Pet Shop Boys "It Couldn't Happen Here"
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- PSB's "It Couldn’t Happen Here" recreated from the original Fairlight Series III Page-RS sequences.
There are three individual sequence files that together build up the complete song. Looking at these and how they work together, really illustrates both the musical and technical expertise of those involved in composing this track back in 87.
The overall song is 100% Fairlight; there are no external instruments shown in the system set up file. Each track was individually recorded from the sequences into Cubase using the correct instrumentation from the Fairlight (per the track names in Cubase). It was mixed in Cubase with VCC (SSL E) and SSL Duende Channel strips on each channel, Lexicon reverbs (PCM80 and Relab LX-480), with UAD comps to try and mimic the hardware that the original would have been mixed through.
The tonal balance isn’t quite right (I’m no Julian Mendelsohn!), and hasn’t been helped by YT compression emphasising the bass and losing some treble but the essence of the song is there.
The arrangement is legendary- what an amazing song even without lyrics. This is back when bands MADE real music.
Back then rockers said this wasn't real music...you sound like one of them. 😅
Respect to all those geniuses: Psb, Mr. Ennio Morricone(R.I.P.) & all collaborators from "Actually Album" 1987.
The strings arrangement is a masterpiece
Agreed. Because the Fairlight RS sequencer is monophonic (each of those 16 tracks shown on the screen can only play one note at a time), it's fascinating to see how each chord is built up over the tracks.
I’m 48 and I’ve followed the pet shops from 84 . Remix’s early stuff . This whole album holds a place in my heart especially this song it’s beautiful
Sure my friend, no doubt.
Me 2❤
My favorites álbum, too. I'm 49
Very nice - if you had Kings Cross I could die happy 😂
One of the most beautiful songs of these guys.
As mentioned elsewhere in the comments Badalamenti's score was programmed into the Farirlight due to PSB not getting an orchestra in time to get Actually released on its release date. Ennio Morricone is also credited on this piece due to it being based on a piece he'd previously written
RIP Morricone. 2020/07/06
morricone plus PSB...…..a masterpiece
This has really stood the test of time, I still listen to it 30+ years later :-)
Fairlight - wow, what a machine- what a great job on this fantastic tune
This is why I love UA-cam.
A great piece of music originally co-written with Italian legendary composer Ennio Morricone
Masterpiece
Yesterday, remember how clear it seems.
In 6 inch heels, quoting magazines.
Go all the way, you knew you could. So far....so good.
Now it almost seems impossible.
We've drunk too much and woke up everyone.
I may be wrong, but I thought we said it couldn't happen here.
Amazing! It couldn’t happen here and kings cross are my favorites
Sure, The whole album is... Fantastico!!!
Incredible rendition
It's fascinating to learn it was sampled strings. It really shows how good orchestration can make what would otherwise be fairly static samples come alive. Listening closely some of the loops become apparent in the high notes and I wonder if they added all the reverb to disguise the rough edges.
AMAZING!!! this is my favourite PSB song, and this instrumental song its perfect! Congrats!
Música maravilhosa!
Mesmo orquestrada não perde a beleza!
That's incredible! It really is. And all the original sample patches. Amazing.
Beautiful
This has to be one of my all time favorite Pet Shop Boys songs, thank you for sharing this, it's made my day finding your channel.
A Perfect thing!
my favourite song ever.
Actually I never thought I'd come across anybody else who liked this song.
I guess it was buried on a pretty strong album of popular hit songs so it was a mainly forgotten song at the time.....but for me, this song, along with Jealousy from the Behaviour album are the best songs they ever recorded 🙂
Jammy Git hoping for a miracle From hotspot is a reminder to this genius
Count me in
I'm 44 years old And been listening to this song since it 1st came out
This song is
So so so so so so beautiful
@@JammyGit When I first bought Actually tape, this was before It's A Sin, and because of how much I was fascinated with It's A Sin at that time, this slow number sounded like a blasphemy and I was always in a hurry to skip this one just to move to IAS real quick. After two or three years, however, this became such a strong favourite that It is now easily in my Top 5 and I always feel like crying everytime when I listen to it. A truly dark and hidden gem.
@@harisbaki Same here Haris, I was about 17 when I bought the Actually LP and I guess I was more interested in the more upbeat songs, but as I got older the slower songs such as this grew more appealing.
