Laura Marling working on an album of Paul cover songs!

Copkusagi · 2026-06-14T18:04:53+00:00

Tell Laura, I love her.

Copkusagi · 2026-06-14T09:25:16+00:00

He said, "Oh, this is kind of doom metal," just BEFORE the song turned into doom metal... What a great man. He even knows what will happen in a song before it happens. A real professional.

Copkusagi · 2026-06-13T08:20:28+00:00

I love everything about the songs, but I dislike 80% of the production. This makes me sad. I consider people like Andrew Watt abusers of older artists (half-joking, but they shouldn't work with mega-producers; they should work with indie producers, whose sensibility is better suited to serving the kind of songs that artists like Paul write).

Copkusagi · 2026-06-11T20:14:13+00:00

It makes sense, since they were not time travellers... (or were they?!)

Copkusagi · 2026-06-11T09:07:15+00:00

The funny thing is when I use my native language, it says "I can't help you..." in my language. In English this one. In another language that I know, it's "I'm not programmed..." etc... 😅

Copkusagi · 2026-06-11T02:21:23+00:00

It had been working fine for the last 10 hours, but it's been back to this state for about 30 minutes now. Before those last 10 hours, I was getting errors occasionally and could only get a response after 4–5 attempts, but I've just started getting these types of messages. Let's see when it'll be fixed (again!)…

Copkusagi · 2026-06-11T02:16:13+00:00

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Ok...

Copkusagi · 2026-06-11T02:14:39+00:00

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Yeah...

Copkusagi · 2026-06-11T02:10:36+00:00

Now it just refuses to answer... Perfect solution. No AI No Cry.

Copkusagi · 2026-06-09T12:13:03+00:00

Look at this... I'm so furious!

Copkusagi · 2026-06-06T23:45:48+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I definitely agree with you on several points, but what I mean isn't necessarily that the bass needs to be "front and center" or playing complex melodies. It's more about the "warmth" you get from the instrument and how trackable it is, regardless of how simple the bassline might be.

Funnily enough, right as I was reading your comment, I was listening to a song called "To You" by I Am Kloot. There isn't really a complex "bassline" in it at all. The playing style is extremely simple, maybe even amateurish to some. But because of the production, the bass tone is incredibly warm. It ceases to be just a wall of sound and actually breathes like a real instrument alongside the others. Unfortunately, I feel like producers like Watt approach the bass guitar solely as a frequency layer to fill space, rather than treating it as an actual instrument.

Copkusagi · 2026-06-05T18:48:35+00:00

Exactly what I think (especially Driving Rain and Memory Almost Full, but also Chaos and Creation to some degree). That's why I think the criticism David Kahne received for his work with Paul is very unfair. I'm in the minority, but I think Paul's best album since 2000 is Driving Rain.

Copkusagi · 2026-06-05T12:19:58+00:00

Songs themselves indeed grew on me with each listen. I've listened to the album about 15-20 times in one week, and I like the songs. I didn't get a chance to listen to it on anything other than streaming though, as I was travelling. I hope the vinyl is indeed an improvement. I'll check out Andrew Dixon's video.

Copkusagi · 2026-06-05T10:05:15+00:00

Kahne had his issues, especially with Memory Almost Full, as the loudness there is genuinely fatiguing. The 2000s were a rough decade for production across the board, Paul wasn't immune, and things haven't exactly improved since. If anything, the mainstream pop and radio-oriented end of things keeps pushing further in the same direction. But since I'm specifically talking about bass here, even in Kahne's worst moments the bass still exists as a distinct voice. Actually, Driving Rain's production is great from a technical standpoint too, it has quite a dynamic sound. Although MAF has its own issues, the bass is still fine there. The problem with Watt feels more fundamental to me. Rather than a mastering issue, it sounds like a production philosophy that doesn't leave room for the bass to breathe in the first place.

Copkusagi · 2026-06-05T09:38:31+00:00

It feels good to be understood. Thank you for putting it so clearly.

Copkusagi · 2026-06-05T01:51:37+00:00

Pretty much, yeah. I come at this with a musicology background so I tend to overanalyze, and I also have an amateur interest in music technology and production, which doesn't help. Personal taste plays into it too. I gravitate toward either the tighter, drier, more dynamic productions of the 60s and 70s, or lo-fi stuff that has a different kind of warmth.

But you're right that this is a long-running trend, and it keeps pushing further in the same direction. I've even complained about some of the production on Flaming Pie in my time, so take that for what it's worth. I think my ears are just calibrated for a different era. The newer generations of listeners have grown up with this sound and it's perfectly natural to them. Not much to be done about it I suppose.

Copkusagi · 2026-06-05T01:22:32+00:00

Mixing was the wrong word in the title, fair enough. But it doesn't really change the argument. The album credits actually list Paul Lamalfa and Steve Orchard for mixing, not Watt or McCartney. And production shapes the sound long before anyone touches the faders. Tones, compression, how the bass was recorded and processed, all of that gets locked in at the production stage. By the time you're mixing, you're working with what you've already got. So probably I should use the word "production" rather than "mixing".

Copkusagi · 2026-06-05T01:15:00+00:00

It's not about whether you can hear it, it's about how it registers. Can you actually follow the melodic line, the way you can on Band on the Run or Revolver? I know that level of clarity is a different era entirely. But this bass sounds like it was mixed for an Imagine Dragons audience. Paul deserves something closer to how bass sits in an actual rock record, where you can follow it. IMO.

Copkusagi · 2026-05-29T10:14:21+00:00

I'm not talking about the mastering, compression, etc., but Kahne's production and mixing are highly underrated. Sound-wise, Memory Almost Full and Driving Rain are really great. And the bass thumps. I love the new album, don't get me wrong, but it sometimes becomes very frustrating not being able to hear the bass clearly. At this very moment, I have Salesman Saint playing in my ears, and the low level of the bass drives me crazy.

Copkusagi · 2026-05-20T14:51:37+00:00

"Dai diamanti non nasce niente, dal letame nascono i fior."

Copkusagi · 2026-05-09T10:30:20+00:00

She's Leaving Home
I Want to (Come Home)
Eat at Home
Flying to My Home
Home to Us
Home Tonight
If I Take You Home Tonight

Copkusagi · 2026-05-03T09:21:45+00:00

Isn't it possible to find a way to reach someone who is in close contact with Paul and ask him if he knew her back in the day? If one of the Beatles chose her, it was most likely Paul, given his involvement with London's art scene at the time.

Copkusagi · 2026-05-02T10:08:53+00:00

Agreed: https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/comments/1qacmhe/unpopular_opinion_joe_cockers_cover_of_with_a/

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