― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― njkl, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I had a copy of the Plasmatics 'Metal Priestess' that sounded really good on 45 - it sounded a lot like Bad Brains!
― Joe Bon Jonvi (Joe Bon Jonvi), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
and kraftwerk's tour de france 12" is also a winner slwoed down.
― dumdum, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Then I think actual sub-styles of drum&bass popped up that were based on those new, slower tempos. "Breakstep" or "liquid funk" or something, I had sorta moved on by then so I'm not sure about those.
― blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link
True for some tracks, but in general just a cop-out. The trick with drum & bass is feeling the rhythm and half-speed and full speed simultaneously. It's the only way to dance to it and not get exhausted. The songs are written at the speed they're written at to express the raw power a Juno 106 is capable of.
I vote for KMFDM's "Naive" 12". Actually, maybe it's the remix by TKK, but it always sounded better at 33 than 45 to me. And of course Carl Craig's "Bug In The Bassbin" gained notoreity among D&B heads as quite a sick song at 45 rather than 33.
― viborgu, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 03:48 (eighteen years ago) link
stairway played backwards, robert plant says ooo i've been a bad boy satan (and i am soo convinced he did this on purpose, oh yeah)
― Robin Samples (Robin Samples), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 07:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Arnault (arc73hk), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time gaffled 'em up), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― reacher, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
and for cars you could also hook the shit up to the automotive hardware, so like turning the wheel would make the sound pan into the opposite speaker, or the accelerator could control instensity of flange effect or something ------
(that's a million dollar idea right there if anybody wants to run with it ------- I mean car culture and music culture are tight ---- that shit could be the new frontier in tricking out your vehicle)
― reacher, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tate (Tate), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 8 December 2005 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I also recently learned that if you increase the pitch and reverse "Come Wind, Come Rain" by Vashti Bunyan she can clearly be heard singing "Boromir" at one point. Or maybe I'm just too much of a Tolkien geek...
― Nathaniel (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tape Store (Tape Store), Sunday, 28 May 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
(I think that I might actually try to do a radio show about this phenomenon soon...will let all know soon)
― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 28 May 2006 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link
the 45 of chic's "sau paolo" sounds really cool at 33.spirit in the sky at 33 is also good.
― ian, Saturday, 25 October 2008 01:30 (fifteen years ago) link
British Electric Foundation's "Music For Listening..." is far better at 33 than the intended 45.
― Sbarrohawk (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 25 October 2008 01:44 (fifteen years ago) link
that EP being the brief project the Heaven 17 dudes made just after being dumped by Oakey
― Sbarrohawk (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 25 October 2008 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Bluegrass works. I played the Seldom Scene's After Midnight album at 45 and accidentally UNLEASHED THE FUCKIN' FURY!
― groundunderweather (briania), Saturday, 25 October 2008 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand LP. didn't know it was pressed at 45rpm, still kind of like the first track the first way I heard it: http://www.sendspace.com/file/nq61c6
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 25 October 2008 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
aw man the seldom scene rule.i don't know if i could handle CHIPMUNKS DO BLUEGRASS though. i like things better slow e_e
― ian, Saturday, 25 October 2008 02:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Butthole Surfers pwn this thread
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, December 6, 2005 12:36 PM (2 years ago)
Shakey OTM. The first Butthole album I got was the live PCPPEP, which is a 12" meant to be played at 45rpm. I hadn't ever heard them, or at that point come across a 12" that wasn't played at 33rpm. Hands down the most disturbing and revelatory listening experience I've ever had. Was a couple of weeks listening to it that way before I forget to change the speed after some 7" listening; it was almost equally as revelatory and disturbing at the proper speed.
Still throw it on at 33 now and again to marvel at the madness.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 25 October 2008 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a 12" 45 of "Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden that I often Dj at 33rpm. It sounds so heavy and Bruce sounds so manly...
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 25 October 2008 08:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/04/funnel-of-love-mp3s.html
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
WFMU had a Halloween mix a few years back that included a version of John Cale’s Heartbreak Hotel played at 45 rpm (or something). It is freaky and super-demented.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
My mp3 of Robin S' Show Me Love is a good 10 bpm too fast due to being from a mix CD, and I much prefer it that way.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Most Azari & III sounds better sped up. The Whip's "Divebomb" has to be sped way up and then it's great!
