Sound City: Real to Reel

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All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Sound City, Dave Grohl's love letter to the golden age of recording studios, plays very differently as an album than it does a documentary. On the screen, Grohl devotes a significant amount of time tracing the history of Sound City Studios, the legendary Los Angeles studio where such rock classics as Fleetwood Mac's Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, Tom Petty's Damn the Torpedoes, Pat Benatar's Crimes of Passion, Rick Springfield's Working Class Dog, Foreigner's Double Vision, and Nirvana's Nevermind were recorded. Sound City closed in 2011, and Grohl not only wound up purchasing the studio's Neve mixing board, he made his film as a tribute to this golden age of rock ...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Sound City, Dave Grohl's love letter to the golden age of recording studios, plays very differently as an album than it does a documentary. On the screen, Grohl devotes a significant amount of time tracing the history of Sound City Studios, the legendary Los Angeles studio where such rock classics as Fleetwood Mac's Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, Tom Petty's Damn the Torpedoes, Pat Benatar's Crimes of Passion, Rick Springfield's Working Class Dog, Foreigner's Double Vision, and Nirvana's Nevermind were recorded. Sound City closed in 2011, and Grohl not only wound up purchasing the studio's Neve mixing board, he made his film as a tribute to this golden age of rock and, then, decided to make an accompanying album of all-new songs using that board in his own home studio, finalizing his salute to the golden age of analog. Grohl brought in friends and colleagues, including his longtime jam partner Josh Homme, then invited a bunch of Sound City veterans like Springfield, Stevie Nicks, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, and Fear's Lee Ving to cut new songs. He also roped in Paul McCartney to play with Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear -- aka, the surviving members of Nirvana -- a nifty coup that earned the project tons of publicity and resulted in a pretty good little rocker called "Cut Me Some Slack." It's not the only tune here with an immediate hook or melody -- Nicks' "You Can't Fix This" isn't bad, Ving's "Your Wife Is Calling" conjures a bit of Fear, and Rick Springfield's "The Man That Never Was" is rather excellent -- but it's one of only a handful, as the rest of Sound City: Real to Reel sounds exactly like what it is: a bunch of old rockers jamming in a studio. Often, this is quite enjoyable, as they're all excellent musicians playing through a top-notch board, but the songs do have a tendency to drift away from the point, sounding like exceedingly well-executed first drafts. It is telling that the songs that do catch hold all come from survivors of the golden age of classic rock, musicians who can knock out a well-sculpted song without too much effort, and that is as much a testament to the heyday of Sound City as the soundtrack itself.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 3/12/2013
  • Label: Rca
  • UPC: 887654499226
  • Catalog Number: 544992
  • Sales rank: 2,836

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Heaven And All - Robert Levon Been (5:27)
  2. 2 Time Slowing Down - Brad Wilk (5:59)
  3. 3 You Can't Fix This - Taylor Hawkins (5:59)
  4. 4 The Man That Never Was - Taylor Hawkins (3:26)
  5. 5 Your Wife Is Calling - Taylor Hawkins (3:22)
  6. 6 From Can To Can’t - Scott Reeder (4:52)
  7. 7 Centipede - Joshua Homme (5:10)
  8. 8 A Trick With No Sleeve - Joshua Homme (4:57)
  9. 9 Cut Me Some Slack - Krist Novoselic (4:39)
  10. 10 If I Were Me - Jessy Greene (4:14)
  11. 11 Mantra - Joshua Homme (7:43)
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Album Credits

Technical Credits
Paul McCartney Composer
Stevie Nicks Composer
Rick Springfield Composer
Pat Smear Composer
Jim Keltner Composer
Matt Bissonette Composer
Chris Goss Composer
Dave Grohl Composer
Rami Jaffee Composer
Alain Johannes Composer
Rick Nielsen Composer
Krist Novoselic Composer
Trent Reznor Composer
Jim Scott Engineer
Corey Taylor Composer
Tim Commerford Composer
Butch Vig Producer
Lee Ving Composer
Brad Wilk Composer
Peter Hayes Composer
Jessy Greene Composer
Scott Reeder Composer
Chris Shiflett Composer
Taylor Hawkins Composer
Emily Lazar Mastering
Derek Silverman Engineering Support
Joe LaPorta Mastering
Robert Levon Been Composer
John Lousteau Engineer
James Brown Engineer
Joshua Homme Composer
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  • Posted March 13, 2013

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    Luckily, I found out about the ¿Sound City: Reel To Reel¿ throug

    Luckily, I found out about the “Sound City: Reel To Reel” through the Foo Fighters e-mail mailing list. I decided to take a chance on them because I previously enjoyed the Foo Fighters greatest hits collection (reviewed it on January 14, 2011), their Wasting Light cd (reviewed on May 14, 2011), and had much fun at one of the Foo Fighters concerts back in November 11, 2011. As with millions of others, I have been aware of Foo Fighters since the 1990’s thanks to MTV. Additionally, I have been familiar with the Foo Fighters and this genre of music because my two older brothers frequently listened to rock music. I like the diverse music collaborations on the cd. I also completely understand that it is going to vary with each man or woman on personal favorites on this cd. However, I have to admit that the following are among the songs that caught my attention: “Heaven And All” (Robert Levon Been, Dave Grohl, Peter Hayes), “You Can’t Fix This” (Stevie Nicks, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, & Rami Jaffee), “The Man That Never Was” (Rick Springfield,Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel& Pete Smear), “From Can To Can’t” (Corey Taylor, Dave Grohl, Rick Nielsen, & Scott Reeder), “Cut Me Some Slack” (Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, & Pat Smear), and “Mantra” (Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme, & Trent Reznor). “Sound City: Reel To Reel” is a great music choice for those who like rock music featuring an eclectic range of musicians.

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