Comments on: Linus Loves + 10cc

By: Kevin McKay

Kevin McKay — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:42:25 +0000

hi there, i am also known as kevin kennedy. just so that everyone knows, the original writers, gouldman & stewart were credited on this release. linus chose not to clear the sample. personally, i just did the beats, production and mixing on this particular track. john clarke (ex of bis) played the guitar and worked out how to get that daft backwards sound. only when the vocal is in is there a sample, the rest was recreated.

By: Adham

Adham — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:52:21 +0000

If a musician makes an album with something, no matter what it is, it is an instrument.

By: regis

regis — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:41:12 +0000

i love linus loves music

this music is best in the word

By: matteo

matteo — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:22:22 +0000

hello..

Linus Loves has done pretty much the same thing I Monster did previously with Daydream in Blue which samples Gunther Kallmann's "Daydream".

I think we can't call it just smpling this is covering using electronic equipments.

By: PMoney

PMoney — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:13:10 +0000

just saw the dada show at moma. so when duchamp put a moustache on the mona lisa, it wasn't art? or the urinal? calm down. ready-mades have been around for almost a century. a new perspective on something old is still a new perspective. does it make you reconsider the original? isn't that worth something as well? i for one am happy that post mondernism is alive and well. as long as credit is given where credit is due (and royalties are dished out as appropriate), no harm. very tired of the very rockist (racist?) anti-sampling sentiment. it's a completely valid musical tool, exciting, fun, and in the end, the highest form of flattery. and if you think a computer isn't a "real instrument", well, god, what a boring argument. vive le garageband!

By: TJ Thurston

TJ Thurston — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:33:08 +0000

This exhibits the worst of what modern technology can do. I was never a fan of "sampling" (can you say Vanilla Ice?), but this takes it to a new low. Ripping off one of the best bands of the 70s and trying to pose it as the thief's own. Shame, shame. Speeding up a song is art? Don't think so. What's next? Speeding up a Beatles song to 78 RPM and selling it on iTunes? Get a life. What the thief (and those who think this is good) seem to misunderstand is that virtually anybody can learn how to work a computer; very few learn how to play real instruments; fewer still can write a great song and produce it. I think you owe Messrs. Stewart, Gouldman, Godley and Creme an apology, not to mention any and all money you make from this atrocity.

By: Pop Muse

Pop Muse — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:05:29 +0000

ur blog is my new obsession!

By: KL

KL — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:07:36 +0000

That is so freaky! When I first heard the album, I thought that song was a bit weird and out of place, sort of like a Zero 7 track, or maybe Beth Orton style. Pretty audacious move, and now that I have heard the original, I think he's done a pretty good job, especially leaving out the chorus and adding the backwards sounding synth stuff. I think it's a real skill to recognise the potential of doing something like this, sort of like uber-sampling. I assume he doesn't claim to have written the song and shares the composer credit with 10CC… or at least I'd hope so!

By: Dave Ill

Dave Ill — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:04:21 +0000

This kid ripped a breakbeat track and turned it up to Drum and Bass speed and tried to pull it as his own production http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.php?threadid...