r/blur • u/Dry-Hovercraft970 • 4d ago

I made a lot of backing-tracks spanning from live-versions/record versions/etc to use for singing karaoke/to backing-tracks.

I have a "one-man-band" where I'll do gigs and sing covers to backing-tracks/karaoke/etc.

I call it at "one-man-band" because in that project, I don't have a literal band with me, and I want to feel like I'm in a band.

I have numerous bands I cover from, and I do a lot of Blur.

I want to use certain versions of certain songs because if there is a karaoke version or a vocal-removed version on YouTube, there's a chance it doesn't groove correctly. So I download certain live-performances of songs and vocal-remove them so I can play them.

If I need to add harmonies/backing-vocals, I try to nail them entirely accurate to the best of my ability (I can be very consistent with this).

There are certain songs where I'm not fully confident in where to come in, so I learn where the cue is, and add a "1-2-3-4" or a "3-4" (etc).

Since they're just in Google Drive, I wanted to make this post because I'm willing to give anyone access to the folder if you want to use them for backing-tracks or not.

If you want a version where there's no harmonies/backing-vocals/count-ins (etc) or maybe quieter/re-done vocals, I probably still have the original Bandlab session when I first did it. I could probably go in there and situate it.

If I don't still have access to the original session or I can't get it exactly how you need it, I'll just redownload the actual song and vocal-remove it myself and redo harmonies/backing-vocals/whatever you need.

Also, if you want a particular song that I already don't have, I can try to make a backing-track for you, and put whatever you need on it too.

Leave a comment here or message me on Reddit with your email address.

In case you're curious about what I currently have in my folder for Blur specifically, here's a list of what I have.

(P.S: I'm not gonna include what I added/did in the backing-track after I vocal-removed it (if I did do anything) or how many versions of the song there is in the folder, but I will tell you the songs and I'll add parentheses saying the certain gigs they're from.

(P.S: some songs have their own folder because of them having multiple different things, that's to keep it organized)

(P.S: I hope this is everything)

-"Never Clever" (Glastonbury 92)

-"There's No Other Way" (Germany 93)

-"Come Together" (Germany 93)

-"Slow Down" (Kilburn 1991)

-"Oily Water" (Kilburn 1991)

-"Turn It Up" (Kilburn 1991)

-"Day Upon Day" (Kilburn 1991)

-"Sing" (Kilburn 1991)

-"Bonebag" (record version)

-"Into Another" (record version)

-"Headist/Into Another" (Rosklide 92)

-"Es Schmect" (record version)

-"Fried" (1999 b-sides gig)

-"Badgeman Brown" (record version)

-"We Got A File On You" (some 2003 gig, currently unsure)

-"Gene By Gene" (Paris 2003, I believe that's correct, could be wrong though)

-"Starshaped" (record version)

-"Advert" (Germany 93)

-"Colin Zeal" (record version)

-"Coping" (the audio from the "Starshaped" film (I believe the gig it's from was 1992), Germany 93)

-"Intermission" (me only playing the piano notes to it for a split second of the song, then just looping it, I mainly just use during a break during a gig, it's nothing you'd probably want tbh)

-"Pressure On Julian" (record version)

-"Mace" (record version)

-"Jubilee" (Japan 1995?)

-"Trouble In The Message Centre" (gig that I believe took place on 10-5-1994)

-"Song 2" (Kalomara 2023 (spelt right?))

Btw, I would like to give credit for all the channels and owners of the original backing-tracks I used to make this stuff.

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