We're full swing into our talks on producers and so far the talks have been very interesting. The thing I'm picking up mostly from these talks is that while there may be a very different sound between bands out there the core roles of a producer remains almost the same no matter whom they are working with. While of course some producers do more than others they all contribute to the overall sound of a project at least in some way. This emphasizes the point I think that it is very easy for a producer to step over that line where they do become a partial extra member of the band. We had this discussion over Nigel Godrich who has produced many Radiohead records. The question there I suppose had he influenced the sound of the recording enough that the band would have been either a different sounding band, or a similar sounding but less successful band without him. I don't really know enough Radiohead history to comment, but I think from what Lauren was saying he properly has and it probably isn't a bad thing.
The talks this week I found were very informative. I was actually impressed that people with producers that are often associated with one big name act talked didn't become too focused on that one act. It's interesting actually looking up Nigel Godrich that his first major production technique was in fact with Beck so he obviously favoured the alternative rock genre from the beginning. On a side note having listed to 'Torn' during that talk it made me think of two things. One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1GA4SKZIC0 and two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s13sASS5F4. The second one in the context of what we were talking about in forum got me thinking about the role of a producer in pop making a song popular. The point I'm trying to make here is that Torn, and the point was also made in forum is a song that we've all heard before. While it is a pop song it's possibly a pop song that makes us cringe a little less than the 80s pop stuff we heard the week before, and that I believe is the work of a good producer.
Links : http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:vu2m96hodep2~T4 – Nigel Godrich discography
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