| We invented compin' at Motown. it's why I'm so against people going crazy with it!
I've always found that the final record almost always feels exactly like the kind of energy that went into putting it together. When I get bored, I worry a lot about the quality of the song because I've never been very bored when I was working on a real hit.
And yes, people ought to be thinking really hard about how much time wasn't spent making most of the classic pop records. Sgt. Pepper's, Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac and Michael Jackson were never the norm of how most classic pop records were made. |