We all know Wheel and the maypole was built up from two song ideas. Got me wondering if other existingXTc songs could be put togther in the same way to create a new version.
In my head I have the thought of Yacht Dance and Easter Theatre mingling together not just linking the songs but the two eras of tha band. it would be better if i could demonstrate this musically of course????
Full Version: Two Songs Into One.
This seems like a good and interesting question... which is why I'm sorry I have to do this
Earn Enough For Us Being Us
I'm the Man who Murdered Love at First Sight.... on a Farmboy's Wages
Cynical Day in, Big Day out
King For a Workaway Tokyo Day
Ballet for a Reign of Blows
Yacht War Dance
Ra Ra For Wounded Rocking Horse
You're My Drug (You Are) I Had
Shake All You Pretty Donkeys Up
Earn Enough For Us Being Us
I'm the Man who Murdered Love at First Sight.... on a Farmboy's Wages
Cynical Day in, Big Day out
King For a Workaway Tokyo Day
Ballet for a Reign of Blows
Yacht War Dance
Ra Ra For Wounded Rocking Horse
You're My Drug (You Are) I Had
Shake All You Pretty Donkeys Up
Won't you take Martin's question seriously, for God's sake?
He was talking more about things like
Big King for a Day
Prince of Oranges and Lemons
Across This Anthills and Children
Ballet for a Rainy Day in, Day Out
Green Man Who Sailed Around his Soul
I'm the Man Who Murdered Love on a Farmboy's Wages
No Thugs in our House Full of Mice
Scissor Man Who Murdered Love and/or Sailed Around His Soul
This Outside World Over
I Remember the Minature Sun
The Everyday Story of a Smalltown Animal in a Furnished Cage
Are You Recieving Me and the Wind?
Papersnowman (rrrragh!)
He was talking more about things like
Big King for a Day
Prince of Oranges and Lemons
Across This Anthills and Children
Ballet for a Rainy Day in, Day Out
Green Man Who Sailed Around his Soul
I'm the Man Who Murdered Love on a Farmboy's Wages
No Thugs in our House Full of Mice
Scissor Man Who Murdered Love and/or Sailed Around His Soul
This Outside World Over
I Remember the Minature Sun
The Everyday Story of a Smalltown Animal in a Furnished Cage
Are You Recieving Me and the Wind?
Papersnowman (rrrragh!)
QUOTE (Spastic Minnow @ Sep 30 2011, 11:31 AM) 
I'm the Man who Murdered Love at First Sight.... on a Farmboy's Wages
Oooh, didn't catch that. Nice.
Your dictionary of modern marriage.
Red Blue Green Gold Pink Man Beret Thing?
...will that do?
...will that do?
We Kill The Beast-Town.
I'd like that wave.
I'm stopping now, I'm too good at this.-is pop.
I'm stopping now, I'm too good at this.-is pop.
Statue of Simpleton
(i think Truzzi uses one of these complete with soap dish in his bathroom )
Great Fireball Xl5 just for Donavon
(i think Truzzi uses one of these complete with soap dish in his bathroom )
Great Fireball Xl5 just for Donavon
Great Fireball Xl5 just for Donavon
Cheers Gav, thanks - for Christmas................
Cheers Gav, thanks - for Christmas................
QUOTE (Mr Tein @ Sep 30 2011, 10:59 AM)
We all know Wheel and the maypole was built up from two song ideas. Got me wondering if other existingXTc songs could be put togther in the same way to create a new version.
In my head I have the thought of Yacht Dance and Easter Theatre mingling together not just linking the songs but the two eras of tha band. it would be better if i could demonstrate this musically of course????
In my head I have the thought of Yacht Dance and Easter Theatre mingling together not just linking the songs but the two eras of tha band. it would be better if i could demonstrate this musically of course????
Sorry Mr T I can't imagine these stuck together.
But of there are the obvious ones
This is Funk Pop a Roll
Wake Up You Red Brick Dreamers
Train running bungalow on soul coal
Train running bungalow on soul coal
Dying, wounded horse.
