Mouth Off 07.12.09

Posted on July 12, 2009 by admin

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Head2Head Dave pits supergroups Cluster and Fork head to head in a timely matchup of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal.”  Both versions pay homage to MJ’s attitude, but which will emerge the victor?

Listener Mailbag Alex from the Tufts Amalgamates wrote in asking for Christopher and Dave’s opinion of production effects and studio tricks when creating an a cappella recording.  Dave and Christopher give their suggestions, but what do *you* think?  Drop a comment below.
[Editor's note: Great article on CASA.org from Bill Hare explaining his point of view on this topic.]

Song Suggestion Gary Go’s new single “Wonderful” is wonderful.  And some a cappella group should cover it.

My New Boyfriend Christopher is currently dating the voice of Alex Green who sang “Say (All I Need)” at the January 2009 Soup2Nuts seminar.  Turns out they already know each other in real life… awkward?

Album Review The Brown Jabberwocks are 60 years old, but their latest album Breaking and Entering reflects the beauty and immaturity of a 20-year-old.  For once Dave and Christopher agree, except on the song “Dance with My Father.”

Comments

  • Fox on July 13th, 2009

    Roses are red,
    Violets are blue,
    All my a cappella
    Are belong to you.

    -n.

  • Rai Rai on July 15th, 2009

    Hey Mouth Off!
    A few shows ago, you featured a fantastic high school a cappella group, but I haven’t heard any other high school groups since then. Do you think you could feature some more in the future?

    Thanks!
    Rai

  • admin on July 15th, 2009

    Fox — love your poem, goon.

    Rai — Certainly we can do that. We try to rotate through all our segments, and that one gets hit on a little less frequently. We’ve got one planned in the next couple of weeks. And if you’ve got any HS groups you want to recommend, we always appreciate that as well.

    Thanks for listening! –DB

  • Doug on July 18th, 2009

    CAN’T WAIT FOR THE SOUP TO NUTS REVIEW.

  • Jack Pines on August 3rd, 2009

    Gents,

    Love the show! I ruminated over production effects and studio tricks as relates to a cappella. Now before I answer, let me say that I love the music created in studio. Naturally 7 floored me when I first heard them perform and claiming that their sound was all created with the human body/voice. Then I listed to your Soup to Nuts special and learned how I was tricked, in a good way.

    However, I have to take minor issue with that work being called a cappella. As I understand it, a cappella (Italian for “to chapel”) was defined as unaccompanied choir music. Later it came to refer to any music without accompaniment. I’ve always taken that to mean that no instruments other than the human voice were used. Beatboxing added human percussion which I don’t feel deviates from this idea. However, as soon as you add a computer or device to augment the voice, I feel that you have added an instrument. It isn’t purely the skill of the person singing, using the human musical instrument to perform the extraordinary but the use of a computer to achieve that affect.

    Again, I say that I do enjoy the studio tricks and I’m sure there is a lot of that happening on my Pandora A Cappella/Beatbox station. However, as a purist, I think we are losing something human while trading in on the electronic magicks.

    Cheers & keep on singing!
    Jack

  • Jimmy on August 16th, 2009

    Gary Go’s “Wonderful” is the iTunes single of the week right now… great song! Everyone should take advantage of the free download.

  • admin on August 16th, 2009

    I know, right!

    I know today’s show hasn’t aired yet, but we talk about that single in our Around the Horn. Great song- very, very catchy.

    -C

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