Multitrack love
November 17, 2013 7:14 AM Subscribe
Songs broken down into their component parts. Choose a song, and use the green buttons to turn tracks on and off. (via Kottke)
If you don't speak French you won't get to appreciate the description the creator gives. Loosely and badly translated: posted by benito.strauss at 7:35 AM on November 17, 2013 [8 favorites]
"Sultans of Swing" has always been a great favorite of mine, so it was cool to play around with it on this. Thanks!
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 7:44 AM on November 17, 2013
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 7:44 AM on November 17, 2013
Yeah, the guitar track on Sultans of Swing is just sublime.
posted by Benny Andajetz at 8:02 AM on November 17, 2013
posted by Benny Andajetz at 8:02 AM on November 17, 2013
Knoplfer's part is nearly greater than the whole.
Thanks for finding and posting!
posted by wensink at 8:14 AM on November 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Thanks for finding and posting!
posted by wensink at 8:14 AM on November 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Wow, this is great. I used to collect "track" versions of songs. I always found it easier to listen to (and occasionally learn) songs and it's *much* easier to study the bass or guitar without vocals.
I'd tell people, sometimes, to "listen to the bass line" in some song, and they almost always found it very difficult and would start singing along instead. It's tough to pick out an individual instrument and focus on that to the exclusion of all the other instruments. But when you do, you start to notice all kinds of cool things.
Wish there were more song choices!
posted by CrowGoat at 8:21 AM on November 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
I'd tell people, sometimes, to "listen to the bass line" in some song, and they almost always found it very difficult and would start singing along instead. It's tough to pick out an individual instrument and focus on that to the exclusion of all the other instruments. But when you do, you start to notice all kinds of cool things.
Wish there were more song choices!
posted by CrowGoat at 8:21 AM on November 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
Try to forget the fact that it's become a camp wedding staple and check out the string/horn track on 'YMCA.' It's insanely brilliant.
posted by mintcake! at 8:23 AM on November 17, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by mintcake! at 8:23 AM on November 17, 2013 [3 favorites]
Finally I'll get the recognition I deserve for playing Clarinet on Sgt. Pepper
posted by Teakettle at 8:33 AM on November 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Teakettle at 8:33 AM on November 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
Played Clarinet and got high with George Harrison, AMAA
posted by Teakettle at 8:36 AM on November 17, 2013
posted by Teakettle at 8:36 AM on November 17, 2013
Try to forget the fact that it's become a camp wedding staple
...up there with "Every Breath You Take" on the "Did you fucking listen to the song?" scale for wedding songs.
(except for gay couples that met that way, I guess)
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:38 AM on November 17, 2013
...up there with "Every Breath You Take" on the "Did you fucking listen to the song?" scale for wedding songs.
(except for gay couples that met that way, I guess)
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:38 AM on November 17, 2013
...up there with "Every Breath You Take" on the "Did you fucking listen to the song?" scale for wedding songs.
YMCA is a wedding reception staple, not an actual wedding song. Just dance-party fun to warm up the great-aunts for New York, New York. That said, one of my cousins had Free Bird play as the recessional at his wedding.
posted by headnsouth at 8:44 AM on November 17, 2013
YMCA is a wedding reception staple, not an actual wedding song. Just dance-party fun to warm up the great-aunts for New York, New York. That said, one of my cousins had Free Bird play as the recessional at his wedding.
posted by headnsouth at 8:44 AM on November 17, 2013
It's an absolute DJ ace in the hole. It always works.
posted by mintcake! at 8:47 AM on November 17, 2013
posted by mintcake! at 8:47 AM on November 17, 2013
Genericuser, bless you for attributing the Kottke source. I hope everyone else follows the lead.
