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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 14:39:36
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I was just thinking the other day, and almost started a thread, about songs that British singers can sing, but American singers can't.
For example ... only a guy with a British accent could sing Martha My Dear by The Beatles. Think about it ...
I heard this Um-Air-I-Can sang this British sung TOON, might righteously*.
*It helped to have a Brit doing the backing vox and that it is actually an Um-Air-I-Can choon.
I heard that, it's mighty good. :)
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 14:46:23
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 15:15:45
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Breaking news ... My cat just meowed ......with a British accent!
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 15:31:53
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Obviously you've never heard a Brummie talk then..........
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 15:36:49
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Obviously you've never heard a Brummie talk then..........
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 16:04:44
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At least it's not Welsh.
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 16:06:46
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 16:30:08
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I'm suprised nobody has sujested the ultimate British accent.
and btw, I don't have an accent.... ask JB
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 16:30:16
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Try listening to anything by the fabulous british singer Beverly Knight (one of the greatest soul singers of all time IMHO) and then listening to her in an interview. It alters your perception.
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 16:37:20
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Mooch4056
Maybe Jon and Steve can chime in on this
Steve and I don't actually sound human when we sing. HTH
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 16:38:40
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Jonbouy
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Maybe Jon and Steve can chime in on this
Steve and I don't actually sound human when we sing.
HTH
Can the two of youse mimic chimes?
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 16:47:16
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Try listening to anything by the fabulous british singer Beverly Knight (one of the greatest soul singers of all time IMHO) and then listening to her in an interview. It alters your perception.
+1 to that. I sometimes think she hasn't had the recognition she richly deserves because she's a Brit and people expect their Soul singers to be American. She certainly has the language of music down to a Shakespearean degree. I think the British trend in Pop/Rock that Mooch is alluding too happened because being British seemed a bit mundane and ordinary to be classed as 'Rock Star' stuff in certain quarters. I think from the mainstream pop point of view, that started changing post punk and people like Morrisey started to point out that homespun mundane and ordinary could be seen as cool too. I think partly too is that some British acts never sold well in America probably because they sounded too British. I'm thinking as far back as Joe Brown and his Bruvvers as a really obvious example.
post edited by Jonbouy - 2012/10/18 16:51:18
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 16:47:58
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Maybe Jon and Steve can chime in on this
What ho old bean. Damned fine spiffing good show and all that, what. Cucumber sandwich with the crusts cut orf anyone? I fancy it looks like rain again Peregrin, best we grab a few ferkins of prime top-hole faggot and a spot of tiffin, all washed down with a flagon of Old Sheepbuggerer's best mead. Or would that be far too frightfully beastly. Pip pip!!
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 16:56:01
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 17:31:51
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bollocks
That seems awfully close to arse to me. Am I roight?
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 17:34:06
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you say arse
I say asz
lets call the hole thing off
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 17:46:18
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Jonbouy
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Maybe Jon and Steve can chime in on this
Steve and I don't actually sound human when we sing.
HTH
+1 on proper grammer and punctuation. But I still hear the accent. You should have sung your response
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 17:50:58
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I wanna know why John Fogerty sings with a southern accent and lived in Northern California growing up and all through his CCR days. Dag nabbit.
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Re:Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
2012/10/18 20:49:03
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But if I produce a string section using Kontakt where I play a chord with one hand and put it out to a colloborator in a single WAV file, is it a track or a stem?
Neither, it's a ''rubbish way of doing a string section''.
HTH.
What if somone gave me a guitar "track" with reverb and distortion and I do not EQ the "track" and just set it's level, issita stem then?
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