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Post by f4monty on Jun 30, 2017 17:16:51 GMT
Good day all. I've only recently discovered this song for some reason and I think it's great but I can only find a few references to it on here with little real info.
So I was wondering whether anyone had any more info about it and why it never made an album other than Flashback. Is it a Jeff-only work or did other personnel play on it?
All info appreciated!
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Post by ShardEnder on Jun 30, 2017 19:29:26 GMT
The original version of Tears In Your Life was recorded early in the later batch of sessions for Secret Messages, which ran from August 1982 to February 1983. As confirmed by Jeff in his Flashback commentary, it was initially sung through a vocoder, which turns up in a brief part of the final mix, completed for that compilation. While there don't appear to be any specific credits, the rototom sound is consistent with Bev's 1982-3 era overdubs, and those strings are definitely vintage Louis Clark arrangements. I suspect that virtually everything else was remade by Jeff later, including the structure - he used Pro Tools to shuffle around all the core parts. The drums and keyboards seem to be more recent, as does Jeff's lead in three part harmony. With the exception of this song, Helpless and possibly In For The Kill, it doesn't seem as if there were many leftovers from this period that didn't end up on the 2LP acetates (you can't really count Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor or Who's That? as these were never serious contenders, being acoustic sound tests that Jeff chose to "finish" for reasons only he'll ever know - I'm eternally grateful that he did, by the way). However, just as Video! recycled elements from Beatles Forever, Jeff didn't leave Tears In Your Life to waste away in his tape box for too long, using the basic melody for After All, Sirens and then Night Calls before returning to have another shot at the origin of these instrumentally similar compositions.
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Post by f4monty on Jun 30, 2017 19:38:08 GMT
Great stuff. This is why I love this forum. Thanks for the info!
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