The Tortured Poets Department ILX Pre-Cover Planning Thread

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.

I’m sure mine does bc I record live in a basement

As I'm almost out the door for a chunk of the day I can't do anything immediate; that said, Maresn3st, if you're willing to wait until this evening I can probably get you everything then if you want to do a run-through on that front.

(Also, Josh, not seeing your new one yet; maybe resend or try an alternate method?)

I sent it a second time via dropbox (I think/hope), since gmail wasn't cooperating this time.

i mastered ours, feel free to take a look at it but there's probably not much headroom

I made mine sound less shitty but when it comes to levels, I'm clueless and always have been. also was using a Bandlab app on my phone. so any tweaking of mine, have at it.

Sent you an email, Ned

Got it! And Josh, still didn't come through? Weird!

maybe try wetransfer or something similar?

I mixed mine with one ear not functioning so mine could probably use some mastering

this is still getting released in some form today, right?

yep but 8-track format only

i'm waiting for the reel to reel

"Ned's Version"

Limited edition PONO high-res version at Target (with unique bonus tracks)

Tomorrow more likely at this point thanks to Maresn3st giving it a once over later today.

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