Let me ask something else then, since I don't think I have been making the point I really wanted to make:
Can you guys point me to a track where I can feel the "mood" of the artist for 3-4 minutes? In other words, what comp'd song done in the last 3 years will make me feel the pain of the singer the way I do with an old soul jam? Like for instance, J.B.'s "It's a man's world"?
The Beatles. I read somewhere that they would experiment with vocal tracks and create delays and all sorts of things in the later years ("strawberry fields", "I'm the Walrus", etc.), those cats literally invented sampling by "chopping up" some EMI library recording to avoid having to get proper permission (I think I read that in Geoff Emerick's book). As far as I know, those old songs they perfected while performing thousands of hours in Germany (on beer and uppers), and a little later coming up with such jams as "I call your name", "Please Please Me", "She Loves You", etc. are all one-takers with perhaps some very skilled blending of John's, Paul's and George's vocals. Those cats had a few thousand hours of playing and singing together. All the live recordings I've seen of them in the early years sound pretty much dead on with what they did in the studio. BTW, has anyone seen the Fab Four live? Those cats play and sing their asses of!
