Kerry King wrote:digital editing ="pure" ?
No, I wrote the opposite.
'Let It Be... Naked' is advertised as "naked",
while in fact it uses digital editing (including some autotune).
Kerry King wrote:Vegetable Man would have made a better A side than Scream Thy Last Scream if they had released it as their third single.
'Vegetable Man' wouldn't have been a hit.
In real life, I've yet to find someone who likes it. (Even though they do like other Barrett tunes.)
Until the "I've been looking"-part, 'Vegetable Man' has some intentionally awkward chord progression and a busy tirade of words.
The listener is terrorized until the Vegetable Man appears ("ah ah ah"), to save the day with some catchy pop tunes: the catchy "I've been looking" and the catchy sing-along rock outro.
Before those catchy parts, the music is one big anti-commercial f*ck the world. If you ask me.
I do like the song, but mostly when I'm in some emo world-hating punk mood.
Kerry King wrote:Paintbox should have remained unreleased.
Really? Should 'Paintbox' have remained unreleased?
This night, I've heard 'Jugband Blues (2010 mix)'.
And I think it sounds... terrible.
Very empty in comparison with the 1967/1968 stereo mix.
Instead of using the extended guitar shrieking of the mono mix, it's almost entirely cut here.
The outro ("And the sea") sounds as if some cheap flangy computer effect is used.
The mix sounds to me like something the boy next door could have done on his computer. Very cheap.
'Vegetable Man (2010 mix)' also sounds like home made computer creativity to me.
As if they just used some digital effects, not caring to search authentic effects equipment.
In retrospect, I think 'Here I Go (2010 mix)' also has some computerish sound effect.
The reverb just doesn't sound authentic to me. In the 1960s, they had much better reverb than this.