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The Smiths suck. Yes I said it, and I'll say it again,the Smiths suck.
There is one song, though, that I really can't get over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5HpeA_WSo&feature=related
For some reason Morrissey's voice doesn't annoy the hell out of me when singing How Soon Is Now? What is it about this song that makes it so freaking good? There are a lot of instrumental elements that bring the song together. From the continuous choppy chord progression that seems to get mush through an oscillating tremelo effect, to the sweeping guitar effect, which is my absolute favorite part of the song. The cool synths that come in and out of the song How Soon Is Now? is definitely NOT your typical Smiths song. In fact, that was the first song that aroused my curiosity in the Smiths. Unfortunately, that song was the only one of its kind, the Smiths suck after that. I've been wanting to know how to recreate that sound, or how Marr even got the guitar to sound like that.
I researched wikipedia and found this somewhat helpful quote that was pulled from somewhere.
“The vibrato sound is fucking incredible, and it took a long time. I put down the rhythm track…through a Fender Twin Reverb without vibrato. Then we played the track back through four old Twins, one on each side. We had to keep all the amps vibrating in time to the track and each other, so we had to keep stopping and starting the track, recording it in ten second bursts…I wish I could remember exactly how we did the slide part- not writing it down is one of the banes of my life! We did it in three different passes through a harmonizer, set to some weird interval, like a sixth. There was a different harmonization for each pass. For the line in harmonics, I re-tuned the guitar so that I could play it all at the twelfth fret with natural harmonics. It’s doubled several times.”
What the hell can you even take out of that? Harmonizer and Harmonics. My next quest to find the ultimate badass sounding sweep/slide has presented itself. Can you imagine how awesome it would be to control that effect? The possibilities are endless.
So maybe, the Smiths don't suck so much after all. Actually, yeah, they do, for keeping Morrissey as a vocalist. Horrible, horrible vocals. Still that track makes up for his shitty voice somehow.
We need more guitarists like Marr that explore their instruments to create awesome sounding effects and songs.
Anyway, maybe I'll throw up a song soon...till next time!
