Mouth Off 11.22.09
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BOCA Special
Around the Horn BOCA 2010 is announced, ICCA & ICHSA lineups announced, Joey C and AcappellaU are back!, register for the American Beatbox Championships NAOUGH, sing six is on Amazon mp3, UPenn Off The Beat releases their new album, Myspace is…dying, Michael Eldredge did some aMAHzing photo documenting of SoJam ’09, McGill U. Effusion and Soulstice to sing for the Winter Olympics, and Nick Lachey will be hosting the Sing Off.
The Good Ol’ Days Dave shares two early BOCA hits that have become a cappella staples- “Insomniac” (opb Billy Pilgrim) by the Virginia Gentlemen and “In The House Of Stone And Light” (opb Martin Page) by the Brown Derbies.
Arrangement Spotlight Christopher got arrested because “Billie Jean/No Diggity” by the Stanford Everyday People got him so pumped he drove three…or four…or fifteen miles over the speed limit.
LOL Dave and Christopher laugh their faces off (ew) at Wasting Our Parents’ Money, the little known but highly hilarious humor album from the BOCA series.
My New Girlfriend Christopher reconsiders some things after Anne Foster’s ridiculous “Where Would You Be” (opb Martina McBride) with BOCA regulars the UVA Sil’hooettes smashes through his earbuds.
Special Report: BOCA- Best of College A Cappella
In honor of the announcement of BOCA 2010, the boys give you all the dish on the background, selection, and purpose of BOCA via the two aca-dorks who know the most about it: Deke Sharon of Total Vocal and the House Jacks and Amanda Newman, BOCA co-owner and Varsity Vocals director. They follow that up with some commentary (and of course, CLIPS!) and discussion about the newest incarnation of the compilation.
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Another great show. Enjoyed the BOCA special very much. Be careful about taking jabs at Muppets’ Christmas music!
You’ve got a keen ear there, Alfred!
u got arrested! ur such a bad-boy!!!
I’ve been pulled over 4 times and flirted my way out of all of them…just bat ur eyelashes…it works everytime
ANGER. Chris gives Everyday People credit for coming up with the idea for the Blackstreet mash-up five years after Blackstreet did it (as an Arrangement Spotlight!), and then Dave badmouths the Muppets’ “Twelve Days of Christmas” (awesome) and Chris badmouths Tofurkey Roast (even more awesome) with two minutes of each other. For shame!
Puppets should not sing Christmas carols, especially on Thanksgiving. I stand by my statement. –DB
To DB,
The one song that I consider a Thanksgiving song, but was added on a Christmas album, is Josh Groban’s “Thankful” off his album, Noel. It’s perfect for both Thanksgiving AND Christmas. That’s the only one I could think of. It has a beautiful message!
Michael
Great episode. Loved the song choices for the old-school BOCA segment.
The “kind of a Middle Eastern song” by Penn Masala is in Hindi, though, lol.
Michael: Thanks for the tip! We’ll check it out.
Memery: Yeah, you can tell where I forget to do my background research. I’m a freaking Linguistics and translation major for heaven’s sake. Ugh. hahaha
–DB
DB– Are you against muppets singing anything? What about Queen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
Re – Insomniac: this and all songs on the VG’s ‘seven & seven’ (1995) were beginning to end (almost to no splicing or overdub) with the group around one mic, and soloists/percussion on their own – and a few people moving around quietly between mics depending on the song. Studio was only a bit bigger than a bathroom… VG – 1997
Nice show guys!
I not only have every BOCA, I actually had to replace my vol. 1. I wore out. No kidding, the top layer developed a chip at some point. I even have ‘Wasting Our Parents Money’. Bonus point trivia quiz for you. ‘Wasting…’ was the first album to include a Brandeis University group, one that I was briefly a member of. Can you tell me which one? Bonus hint: it’s a coed group.
Christopher, oh wow. I think I need a cigarette after that Oxford climax, and I don’t even smoke…
Durr. I wore -it- out. I mean, I probably listened to it so much I wore myself out, but that’s neither here nor there.
You guys seem to place a lot of emphasis on the distinction between old-school and modern a cappella especially in terms of the production, with old-school sounding a lot less tampered with than modern. What would you guys say to the a cappella groups who use heavy production to produce hyper-perfect recordings that they can’t possibly recreate in a live performance? Being heavily involved in the West Coast a cappella community, I often find that the best groups don’t use as much de-humanizing production effects as the average group.
I fear that recorded a cappella music will become as robotic as Glee, where anyone who can sing along to the radio can put out a BOCA-worthy album but wont even be able to get in the top 4 in the ICCA quarterfinals.
First off, let me say that I am not writing as an advocate for either method of recording because both methods of recording have their perks. I am writing as a fan of musicians making a living. There is always a campaign against new methods when they are introduced in any field. To the issue of Autotune, Melodyne or whatever, versus recording without it I have to say this.
There are two parts of the Music Business. The Music part and the Business part. Many of us in the a cappella/acapella/acappella world often forget the business part. Like it or not Glee is selling records and lots of them (over 500,000). Because the have not forgotten the business part.
To the non users out there I would like to say this out of love for this industry and you. You don’t mow your lawn with a push mower even though it is better for the environment and your grass. You mow it with a gas powered lawn mower because it is faster and let’s be frank it looks better when your done. Think of your music as you would your lawn.
Lets focus on making it look good so you can sell more albums, because at the end of the day. Don’t we all want to sell more albums? Don’t we all want the world to appreciate and hear more a cappella? Well they are doing it. With or without you. So let’s make sure that we make it with.
Peace,
Troy