Name: Across the Universe (Beatles) by Tony Smith
Duration: 5 min 16 s
Description: Did this at home a few years ago, and I liked how the sitar droning sounded, so there ya go!

This is simply a great, solid, decent, job. Tony, you got it man ! Wonderful

wish i was sittin n watchin u make this..space out in it..brilliantly done!

totally f***ing trippy man. Love the orchestration of this totally, and the harmony vocals are a great touch. Congrats on nailing this.

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Did this at home a few years ago, and I liked how the sitar droning sounded, so there ya go!

Across the Universe (Beatles)

Pale Blue Eyes (The Velvet Underground)

Smith Westerns have cleaned up nicely. Just over a year ago, the Chicago foursome were of the strictly "lo-fi" persuasion, stirring up hot, filthy garage-rock candy out of Marc Bolan and Beatles signifiers. It was youthful music in feeling and sound-- their noisy full-length debut was recorded while they were still in high school-- but the remarkable hooks buried therein were clear enough to land them on the increasingly stacked Fat Possum roster. And suddenly, they had a studio budget the likes of which they definitely hadn't enjoyed before. Though the leap is audibly huge, Dye It Blonde's many successes aren't wholly the result of its gilded production values and ambition. This band was able to furnish first-class melodies from the beginning. Now they've grown along with their resources.

You can hear the progress right away in "Imagine, Pt. 3", a song originally released as part of a split 7" in April 2010. Sped up here just a touch, it's also been re-outfitted with a far creamier set of synths and guitars. The way the latter seem to clasp hands during the coda is particularly breathtaking, frontman Cullen Omori and guitarist Max Kakacek letting their individual lines mate rather than duel. While the melodic foundation was already sturdy throughout, here, what once sounded ragged in stretches is now plush-upholstered from start to finish. Every single piece of Dye It Blonde is similarly decadent, whether it's the sweet whine of semi-titular closer "Dye the World" or the twilight jangle of "End of the Night".

In an interview not long after the album's completion, Omori noted that this otherwise new set of songs was influenced by 90s Britpop luminaries like Oasis, Teenage Fanclub, and Suede. All are present sonically and spiritually, be it in brash tones, melodic IQ or the sheer scope of these recordings. Where a Smith Westerns hook may have once sounded like another fuzzy member of the Nuggets family/genus, it now unfolds like crane-shot, mainstage festival fare. "Still New" for example floats some phasered guitar interplay before Kakacek rips a hole across the chest of the song with a woozy line so big it essentially serves as a chorus. Like "Weekend", whose central, hair-flipping lick also hugs all its parts together perfectly, the song just sounds so drunk-- drunk on love, drunk on heavy petting, drunk on drink, or maybe just drunk on a some combination of the above. In song, it all depends on the lean of Omori's voice and the whip of his chord changes, the curves of his brother Cameron's bass lines.

That moony/beery-eyed feel bleeds through every corridor of this album and in turn forms a crystalline expression of what moves this band. Their use of the studio in augmenting that never goes overboard, though: this music still retains the innately psychedelic, lamplit, tongue-kissed sense of atmosphere that set it apart. There's perhaps no better instance of all that than "All Die Young", the album's centerpiece. It's a ballad turned hymn whose grand, tumbling scale and "Oh Yoko"-indebted outro celebration are peaks on an album rich in them. In its closing moments, Omori sings what sounds like, "Love is lovely when you are young." They were convincing before, but now they seem like experts.

— David Bevan, January 18, 2011 [Pitchfork | Best New Music | 8.4]

All Die Young

A Day In The Life (The Beatles)

In the rice fields of China

Lyrics:
Guangxi's Longsheng County and the Honghe
This place of beauty where you belong
Behold your face so full of grace
Coolie hat to shield your eyes
Now I see what, what you mean to me
Substance sure and sure disgrace
A trait of the human race
When I saw you my love become one

In the rice fields of China
 Looking back in a time,  
In a moment we share the rice fields of China,    
The moments gone as I lament, my passing of age

The youthness I felt, then will never erase my love 
Looking back In the rice fields of China


In the rice fields of China
Looking back in a time,  
In a moment we share
The rice fields of China, the moments gone
As I lament my passing of age

In The Rice Fields Of China

All credits go to 'Across the Universe' and 'The Beatles' 

2008 

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Across The Universe

All credits go to 'Across the Universe' and 'The Beatles' 

2008 

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Just a few home recordings I've done over the last few years. I played all instruments and sang all parts except the second guitar part in "Singing Land" (That was my pal David), and the high harmony vocal in "Shower the People" (That was my wife). Also, "Free Fallin'" was a collaboration with my friend Ernie via e-mail. I'm currently working on a Celtic fingerstyle acoustic project with my pal David, among other projects. Hopefully soon, I will have some new original tunes to post. Thanks for listening! ~Tony

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