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Unfascinating rhythm
Continuing in the vein of In Rock Around the Clock, here’s another neural network hallucination — Burn as if it was recorded by a swing band. Sadly, the Gershwin’s riff in the title track went well over the silicon head. Anyhow, might be worth a chuckle, but not much more.
Thanks to Tinnitist for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
It will never make it into Phil Aston’s Top 20 of the BURN riff then: https://youtu.be/1ZLhnOQaFeY
January 3rd, 2025 at 20:51This stuff does nothing for me though it’s all over YouTube by now. It’s just putting DP song titles and lyrics to completely different songs. It has no musical merit, I don’t see the point. Anybody can sing the lyrics of a song over different chords to a different melody.
I’m all for brave and ‘out there’ re-arrangements of songs or presenting them in a totally different musical style. If there was a big band version of the song material of the Burn album that paid tribute to the original chords and melodies, I’d be the first one to incorporate it in my DP Family collection, even if it was an AI creation like all these spoofs are.
THIS is for me an interesting take on Burn (the song).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgJmcl3bZP0
January 4th, 2025 at 06:12That’s the first time I have clearly heard the lyrics!
January 4th, 2025 at 14:31Well, Uwe, there IS such a thing!
It’s called ROCK THE BIG BAND and they do BURN nicely. Among other stuff. It’s on youtube …
January 4th, 2025 at 16:45I like Phil Aston’s podcasts in general, but with Burn he seems to miss the point a little. Yes, Ritchie’s four to five note riff (three of those notes identical with SOTW) is great, but the song would be nothing without Little Ian’s brilliant and inspired OTT drumming in the sung verses and that is where nearly all non-DP Burn versions fall flat on their face. What Paicey does is simply beyond the capabilities of most drummers. It‘s a difficult song to cover well and also apparently a hard one to find an alternative arrangement for that works.
Probably my favorite Purple track. I‘m not a great fan of fantasy lyrics, but here DC found cinematic words.
January 4th, 2025 at 18:02Yes it all is a complete waste of someone’s time me thinks, doing all this so called ‘musical’ or I should say computer related ‘creativity’. Did I waste some of my time having a listen, indeed I did but thankfully not a lot. It is rather comical in that aspect, Lay Down Stay Down and What’s Going On Here, hilarious but that is about it. I cannot wait until they do Stormbringer, Soldier of Fortune or Gypsy. Not to mention High Ball Shooter. Thanks Uwe for the link to that chap playing the guitars, yes that is much more enjoyable and dare I say, real. Cheers.
January 4th, 2025 at 21:07The worst part of this was what the a.i. did to Sail Away. Unforgivable!. Uwe is right, all of this “reimagining” of albums by a.i. algorithms has gone to far. It was amusing at first, but now it’s just a pain in the ass. You could give a person a fancy new saw to trim the overgrown branches of some trees, but you don’t expect them to go & cut through all the tree trunks.
January 5th, 2025 at 06:31You can’t stop people from having fun fooling around with songs.
January 5th, 2025 at 07:11I don’t like this style of music, it’s killing the great momentum that these songs has.
My advice is not to bother talking about it too much and ignore it.
Peace ✌️
Made in Croatia -“Animal Drive” –as WS ( HM version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPSTakcfwPw
PS
January 5th, 2025 at 08:54Besides DC II, we (CRO) have… and Tommy Aldridge II …much younger 🙂
I heard a bunch of these remakes. Basically they take the lyrics and a completely different music and they make a new song. My question is: is this made with the use of artificial intelligence or are there real musicians playing these songs?
January 5th, 2025 at 13:11That’s a nice straight version of it.
So is this one:
https://youtu.be/WXXCmwILZrs
I don’t know anything about these guys other than that I’ve seen the very good drummer, Tim Brown
https://www.martinturnermusic.com/tim-brown
a couple of times live when he still played with Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash (he was with Martin for almost a decade). Of course, ‘The Classic Rock Show’ (horrible name) don’t really add anything to Burn, but they do a rousing, spirited version of it and especially perform the Coverdale-Hughes dual vocals dynamics excellently without trying to ape the individual voices. But in the end, they are just a (very good) traveling juke box.
January 5th, 2025 at 17:16This is kind of an old hat, it came out in 1995 by four talented Frenchies,
Philippe Ballot (drums),
Francois Barisaux (piano),
Alain Gaillet (electric bass, excellent player and if I say so myself!) +
Philippe Miraille (tenor & soprano sax),
but the music – just like DP’s – has held up well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSWKfI7CCQo
This is music that does justice to BOTH the genre Jazz AND to the song Burn unlike this other kids’ spoof stuff.
They did a whole album full of DP songs, mostly Mk II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDySzAVM3Mc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nAxsEFSJbo
Complete album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUCZgxgAaVU&list=PLXXM2HqNPU082bovzE5rbEXTKnx2f_w1A
Adaptions like this, I’m totally on board with, they have musical merit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqmw5_7CljE
And even a harsh deconstructivist approach is fine with me, because radically fragmentizing a song like SOTW at least has brains behind it, it’s kind of Dada, if not exactly pleasant to listen to (but then not meant to be either):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbrytIQg6V8
I really dig the male “Greek Theater choir” the Flaming Lips have inserted at (in)appropriate places. The whole thing is very respectful in its respectlessness. 😂
January 5th, 2025 at 22:46