Talk:Tango in the Night

Fairlight
One small note about this ambiguous line, which should be revised or split into two sentences: "To make ends meet, Buckingham recorded most of the vocals himself using a Fairlight, an early sampling synthesizer." To clarify, Buckingham recorded most of the vocals himself, but most of the vocals were not recorded with the Fairlight. Fairlight vocal samples can indeed be heard in a few spots (the descending "I am what I am" in the break of Family Man, for example) but most vocals were recorded straight to tape. The Fairlight mainly provides many of the dark and unusual keyboard sounds on the album. (The cello sound on the chorus of Little Lies is an example.) The sped up vocals on the majority of the album were recorded to tape and were altered in pitch using a variable speed oscillator, which controls the speed of the tape recorder. (The love grunts on Big Love are a good example) Google "Buckingham variable speed oscillator" and you'll find a lot of info on that. The VSO was also used to speed up guitars to make them sound like mandolins or keyboards (the arpeggiated guitars on Mystified as an example) Hope that makes sense! Scrutinator (talk) 15:05, 2 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Good catch! Lots of the ethnic and ethereal sound heard on Tango in the Night are from the Fairlight or from slowing or speeding up the tape. Some background vocal layering, bass guitar, and drum programming was done with the Fairlight as well! But I will make those changes! Dobbyelf62 (talk) 22:21, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

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Expanding sections
Thanks for your edits to Tango in the Night over the past several months. Given the breadth of information available on the album, one of my goals has been to add more content to make the article more comprehensive in its coverage. Despite the improvements that have been made recently, there are still some changes that need to be made. Currently, the Production section of the article has gotten very lengthy and some paragraphs might be better served in another section. I was thinking about splitting the Production section up into a "Composition" section and "Release" section, the latter of which would contain the final paragraph (With pressure on Buckingham to keep the project focused...) in addition to any other relevant information.

As for the "Composition" section, the plan was to include the paragraph that I added on February 26, which would also be fleshed out by a few more references, including Larry Katz's interview with Lindsey Buckingham and possibly another McVie interview that can be found in the Library of Congress. However, you reverted the edit a few hours later, saying that the "content seems unnecessarily detailed and not overly interesting to the reader." The purpose of the paragraph was to highlight the collaborations between McVie and Buckingham, of which there are three on the album. Currently, the article spends several paragraphs on Nicks' contributions even through she only contributed three songs to the album. As such, to expand the scope of the article, I found it prudent to add some sourced information on the composition process. I would be interested to hear how we can incorporate this section back into the article in some capacity.

Furthermore, the article would would also benefit from a Critical reception section, which most articles of this size possess. A review template is already listed, so the next logical step would be to construct some prose using these references. Thank you for your time, and I'm looking forward to hear your feedback.

Until then, Dobbyelf62 (talk) 02:39, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi @Dobbyelf62, thanks for your feedback (I've moved out discussion to the article talk page, as it seems appropriate here). I haven't read the article in its entirety in a while, and I think reading the paragraph you added on its own made it seem somewhat indulgent, perhaps even too detailed. I agree with you that it would make sense to balance the content to describe the contributions the different members made to the album. Your suggestions to split the Production section into two, as well as adding a Critical reception section are both welcome, so please go ahead, and I'll try not to meddle with it too much. I mainly try to do copy edits to articles, unless something is quite glaring, so I'll leave it to you to add prose to the page, and I'll just jump in once in a while to make sure you've dotted your tees and crossed your eyes 😉 Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 14:25, 27 February 2024 (UTC)