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Post by thewrongbeach on Oct 7, 2017 6:36:45 GMT -5
Looking over the album credits thread (http://live4ever.proboards.com/thread/87684/writing-credits), I’ve just realised production might give the key insight into the development of this album...
Liam goes in the studio, records demos of Bold and When I’m In Need (and possibly others?) with Iain Archer
Plays Bold (and WIIN?) to record company, gets deal
Dan Grech-Marguerat attached as album producer - tidies up Bold, enhances When I’m In Need (first verse possibly the pure original?)
Dan also records 8 more Liam-penned tunes: - Greedy Soul - You Better Run - I Get By - Universal Gleam - I’ve All I Need - All My People/All Mankind - I Never Wanna Be Like You - When I’m In Need (Iain helps finish this one) - For What It’s Worth (Simon Jons brought in to add classic ‘epic’ chorus) (Eh La possibly also recorded during those sessions.)
Most of the above are embellished with strings/brass. Later songs, below, aren’t. At this point, For What It’s Worth is the “big single”.
Ten/eleven-track, Liam-penned, album delivered. Record company suggest getting Greg Kurstin in to do a bit more work before finalising. Dan exits the project but his work is kept.
Greg and co-writer Andrew Wyatt get in the studio with Liam and knock out these 3, adding a more contemporary sound to the album: - Come Back To Me - Doesn’t Have To Be Way - Wall Of Glass
Everyone gets excited about Wall of Glass. Wyatt (& Tighe, who also contributed to WOG) offer 2 of their own tunes to balance out/finish off the revised album: - Paper Crown - Chinatown
Both make the cut.
So...if you want to hear what that early version of the album probably sounded like (when it was going to be called ‘Bold’?), it was something like this:
Bold Greedy Soul For What It’s Worth When I’m In Need All My People/All Mankind You Better Run I Never Wanna Be Like You I Get By Universal Gleam I’ve All I Need
For me, that might have left the album a bit nearer Beady Eye territory (although, given it’s virtually all written by Liam, a massive leap forwards for him) so it’s great to see they persevered until they had something they were really happy with.
TWB.
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Post by freddy838 on Oct 7, 2017 6:45:47 GMT -5
Makes a lot of sense, though it might have been in a different order. I seem to remember him saying that he flew out to see Kurstin before coming back to do more songs.
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