Books are burning with optimism's flames.
Take this everyday story of a smalltown.
War dance with me Germany.
The disappointed rook.
Vanishing girl, then she appeared.
The somnambulist wake up
Fairly clever, Don. 
Initially reading this thread title, I thought it was gonna be about using two elements of dissimilar songs to create a new one.
Something like, say, singing the lyrics of Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" over the music of Neil Diamond/the Monkee's "I'm A Believer":
"Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls
Eying little girls with bad intent
Snot is running down his nose (do do do)
Greasy fingers shabby clothes (do do do)
Watching as the frilly panties run
Aqualung my friend
Don't start away uneasy
You poor old sod
You see it's only me...."
i KNOW you can hear it.
Okay, so it wasn't.
But Spastic immediately diverted this thread from Mr Tein's original intent into 'sewn together' XTC song titles.
Which is all well and fine, nothing wrong with that.
However, going back to the original concept of musically editing together two XTC songs,
I'd say:
"Towers Of London" & "Earn Enough For Us".
You'd have to pick a tempo between them, faster than the former and slower than the latter.
And Tower's modulation from F to G already gets you into Earn's key.
An obvious one:
"Senses Working Overtime" & "Great Fire".
Tempos and initial chords and keys (Am) are already similar,
and the modular construction of both would facilitate juxtaposing sections
(after resolving modulation and voice leading issues).
Initially reading this thread title, I thought it was gonna be about using two elements of dissimilar songs to create a new one.
Something like, say, singing the lyrics of Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" over the music of Neil Diamond/the Monkee's "I'm A Believer":
"Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls
Eying little girls with bad intent
Snot is running down his nose (do do do)
Greasy fingers shabby clothes (do do do)
Watching as the frilly panties run
Aqualung my friend
Don't start away uneasy
You poor old sod
You see it's only me...."
i KNOW you can hear it.
Okay, so it wasn't.
But Spastic immediately diverted this thread from Mr Tein's original intent into 'sewn together' XTC song titles.
Which is all well and fine, nothing wrong with that.
However, going back to the original concept of musically editing together two XTC songs,
I'd say:
"Towers Of London" & "Earn Enough For Us".
You'd have to pick a tempo between them, faster than the former and slower than the latter.
And Tower's modulation from F to G already gets you into Earn's key.
An obvious one:
"Senses Working Overtime" & "Great Fire".
Tempos and initial chords and keys (Am) are already similar,
and the modular construction of both would facilitate juxtaposing sections
(after resolving modulation and voice leading issues).
QUOTE (ColinEd @ Oct 1 2011, 12:46 AM)
This is Funk Pop a Roll
THERE'S one that COULD work really well musically! (Nice, C of E.)
The rest, I'm not so sure about. (Sorry.)
QUOTE (Jeff Truzzi @ Oct 1 2011, 08:48 PM)
Fairly clever, Don.
Fairly clever? Stupidly happy families clever. So don't lose your temper.
Life is good in the greenhouse, man, no thugs either.
QUOTE (donavan @ Oct 1 2011, 01:26 PM)
Fairly clever? Stupidly happy families clever.
Life is good in the greenhouse, man, no thugs either.
Life is good in the greenhouse, man, no thugs either.
QUOTE (geordiegav @ Sep 30 2011, 04:07 PM)
Statue of Simpleton
(i think Truzzi uses one of these complete with soap dish in his bathroom )
(i think Truzzi uses one of these complete with soap dish in his bathroom )
Damn it, Simp was NEVER supposed to tell anybody!
Now I'm intrigued by Tein's initial example.
Just because (like ColinEd) I don't hear it either, doesn't mean it couldn't work.
Maybe, when I get a few spare moments with ProTools, ....
QUOTE (Jeff Truzzi @ Oct 1 2011, 01:35 PM)
Just because (like ColinEd) I don't hear it either, doesn't mean it couldn't work.
