Like sleeping in laundromats was not enough ...this man and genius star really paid his dues to the top. Billy Joel will always go down as one of the biggest american music legends...for his voice...and his songs making his mark on american music history.
They apparently remixed it in '83 and pitch shifted the music down. Still sounds a little off, but I love the material on it still. Falling Of The Rain is one of his absolute best.
After finding an OG copy of cold springs, I can’t go back to the remix, it sounds like crap, they drained the soul of it when they removed all the instrumental in “tomorrow is today” and “everybody loves you now” I highly recommend giving the original album a listen!
Nope, it could never have ended his career. Maybe an artist from today. Billy composed music and lyrics like Doritos. We’ll just make more. After CSH came Piano Man Streetlife Serenade Turnstiles The Stranger 52nd Street Glass Houses The Nylon Curtain An Innocent Man The Bridge Storm Front River of Dreams Has there ever been a solo artist who wrote hundreds of hit songs on so many albums over so many years with the combined melody and lyrics of Billy Joel? Probably not. Even his scores of unreleased demo songs you can find on RUclips any artist would kill to steal and record. His career could never have been stopped by a technical screwup on his first album. But his attempted suicide just before he wrote cold spring harbor could have. Thank goodness he tried something silly like swallowing bleach instead of drugs or a gun. Imagine how many beautiful songs the world would have missed out on? Including 50,000 people singing “sing us a song you’re the piano man in perfect harmony”:)
I’m glad it’s not super well known, that’s what makes the album so special to me. It’s almost comical though, I laugh every time I hear the original record
This what what I’m kind of confused about. A couple tracks seem slightly in the wrong key but overall it doesn’t seem sped up, especially not to the degree he talks about in this clip. Not sure if there are just no original pressings that still sound like this or what tbh.
In fact the 83 master "She's Got A Way" is slightly slow. Not noticeable in Joel's voice initially however the piano pitch is slightly flat. Artie Ripp's 1983 remix did more to screw up the album through remixing than he did speeding it up in 1971. A blogger musician did a pitch corrected version of the 71 mix and that album is a masterpiece. Yes Joel's voice sounds higher on that album than on even Piano Man, however right in line with the Hassles 1969 album Hour of the Wolf which might as well be a Joel solo album as he is the dominant force in that band after John Dizek left to "find God" (apparently Dizek years later gave Joel shit over Only The Good Die Young).
You are correct... No screw-up that I've been able to verify. The Columbia remix (which they had the master tapes for because they removed instrumentation, etc.) actually runs slow.
They probably had to sacrifice the full speed correct to prevent causing loss of sound quality. So they had to both slow it down and pitch his voice up. He honestly should remaster it with digital tools as he probably can repair the issues that you simply couldn't back in 1983.
2:12 - 2:28 she’s 👧 got a way ➡️ about her 🙋♀️ i 🙋♂️ dont 🚫 know 🤷♂️ what it ➡️is❓but i 🙋♂️ know that i can’t 🚫 live 👽 without 🙅♂️ her 🙋♀️ she’s got a smile 😃 that heals 🩹 me 🙋♂️
I saw this video that showed the top record sales in real time each quarter. You know the ones that show the Beatles then Led Zeppelin popping up to overtake the Beatles in '72. Well it shows in the last quarter of '71 Billy Joel is on the top 10 best selling artists. I think this was even before Cold Spring Harbor was even released and it sounded like a Chipmunk. So how did they get that figure I have no idea. He didn't really break out to mainstream until 'Piano Man' in '74 and that wasn't even his major work. So that's messed up.
Truth be told, Cold Spring Harbor is probably my favorite album of his. It's a shame that there's so much angst surrounding it.
Sameee
its understandable why theres angst against it ( the mastering issue ) but its still a great album
Same
Like sleeping in laundromats was not enough ...this man and genius star really paid his dues to the top. Billy Joel will always go down as one of the biggest american music legends...for his voice...and his songs making his mark on american music history.
They apparently remixed it in '83 and pitch shifted the music down.
Still sounds a little off, but I love the material on it still. Falling Of The Rain is one of his absolute best.
