Ram On
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| song name | Ram On |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | eMusic Freebies, Listen To What The Man Said: Popular Artists Pay Tribute To The Music Of Paul McCartney, Warm And Beautiful, TMBG Unlimited - April, DialASong.com (2000-2006), TMBG Clock Radio, Podcast 22A, Podcast 43, Secret Music Vol. 2, TMBG Instant Fan Club 2024, The Spine Surfs Alone: Rarities 1998-2005 |
| year | 2001 |
| run time | 2:40 |
| sung by |  Instrumental
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- A cover of the 1971 Paul McCartney song, from his solo album Ram. The track was recorded for the 2001 compilation album Listen To What The Man Said: Popular Artists Pay Tribute To The Music Of Paul McCartney.
- Description from TMBG Unlimited - April:
When charged with the duty of covering a Paul McCartney solo track, we solemnly rose to the responsibility but chickened out when it came to singing the words. The result is another collaboration with The Elegant Too, and an extreme use of space echo.
- The song was recorded in February 2001 at Coyote Studios in Brooklyn and The Elegant Too's studio in Manhattan. John Flansburgh plays a Casio CZ-101 keyboard on the track, using the same preset "Whistle" sound that the band used on "Hide Away Folk Family". Flansburgh wrote about recording the song in the liner notes of Listen To What The Man Said:
I was always a huge fan of the first couple of McCartney solo albums in part because, like the Stevie Wonder albums of the same era, they were great examples of the intensity of homemade recordings. You can hear a lot of the experimentation and discovery right in the tracks, and that makes the recordings a kind of event in themselves. McCartney's "Ram On" is an especially nice example. It seems to have started as a sketch with ukulele and voice then been built up with overdubs into an unforgettable song.
It is daunting to try to reinterpret any McCartney song, but it's especially so when it is such a spirited track. Our version of "Ram On" is essentially an instrumental "dub" arrangement. We recorded our band playing the track, which features a remarkably out of tune upright piano, with a Casio keyboard and an accordion trading the melody line. We then took that recording and mixed it with NY producers The Elegant Too who helped us create the wide variety of echos that constantly threaten to take over the track.
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