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Gaga's best instrumental on each album


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Album with the best instrumentals  

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  1. 1. Album with the best instrumentals

    • The Fame
      0
    • The Fame Monster
      1
    • Born this Way
      20
    • art pop
      9
    • Chromatica
      5
    • Mayhem
      15


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TheFrenchGuy
1 minute ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I mean, the electronic comment was a facetious eyeroll at fans who only seem to like it when she does electropop lol. But that being said: I don’t think it’s the production as much as it is the engineering, which makes the arrangements (which I think are very good) sound flat. The live versions of a lot of the tracks sound significantly better.

this made me remember ; Harlequin is definitely up there

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Ladle Ghoulash
Just now, TheFrenchGuy said:

this made me remember ; Harlequin is definitely up there

The production and engineering on that record are *chef’s kiss*. Maybe it’s because I’m a musical theatre girlie and love cast recordings/live sounding albums, but bitch let me HEAR every instrument on the track, please! And Miz Harlequin does just that 

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Controversiaga
9 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Predominantly analog production, very strong and interesting instrumental parts on a fair number of songs: production layers and stems on PI are genuinely great (synth strings, bells, and funk guitars come to mind) outro on DIC is good, great and interesting guitar work on JW, great guitar tone and brass on JAD, great sax on CTM, great funky/noodley guitar lead on AYO…like there’s genuinely very good production work across the entire album, but I feel like some of y’all turn your ears off cause it’s not “c*nty” electropop lol

Well, wait till you find out what genre of music most Gaga fans favor.. it’s no wonder her least favored album is the one that is not a dance/electronic album.

the production is fine..but nothing about it is truly stand out or impressive amongst the rest of her discography- and I mean that completely unbiased on the genre.  BTW is most impressive and creative.

listen, I think Chromatica has some AWFUL production! I don’t like a lot of the production on mayhem either.

so again I’m really not dance/electronic bias 

Id say ARTPOP, Joanne, chromatica, and mayhem are my least favorites.  I like how the fame , TFM, and BTW all felt cutting edge and ahead of their time , while her last albums feel unimpressive production wise - with Joanne being the most boring imo 

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Controversiaga
2 hours ago, Zombiecat said:

Based on instrumental only, which would you choose as best instrumental on each album?

 

27 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Predominantly analog production, very strong and interesting instrumental parts on a fair number of songs: production layers and stems on PI are genuinely great (synth strings, bells, and funk guitars come to mind) outro on DIC is good, great and interesting guitar work on JW, great guitar tone and brass on JAD, great sax on CTM, great funky/noodley guitar lead on AYO…like there’s genuinely very good production work across the entire album, but I feel like some of y’all turn your ears off cause it’s not “c*nty” electropop lol

Notice how OP even forgot to include Joanne in the poll lol 

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BELLYACHE

I’ll do the top 2 best from each album

 

TF: LoveGame and Just Dance

TFM: Bad Romance and DITD

BTW: Gov Hooker and HML

AP: Aura and MJH

Joanne: DIC and Perfect Illusion

Chromatica: Alice and Replay

Mayhem: GOE and Abra

 

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• The Fame

• Bad Romance

• Bloody Mary

• Aura

• Just Another Day

• Rain On Me

• Abracadabra

(GoE almost had my vote even though I dislike the song)

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ARTPOP has her best production for me personally. It’s the only album where I can listen to the instrumentals on their own.

BUT it is a dance album after all where the production can be seperate from the vocals where as almost all her other albums the production is to support the vocals.

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6 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I mean, the electronic comment was a facetious eyeroll at fans who only seem to like it when she does electropop lol. But that being said: I don’t think it’s the production as much as it is the engineering, which makes the arrangements (which I think are very good) sound flat. The live versions of a lot of the tracks sound significantly better.

6 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Predominantly analog production, very strong and interesting instrumental parts on a fair number of songs: production layers and stems on PI are genuinely great (synth strings, bells, and funk guitars come to mind) outro on DIC is good, great and interesting guitar work on JW, great guitar tone and brass on JAD, great sax on CTM, great funky/noodley guitar lead on AYO…like there’s genuinely very good production work across the entire album, but I feel like some of y’all turn your ears off cause it’s not “c*nty” electropop lol

There will always be good elements in any Gaga project, but Joanne's production (and sure, engineering) feels like just that... elements. I feel like the parts don't come together as a whole to drive impact. What they did on JW, Ayo, etc. is interesting but still feels weak when put together. I agree that the engineering also sucks, but even if it were better, I don't think the production would be anything to write home about. PI has great production, I'll give it that but that's a Kevin Parker track lol

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7 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I mean, the electronic comment was a facetious eyeroll at fans who only seem to like it when she does electropop lol. But that being said: I don’t think it’s the production as much as it is the engineering, which makes the arrangements (which I think are very good) sound flat. The live versions of a lot of the tracks sound significantly better.

Not true, Harlequin is an amazing record despite it's mainly analogue instrumentals, and even Mayhem and TF have lots of live instrumentation But Joanne for most of the runtime lacks kick and bite, facing the similar issue of Chromatica, that is also very tame and lifeless at times for a Gaga record, Yea PI has a brilliant instrumental, but it gets drowned out by Gaga's horrendous vocal delivery.. JAD, CTM, DIC and maybe even Angel down are really cool in instrumental ways, but the rest are a so meh for a Gaga record. Especially having Florence fvcking Welch on such a meh song like Hey girl. She deserved a VIY or Edge of Glory level of song to realllllly go off, both of them did! 

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