PCD (Tour Edition)

構成数 : 2枚
合計収録時間 : 01:08:43
・こちらはボーナス・ディスクが付いた2枚組のスペシャル・エディションです。
The Pussycat Dolls: Nicole Scherzinger (vocals); Carmit Bachar, Melody Thornton, Jessica Sutta, Ashley Roberts, Kimberly Wyatt (background vocals). Personnel: John Goux (guitar); Alyssa Park, Songa Lee, Katia Popov, Robin Olson, Alan Grunfeld, Mario de Leon, Sara Parkins, Joel Derouin, Sid Page, Jacqueline Brand , Roberto Cani, Bruce Dukov, Natalie Leggett, Sarah Thornblade, Armen Garabedian, Josefina Vergara, Endre Granat (violin); Charlie Bisharat (electric violin); Matthew Funes , Simon Oswell, Darrin McCann, Samuel Formicola (viola); Suzie Katayama, Larry Corbett, Stephen Erdody , Armen Ksadjikian, David Low (cello); Ron Fair (harmonica, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, organ, Wurlitzer organ, keyboards, glockenspiel); Dan Higgins (woodwinds, horns); Larry E. Williams, Joel Peskin, Bill Liston, Brandon Fields (woodwinds); Ray Herrmann (saxophone); Larry Hall (trumpet, trombone); Jerry Hey (trumpet, horns); Gary Grant, Wayne Bergeron, Bill Churchville (trumpet); Nick Lane, Andrew Martin , Bruce Otto (trombone); Danny Grant (horns); Cori Jacobs (Fender Rhodes piano); Abe Laboriel, Jr. , Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Bob Zimmitti (timpani); Luis Conte (percussion); Tyler Coombes, Tal Herzberg (programming); Kara DioGuardi (background vocals). Additional personnel: Chris Tedesco (trumpet); Ron Fair (Wurlitzer piano); Tal Herzberg (bass guitar); Nick Lane, Rich Harrison, Timbaland, will.i.am, John Goux, Ray Herrmann, Bill Churchville, Cori Jacobs, Busta Rhymes. Audio Mixers: Ron Fair; Chris Lord-Alge; Dave Pensado; J.D. Andrew; Jack Joseph Puig; Jack Joseph; Michael C. Ross ; Peter Mokran; Steve Baughman; Tony Maserati . Audio Remixer: Peter Mokran. Recording information: Rocket Carousel Studio, Culver City, CA; The Hit Factory Criteria, Miami, FL. Ensembles: Angel City Horns; PCD Orchestra. Photographer: James White . Arrangers: Ron Fair; Andy Chatterley; Jerry Hey. There's a kind of beautifully perverse brilliance to the Pussycat Dolls. Not only are they a sextet who got their start as neo-burlesque dancers in Los Angeles, but they make no bones about being a gleefully manufactured dance-pop act. Open the booklet for their 2005 debut, PCD, and their artificiality is made clear: the first page reads "All lead and background vocals by Nicole Scherzinger," a former member of Eden's Crush, the failed prefab teen pop group assembled on the WB's pre-American Idol reality music show Popstars. There is no pretense that Kimberly Wyatt, Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Melody Thornton, and Jessica Sutta are there for anything besides filling out the illusion that this is a real performing musical group and providing some serious eye candy for a group that is all about the visuals. The great thing about PCD is that the producers and songwriters behind the album -- and, since this is a big-budget urban dance-pop album in the early 2000s, there are many credited writers and producers -- are eager to play with the Pussycat Dolls' hyper-sexual image, creating a sleek, sexy sound ideal for both nightclubs and strip joints across this great land. And, at least at first, the songs are about how irresistibly sexy the Pussycat Dolls are, starting with the genius hit single "Don't Cha," where Nicole and the rest of the Pussycats strut around, taunting a hapless man with such come-ons as "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me/Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me." There has never been a sex song quite as knowingly ironic yet undeniably sexy as this, and for a while the album keeps the momentum up, first with will.i.am's "Beep," a rewrite of Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps," except this is funny, not embarrassing, and since Nicole is sexier than the Peas' Fergie, it's also sultrier. Timbaland's "Wait a Minute" is in the same vein and, for a brief moment, it seems like PCD will be that rare thing: a mainstream club/dance album devoted to nothing but dance songs. Then, reality comes crashing in with the f to be continued...
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)