You Look So Good to Me is also one of his absolute best in my opinion
Tomorrow Is Today is my favorite
After finding an OG copy of cold springs, I can’t go back to the remix, it sounds like crap, they drained the soul of it when they removed all the instrumental in “tomorrow is today” and “everybody loves you now”
I highly recommend giving the original album a listen!
Now he tells it as a joke like it was nothing. But that was really some major tech screw-up that could've ended his career.
Nope, it could never have ended his career. Maybe an artist from today. Billy composed music and lyrics like Doritos. We’ll just make more. After CSH came
Piano Man
Streetlife Serenade
Turnstiles
The Stranger
52nd Street
Glass Houses
The Nylon Curtain
An Innocent Man
The Bridge
Storm Front
River of Dreams
Has there ever been a solo artist who wrote hundreds of hit songs on so many albums over so many years with the combined melody and lyrics of Billy Joel? Probably not. Even his scores of unreleased demo songs you can find on RUclips any artist would kill to steal and record. His career could never have been stopped by a technical screwup on his first album. But his attempted suicide just before he wrote cold spring harbor could have. Thank goodness he tried something silly like swallowing bleach instead of drugs or a gun. Imagine how many beautiful songs the world would have missed out on? Including 50,000 people singing “sing us a song you’re the piano man in perfect harmony”:)
And his life he tried to kill himself.
I’m glad it’s not super well known, that’s what makes the album so special to me. It’s almost comical though, I laugh every time I hear the original record
This is so interesting :D
it wasn't sped up by much at all. if you listen to the live shows from 71-72… he had a very fast natural vibrato to his singing voice.
This what what I’m kind of confused about. A couple tracks seem slightly in the wrong key but overall it doesn’t seem sped up, especially not to the degree he talks about in this clip. Not sure if there are just no original pressings that still sound like this or what tbh.
In fact the 83 master "She's Got A Way" is slightly slow. Not noticeable in Joel's voice initially however the piano pitch is slightly flat. Artie Ripp's 1983 remix did more to screw up the album through remixing than he did speeding it up in 1971. A blogger musician did a pitch corrected version of the 71 mix and that album is a masterpiece. Yes Joel's voice sounds higher on that album than on even Piano Man, however right in line with the Hassles 1969 album Hour of the Wolf which might as well be a Joel solo album as he is the dominant force in that band after John Dizek left to "find God" (apparently Dizek years later gave Joel shit over Only The Good Die Young).
You are correct... No screw-up that I've been able to verify. The Columbia remix (which they had the master tapes for because they removed instrumentation, etc.) actually runs slow.
They probably had to sacrifice the full speed correct to prevent causing loss of sound quality. So they had to both slow it down and pitch his voice up. He honestly should remaster it with digital tools as he probably can repair the issues that you simply couldn't back in 1983.
You played golf with my dad and Harry Chapin at Cold Spring Harbor Country Club.😊😊
2:12 - 2:28 she’s 👧 got a way ➡️ about her 🙋♀️ i 🙋♂️ dont 🚫 know 🤷♂️ what it ➡️is❓but i 🙋♂️ know that i can’t 🚫 live 👽 without 🙅♂️ her 🙋♀️ she’s got a smile 😃 that heals 🩹 me 🙋♂️
I heard the record and he exaggerated how bad it sounded. It was high but not that high!
His second best album
Nah bruh
I saw this video that showed the top record sales in real time each quarter. You know the ones that show the Beatles then Led Zeppelin popping up to overtake the Beatles in '72. Well it shows in the last quarter of '71 Billy Joel is on the top 10 best selling artists. I think this was even before Cold Spring Harbor was even released and it sounded like a Chipmunk. So how did they get that figure I have no idea. He didn't really break out to mainstream until 'Piano Man' in '74 and that wasn't even his major work. So that's messed up.
I wonder how he feels about Columbia draining the soul out of the album when they remastered it in 1983?
2:35 That's a definite gutbuster! Sounds like he farted then got mad!
Alvin and the chipmunks in '96?
+HomieShip Josh The cartoon.
Alvin and the Chipmunks have been around since 1958.
@Blackadder A little hyperbole… He was right to notice the speed-up…
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This is how it sounded!
ruclips.net/video/gi3snA_uuKs/видео.html
lol