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.
Showing posts with label Belle & Sebastian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belle & Sebastian. Show all posts
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Belle & Sebastian's "I'm a Cuckoo"
This morning I also listened to Belle & Sebastian's Dear Catastrophe Waitress and noticed a small thing in "I'm a Cuckoo." After the lines "I'd like to see you / But really I should stay away / And let you settle down," the backing vocals repeat the "let you settle down." The third time, it's reduced to just "down," and there's a glissando so that as the word goes on, the pitch drops, like the meaning of the word itself.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Belle & Sebastian's "The Ghost of Rockschool"
I just listened to Belle & Sebastian's Write About Love. I'd never noticed that in "The Ghost of Rockschool" after the line "Every clock in the hall is bending slowly," there's a bent note in the guitar part, ostensibly to portray that bending musically. However, there's also a bent note just before "Everything hums as the blue heart turns," which doesn't seem to have any lyrical connections to bent notes.
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