Also, good link
posted by C.A.S. at 8:59 AM on November 17, 2013
Also, good link
posted by C.A.S. at 8:59 AM on November 17, 2013
Neat to hear occasional mistakes like in the bass track of "Say it ain't so".
posted by Corduroy at 9:07 AM on November 17, 2013
posted by Corduroy at 9:07 AM on November 17, 2013
This is something I love. I've always wanted to be able to buy a multi-track copy of any album so I can isolate and play with tracks.
posted by MrBobaFett at 9:35 AM on November 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by MrBobaFett at 9:35 AM on November 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Tho I am disappointed by the amount of cross-talk in some of the tracks. Like you can't mute the guitar on Sound of Silence.
posted by MrBobaFett at 9:38 AM on November 17, 2013
posted by MrBobaFett at 9:38 AM on November 17, 2013
These are probably from Rock Band, which is why they're most middle of the road rock songs. But its a fun tool! My Rehab remix will shock the world
posted by Potomac Avenue at 9:39 AM on November 17, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 9:39 AM on November 17, 2013 [3 favorites]
Freddie Mercury's vocal tracks isolated on "Champions" are so ethereal. Amazing stuff...
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 9:40 AM on November 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 9:40 AM on November 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Oh man. More Queen please.
From Rock Band? How was the taking apart done?
posted by chainsofreedom at 10:26 AM on November 17, 2013
From Rock Band? How was the taking apart done?
posted by chainsofreedom at 10:26 AM on November 17, 2013
If there's such a short list of choices, why make the user wait while the song is "processed"?
posted by humboldt32 at 10:30 AM on November 17, 2013
posted by humboldt32 at 10:30 AM on November 17, 2013
YMCA is a wedding reception staple, not an actual wedding song.
That's what I assumed; not that people* were walking down the aisle to either. Even at the reception, a song about anonymous sex in the bathroom at the Y is arguably not appropriate. Just like playing Liz Phair's "Divorce Song" or "Fuck and Run" might be.
*Yes, I'm sure that the number of people who've walked down the aisle to YMCA or EBYT or, I dunno, Baby Got Back is more than zero.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:02 AM on November 17, 2013
That's what I assumed; not that people* were walking down the aisle to either. Even at the reception, a song about anonymous sex in the bathroom at the Y is arguably not appropriate. Just like playing Liz Phair's "Divorce Song" or "Fuck and Run" might be.
*Yes, I'm sure that the number of people who've walked down the aisle to YMCA or EBYT or, I dunno, Baby Got Back is more than zero.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:02 AM on November 17, 2013
David Bowie's "Space Oddity" is on Spotify separated out into its 8 component tracks. Seriously mellow rhythm section there...
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 11:06 AM on November 17, 2013
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 11:06 AM on November 17, 2013
chainsofreedom: From Rock Band? How was the taking apart done?
Well, Rock Band stores all its music as multi-track Ogg Vorbis files, so that when you inevitably mess up the part you're playing, the game can mute it. There's only 4 parts to play in Rock Band, so instead of using true "every part gets its own track" multi-track, they crunch a song down into 4 or 5 tracks. (Hence the cross-talk and sometimes odd combinations of instruments on a track.)
People on the internet have ripped these "mogg" files from the games, and other people have made software that will let you open said files and play with them. I believe Audacity and Reaper can both open these files. This has been useful for people who like to make remixes and mashups, despite the songs frequently being censored for lyrical content.
posted by t3h933k at 11:08 AM on November 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Well, Rock Band stores all its music as multi-track Ogg Vorbis files, so that when you inevitably mess up the part you're playing, the game can mute it. There's only 4 parts to play in Rock Band, so instead of using true "every part gets its own track" multi-track, they crunch a song down into 4 or 5 tracks. (Hence the cross-talk and sometimes odd combinations of instruments on a track.)
People on the internet have ripped these "mogg" files from the games, and other people have made software that will let you open said files and play with them. I believe Audacity and Reaper can both open these files. This has been useful for people who like to make remixes and mashups, despite the songs frequently being censored for lyrical content.
posted by t3h933k at 11:08 AM on November 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Love that there is the original version of Antisocial, brought to fame by Anthrax
posted by _dario at 11:13 AM on November 17, 2013
posted by _dario at 11:13 AM on November 17, 2013
Also you can blow up that lemming at the top of the page.
posted by aubilenon at 11:14 AM on November 17, 2013 [7 favorites]
posted by aubilenon at 11:14 AM on November 17, 2013 [7 favorites]
Taking apart the guitars in Castles Made of Sand makes for a surreal, awesome mood setter. Imagine enjoying the riff in the beginning just on its own.
posted by alon at 2:29 PM on November 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by alon at 2:29 PM on November 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
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