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Slowdive LPs at 45.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't know if I said it before, but "Walk Like An Egyptian" sounds like Sisters Of Mercy at 33rpm.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Slowdive EPs at 33.
The first single esp. Side b Avalyn II is a monster.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
45 of 'house of the rising sun' by the animals at 33.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
if you slow Technique by new order down it's the spit of Joy Division.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
This blogger slowed down King Of The Delta Blues singers. http://globalgroovers.blogspot.com/2010/05/robert-johnson-king-of-delta-blues.html
― Bilderbooger (van smack), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
The 45 rpm 12" of "Sexy MF" is fantastic at 33.
The 45 of "We Got The Beat" -- love it, sounds like baritone guitars.
― mandatory seersucker (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
madonna 'into the groove' slowed to 33
awesome, this is like the lost sequel to RAF - Self Control
(it's also kindly on youtube:)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHN_XmRuVF8
anyway I am 8 years late to this thread and 35 years late to this discovery, but, wow, Severed Heads - "Dead Eyes Opened" at 33rpm +8! mind-expanding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRKHzWFyzAo
amused by how many people in the comments indicate that this was the speed they heard it at in clubs in the 80s
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 5 July 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
i enjoyed doing this to loop- gilded eternity once
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 5 July 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
Harold Budd's 'The Serpent (In Quiksilver)'
― cooldix, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 03:33 (four years ago) link
Imagine Dragons are best when played so fast the cd melts and subsequently causes the entire supply of their cds to melt
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 03:42 (four years ago) link
back in the 00s the hype machine dot com would use a pop-out music player for its many aggregated mp3s and occasionally the player would bug out and play a song 1.5x or 2x too fast, and i'd listen to that song thinking that was the real speed only to face disappointment. then i'd have to edit the song in audacity to make it good again
i remember doing this for 2 songs specifically: "dead" by MCR and "rule of three" by the lemonheads
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 03:58 (four years ago) link
the other day i accidentally listened to the first side of “thembi” at 45rpm. sounded fucking great
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
My great annoyance with speed is the Autechre promo "splitrmx" - there is no speed marking on it, it's one track per side on a 12", but the consensus is 33rpm. However I like it far better at 45.33 (the only one online): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfmMtCwRS-g
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link
i believe aaron dilloway has released at least one record which instructs you to “play at any speed”
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 04:30 (four years ago) link
I bought eno’s refelction on 45rpm so I could play it at 33 and have it last 45/33 times as long
― brimstead, Thursday, 2 April 2020 03:38 (four years ago) link
lol
also xp to myself it’s a robert turman record actually ! (they had played together at an in-store and were both selling merch. and it’s on AD’s label.)
“roto” (2013):
https://www.discogs.com/Robert-Turman-Roto/release/4897205
and here is one of the infinite ways to enjoy that disc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4QShzZhrA8&t
― budo jeru, Thursday, 2 April 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link
can’t listen at the moment but I believe you. Flux is a desert island disc
― brimstead, Thursday, 2 April 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
― kkvgz, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 3:00 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://soundcloud.com/deadlas-moan/heartbreak-hotel-john-cale-45
― ☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 2 April 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
Aphex Twin's Flim is a glorious downtempo track when slowed to 33
https://youtu.be/exDqm7xv2As
― octobeard, Friday, 3 April 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
Picked up Cocteau Twins' Victorialand over the weekend, and didn't realize it was 45 RPM -- at 33 RPM, you basically have a Beach House album.
― enochroot, Monday, 31 August 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
Wolves in the Throne Room at 33 instead of 45 was eerie af
― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 August 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
If you play your Abba 'The Name of the Game' 45 at 33, you will find that it sounds just like Roxy Music circa Flesh & Blood. Similarly, if you play 'Oh Yeah' from Flesh & Blood at 33, it sounds like 1977 Abba.
― Stem Cell Maria (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 06:06 (three years ago) link
*I mean play the album at 45!
― Stem Cell Maria (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 06:07 (three years ago) link
Can now confirm that doing the opposite to Beach House is an improvement (aside from Youtube artifacts).
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 07:46 (three years ago) link