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Days Away Podcast
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
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We talked with Days Away before their show at Seattle's El Corazon.
1) Aphex Twin - Flim, 2) Talking Heads - Nothing (But Flowers), 3) The Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate, 4) Paul McCartney - Ram On, 5) Days Away - Gravity
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I'm Keith
I'm Bryan
I'm Jake
And we're Days Away
This song Flimp by Aphex Twin I personally like the sound effects that they use. I cant ever figure out what he samples or how he does it. Aphex Twin is the god electronic basically. He is the best electronic artist, in my opinion, that I have ever heard. it's insane how good he is.
His producing ability of sampling little bits of something, having a drum beat throughout a song, he's basically a drum and bass DJ or producer. Throughout the entire tune the drumbeat never repeats itself once, its always changing.
He also creates a world for himself too. I think that he arranges songs like classical pieces almost. They are just so complicated and complex. But he is the god electronic.
In summary.
Greg: Here's Aphex Twin performing Flim
-Flim-
I'll go with Nothing (But Flowers). To start off, the whole album is incredible because I feel like the production and the sound of everything is so organic and the rythms and the melodies are so happy throughout pretty much the whole album. Its really the feel good dance album of the world.
At least in the last 20 years.
At least the last 20 years. I feel it makes anyone want to dance. All of David Burns' melodies are feel good and between all the rythms they have in the background between the bass lines. Its just like dancey really fun music. The whole album has a weird carribean island / latin feel that is just amazing
I think lyrically too this song is pretty amazing. Talking about, you know, just being free and naked. You know, not being fully into the bullshit and the buildings and mass produced shit.
Its organic and there isn't a lot of, the music is just straight instruments. There's not effects, there's no crazy electronic stuff going on. You can picture it just being people on an island with a drum and an acoustic guitar and a weird guy named David Byrne in a huge suit with big shoulders just getting down. It's perfectly arranged too.
And there's never been a better chick bass player, not that I know off. All the bass lines, especially that song and the whole album, are amazing.
Greg: Here's the Talking Heads with (Nothing But) Flowers.
-(Nothing But) Flowers-
I could take it first if anyone else doesn't want to go for it. I just think the whole chorus for that song is probably the most entrancing chorus of anything I have ever listened to. I don't know why, but once it breaks into the whole feeling yourself disintegrate you just stuck in it and you just stay there, well I do, and it keeps you there, and you want that part to go on forever. For me.
I just like how raw the album is. How big the drums sound.
That whole album sounds amazing.
Its orchestrated perfectly. There's not too much going on, but it sounds huge. And there's only a few, what, four, three musicians on the album
Especially for me that song, the whole chorus of that song just feels humongous and joyous once they break into it.
Greg: Here's the Flaming Lips with Feeling Yourself Disintegrate.
-Feeling Yourself Disintegrate-
Paul McCartney, Ram On. Great song, great album, Ram. It's classic. It's Paul McCartney, he's a Beatle. You can't argue with that. The sick thing about that song and that whole album and just his solo stuff is that its pop rock, but there's no traditional song structure.
That too, and he busts into the song with a ukelele. I mean, how can you argue with that?
Ukelele, exactly. It's never like verse, chorus, verse chorus, end of song. Its always new, it's always interesting, you know? That whole aspect of that album is sick.
Personally, with that song I like how that song starts out slow with minimum instruments.
Especially in that song he's really good at doing that. It's just a ukelele, his voice, and a nice thick-sounding reverby bass drum with a boom and a click
And then it just busts into the whole thing, the whole song. I like that effect.
The ability to set you up and then just kills it. It's how he does, its the Paul McCartney way.
Greg: Here's Paul McCartney performing Ram On.
-Ram On-
I wanted to talk about Gravity beacuse when we recorded our album it was the first time I wrote music with Gula and the first time I wrote music with Tim. It was all a new experience for us. That was Gula's song that I was working on lyrics for. Him and I were shooting ideas back and forth where I was used to writing songs on my own. That was kinda the beginning of us working together on writing songs and its the direction we are going in at this point.
That whole thing too, with that song, the only part that I had written was the very beginning of it. And then once we started sitting down with the song we needed to think of something more to do with it and that came collectively as all the people doing it together. i feel its better making the music as opposed to coming from one person, its a whole bunch of people collaborating together. Its going to get a better sound. I'll go into a song with my own viewpoint with what I want to hear and when you get that down someone might have an idea thats better than that and you don't even realize that until someone comes forward with that idea and you're going to be stuck up and pig-headed about what you want. You're going to need at some point, someone to come tell you "heres what I think" and you'll finally be like, thats a little better than what I would have come up with. That was one of the songs we worked out like that.
I think it was the start of a good thing too, we were all able to figure it out together. I don't really know how it works with other bands, but normally I have heard one person will write the song and the band will play along with it. With that song, for example, we were able to shoot different ideas at each other and say, you know, we should have a part like this or a part like that. It brought out us respecting each other's opinions and brought out a collaboration that has blossomed with the new songs that we are writing together that are better than any of the songs on the album I think.
I'd back that. Not on a different level better, just sort of taken farther.
Also with Gravity too, at least for me, I'd always write pop songs, a simple stripped-down song. With Gravity he brought in different chord changes, different rythms, different time signatures. It's also another thing about that song that interests me at least.
Greg: Here's Days Away performing their song Gravity.
-Gravity-
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