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Miley Cyrus with Pino Palladino

Lobster11

Lobster11

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Miley Cyrus has described her latest album, Something Beautiful, as her "most experimental" album to date. (I assume she's not including her self-released collaboration with the Flaming Lips, Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz, from a decade ago.) It definitely is "experimental" to some degree, at least by power-pop standards: For example, it opens with a "Prelude" that features spoken word over a swirling psychedelic instrumental, and includes two instrumental "Interludes" -- along with, of course, several dance-club bangers. Pino plays bass on the entire album.

The album was originally released with 13 tracks, but since then she has dropped two new songs which have now been added to the original 13-track set in a "deluxe" edition. (I wish I'd known that was coming or I would have waited to buy the CD, but anyway....)

One of these new tunes is a 13-and-a-half-minutes-long psychedelic groove fest, with Pino at the wheel and David Byrne supplying background vocals. (Both are also credited as co-composers on the track.) This cut is a fitting ending to what might now be properly called an "experimental" album (again by power-pop standards), and I love it. I don't think I've played the same song four or more times in a row since I was a kid with my little record player and only three 45's to choose from. If you thought you knew Miley Cyrus you might have to think again. Here's the track:



(BTW, note that this is from Miley's own YouTube account. She's selling albums, of course, but also giving the music away for free. Gotta respect that.)
 
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Lobster11 said:
Miley Cyrus has described her latest album, Something Beautiful, as her "most experimental" album to date. (I assume she's not including her self-released collaboration with the Flaming Lips, Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz, from a decade ago.) It definitely is "experimental" to some degree, at least by power-pop standards: For example, it opens with a "Prelude" that features spoken word over a swirling psychedelic instrumental, and includes two instrumental "Interludes" -- along with, of course, several dance-club bangers. Pino plays bass on the entire album.

The album was originally released with 13 tracks, but since then she has dropped two new songs which have now been added to the original 13-track set in a "deluxe" edition. (I wish I'd known that was coming or I would have waited to buy the CD, but anyway....)

One of these new tunes is a 13-and-a-half-minutes-long psychedelic groove fest, with Pino at the wheel and David Byrne supplying background vocals. (Both are also credited as co-composers on the track.) This cut is a fitting ending to what might now be properly called an "experimental" album (again by power-pop standards), and I love it. I don't think I've played the same song four or more times in a row since I was a kid with my little record player and only three 45's to choose from. If you thought you knew Miley Cyrus you might have to think again. Here's the track:



(BTW, note that this is from Miley's own YouTube account. She's selling albums, of course, but also giving the music away for free. Gotta respect that.)
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Very Bill Laswell-ish groove, I dug it!
 
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jerry said:
Very Bill Laswell-ish groove, I dug it!
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Interesting -- that connection hadn't occurred to me until you mentioned it. Maybe Miley will bring Laswell in to produce her next album, which she has promised to be "even more experimental" than this one. The only problem is that, from what I've read, she will almost surely want Pito to play bass again.
 
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Lobster11 said:
Interesting -- that connection hadn't occurred to me until you mentioned it. Maybe Miley will bring Laswell in to produce her next album, which she has promised to be "even more experimental" than this one. The only problem is that, from what I've read, she will almost surely want Pito to play bass again.
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Laswell hasn't been doing well health wise.
 
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el jeffe bass said:
This highlights one of the reasons that I love the internet in general and Talkbass in particular. There is so much music that I would never otherwise be exposed to. Thanks for sharing this song, I’m looking forward to diving deeper into it listening on my studio monitors.
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I look at the recordings section of Talk bass like hanging out at a record store back in the day hipping each other to music we dig.😎
 
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bass12 said:
Definitely not what I would have expected from M.C. Makes me think a lot of the trip-hop and ambient-inspired music of the mid-to-late '90s.
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That's an interesting observation. Miley has long been a fan of 1980's rock, and has collaborated and performed with folks like Billy Idol, Joan Jett, and Stevie Nicks. Her next-to-last album was very much an 80's rock record, and seemed to signal a transition from pop star to rock star, but then Endless Summer Vacation (featuring "Flowers") returned to a more power-pop sound. What her next project will be like is anyone's guess; she's always been a moving target.

And here's the missing piece: She's also long been a huge Pink Floyd fan, especially of The Wall. Here's a live set from a few years ago that closes with "Wrecking Ball" tucked inside "Comfortably Numb" (!?):



(If I did this right the vid should be cued up at the right place.)
 
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O.P. here to add that I have listened to this track dozens of times since I first posted, often two or three times in a row, and I keep hearing new things in it. Seriously, this is now "officially" one of my favorite pieces of music of all time. Here's the link again if you didn't bother to read the previous posts:

 
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I need to give that another listen over studio monitors or headphones. Over my laptop speakers it was more engaging than expected from MC, but not worth 13 minutes. There is a lot of stuff in my record collection that this resembles...but the competition is pretty stiff.
 
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Bob_Ross said:
I need to give that another listen over studio monitors or headphones. Over my laptop speakers it was more engaging than expected from MC, but not worth 13 minutes. There is a lot of stuff in my record collection that this resembles...but the competition is pretty stiff.
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Yes, you definitely need to do that. With your laptop speakers you're missing a lot of subtle stuff happening in the background and (especially) the power of Pino's burbling groove.
 
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Here's an interesting piece about how Pino was almost left off one song on the album -- he had played on all the others -- but bringing him back to record it turned out to be an epiphany to one of the producers. I think there's an important lesson here for all us bassists:

www.yahoo.com

How Pino Palladino turned the demo bassline in Miley Cyrus’s End of the World into something "so much better"

"I just thought it would sound the same, but my God," says awestruck producer Shawn Everett
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

Hey @Bob_Ross, did you ever get a chance to give a serious re-listen to "Lockdown"?
 
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