More Isolated Vocal Fun: Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4”
There was a time when I was a Chicago enthusiast: “Feeling Stronger Every Day,” “Saturday in the Park” and especially “25 or 6 to 4” from Chicago II. (If you’ve never heard the song, kids, it sound an awful lot like Green Day’s “Brain Stew.”)
What I find instructive about this guitar-and-vocals isolation are the imperfections, something that you’d never, ever hear in today’s super Pro Tooled/Auto Tuned world. Yet this is what gives the song such beauty. Make sure you read the commentary that goes long with it at The Big Picture, a blog that deals with music production.
