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    The Stories In Front Of The Songs
    The Stories In Front Of The Songs
    The Stories In Front Of The Songs
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    The Stories In Front Of The Songs

    By Tim Chaplin

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    Fifty songs and where they came from.

     

    Explorations, explanations and revelations.

     

    Discussing the art of songwriting, music, lyrics and recording.

     

    How inspiration and ideas become songs.

     

    Recollections of record labels, collaborators and influences.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTim Chaplin
    Release dateJun 14, 2024
    ISBN9798224071647
    The Stories In Front Of The Songs
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    Tim Chaplin

    Tim Chaplin is a musician, songwriter, producer, composer, artist and writer.

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      The Stories In Front Of The Songs - Tim Chaplin

      This Road Was Made For The Rain To Run Down

      This was written a little while before starting ‘Chrome Plated On Nickel Silver’, my first official album. I remember aiming for a Ronettes kinda thing. Springsteen has been detected here too and, looking back, I think I was going for that as well. Bruce himself was massively influenced by the girl group/Spector sound of course. Some of the harmonies on this are very E Street. As with a lot of the album, there are field recordings present. This was often to mask some of the monitor bleed, but not always. There’s also some good old backwards guitar - can’t argue with that. I think ‘peace of heart’ was a little phrase I’d written down and finally got to use here. That happens quite a bit, as you shall see.

      Don’t Know Why I Don’t Know Why

      I must have been going for a Jacobites vibe on this one. It’s like a mix of two songs from their second LP, ‘Robespierre’s Velvet Basement’. Check out ‘Son Of A French Nobleman’ and ‘Country Girl’. This remains my favourite album of all time - the best collection of original songs all in one place that isn’t a compilation. It was always supposed to be a double album. We’d all have to wait until the nineties for that. The upward key changes are something Dave Kusworth liked to do a lot. Very orgasmic, if I do say so myself. I threw in some twinkly music box/glockenspiel parts. Again, very Danny Federici and Belle and Sebastian. All the songs on ‘Chrome Plated’ are very layered. This was especially inspired by listening to ‘lilac6’ by The Lilac Time. It was the first time I’d recorded any actual songs on a computer. I’d previous done some Luminous stuff that way and the software was really only intended for dance music. Short loops and sections to be moved around, rather than full takes of instruments and vocals. I did what I could - often having to split parts into two or three when the software and/or computer ran outta steam. As for plug-ins, I only had a handful to play with. Due to these limitations, I processed every single part independently in another program to give everything more colour, pasted them back in and hoped for the best.

      The Truth

      I had a song called ‘Janglepop’ - still do - and this one was kind of like a follow up to that. They were both originally recorded on 4-track with two electric guitar parts. For this version, I wanted acoustic guitars and a very cheap-sounding drum part. The guitars I was never happy with and reversed them to varying degrees on each bar. Each one differently to the other. Someone actually mistook them for a harpsichord -

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