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Vanessa Carlton => General Vanessa Carlton Discussion => Topic started by: PutYourHandsOnMe101 on November 18, 2006, 05:25:06 pm

Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: PutYourHandsOnMe101 on November 18, 2006, 05:25:06 pm: I was looking for some pictures of V for this thing when I stumbled across a little snippet of a song by V called Just The Thing... it is DEFINATLEY her singing it and it sounds a lot like Private Radio.... the site says that it is from 2002 and it sounds like the vocals V used on BNN.... Wonder if it was really a whole song( maybe it is the first version of Private Radio?) Anyway, I think it sounds cool and here's the link.... it's at the very top...

http:// http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.strangecranium.com/studio/images/studio1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.strangecranium.com/studio/&h=150&w=200&sz=26&hl=en&start=482&tbnid=qwkWy9RF54GNBM:&tbnh=78&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvanessa%2Bcarlton%26star
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: Emmyspiano on November 18, 2006, 05:41:16 pm: thats so fuckin awesome! like an old school private radio!
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: clamicas on November 18, 2006, 06:24:14 pm: great discovery!
so private radio was an old re-used song from the BNN days, interesting. Well, private radio sounds much better than "just the thing,just the thing...".
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: joey on November 18, 2006, 06:29:48 pm: so is that like jus a snippet of the song...i wonder if theres more...

but its soooo cool thanks pyhom101...

could someone make it downloadable?
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: clamicas on November 18, 2006, 06:34:35 pm: check the download thread ;)

edit: it's the first link of my post there
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: joey on November 18, 2006, 06:37:18 pm: ^^ thanks clarice.... :D
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: BWilli on November 18, 2006, 06:42:30 pm: sweet
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: MeganJane on November 18, 2006, 07:03:52 pm: The guitar part sounded cool and then it faded out :(
I wish Private Radio had the guitar part...
I hope there is more guitar on her new album, as long as it doesn't distract from Vanessa's piano... although I do doubt it, she seems to be getting more and more 'pop'.....
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: KULPDOGG on November 18, 2006, 08:17:30 pm: wow, that's awesome!!

can someone contact that web site and see if they have a longer version??

we need to do everything we can to make sure there isn't more of this...

edit:
lyrics (wuthout the da-da-da-, da-da-da-, da-da-da-da-da-da-'s):

--Just the thing
Just the thing
And you can't describe it
You get excited
You can't deny it

Just the thing
Just the thing
Feelin' good and oh so right and--
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: PutYourHandsOnMe101 on November 18, 2006, 08:39:13 pm: Thanks for the download... yeah I hope there is more to it than that.... I can't belive I found it :D
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: bluebutterfly on November 18, 2006, 09:40:38 pm: interesting find. i'm very glad it got turned into private radio and became a good song, coz those lyrics aren't very good.
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: zurielshimon on November 19, 2006, 02:13:41 am: Very creative, and I love her voice, but yeah, the lyrics are rather crude. :)
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: Martin. on November 19, 2006, 03:08:45 am: Sounds cool. Thanks
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: maag on November 19, 2006, 05:42:17 am: You can download the mp3 from this link:
http://www.strangecranium.com/studio/mp3/carlton.mp3
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: Martin. on November 19, 2006, 06:12:58 am: Thanks Maag.
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: Gina on November 19, 2006, 09:06:58 am: oh, that's awesome!... real nice find.
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: unsungmelody on November 19, 2006, 09:57:43 am: It's beautiful, but Private Radio is way better! :D
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: me and my piano---tim on November 19, 2006, 12:02:03 pm: whoa. thanks!
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: PutYourHandsOnMe101 on November 19, 2006, 05:39:29 pm: Quote from: "MeganJane"
The guitar part sounded cool and then it faded out :(
I wish Private Radio had the guitar part...
I hope there is more guitar on her new album, as long as it doesn't distract from Vanessa's piano... although I do doubt it, she seems to be getting more and more 'pop'.....

I know, I love the part at the end of this clip... I hope we see some more of V's rock side on the new album :D
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: VanessaPiana on November 19, 2006, 05:54:46 pm: Y'know, that song actually sounds pretty good; not commercial album material, though. It sounds more like a demo to me. I always wondered what was the name of the song that didn't make BNN that I saw on one of her videos on AOL Search, which was 'the making of BNN'. So Private Radio is the recycled version of this song... sorry, but I prefer Private Radio better.
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: bluebutterfly on November 20, 2006, 12:05:16 am: Quote from: "VanessaPiana"
sorry, but I prefer Private Radio better.
who are you apologising to? most people in this thread have said they prefer private radio anyway...
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: PutYourHandsOnMe101 on November 20, 2006, 06:42:06 am: Quote from: "bluebutterfly"
Quote from: "VanessaPiana"
sorry, but I prefer Private Radio better.
who are you apologising to? most people in this thread have said they prefer private radio anyway...

yeah, I like PR much more than this... :)
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: KULPDOGG on November 20, 2006, 07:20:04 am: I actually like this better than the Harmonium Private Radio.

