http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2282352,00.html

Corgan will love this for the new versions of his old albums

Billy Corgan - Siamese Dream

Do you love Billy Corgan's voice but hate the sound of Smashing Pumpkins?

LOL.

Who the fuck would write about James Iha? I love the guy and all, but really, he's awfully obscure.

maybe someone who loves him as much as you?

Yeah, I'd like to see how many artists would actually give control to the end-user for that. There's no way this can catch on.

Sure it'll catch on, but whether or not it is in the best interests of recording artists is questionable.

this article is gold:

That means they'll arrive just in time for the next Black Eyed Peas album. First we'll be able to mute Fergie ... then Will.I.Am ... then the backing track ... and before we know it ... bliss!

as for the format. interesting, but i don't think it will get a big share in the conventional market, but perhaps for specialized products...

I can't see Corgan endorsing this tbh. He has a low enough opinion of his fans already, so I can't see him letting us fuck around with his music in the way Trent Reznor does.

huh. well... that's neat, i guess.

How awful. And I thought that the invention of the internet was a blow to the music world...
This is going to completely change our concept of music and the way we listen if it becomes affordable and mainstream.
I thought things were going to perk up in the World of Music. I don't like what I see.

Do you love Billy Corgan's voice but hate the sound of Smashing Pumpkins?


Isn't it usually the other way around for people who can't stand SP?

Why does the quoting suck so bad, wtf

who would want to cheap shot james iha?

I'm pretty sure that was a TIC cheap shot at Billy.

the fuck is wrong with a james iha guitar solo?

I think someone didn't get the memo regarding James Iha and his status in the band.

MT9...more like "empty, nein!" amirite

what Kahlo said. some artists might play along and release stuff in this format "for the fans" or whatever, but there's going to be a ton of artists that will resist, or you just won't be able to find certian stuff you'd be looking for.

ATRAC, anyone?

bwahaha that is so off the wall!

plucked him out from nowhere.... and burned him, mercilessly

MT9...more like "empty, nein!" amirite

very strong joke there, james

Was this written by CorganRules?

now you can all go fix your shitty-produced copies of 'zeitgeist.'

WE ARE STARZ

so... its a portable multitrack mixer

ATRAC, anyone?

what has sony's audio compression codec got to do with any of this?

WE ARE STARZ

I would love to test of this audio format on that song.

now you can all go fix your shitty-produced copies of 'zeitgeist.'

classic

I was driving to work this morning and realized exactly what would be left of an SP song after you get rid of all the annoying parts: Jimmy.

Fuckin' A, Jimmy C.

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I've noticed more than once how Jimmy rides the high hat like the ass end of a raggedy old street whore from Gish through MCIS.

Obviously this didn't happen on Adore.

It still happens on some of the Machina tracks...

Do you love Billy Corgan's voice but hate the sound of Smashing Pumpkins?

LOL.

i had to read this twice, just to be sure.

Songs mastered for the MT9 format not only allow you to take out the annoying saxophone solos (...)

uiiiiii!!! Will I listen to Zeigeist without all that annoying gayz0rs background vocals (all the time)?!?!

You guys.... you still believe James recorded the Pumpkins solo... ahah...
The only time he recorded anything that made it to a Pumpkins song was done at Bugg Studios... and during early recordings of the band.

lies all lies! James really wrote Siamese dream. We all know it!

lmfao... i dont know how i missed this... but that article is hilarious. Especially that first paragraph.

So what happened to this proposed file format? I'd love to fix 'Zeitgeist'

Now I can go and eliminate the Billy choir in Zeitgeist and bury his voice in the mix so it lives up to it's potential.

james def plays some stuff on mcis...and shame...

LOLs all around. I really hope that this "Sean Michaels" from The Guardian was doing a piss take. Either that or he is a very stupid, unobservant, and ignorant man who should not dare write about music henceforth.

On the other hand, I believe a mini-music mixer would be quite a nifty set of controls to have on my audio listening device. We are always bitching about how things are being mixed these days so at the least we could have the power to compensate a bit for the over-the-top vocals and brickwalling that goes on (even if you couldn't undo a hideous clip at least you could turn it down relative to, er...something else. Or, better yet, remove altogether the keyboards shitting up Oceania.) I don't know why they hadn't done such a thing before now, however. How hard could it be, to simply leave "unmixed" the different tracks that are normally mixed together? It sounds more like a lack of motivation to have promoted such a device than anything else really.

This is a terrible idea that will never catch on with either artists or consumers.

thread from 4+ years ago.

this never caught on.
welll....
Trent reznor released multitracks of a couple albums for fans to remix and 'turn down the parts they didn't like'.... if that's the same thing I guess
but not as a single file format.

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Wow, completely missed it. LOL

Personally, I would love to have MT9 copies of every single album I own, especially Pumpkins albums. It's not necessarily that I feel I need to improve parts that I think artists didn't quite get right, but I think it could be a lot of fun seeing what kinds of new interpretations I could come up with.

Also, I've always supported the idea of Billy releasing instrumental versions of all his albums. Again, it's not that I don't like his voice(well, in Gish-Adore anyway), but rather his composing is some of the best around, and I'd love to enjoy it in that way, too.

I was driving to work this morning and realized exactly what would be left of an SP song after you get rid of all the annoying parts: Jimmy.

But that already exists:

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/JimmyChamberlinSignatureDrumsVol1.html

Clicked the link and expected the article to describe a new file format called .iha

That would make googling James Iha just as hard as searching for a band called This.

Personally, I would love to have MT9 copies of every single album I own, especially Pumpkins albums. It's not necessarily that I feel I need to improve parts that I think artists didn't quite get right, but I think it could be a lot of fun seeing what kinds of new interpretations I could come up with.

Also, I've always supported the idea of Billy releasing instrumental versions of all his albums. Again, it's not that I don't like his voice(well, in Gish-Adore anyway), but rather his composing is some of the best around, and I'd love to enjoy it in that way, too.

I have great fun just screwing around with bad quality multitracks from Rockband, even on just the radio hits I've heard a million times. This'd be amazing.

This is a great format for people who are trying to cover your band. When we still had dialup and mp3/128's, it wasn't a cakewalk isolating a bass line.