I'd heard most of the original Brian Wilson "Smile" fragments and recordings since the early 80s,
and so considered myself pretty damn familiar with 'em.
Then I'd hear something, on another outtake or on the 2004 Smile CD,
where he took elements I was intimately familiar with
and edited them together in a way I could have never possibly imagined -
and it worked gloriously.
There's always more to learn.
I spoke too soon. I'm hearing all these working:
QUOTE (donavan @ Oct 1 2011, 01:39 AM)
Books are burning with optimism's flames.
QUOTE (Spastic Minnow @ Sep 30 2011, 09:31 AM)
I'm the Man who Murdered Love at First Sight.... on a Farmboy's Wages
Yacht War Dance
You're My Drug (You Are) I Had
Shake All You Pretty Donkeys Up
Yacht War Dance
You're My Drug (You Are) I Had
Shake All You Pretty Donkeys Up
QUOTE (Kendley @ Sep 30 2011, 11:06 AM)
Across This Anthills and Children
I'm the Man Who Murdered Love on a Farmboy's Wages
I Remember the Minature Sun
I'm the Man Who Murdered Love on a Farmboy's Wages
I Remember the Minature Sun
Crowded Room/Millions
There's a live track where Andy goes into the Millions riff and Dave is instantly on the ball, shows how tight a live band Xtc were and how much they enjoyed trying to goof each other around on stage...they probably had quite a few tunes Frankenstiend together live on stage for fun!
The night Lennon died didn't they slip Rain into some song from Black Sea too?
Oh and come on pop pickers Do what you do/Danceband was stitched together tight as Terry Chambers drum for many a live set!
Atom Medley?
Back to daft stuff....
Wait till your boat goes down a peg!
There's a live track where Andy goes into the Millions riff and Dave is instantly on the ball, shows how tight a live band Xtc were and how much they enjoyed trying to goof each other around on stage...they probably had quite a few tunes Frankenstiend together live on stage for fun!
The night Lennon died didn't they slip Rain into some song from Black Sea too?
Oh and come on pop pickers Do what you do/Danceband was stitched together tight as Terry Chambers drum for many a live set!
Atom Medley?
Back to daft stuff....
Wait till your boat goes down a peg!
The Fuzzy Warblers joined Don't Let Us Bug Ya with I Don't Want To Be Here, due to the tempo, and the tuning was sympathetic, when we played it in 2005.
Human alchemy and the wind
QUOTE (Jeff Truzzi @ Oct 1 2011, 09:49 PM)
I'd heard most of the original Brian Wilson "Smile" fragments and recordings since the early 80s,
and so considered myself pretty damn familiar with 'em.
Then I'd hear something, on another outtake or on the 2004 Smile CD,
where he took elements I was intimately familiar with
and edited them together in a way I could have never possibly imagined -
and it worked gloriously.
There's always more to learn.
and so considered myself pretty damn familiar with 'em.
Then I'd hear something, on another outtake or on the 2004 Smile CD,
where he took elements I was intimately familiar with
and edited them together in a way I could have never possibly imagined -
and it worked gloriously.
There's always more to learn.
well I was just wandering through the factory and sang through a quick arrangement of my amlagamation and i can get it to work. Obvioulsy a bit of tempo changes and for you purists I am probable in the wrong keys ( eveything in my world is in D! ).
QUOTE (donavan @ Oct 1 2011, 09:52 AM)
The disappointed rook.
Sorry to quote my own post.
But wouldn't THE DISAPPOINTED ROOK make the best oversized illustration book for kids?
QUOTE (donavan @ Oct 6 2011, 11:18 PM)
Sorry to quote my own post.
But wouldn't THE DISAPPOINTED ROOK make the best oversized illustration book for kids?
But wouldn't THE DISAPPOINTED ROOK make the best oversized illustration book for kids?
But as a premise for a childrens book? it leads me to think of totally innapropriate books for children...
Uncle gary's coming to stay
100 things to do with a nail gun
My cat is dead.
Making the most out of MacDonalds
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