You're right, it is an emotional song and I only found out fairly recently that the song was all about the AIDS epidemic at the time 👍
Beautiful. Thanks for uploading.
This instumental is amazing. Thank you for sharing it.
Totally outstanding! I have been a massive PSB fan since I first heard "West End Girls" on the radio as a kid in the 80's. I really love the passion you have taken to recreate this masterpiece of pop . I bow down in respect of the respect you gave for the original track, and thank you.
It is the original track!
Can't believe my dream has been shattered. I'd always thought that this was recorded in the studio with a full orchestra and Badalamenti conducting.
Yoofaloof me too
The dream I had in the 80s was that all this could be programmed :-)
It wasn't performed with a full orchestra until 2012.
I thought the same for a while, too. I think the synth strings help give it an even more moody feel, in some weird way.
Neil said in an interview it was done on their Fairlight, I already knew.
They did it was a real orchestra somewhat recently I believe, and Neil mentioned how great it was to be doing it with an actual orchestra for the first time.
Super! 👍🏻 Thanks for Sharing this Master Piece.
My pleasure.
This is just brilliant and very interesting too. Thanks for posting, i'll watch this again and again.
I do too. Nunca me canso de escucharla.
Wow - this is awesome! By far my most prefered PSB-Song and you brought up something I was always interested in!
Glad you enjoyed it. It is a beautifully crafted song.
Excellent rendition of a fantastic track. Kudos to you, sir!
Weltklasse,🥂❤️
outstanding
Well done! I've listened to this track a lot through the years and it's a perfect blend of Morricone and the Boys, especially on the chorus. You did a great job displaying the arrangement. the strings were originally arranged by Angelo Badalament wasn't they? So one of my favorite synth-duos combined with two of my most favored movie composers. It had to be good!
Thanks so much for sharing. I tried to include a bit in my Actually feature stevepafford.com/30-reasons-pet-shop-boys-actually-landmark-classic-album/
Can’t believe I’ve only just seen this. Awesome!
This really is absolutely wonderful.
Outstanding production! This is truly a cover version which fully grasps the musical essence of the original and even outperforms the original.
I would agree that it outperforms the original, it is as perfect as this track could ever be.
Total agreement with you entirely ☺️☺️☺️☺️
Stunning ❤️
Wonderful!
how on heaven did you get those original sequences?
oh my!
There was an old CD picture interview disc with the PSB back in the day where they talked about this track. They said they were going to have an orchestra play the Badalamenti score, but it was the weekend and they couldn't get one. The album was due early the next week, so out of options, they put the score into the Fairlight instead. They said it was difficult because the attack times of the instrument samples were all different, so it was a big job getting all the tracks aligned and sequenced in time with each other.
I'll look forward to any more PSB videos you do - they're great! Anything Series III is great too. I used to dream of owning one listening to PSB's Actually and Art of Noise as a teenager. PSBs never sounded better than when they were using the likes of Andy Richards, Blue Weaver etc.
These crazy boys are real genious
I love playback and yours are fantastic. Congratulations. (Brazil)
Encountered such a machine playing this at our museum event last weekend. Great stuff
Pretty Amazing !!! I'd like to listen to another collaboration with Morricone and the Boys, someday.
You're a genius !!! Wonderful song!
If you can do another psb instrumental, it would be amazing, because this track is just incredible.
fantastic!
Lovely
Wonderfully done, incredible job
Man what a progression
Startling how close you got . The Fairlight CMI is and still is revolutionary
I can't take too much of the credit for this one, as the sequences and the sounds used are both original, so it really came down to whether I could approximate the mix!
That said, It's an amazing piece of work and testament to the talent of those involved, not least Blue Weaver who despite the technical limitations of the Page-RS sequencer (being 16 monphonic tracks), was able to realise the score originally intended for a full orchestra.
This is absolutely fantastic. Well done indeed. ❤️
Thank you. Can't take too much of the credit on this one, as the hard work of creating the sequences and selecting the sounds had already been done buy the original creators!
Eres un genio con las computadoras ✔💯🔝👍🏼👏🏻👏🏻
Lovely! Just absolutely beautiful! Thank you for the upload!
Magnificent. It couldn’t happen here … kings cross … being boring …
Awesome!!
I love this. Thank you for sharing :) Going to have a perusal to see what other wonderful sequences you have on here!
Doing so well. Great work! Thank you so much.
Really great job. Perfect music hearing. I appreciate it very much. I didn' t find any difference against original. Well done.
