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Originally Posted by Barish  Hi Butch,
Many thanks for taking the time for this Q&A.
Would you mind telling us about the loops in "Stupid Girl"?
Every magazine and online source focuses on the drum tracks taken from the Clash song, but I am more curious about the loads of stuff that went in the background there. Such as the weird loop on the right channel in the bridge section, gelled with a dark sticky pad etc.
That record was out about the time when I had moved to Glasgow Scotland from Istanbul Turkey and it was on my CD player on a permanent basis for quite some time back then. Fantastic memories of a dark sticky sound of music before a dark sticky weather in a dark sticky town at the back.
Thanks again.
B. |
Stupid Girl is one of the most simple songs we recorded, and the whole song was written over the bass groove and Clash sample. We decided to add textures, guitars, and keys to make the song dynamic rather that write a lot of complicated chord changes. Steve and I added a lot of ambient sound efx that float in and out of the mix, and there is a "glitchy" sound that comes in during the pre-chorus that was taken from one of our DAT players that had broken and started emitting bizarre noises.
We recorded the basic tracks on ADATs in Steve's basement while drinking lots of gin and tonics.
When Shirl tried to sing on it the first time, we realized the key was too low, so instead of re-recording the guitars (too lazy maybe? too many G & T's?) I just re- printed them though a pitch change patch on a Yamaha SPX 90. Definitely lofi, but it sounded OK to our ears, so we left them that way.
Mike Kashou, a friend of ours from Milwaukee, played bass.
Shirl's vox are amazing on the track, one of my favorites!