The Tortured Poets Department ILX Pre-Cover Planning Thread

I never actually finished mine so let me know if I can keep tinkering. Staying up until 2:30 to “finish” it was a bad idea. As with college papers, I sent what I had.

throwing my name in as a backup to the backups

xpost Feel free to tinker! But there will be a final deadline, no fixing “Wolves” here.

m bison: noted, will follow up as needed!

Okay the stragglers are coming in, we're down to Elvis Telecom, florin and sarahell...

I know I haven't been about much for the past few years but I'm not sure I would have resisted putting something together for the Post Malone track using just samples from Fortnite and him saying "should we sample this?"

FINALLY have full power restored to the house so I can bring it on home. The windstorm knocked out the neutral line to the house - when power first came back automatically after the first blackout on Thursday, there were still lines down and the resulting voltage spike killed a half-dozen surge suppressers, along with a microwave, a dishwasher, and *fuckfuckfuck* my SL-1200MK3. The first two can be repaired, replaced if absolutely necessary but I'm standing vigil for my turntable.

*sad salute*

oh so sorry to hear that

ET, you have an EV, right? Were you able to plug the house into the car?

Eesh that all sounds awful!

Ned’s first listen didn’t go well then

Roffle

lmao

(Not at ET’s travails, that all sounds awful and I am pouring one out for your turntable)

The Tortured Listener’s Department

Okay some late updates!

kurt schwitterz track in hand
Elvis...any update?
Florin: sent you a note the other day. What's the score?

Finally, sarahel confirms that she'll need to step back so m bison if you can grab "The Tortured Poets Department" itself and get me something by Sunday, we're good!

hell yeah bout it

Thank ya!

Okay gotta cough REAL loudly for Elvis T and Florin here; what's going on? (M Bison is working away, obv.)

maybe as a backup plan, m bison records a trilogy!

It's what Elvis (P.) would have wanted.

i have my instrumental, i have written the chorus' lyrics, i have good friday off tomorrow and im gonna have it done by sunday

Great to hear!

Well I sure would love to release this tomorrow but… (Nothing against you, m, you got the assignment late. But Elvis T and Florin, I love you both but I’m wondering why you’ve gone dark!)

im doing last minute mixing atm, i'll have it to you within an hour!

Great!

sendt

Got it!

Release it as is or have the soothing sounds of passing gas as the missing tracks. It’s what Taylor would have wanted.

Spoken word orations.

And you're just the man for the job, Ned.

If Taylor is allowed to re-release her albums with new or different tracks, so are you.

i will gladly record one or both as Henry Rollins-esque spoken word tracks except making much less sense

if there is dead space i can send some filler over but it won't have lyrics or standard song structure
it will have gongs

^omg please do this

It's a must.

Gongs backing Henry Rollins spoken word??

i'd rather leave henry r out of it but whatever works. lmk what is needed (duration) and i will try to find something suitable.

coincidentally and speaking of random spoken word tracks, literally every time i hear "it's a must" i think of REM's "voice of harold"

You can use ai to have Taylor read small poem skits.

https://www.frfr.ai/

La L: Duration can be whatever but feel free to send it over to ned at kuci dot org, in either AIFF or mp3 format (no WAVs please). Assuming I don't hear from either Elvis T or Florin I'll assign yours to one of those slots.

Oh wait seems it’s not working anymore… at least on mobile.

emailed u ned!

If anyone wants or needs a leftover instrumental that sounds kind of like spa/hold music, upon which to lay vocals/poetry/noises, let me know!

Josh -- will keep that in mind!

La L -- got it!

Elvis T/Florin -- at this point we're in 'you snooze you lose' territory. (That said if Elvis has been held up further by the problems he mentioned from a couple of weeks back, I absolutely get it, but I've tried webmailing Florin through here a couple of times to no response.)

And actually, Josh, do send over your instrumental to me as well. I have an idea, believe it or not.

Sent!

Ned, if any tracks need normalising/mastering I'm in front of my ProTools rig for the next few hours.

Lol mine probably does I had no idea what I was doing.