“A warm, layered and very human scene painted entirely with one acoustic guitar drenched with resonant chords, clear and unhurried melody lines, and shadowy blue bass notes that rise or fall in pitch or pace like a melancholy pulse. An exquisite piece of music played on an exquisite guitar,...
For the lyrics to the songs onHunky Dory, Bowie dove into the “cut-up” method of writing first explored by Beat writer William S. Burroughs. The process consists of cutting up existing sentences and rearranging them into new meanings. This process had to be extended to the songs which fi...
With lyrics that include "I know I should have thought twice before I kissed her" in the opening, you know you're in for a sleigh ride like none other. It's therefore no surprise that Cyndi Lauper and Swedish rock band the Hives' unconventional Christmas duel describes many marital h...
the lyrics are delivered in a straightforward way, still just a simple request, repeated, and then rephrased just in case you missed the point the first or second time around. Despite the appearance of a party horn, the beat never full-on drops to make a dance-...
but for the most part the bizarre call-and-response passages work with the lyrics in a satisfactory way. The first "Sofa" track doesn't make much sense when you first hear it, but when you hear the closing second part, with Frank and co. singing as bombastically in German as they ...
The tune itself was born from a desire to create a simple structured pop song: Earlier in 2021, when Victoria were able to play gigs, I wanted to add another 3-chord song to our set. By secret ballot we agreed on the th...
I tend to write a song in one sitting, maybe a few edits later on, but the framework, chords, form and rough lyrics are usually done in the first pass. BA: I'm just going to dive right in with the big stuff; small talk bores me. The lyrics to "Tendency to Riot" are strikingly...
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the flowing, elegant piano solo on the title track, every audible tap of the sustain pedal; the way the minor chords from “have a heart” resurface late into “objects in the mirror”; the steady crescendo into the satisfying climax of the shrieked words holy wine on the joni mitchell ...
This early grounding in music and harmony was enhanced by my dad introducing me to his guitar-playing workmate, George Black, who had previously lost the middle finger of his left hand in a work-related accident. Lessons from a four-fingered tutor taught me how to finger full chords (unconv...