The Tortured Poets Department ILX Pre-Cover Planning Thread

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

LJ lured me here and I just recorded a draft of "Fortnight" (more of a post tonality feat than a Post Malone feat tho). I can send a recording if it counts and is still available.

Very much available, it's yours!

"Florida!!!" is the last one left!

I'm going to officially state that I'm out. I do like the excessive exclamation marks of 'Florida!!!' but I don't think I can take it on. Somebody else jump in and make the album complete.

Voting that whoever takes it should have to collab up with Alfred for vocals/spoken-word

little dog was so good

Truly

it's really nice to for me to be able to hear Dottie's bark again, she gave it her all

Already wondering if my initial idea for my track isn't completely stupid and impractical.

I have never knowingly heard a TS song so I feel unqualified to approach this one, as much as I enjoy our covers projects, but if anyone needs any help with mastering or the like hit me up on this thread.

You don't have to have heard anything by the artist or even be interested in their work though? Believe me I have less than zero interest in latter day U2 and Morrissey and I did tracks for both those projects. I just go on whether the titles give me any ideas. For instance I did a cover of a Morrissey track called Mountjoy, which I assume was named after the prison on Dublin but made me think of the snooker player, Doug Mountjoy. Doug Mountjoy's claim to fame was he was the first player to perform a maximum break on television, so I found some audio of the commentary (Ted Lowe of course!) and built the track around that.

Also doing something that sounds nothing like the artist you are covering seems the ideal approach.

Well, the last point is a given with my contributions for sure, and I do see what you mean, but I'm trying to think if I've ever done one of these when I haven't liked or at least been pretty familiar with the artist.

If Alfred reads this (or if someone wants to give him a nudge) and wishes to do his thing, I will happily provide the music.

He's been nudged

hi!

If MaresNest and Alfred are up for it, we have our roster complete.

Alfred, I ilx webmailed yer

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!