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mh wrote: Susanne: RobertZombie[/b]

*The Mumbles

Motz wrote:Wot, no Eliot references?

What !? Don't tell me you didn't get it !?
People, now they can't understand any kind of reference anymore.

mh wrote:If we could stick with styles that are related or that Von has been known to toy with, maybe? Death metal, power ballads, electro, goffik or full-on industrial treatments would be in. Jazz Oddyseys, dub reggae, folk-rock and Spacemen 3 droneathons out.

TBH I find such rule unnecessarily restrictive. Von once said that he wanted to have his songs covered by Cher. That's not say I want Cher on the album (Lord help me !) but anything unexpected shouldn't be automatically ruled out.

Unless you want to pigeonhole the Sisters once again...

As long as it's not some pointless joke, and as long as it's musically relevant, why not ? Lambchop's take on Lucretia is generally considered one of the best Sisters covers there is after all.

Is there any rules on file type? We have started to save our mix-downs to the highest quality .wma Adobe Audition can do. Is that ok?

I'd think it would be 16 bit / 44.1kHz WAV (i.e. CD Quality) -> 256 kbps MP3 for distribution. WMA's a nice enough format, but it's not so easily playable on non-Microsoft platforms.

Obviously Andrew could just 'emerge w32-codecs' or whichever "legal" package it is this week, but for others it's not so easy

ok we'll wav it then

mh wrote:And would anybody be interested in actually taking part???

I'll make the coffees and vet the female groupies

Norman Hunter wrote:

mh wrote:And would anybody be interested in actually taking part???

I'll make the coffees and vet the female groupies

Mine's black with no sugar.

And as for the coffee...

I'd like to do "Will I Dream?". Is there a deadline?

mh wrote:I'd say a month or two would be a reasonable upper limit

Our's will be ready as soon as James' room is fixed

mh, if you want this thing to get structured a bit, you might want to add and update the list of songs and performers in your first post, and even include a status follow-up

its good to see that the singer's turn found a new, powerful friend, almost a relative

many might know my instrumental summers - anyhow, they are still looking for a singer (male/female/unisex) - if anyone feels prepared to do so (maybe for this one not the top-nite-out choir) - please contact!

summer, popmix: http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=DQYRGQS5

summer, standard mix: http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=0ZVLV3QP

come on voices!

i'll do it on the weekend if you want

I wouldn't mind a shot at it. How would you approach it though? Vocalist records with the backing and then sends the vocal track to you for proper mixing?

kazamel wrote:mh, if you want this thing to get structured a bit, you might want to add and update the list of songs and performers in your first post, and even include a status follow-up

Yeh, I'll do a follow up later on today. Seems to be coming along nicely.

@ RobertZombie: the idea of adding vocals to some of the instrumentals already available sounds like a good one!

At this stage I suppose I'd like to get some feedback on how folks would like to see this ending up. Do we want to have a proper CD release (with a Blast Products cover) or would we prefer downloads? What's the general consensus?

Proper CD, deffo Perhaps we can do a poll

mh wrote:(with a Blast Products cover)

it's in hand, but you won't like it

I say we should weed it.

btw, who's actually putting this thing together? mh?

I would like to collab with someone, I just haven't the time to do anything on my own right now but so want to be a part of this.

Please go to www.mcallister-productions.com to hear what I sound like. The most recent song is 'Android Men'

I can sing, Play guitar and the rest of the sounds are programming I do in Fruity loops and mix in N-track. I would be happy to work with anyone by sending track back and forth to do a song or two. Suz and Summer would be my top picks for my voicce style but am interested in working on anything.

Anyone want to collab??

robertzombie wrote:I say we should weed it.

btw, who's actually putting this thing together? mh?

I'll definitely collect all the recordings and compile a master. Where it goes from there depends on how we agree to distribute it. Currently researching CD pressing and associated blah...

mugabe wrote:I'd like to do "Will I Dream?". Is there a deadline?

Looky, looky, I've already started with the arrangement to get it sorted before recording actual guitars and stuff.

http://www.kurtz.se/mugabe_-_wid-wip.mp3


@mh: Don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear.

My friend is definitely up for it. However, we will be going with our original plan and contributing covers of already released songs. He pointed out that there may be legal problems with covering unreleased material before Andrew himself records it. Even though this is only for Heartlanders, someone should really look into the legality of doing covers of the new material. If we know beyond a doubt that it is okay, then we'd tackle "Crash and Burn" or (WATS)S.

I'm with Badlander on this one. I like the idea of putting out, either on the same disc set as the "new" songs, or as a separate disc, Heartlanders' covers of older material too.

And no one need worry that these will be third rate goth style covers. We like so many things such as Yo La Tengo, Redd Kross, Husker Du, Hoodoo Gurus, J&MC, Chameleons, Liz Phair, The Beatles, The Stones, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Kraftwerk, Big Star, Belle and Sebastian, Motorhead, Stooges, Translator, Television, Blondie, YYYs, Shins, Ladytron, BRMC, Idlewild, PE, NWA, Prince, Vanity6, Madonna, VU, Barrett era Floyd, Bangles, Dream Syndicate, Neko Case, Stone Roses etc. If it is goth at all, it won't be our fault!

WATSS?

(WATS) S.

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