The Tortured Poets Department ILX Pre-Cover Planning Thread

Been a while. And these pre-covers don't make themselves.

Usual rules: claim which one you'd like to do below. Files MUST be sent to me by March 15th via ned at kuci dot org, preferably AIFF format, mp3 acceptable but please PLEASE, do not send it as a WAV. Release date will be April 1. Someone needs to create album art and it won't be me.

Track titles once more. Take the additional listed vocalist as a cue for all sorts of shenanigans.

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Down Bad
So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
loml
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
The Alchemy
Clara Bow

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

Also, please be clear under what name you want the song released, whether as your ILX name, your real one, a current band project, a new one, etc.

I will do Down Bad please

(as 'Acoleuthic', please)

ok, I'll take "So Long, London"

as "Mfktz"

Fresh Out the Slammer (Tom D)

I will do loml

I’ll do The Alchemy, pls, as ShariVari.

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart (HI DERE)

Kristin Hersh already has "Clara Bow" in the can:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQFgq6WVUyo

Okay, current update -- claimed ones are asterisked:

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
* Down Bad
* So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
* Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
* loml
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
* The Alchemy
Clara Bow

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
as Neanderthal

actually, small correction....still doing that song, but artist name Bo Jackson Overdrive

Roffle. But of course.

Oh i want but daddy

Wait wait no … I want the title track

You got it!

Re-update -- half the tracks claimed:

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
* The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
* Down Bad
* So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
* Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
* loml
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
* The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
* The Alchemy
Clara Bow

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

Can I claim I Can Do It With A Broken Heart?

Artist name Twenty Dollars

believe the asterisks are all claimed up

would like to take a stab at "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys" though I also don't want to crowd anyone out, especially if someone wants to sing, down for a collab

have never participated but these are one of my favorite things about ilm, thanks Ned

oh yeah also ILX name is cool

Can I claim I Can Do It With A Broken Heart?

Artist name Twenty Dollars

I'd like to claim "I Can Fix Him". Artist name TBC, put down Beer Swan for now please

Done! Updated list -- those two duets/feat. spots are just sitting there. Dare anyone do the famed LULU pre-cover gambit a la "Little Dog"

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
* The Tortured Poets Department
* My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
* Down Bad
* So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
* Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
* I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
* loml
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
* The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
* The Alchemy
Clara Bow

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

Oh damn this is tempting.

Give in!

I'm just worried about saying I'll do it and then letting everyone down. I've not been doing much music since the pandemic came around.

Me do BUT DADDY I LOVE HIM

A couple of folx from that Discord server that me and imago are in talked me into making music a while ago, although I'm about as far from sounding like Taylor Swift as Gorguts is. (It's abstract instrumental bedroom electronics.) I'll take "My Boy Breaks His Favorite Toys."

Or "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys."

You have to pick another one! Asterisk means it HAS been claimed.

Whoops, I didn't see that message. I'll take "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me."
And I want it under the name Chris Irregardless.

Sounds good -- current 'to claim' list, four to go plus bonus, with a hoy hoy down for claiming one of these already. emil.y you still have time if you'd like to do one!

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
* The Tortured Poets Department
* My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
* Down Bad
* So Long, London
* But Daddy I Love Him
* Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
* Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
* I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
* loml
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
* The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
* The Alchemy
Clara Bow

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

cbesigner and I would like to claim

Bonus Track: The Manuscript

billed as Renegade Priests

LITTLE DOG IS BACK BABY!

Aw yeah

Wait I’m confused by your message, I did claim Broken Heart right?

No I was meaning to say someone already claimed it before you! Claim one of the unasterisked ones instead.

Ah yes, my bad.

Give me Clara Bow… I just need two weeks to learn how to make music but I think that’s more than enough time.

Hahah do what you must! It's yours. So updating, three left to ask for, a hoy hoy has expressed interest in one of them, so can we have two more folks step up? Or emil.y and one more, maybe?

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
* The Tortured Poets Department
* My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
* Down Bad
* So Long, London
* But Daddy I Love Him
* Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
Guilty as Sin?
* Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
* I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
* loml
* I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
* The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
* The Alchemy
* Clara Bow

* Bonus Track: The Manuscript

Put me on the reserve bench for if there's any songs left over

Give me Clara Bow… I just need two weeks to learn how to make music but I think that’s more than enough time.

Post of the week.

Gotta embrace the possibility. H.P., got it!

Put me down for Guilty plz

Moka is already dissing the art of Taylor Swift, the beef is real, a feud is coming

Okay all that's left are "Fortnight" and "Florida!!!" -- WHO IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO CLAIM THE DUETS?

maybe we hire a ringer, like Jedward

I nominate Neanderthal to give us a metal epic

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.

👍

Anyway I just need to record my own addition to Josh's extra track, which is now in hand. It will, I think, suit.

How many decimals of Pi can you fit in two minutes?

Quick note that Elvis T got in touch, things did indeed get too crazy with the house et al. But we are covered at this point. Maresn3st will get the tracks later today from me for a quick listen/master and then I'll put things up for download tomorrow. (Again, avoiding Soundcloud/Bandcamp/etc. for the moment to prevent account nuking.)

Quick note that Elvis T got in touch, things did indeed get too crazy with the house et al. But we are covered at this point. Maresn3st will get the tracks later today from me for a quick listen/master and then I'll put things up for download tomorrow. (Again, avoiding Soundcloud/Bandcamp/etc. for the moment to prevent account nuking.)

*hiccup*

Sorry you got too busy Elvis

Okay final final track listing -- if you want to change or update your artist name, you gotta let me know now!

--

Fortnight -- sund4r Subramanian
The Tortured Poets Department -- matthew mathieu
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys -- La Lechera
Down Bad -- Acoleuthic
So Long, London -- Mfktz
But Daddy I Love Him -- kurt schwitterz
Fresh Out the Slammer -- Tom D (ft. Norman Stanley Fletcher)
Florida!!! -- Maresn3st (feat. Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
Guilty as Sin? -- a hoy hoy
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? -- Chris Irregardless
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) -- Josh in Chicago
loml -- Josh in Chicago (feat. Ned Raggett)
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -- HI DERE
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived -- Bo Jackson Overdrive
The Alchemy -- ShariVari
Clara Bow -- Moka

Bonus Track: The Manuscript -- Renegade Priests
Bonus Track: The Bolter --The Misunderstudd
Bonus Track: The Albatross -- Heez
Bonus Track: The Black Dog -- front tea for two

Done and dusted, just sending them back to you Ned.

Neanderthal, there was a little bit of clipping on the original recording close to the end of the tune, that I just couldn't totally pull out, sorry about that.

Got 'em, thanks!

Oh wait -- I still need DJP/HI DERE's track!

(From Maresn3st that is, not DJP himself.)

Just sent!

And we're good!

Exciting!

No worries, Maresn3st, appreciate you doing your best to clean up my mess :)

Can't wait to hear this

It's still April Fools Day in California for the next 2 minutes ;)

We're live!

"I Want To Say Thank You To The Fans By Telling You A Secret!" -- ILX Pre-Covers The Tortured Poets Department

And this thread is locked!