By request - Keith Urban Cover - "Tonight I Wanna Cry"

[K-dub]

On Valentine's Day, my former high school girlfriend, knowing I was doing covers this winter, asked me to do a song I'd never even heard before by Keith Urban.

It took me a little bit to learn it and get it right ... as it was a piece I was not familiar with.

Yet ... people keep downloading it from Soundcloud.

Go figure.

 

[RFR]

You are certainly prolific in your production output.

In another posting, someone had mentioned pitch issues. You have a very good voice, and yes, sometimes the pitch is off.
I realize I live in a glass house and have no business offering criticism. If you heard my vocals, you would just flat out say "dude, you suck"

However, here is my point; I believe if you did a bit less and spent more time on each individual song, you'd have something truly magnificent.



I'll go run and hide now.

Oh. Almost forgot..... I DO like your version as well as the other stuff I have heard.

 

[K-dub]

You are certainly prolific in your production output.

In another posting, someone had mentioned pitch issues. You have a very good voice, and yes, sometimes the pitch is off.
I realize I live in a glass house and have no business offering criticism. If you heard my vocals, you would just flat out say "dude, you suck"

However, here is my point; I believe if you did a bit less and spent more time on each individual song, you'd have something truly magnificent.



I'll go run and hide now.

Oh. Almost forgot..... I DO like your version as well as the other stuff I have heard.

I NEVER take affront. I just don't. I've no ego in it. I listen and learn what people think.

I was listening to Michael Jackson the other day. True story ... and I encourage others to do the same. Listen to back when.

The pitch was not tuned. The pitch was often not close to what is today tuned to perfect. It was just us imperfect humans being imperfect. On the John Lennon song I posted, I needed to tighten it ... but when I actually listened to the original performance, and held it to the standard that is demanded on these sites of great ears? Modern day holds to standards not actually achievable by actual humans.

To my credit ... I'm never "that" far off ... as I see ever gaff I ever made in a vocal in technicolor. Sometime I go, "Really, Kev? Really?"

But ... damn it if I'm going to be a robot.

The Rolling Stones LOVED when they made their mistakes ... and considered it part of the imperfect garage band "they aspired to".

It's music. Should it ALWAYS be "perfect"?

I'd suggest that to be really real?

No.

 

[RFR]

I agree with everything you said and realize that a lot of us can be just critical bastards.

There is however a difference when doing an original song. The "mistake" or "incorrect pitch" is something that they own and is part of the integrity of the original recording. As in a painting, a misplaced brush stroke is forever part of the masterpiece and becomes part and parcel of the composition. When a forger or replicator sets out to copy that painting they will also incorporate the misplaced brush stokes.

On the other hand with a cover, people are so used to hearing the song in it's original form that when someone else does it there is to some degree the expectation for a duplication of the original.
I have heard from you two recent covers that sounded like the vocal could have use just a wee bit more polish with getting the songs learned and rehearsed a bit more.

All I am saying is you got it so close that with just a bit more rehearsal of the song you could come off as quite the crooner.

Keep in mind, I like your work, and I wouldn't even be wasting my time typing if I didn't.

You got chops and plenty of them. You also have an outpouring of tunes. In the short while I have been on this forum I think I have heard 4 or 5. Impressive.

Now I am no singer, so in a sense have no right to comment...but what the hell.

I am no fan of perfection and studio trickery. To me it takes all the life out of the music. Nowadays in pop music there seems to be a lot of flawless shit.

One of my favorite examples of an imperfect tune is ZZ Top's Brown Sugar. In the intro you can plainly hear him blow it, then he recovers from that and goes into the tune.
It is imperfect and flawed but awesome. To this day in every live show he repeats the same mistake.

 

[K-dub]

I agree with everything you said and realize that a lot of us can be just critical bastards.

There is however a difference when doing an original song. The "mistake" or "incorrect pitch" is something that they own and is part of the integrity of the original recording. As in a painting, a misplaced brush stroke is forever part of the masterpiece and becomes part and parcel of the composition. When a forger or replicator sets out to copy that painting they will also incorporate the misplaced brush stokes.

On the other hand with a cover, people are so used to hearing the song in it's original form that when someone else does it there is to some degree the expectation for a duplication of the original.
I have heard from you two recent covers that sounded like the vocal could have use just a wee bit more polish with getting the songs learned and rehearsed a bit more.

All I am saying is you got it so close that with just a bit more rehearsal of the song you could come off as quite the crooner.

Keep in mind, I like your work, and I wouldn't even be wasting my time typing if I didn't.

You got chops and plenty of them. You also have an outpouring of tunes. In the short while I have been on this forum I think I have heard 4 or 5. Impressive.

Now I am no singer, so in a sense have no right to comment...but what the hell.

I am no fan of perfection and studio trickery. To me it takes all the life out of the music. Nowadays in pop music there seems to be a lot of flawless shit.

One of my favorite examples of an imperfect tune is ZZ Top's Brown Sugar. In the intro you can plainly hear him blow it, then he recovers from that and goes into the tune.
It is imperfect and flawed but awesome. To this day in every live show he repeats the same mistake.

Agreed ... yet I'm okay with a slightly flawed signature in a tune. As with the last two I did (I "fixed" Across the Universe" btw ...), I'd just learned them when I performed them. Therefore, there was more uncertainty in the vocal than usual. Obviously, when I'm doing my own material, nobody would know the difference ... because they've never heard the tune before, so doing things that people know so well requires a higher level of precision ...

... but must it be perfect? Hmmm ... I'm not sure.

 

[K-dub]

It's odd that this particular cover has become my most downloaded file on Soundcloud ... ever.

... so I figured I'd fix some of the flaws that I knew were there, and clean it up a bit.

Remix is up top.