Amazing. I was really expecting the vocals to come in. It sounds just like the original.
great job, it sounds awesome
I love this song. I also love the movie a big deal.
Amazing Fairlight. by Blue Weaver - original composer Eennio Morricone (According to Neil Tennant)
Marty Leung arranged not composed...
cappaculla - thats correct. Neil, Chris and Eennio Morricone got credit for being the writers of this song, fairlight was by Blue Weaver.
@@RasputinWatchSite Yes All my work would love the stems for this. All my disks and stuff went missing so I have no copies especially just the backing without the vocals. I did this in an afternoon choosing the sounds and then using Angelo's arrangement....
Can you do "Do I have to"? I would love to hear that!
THANK YOU!!!!
FABULEUX! ( MERCI ° )
Fantastic
Amazing!!
Ууу, красиво.
I Love
complimenti
good job mate..........!!!
1. Psb 2. 3. 4. 5, ....the other artists
Great job on this - well done! I only found out recently from a Neil Tenant interview that this track was done on a fairlight - I'd always assumed that the strings were real. I think this is probably one of the finest examples of how good the Fairlight could actually sound. Would be interested to know if you bought the Fairlight with the PSB files onboard or somehow managed to acquire them? There are other videos on UA-cam with page R sequences for 'Opportunities' and 'Love Comes Quickly' which are equally fascinating to watch. I can only assume these units were originally owned by PSB's or Stephen Hague to hold such valuable content. Anyway, regardless of how or where you got hold of them, many thanks for uploading and sharing!
Thank you. I agree - I guess this track is a classic example of why people were prepared to pay so much money for the Series III back in the day. The album liner notes state that this track was sequenced by Blue Weaver rather than Stephen Hague. Unfortunately it does not show that on the Page RS info screens, unlike the "I Get Excited" sequence that I posted after this one, which clearly shows Blue Weaver as the programmer. Re. provenance, these files were acquired, although I had quite a number of 'famous sounds' on the old disk and tapes when I acquired mine many years ago.
Id love to learn the strings parts on the keyboards. Anyone know where i can get the sheet music for those bits. I do have the PVG fir Actually but only concentrates on the vocal parts
I love this, I'm playing it all the time! where can I download a HQ version? cheers
Hi Friend, i can´t believe it yet!! you are great! Thanks for all this original versions you have recreated, By the way, are all these sounds from farilight this time? i mean, i thought that some sounds from Actually were from Emulator II library, or do you think they import all sounds from E2 to Fairlight? anyways, thanks for all theses versions, please don't stop to do it!! i
Hi, I can't take all the credit here, as I didn't do any of the sequencing work this time!! Regarding the Emulator II, there's EII all over Actually but for this track, all sounds are from the Fairlight.
"Just before it did"
Don’t get me wrong the up-tempo PSB songs are great but I love the melancholy songs the most eg. It couldnt happen here, being boring, im not scared.
Hello this is amazing! I remember listening in 1987 and wondering what equipment they used ... May I ask if you know why the Fairlight Series 111 libraries are not available for Kontakt ? Cheers :-)
First of all... thank you! Could we have more of this stuff "Please"? Is it possible to download the version on a high quality recording? I mean a wave file or something. Thanks again.
Do you have an MP3 of this? It's great
1000x 🙂
It’s really similar on %100 like an original psb track
Hi. Does that mean 3 concurrent / synchronised sequences of 16 instruments ?
¿De que galaxia proviene este sonido?
great! share in wav plis ??
Great work.. how can i contact u vie private message or email?
This is insanely good - where did you get the stems from?
Please do "Yesterday, When I Was Mad"
They've both made such a little go a very long way.
@@AshleyPomeroy No! that's not what I meant!
hey there! i was just wondering if you were able to share the stems of this if possible?
who knows name of original(Morricone)?
Dmi Ruzanov - Ennio Morricone
O 2 B in London in the late ay-tees...
Do you have (can share to us) the complete sheet music?
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imho this actually sounds better than the original, wich has way too much reverb on the vocals?
3:25 - 3:51
Can anyone help me with the chords?
Thanks for putting these tracks out here! They sound great! The Fairlight is a fantastic machine and the PSB certainly put them to excellent use. Check my channel to see some of the PSB CMI floppies for the IIX I have, like this one: ua-cam.com/video/3oskiJR3W1Y/v-deo.html
Do you actually own a series III?