Gotye - C or D

They didn't remix Kanye's "808s" stuff, did they?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 23, 2012 9:16 AM Bookmark

why would 808s & Heartbreak get remixed? these songs aren't 'rhythmic' enough for some pop stations, nobody's going to add a drum machine to a record that already has a drum machine to make it more radio-friendly

― Poor Turrican (some dude), Monday, April 23, 2012 9:20 AM Bookmark

the rar/r&b station here played a remixed version of "Love Lockdown" with a backbeat

rap* although i guess these days .rar/r&b is a close enough approximation

I didn't think it was the lack of drum machine that made this a problem for top 40, but rather the lack of brisk tempo and a big beat. The Kanye stuff when it was on the radio was like this weird oasis of quiet and space floating interrupting all the usual stuff. They didn't artificially boost its tempo with a pre-fab backbeat.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 23, 2012 12:22 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

"Heartless" sounded like a ton of other stuff already on the radio at the time, wasn't very quiet at all, and that was the only song off that record that was really big on radio. didn't know about the "Love Lockdown" remix Rev is talking about, though.

heard the Gotye remix on a pop station for the first time today, god that's terrible.

actually ashamed I didn't think of this myself. Missed opportunities!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/s720x720/181314_10150895930179907_501504906_9510972_551997056_n.jpg

lol

the first time i heard the song in passing i thought that was what that line was about

Hearing him on SNL again reminded me: I ctrl+f-ed it and apparently I'm the only one here who thinks he sounds like Ozzy, especially in the chorus?

Oh, Google is my friend. Apparently I'm not the only one on the whole of the internet to think this.

ha, never would've occurred to me on my own but i can hear it

i think it might be specifically the doubling or reverb used on his voice on "Someone" that's probably similarly to the way Ozzy's voice was mixed circa Blizzard of Ozz

Oh it's been bugging me for ages who he reminded me of. Ozzy is totally it.

Shit. You guys are right. And now I'm pissed off, because I can't UNhear it.

Ha,

yeah. Will mention it to our Alice, with reference to "Changes", it's quite clear.

ha ha, that Ozzy thing is great. Now the song is enjoyable!

I'm almost senselessly drunk and "Somebody" seems really profound right now. Pretty sure I just bought it on iTunes.

Thought I had never heard this but just heard it in the gym, caught the title lyric, realized that this was "Somebody That I Used To Know" -- I've heard it a million times, of course, but truly thought it was some late-model Sting single I hadn't learned the name of.

gotye!

This was posted on his website in October 2014 (three days before this thread was last revived).

http://i.imgur.com/BHgYMiF.png

I don't so much care that he "retired" (or didn't), or even that his announcement is really weird. I'm just more surprised that no one really covered it only two years removed from him having one of the biggest international hits in recent memory.

he then posted another post contradicted that post even further, so who knows

http://i.imgur.com/P9IdnFn.png

Ah, so homey is just a weirdo.

gotye west

there will be no gotye...

...GOT YE!

i drank all night with this dude at a bar he's really kewl

Basics are still touring.

I was just reading the new Tape Op and there's a great feature on the guy. Apparently he's really gotten into the ondioline, not just playing it but paying for historic restorations and in particular archiving the works of Jean-Jacques Perrey.

Here's a profile from Petrusich from last summer:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-australian-musician-gotye-resurrects-the-sounds-of-the-ondioline

His 2004 Depeche Mode cover for indie electronic label Groovescooter is now available on Bandcamp, either as a 'single' or on the covers album it came from.