Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:54:43 -0500
From: Grant Walters <grant.p.walters@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Whole album, then write?
I've never heard of them actually taking that approach - it's possible they
started out with a vision for a record (that feels plausible with albums
like 'High Civilization' and 'This Is Where I Came In' that seemed to have
connected themes among the tracks). I also think it's likely that they'd
have a big batch of ideas or blueprints for songs that they'd develop as a
whole once they had a feel for how they could work together. But most of
what's been documented said that they'd write individual songs for albums
rather quickly - sometimes with others that ended up on different projects
(i.e. 'Tragedy' and 'Too Much Heaven' with 'Shadow Dancing'). Maybe that
was a later approach - we don't know as much about how they assembled
records from the '80s forward, really.
G.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 1:18 AM Chris Mathis
wrote:
> Sorry, that they will write the compete album musically, then record that
> album musically, no lyrics... Then later they will write all the lyrics,
> for all the songs at the same time
>
> Really?
>
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> *Date: * January 25, 2022 12:51:39 AM
> *Subject: * [Words] Whole album, then write?
> *To: * Words List Member Words@brothersgibb.com
> Robin stated in the UK Top 20 favorite b.g. hits that they write a
> complete album in total, and then later song by song, thry Write the lyrics
> one after the other.
>
> I don't know if I believe that is this true or not true. I have heard this
> with individual songs but not a complete album anyone have any answers
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Back to topDate: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:09:15 +0000 (UTC)
From: compoccia@aol.com
Subject: Re: Whole album, then write?
It sounds unlikely.
Sal
Back to topDate: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 12:44:17 -0500
From: Edward Vlasov <middleear@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Whole album, then write?
Re: [Words] Whole album, then write?Most likely it's true for the majority of their material. The exceptions would be the times when some words were embedded in the melodies
from the start. However it doesn't mean they would work on an album as a whole piece. It only means they were writing melodies and making sure
they would sound good on a record, then once there was enough of them for an album, they'd work on the lyrics.
Makes sense if you want to save time.
Eddy
P.S. ABBA would have recorded their back tracks first, then add vocals, then re-create the back tracks from scratch all over again. No, it's not
the same thing, but it's just one of those things the best records are made of. Back to top
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