'Im not in love' - the poll!

[not-bono-ever]

pfft

INIL is a fine track, eclisped only by I'm Mandy , fly me - for proper nice 10 cc

 

[cybertect]

I find the song immensely dreary though, all those synths

Nope.

No synthesisers. It's all done with bits of sound recorded on tape, cut up into 12 ft lengths and looped round the studio via a mic stand with a tape capstan attached.

That's the point about its technical brilliance.

Originally written around a Bossa nova style beat and tempo, Lol Creme suggested slowing it down, while Kevin Godley suggested replacing the beat with a built-up wall of voices.

The ethereal sound was created by laboriously building up multiple overdubs of the voices of Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing a single note in unison. This multi-track was then mixed down and dubbed down onto 16-track tape. This process was repeated across all sixteen tracks to create a lush 256-voice "virtual" choir that could "sing" chromatic chords.[1] A number of these prepared multi-tracks were then cut into several endless loops, each of which contained the basic notes of the main chords used in the song. The chorus loops could then be played by using the mixing desk rather like a keyboard -- each chord could be sounded by bringing up the fader for that loop

If you want the full, technical blow-by-blow account, you can read an article from Sound on Sound magazine here [PDF].

Full instrument line up

Vocals - 624 of them
Rhythm Guitar (Gibson 335, barely audible)
Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker bass plays solo)
Fender Rhodes keyboard

Actually there was one synth. A Moog was used for the bass drum click.

 

[Cheesypoof]

Nope.

No synthesisers. It's all done with bits of sound recorded on tape, cut up into 12 ft lengths and looped round the studio via a mic stand with a tape capstan attached.

That's the point about its technical brilliance.

and lots of voices, spinning somethin silver.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Try checking Youtube for cover versions of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart.'

I've deliberately avoided covers of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" since Paul Young's musical abortion was released!
That was enough to make me wish I'd assassinated him at a Q-Tips gig years earlier!

 

[ViolentPanda]

I think it's lyrically very clever

I find the song immensely dreary though, all those synths, so slow and plodding, and the lyrics delivered in such a whiney way.

I suppose it was innovative at the time, now it's just meh

The lyrics are supposed to be delivered like that, I think, so that you get the firm impression that the narrator is a sad little fuck who can't face up to his own emotions.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

edit- wrote a rant, no longer interested in it today. It's because...

If I could boil it down to one sentence- for me, the song is like the aural equivalent of a yawn- not unpleasant, but not something you'd seek out either.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

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