Fast Ram - Ever so much better at 45, even better pitch corrected!!
Audacity and I had to take on the challenge offered in the comments to this blog post. Paul McCarntney's Ram is a treat at 45 R.P.M. The same tempo with a 27 percent pitch reduction is fuckin' smokin'!!
My father played this side exactly 1 billion times.
FAST RAM, or “Ram” on 45 | Geoff Geis
At the time I was living in a very full house with Pizza!, and we shared vinyl. While I apparently was only nominally interested in Ram, Alex found it on the shelf and decided to give it a spin. The turntable was on 45 when he did, and for some reason he didn’t notice. He accidentally played the record at the faster speed – and loved it!
After falling in love with the fast version of Ram, Alex played it for us. We all agreed that it was incredible. I, personally, was hooked.
I’ve listened to Ram on 45 a whole lot, but I’ve barely listened to it on 33. And while my initial love affair with it was a few years ago, I’ve gotten back into it pretty hard lately...
Increasing the speed on Ram does, I must admit, “chipmunk” it. But what’s lost in low-end is more than compensated for by the gain in sheer passion, danceability, and drive.
