Even when the album reaches a vertex on the drum rolls of “Satellite,” it’s still relaxed enough to keep you in your chair, clutching the record sleeve. Arctic Monkeys tried to make an album of this kind of song a few years ago, but you need a certain warmth in your spirit to ...
“I found myself multiple times during the show kind of looking at the crowd to see the reaction of these people that were soaking in this music,” Phillips remembers. “And as you look amongst this crowd, you see people crying, you see people rejoicing, and you see people putting their...
because “this dream is over.” A 1991 effort that could double as the score to an imaginary 1987 Michael J. Fox movie, it’s the kind of song that almost no one remembers but likely would have charted in the Top 40 if it had been released as a single, simply because that was how...
October 11 (1962)." The groupThe Mersey Beatswere also on the bill and, a few nights later, Paul cornered their bass player Billy Kinsley for his opinion. Billy Kinsley remembers: "Paul came up to me and said, 'What did you think of that song we did the other night, 'A Taste Of...
“one, two, three, four” from George to count off the song. The song included a complete ending at this point which comprises three strummed chords and a cymbal crash. It took eleven takes of the rhythm track (only four of them complete) to get one that was deemed suitable, although ...
“City in a City,” the centerpiece of their wonderfully amorphous albumScry, features no such electronic manipulation. The song glides around two tumbling piano chords, as Pulice lets their unadorned saxophone lead the way, dancing up and down its range with autumnal grace. As transporting as ...
" he remembers. "Maison Rouge was very well-equipped. The mainstays of any studio at that point, especially when it came to mixing, were to have a Lexicon reverb unit, an AMS reverb and an AMS delay line. They were used on pretty much every song. There was also a decent EMT plate,...
She had once been the best kind of course participant: one that remembers her old teacher and recruits him for a fully paid adult position at a stage in life where a year among the salaried, teaching things I care deeply about, wouldn’t hurt a bit. I was plodding around in Shakespear...
When so many of his '90s peers were digging their heels in, unable to adapt, Jay showed he was eager to embrace new ideas. Everyone remembers the hits. What about the rest ofVol. 2? The weakest link is undoubtedly the Foxy Brown duet "Paper Chase," but it's more dull filler than ...
found his voice as a composer in the Seventies when Four Tops member Obie Benson brought him a song idea that would later blossom into "What's Going On." As Benson remembers, "He added some things that were more ghetto, more natural, which made it seem more like a story than a song...