but just couldn’t think of nor find one.

Today this showed up on my “you might like” YouTube box. Wtf? Um….okay.

Well here it is: the sound that threatened some of mankind not much more than a couple weeks ago and prolly still

threatens someone today.

So I still can’t think of a song that I’ve ever loved which employs this effect. I used it on our version of PRIMARY (The Cure) but

ended up taking it off. Maybe I’ll post a mix of it back later.

Actually I took it off because it’s the first time I’ve liked the way my voice sounds singing “yelliie guy” style. Mr Yellsworth. Yells Yellington. It doesn’t really sound like me. I love that.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

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POSTED: Wed 25 February 2009 - 2:58pm BY: Courtney Taylor-Taylor

8 Comments

gothman says:

Wed Feb 25 2009 at 10:59 pm

what about peter frampton, is that the same? not great, but ‘do you feel like i do’, on kgon, on a july night around sundown driving around with scotty is pretty awesome. i feel like i’m in dazed and confused.

Lee says:

Thu Feb 26 2009 at 11:48 am

Wish they had this at Karaoke. I’m stuck in a Sinatra rut cuz you can talk your way through old blue eyes. I wanna be singing some Gloria Gainer and Whitney from back in the day. A man can dream…

gothman says:

Thu Feb 26 2009 at 12:18 pm

Do they have karaoke for like acting out movie scenes yet? “YOU play Stanley Kowalski!” They should do that in bars, have a little stage, act out against a giant video monitor. Maybe then I would come. (No.)

Lee says:

Thu Feb 26 2009 at 12:56 pm

I’ve done that at home with friends. Magnolia is a great script for it. I’m more Dinero than Brando though. Not that he was in Magnolia or nuthin. I’m just saying…

gothman says:

Thu Feb 26 2009 at 1:23 pm

I’m the later years Brando, just fat and phoning it in.