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Post by jk on Apr 7, 2020 19:52:02 GMT
Mine right now is the opening of "I Went To Sleep". If no one had told me otherwise, I would have sworn that the wind instrument at the start is a clarinet. But the evidence as presented elsewhere is overwhelmingly in favour of an alto flute. We live and learn:
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Post by B.E. on Apr 7, 2020 20:00:55 GMT
There aren't many tracks with "sprinkler" effects! Gotta love it.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 7, 2020 20:54:35 GMT
There aren't many tracks with "sprinkler" effects! Gotta love it. Were you not hip to the whole sprinkler-rock movement of the early '90s!?
OK, that's obviously a lie. But you never know, sometimes music critics start naming all kinds of weird sub-sub-subgenres!
EDIT: This one would be called sprinklercore or sprinklergaze, I assume.
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Post by B.E. on Oct 22, 2020 1:23:28 GMT
I really love Bruce's '50s-style falsetto ending of "Good Timin'". (If Carl's lead vocal had been a little better maybe they release it on the Knebworth CD? I like Brian's response vocals, too.)
Cued up:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 22, 2020 10:40:34 GMT
I really love Bruce's '50s-style falsetto ending of "Good Timin'". (If Carl's lead vocal had been a little better maybe they release it on the Knebworth CD? I like Brian's response vocals, too.) That would've been the most we heard Bruce on the Knebworth album.
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Post by B.E. on Feb 11, 2022 3:34:40 GMT
Have you guys ever noticed that at the end of "Student Demonstration Time", when the group just keeps repeating "stay away when there's a riot going on", that they sing it with the same phrasing every time, a very even phrasing, EXCEPT the third time. There there's kind of a pause or hitch or shortening of "riot". Kinda cool! Which has me wondering, did they really plan that out? I guess so! Just an interesting, low-key attention-to-detail on their part. (Unless it's the result of an edit.)
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Post by B.E. on Jul 23, 2022 21:31:12 GMT
Two moments from "Lana" at the moment:
1) The layering during the solo of the electric guitar and celesta - such a cool sound!
2) I really enjoy Brian's lead throughout, but I especially like how he sings the final (repeated) line over the fade of the mono version. I just checked and it appears that the stereo versions fade out early. I'm not sure I had noticed that fact before.
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Post by kds on Jul 25, 2022 13:25:55 GMT
As usual this time of year, I was listening to plenty of summer music over the weekend. Of course, that included The Beach Boys.
In my opinion, the most summery song they ever released was All Summer Long. That song came up on my playlist, and I really found myself enjoying it as I was finishing grilling dinner in the heat on Saturday.
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Post by B.E. on Sept 4, 2022 19:29:40 GMT
Okay, not exactly kicking my ass, but I am interested by a connection I made recently and I wonder if any of you had noticed or find it interesting at all.
And what connection would that be? The similarly awkward mid '60s lyrics regarding letter correspondence, of course!
"That's Not Me"
"Vegetables"
What are the chances that Tony Asher and VDP independently wrote these (awkwardly phrased) lyrics within a year of each other or might this be a lyrical Brian-ism of sorts? He references letter writing in other songs (e.g. "Busy Doin' Nothin'" - albeit in a much more straight forward way) and it was probably his idea to cover "The Letter". But, it's not so much the topic as the phrasing. I've always LOVED the lyrics to "That's Not Me". And this line in particular is memorable in its construction. It took me a while to figure it out! Like, who talks like that? Also, I don't think I heard the "and" for a long time. So, I just heard "my folks when I wrote, told 'em..."
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