Shaolin Punk Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 6 minutes ago, Homefuck said: It made me confused the first times I listened to it too. But I think Axl is Into those kind of things in music, small things that sounds "off". The industrial scene that he obviously is a fan of is full of them. Slagging each other off because you differ in your subjective taste in music seems pretty unnecessary, no? Agreed about the sagging off, but I went on the attack against whoever 'norespect1982' is because, well, it seemed kinda deserved lol. It could have been an artistic choice regarding the badly placed vocal paste, but it just doesn't seem to work at all 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t-p-d-a Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 39 minutes ago, ToonGuns said: There is a copy and paste glitch in the vocals. Second verse from memory. I wouldn't try and find it to be honest as once you've heard it once you'll never unhear it. If you've not spotted it yet you're in luck. Can you please listen the song for me and tell the time code when it happens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vloors Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 6 hours ago, megaguns1982 said: I’d say the chances of australia are at about 0%. Were being fucked by covid right now, but a new release would be awesome and lift the mood Not sure if fucked by Covid or fucked by our shitty governments. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalfos Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 46 minutes ago, ToonGuns said: There is a copy and paste glitch in the vocals. Second verse from memory. I wouldn't try and find it to be honest as once you've heard it once you'll never unhear it. If you've not spotted it yet you're in If I remember correctly someone asked Axl about this when he was chatting on the forum. I dont remember what his reply was and couldnt find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ZODIAC Posted August 10, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 10, 2021 12 minutes ago, 中国民主 said: To me, the vocal changes also remain a mystery, but only because it strongly differs from my taste. I thought the old chorus was awesome and really lifted the song, so naturally I miss it in the released version, same goes for intro and outro. That's always the problem with leaks, we get used to how certain songs and parts sound, but it was never meant to be heard before release anyway. I don't know how I would think about "Absurd", had I not heard the Silkworms demos. Same with SOD/the Blues. Always missing the "ok, never mind" part...😅 6 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stress Fracture Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Over a million views. Can we have a proper song now, please? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JimiRose Posted August 10, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 10, 2021 The vocal 'mistakes' in scraped and in absurd are 100% intentional. people don't have to like them. But they don't slip through the net of several producers and the entire band and management after 3000 listens each. especially in absurd where it's every verse. The vocal has just been dragged back on pro tools by a beat. it doesn't overlap the previous line, it just immediately follows. Just studio trickery. I don't know why Axl would want that, that's pure speculation. But to suggest it's an error is more than ridiculous. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Guapo Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 8 minutes ago, JimiRose said: The vocal 'mistakes' in scraped and in absurd are 100% intentional. people don't have to like them. But they don't slip through the net of several producers and the entire band and management after 3000 listens each. especially in absurd where it's every verse. The vocal has just been dragged back on pro tools by a beat. it doesn't overlap the previous line, it just immediately follows. Just studio trickery. I don't know why Axl would want that, that's pure speculation. But to suggest it's an error is more than ridiculous. This. It's impossible that it's a "mistake". Like I said before, I find it more problematic that he doesn't replicate it on stage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 18 minutes ago, JimiRose said: The vocal 'mistakes' in scraped and in absurd are 100% intentional. people don't have to like them. But they don't slip through the net of several producers and the entire band and management after 3000 listens each. especially in absurd where it's every verse. The vocal has just been dragged back on pro tools by a beat. it doesn't overlap the previous line, it just immediately follows. Just studio trickery. I don't know why Axl would want that, that's pure speculation. But to suggest it's an error is more than ridiculous. It’s not every verse though, it’s back to normal by the last verse. I haven’t listened to Scraped in a long time, so I’m not even sure if there is errors in there. I am curious about Absurd though, it may be the instrumentation muting the end of ‘deserve’, but it does sound like he doesn’t finish singing that particular word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stress Fracture Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 It was done like that to make the verses sound less repetitive than they are IMHO. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Guapo Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) Regardind Scraped, I think it's the "my life's a catastophe" bit people are wondering about. I immediately heard it but never thought it might be a glitch or a mistake. Edited August 10, 2021 by El Guapo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 6 hours ago, Norespect1982 said: You “don’t get”. You are not an artist, presumably not a musician, have no musical talent, not really in a position to judge the artistic choices of a band that has sold millions of albums and say that they have let a mistake slip through. If you don’t get it than thats your problem. Personally that off beat timing of “screaming fucking banshee” is one of the best things about the song. It’s chaotic, frantic and aggressive. I love it. This is a forum. Regardless of anyone’s musical background, they’ll be sure to comment on anything this band release, whether good or bad, and you thinking otherwise won’t stop that. Cop on. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallex78 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 39 minutes ago, JimiRose said: The vocal 'mistakes' in scraped and in absurd are 100% intentional. people don't have to like them. But they don't slip through the net of several producers and the entire band and management after 3000 listens each. especially in absurd where it's every verse. The vocal has just been dragged back on pro tools by a beat. it doesn't overlap the previous line, it just immediately follows. Just studio trickery. I don't know why Axl would want that, that's pure speculation. But to suggest it's an error is more than ridiculous. Axl seems to like running lines into each other where they’re not supposed to, see Slither for example, he sings “that’s the spot, whereyouruntomemightseesometypeofpleasure, in my mind” And of course, in both instances, they sound ridiculous… Edited August 10, 2021 by metallex78 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 23 minutes ago, El Guapo said: Regardind Scraped, I think it's the "my life's a catastophe" bit people are wondering about. I immediately heard it but never thought it might be a glitch or a mistake. The voice crack? It sounds fine to my ears, I just can’t help but not hear the cutting on Absurd though. That is my only issue on an otherwise unthinkable event of this band releasing music!! Hopefully it’s a sign of things to come. Edited August 10, 2021 by Dean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodOlJohnnyK Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 It’s intentional. You think the band just missed it in editing? It’s a common staple of electronic music - specifically the industrial music of the mid to late 90s, which Axl was clearly influenced by. Back then, the idea was to jar the listener by drawing attention to the “artificial” nature of the song. “Yes, the vocals are chopped and processed - fuck you.” It works quite nicely in Absurd, actually. Even a beat back, it’s never quite off-beat but it’s close enough to give the song some tension. The way the line shifts slightly in each verse before finally landing “correctly” in the final verse actually gives a sense of fruition to the song. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 11 minutes ago, GoodOlJohnnyK said: It’s intentional. You think the band just missed it in editing? It’s a common staple of electronic music - specifically the industrial music of the mid to late 90s, which Axl was clearly influenced by. Back then, the idea was to jar the listener by drawing attention to the “artificial” nature of the song. “Yes, the vocals are chopped and processed - fuck you.” It works quite nicely in Absurd, actually. Even a beat back, it’s never quite off-beat but it’s close enough to give the song some tension. The way the line shifts slightly in each verse before finally landing “correctly” in the final verse actually gives a sense of fruition to the song. Anything is possible. If it is a staple of the industrial scene of the late 90's, they certainly never recorded it in that way initially if you listen to the Village leak. The vocals themselves with the FX on top really do not bother me at all, if anything, I love the delivery as it's in a similar vain to how he approached Down on the Farm, but that particular bit in the song baffles me. It seems to split opinion anyway, going by some of the posts in this thread and that is ok - as the saying goes, you can't please everyone. Edited August 10, 2021 by Dean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamillos Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 It reminds me of that pop crap where it used to be popular some years ago as well. It's undoubtedly intentional, but that doesn't make me like it one iota more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underhardy Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 2 hours ago, JimiRose said: The vocal 'mistakes' in scraped and in absurd are 100% intentional. people don't have to like them. But they don't slip through the net of several producers and the entire band and management after 3000 listens each. especially in absurd where it's every verse. The vocal has just been dragged back on pro tools by a beat. it doesn't overlap the previous line, it just immediately follows. Just studio trickery. I don't know why Axl would want that, that's pure speculation. But to suggest it's an error is more than ridiculous. You know, for the longest time I thought wow how could Axl let scraped get released after how many years and still have a vocal error/pop in the second verse. But now I know it’s obviously intentional. What gives it away is the line he’s singing, “sometimes I feel like my life’s a catastrophe.” Yeah I don’t like how he moved up that vocal line in the first 2 verses of absurd. Just another example of tinkering with something long past it’s time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post agustingloger Posted August 10, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 10, 2021 8 hours ago, JAxlMorrison said: What was wrong with scraped? The whole song 😅 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonGuns Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 4 hours ago, t-p-d-a said: Can you please listen the song for me and tell the time code when it happens? Hi - about 1min 19secs. Enjoy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangerInThisTown Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 15 minutes ago, ToonGuns said: Hi - about 1min 19secs. Enjoy!!! "Enjoy" is a broad term while telling someone to listen to Scraped 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaneisKing1389 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 We know the song well, but I played it for a friend and he interpreted it as Axl trying to downplay a weird fetish or something. He said, “but in what world is a pussy full of maggots not absurd?” I never interpreted the song that way and now it makes me laugh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zint Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Of course they released this as the first track in years, lol. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beto 22 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 5 hours ago, ToonGuns said: There is a copy and paste glitch in the vocals. Second verse from memory. I wouldn't try and find it to be honest as once you've heard it once you'll never unhear it. If you've not spotted it yet you're in luck. In the line "Sometimes I think my mind is a catastrophy. Don't know if it's a edit mistake or bad Autotune adjustment, but it's there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangerInThisTown Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 11 hours ago, Blackstar said: Some of the posts in this thread have not aged well : "great song to release as a single to trigger people" by @Fanboy LMAO. Little did he know. DID TB/GNR READ THE DISCUSSION ON EVERY SONG OR WHAT? Edited August 10, 2021 by StrangerInThisTown 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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