Metafilter Music Collab | Teaser #1: Backing Vocals

To appease (or perhaps aggravate) your curiosity, here's a tiny little teaser compiled from the Mefi Music Collaboration tracks.

Please be patient. An actual mix is in the works, but real life obligations abound, plus I tend to take my time with these things anyway. When people ask I'm telling them it will be here in time for Christmas, and I promise to stick to that schedule.

This little outtake features the vocal stylings of chococat, escabeche, karlos the jackal's wife, verysleeping, and Zachsmind.

Thanks again to all who contributed.

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posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (19 comments total)

GNFTI, that's amazing. Such a choral thing could never be done in person. Wow. The final mix is going to kick ass!
posted by snsranch at 7:25 PM on November 15, 2007

This alone sounds great. I can't wait for the rest.
posted by micayetoca at 8:05 PM on November 15, 2007

I sure like my wife.

This is neat.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 2:01 AM on November 16, 2007

Oooh. Very teasy.
posted by cashman at 4:50 AM on November 16, 2007

I sure like my wife.
posted by Karlos the Jackal

Yeah, her voice sounds nice, good idea getting her to sing in it.
posted by micayetoca at 7:05 AM on November 16, 2007

Wow - I'm really looking forward to hearing the final mix with everything!
posted by tdismukes at 11:56 AM on November 16, 2007

micayetoca -- credit where credit's due -- it was her idea!
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 12:31 PM on November 16, 2007

Oh man... this makes me want the final thing so much harder


wantwantwantwant
posted by tehloki at 1:45 PM on November 16, 2007

*feels suitably bad about not having managed anything*
posted by motty at 5:04 PM on November 16, 2007

You know, probably the cruelest thing in the world is taking someone's vocal track that was recorded to music and solo-ing it.
I feel like I'm bare naked. Or Linda McCartney.

I laughed, though.
posted by chococat at 5:35 PM on November 16, 2007

Wow, I never wondered what it would sound like if I were in an a capella group, but now I know.
posted by escabeche at 8:05 PM on November 16, 2007

*feels suitably bad about not having managed anything*

Ditto...
posted by armoured-ant at 2:50 AM on November 17, 2007

You know, probably the cruelest thing in the world is taking someone's vocal track that was recorded to music and solo-ing it.
I feel like I'm bare naked. Or Linda McCartney.

I laughed, though.

Yes, I know! That was really the cruelest part, worse than the teasing bit for me, and I wondered if I could get away with it. I know how I feel when that happens - but then again I thought it sounded great, so I just went ahead with it.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:06 AM on November 17, 2007

yeah, my voice wasn't in it, so I probably shouldn't chime in, but it sounded so good, that no one should feel bad about it. It almost made me wish the whole thing was a crazy a capella version.
posted by micayetoca at 9:52 AM on November 17, 2007

That would be sort of disappointing for those who submitted instrumental tracks, don't you think?
posted by tehloki at 4:16 PM on November 17, 2007

yeah, like me, for example. I was just sayin', mate.
posted by micayetoca at 8:11 PM on November 17, 2007

I feel like Joey showing his other Friends where he is in the porn film. "There I am... there I am... there i am..." But hey, every porn film needs its pizza delivery guy or the dude trying to fix the copier while there's an orgy going on top of it. There are no small parts. Only people who can't sing as well as they wish they could, that get faded down in the mix.

Seriously, the money shot was everybody else. I just came for the pizza. =)
posted by ZachsMind at 11:47 AM on November 18, 2007

AERGH! I knew I forgot something! My tracks (no vocal, though) are on my desktop at home, but I never sent them.

I'll send 'em, and you can ignore 'em or use 'em.
posted by davejay at 6:17 PM on November 19, 2007

That is great, what an appetite-whetter.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:21 AM on November 20, 2007