...it sounds more "creepy", one of Vanessa's "Vanessa dark" songs.
I think the beat is better. it sounds a little bit faster, which I always like.

I also love how she does the da-da-da da-da-da da-da-da-da-da-da, like how she performed Private Radio live.

listening to Private Radio from Harmonium, then listening to 'just the thing'
only confirms how freakin awesome the fastness of this clip is.

It always bugged me a little bit how most of the songs on Harmonium were played slower than how Vanessa normally plays them live.
I've always preferred it when she plays things fast. :twisted:
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: blueglove on November 20, 2006, 02:28:14 pm: the beat sounds a lot like the Carnival beat.... and I really like this song.. I think this would be a really good comerical

you can't describe it
you get excited
you can't deny it.... I LOVE IT

I like PR better tho. I don't particularly enjoy the end the feelin right
oh so fine
that part

bla
-s
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: VanessaPiana on November 20, 2006, 07:58:23 pm: Quote from: "bluebutterfly"
Quote from: "VanessaPiana"
sorry, but I prefer Private Radio better.
who are you apologising to? most people in this thread have said they prefer private radio anyway...

I guess some people take things too seriously. Anyway, it sounds good, but I like PR better. It's just more professional-sounding.
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: NoelleNC on November 21, 2006, 09:26:27 pm: Wow. I like the piano, guitar and drums better in this than Private Radio. But I agree, the lyrics are way worse. haha
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: MeganJane on November 22, 2006, 12:00:06 am: maybe they were her "working lyrics"
many songwriters use any words to write the melody part, and then scrap those words and use better, more thought-out lyrics later, once the tune etc. is down-pat...
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: me and my piano---tim on November 22, 2006, 12:48:40 am: Quote from: "MeganJane"
maybe they were her "working lyrics"
many songwriters use any words to write the melody part, and then scrap those words and use better, more thought-out lyrics later, once the tune etc. is down-pat...

yea, when I watched it I was pretty convinced that those were scrap lyrics. Otherwise, yea... pretty bad.
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: ThomasEj on November 22, 2006, 11:01:37 am: wow.. that's so cooooooooooooool
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: ordinaryday6 on November 22, 2006, 03:14:44 pm: i'm glad that the version on the album made it there.
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: zurielshimon on November 22, 2006, 09:41:37 pm: Quote from: "me and my piano---tim"
Quote from: "MeganJane"
maybe they were her "working lyrics"
many songwriters use any words to write the melody part, and then scrap those words and use better, more thought-out lyrics later, once the tune etc. is down-pat...

yea, when I watched it I was pretty convinced that those were scrap lyrics. Otherwise, yea... pretty bad.

When you watched it? I'm guessing your media player has some kind of cool visualization on it? :lol:
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: nosticker on November 23, 2006, 12:53:15 pm: It's pretty obvious it's a demo of some kind; the vocals have a shaky, one-pass feel to them. Makes me even more impressed by where SJ/VC went with it. Seems like they knew they had lightning in a bottle there.

Dan/NS
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: me and my piano---tim on November 23, 2006, 01:41:45 pm: Quote from: "zurielshimon"
Quote from: "me and my piano---tim"
Quote from: "MeganJane"
maybe they were her "working lyrics"
many songwriters use any words to write the melody part, and then scrap those words and use better, more thought-out lyrics later, once the tune etc. is down-pat...

yea, when I watched it I was pretty convinced that those were scrap lyrics. Otherwise, yea... pretty bad.

When you watched it? I'm guessing your media player has some kind of cool visualization on it? :lol:

haha I guess I have an amazing imagination 8) :?
Title: Just the Thing... old V song snippet
Post by: zurielshimon on November 23, 2006, 06:03:01 pm: Quote from: "me and my piano---tim"
Quote from: "zurielshimon"
Quote from: "me and my piano---tim"
Quote from: "MeganJane"
maybe they were her "working lyrics"
many songwriters use any words to write the melody part, and then scrap those words and use better, more thought-out lyrics later, once the tune etc. is down-pat...

yea, when I watched it I was pretty convinced that those were scrap lyrics. Otherwise, yea... pretty bad.

When you watched it? I'm guessing your media player has some kind of cool visualization on it? :lol:

haha I guess I have an amazing imagination 8) :?

Gotcha! :wink: