Every other year, I listen to all of the music in my collection. Often, I discover new things about music I'm familiar with or learn new things about songs I'm not as familiar with. This is where I'll be documenting that.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
The Beatles' "And Your Bird Can Sing"
I just listened to the second disc of the Beatles' Anthology 2. I noticed a small thing about "And Your Bird Can Sing" (and I also checked the final version on Revolver to verify that it's there too). There's a downward vocal melisma on the "down" in the lines "When your prized possessions / Start to weigh you down." Like the melisma on "heavy" that I discovered in "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" earlier this month, this melisma gives a sense of the weight; it's as if the word itself is bent.
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And Your Bird Can Sing,
Revolver,
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