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ordinary pop songs and why they're great.
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Saturday, April 12, 2003
Tonight it's time for the most played MP3 on my computer which is also one of my singles. And it's "Rock With You" by Michael Jackson. Now technically it's not one of my singles because it's the album version which is by far the better. The difference being in the extended synth break in the middle which is just ... lovely. Two bites of the cherry compared to the single version, and the second "bite" has these extra notes in. And there's something that I can never fathom happens at the end. Some key change or chord progression at the start or the outro when he first sings "feel that beat...". I wish I knew what it was - answers on a postcard.
posted by jessaka at Saturday, April 12, 2003
Monday, April 07, 2003
So what should the next one be? It's got to be a song that I've found a reason to like. No. It's going to be "Don't Let Go" by En Vogue because the reason eludes me. I suspect that other ears hear a completely different song. A run of the mill bit of r'n'b girly tedium perhaps? But it isn't! It's really sort of over there and "other". It has no form, starts as if from nowhere, like it could be the middle or end just as well as the beginning. And then it's in these little sections that don't relate to each other. But that's precisely why it's good. Ah and it has the most wonderful line about - "If I could wear your clothes, I'd pretend I was you, And lose contro-ol". That's infatuation writ large if ever I saw it!
posted by jessaka at Monday, April 07, 2003
Ah, how time slips by, best laid plans etc AND I should really be doing some proper work so's I look confidently knowledgeable at "a meeting" tomorrow. But then, hey, short people can't pull that one off anyway so why bother?! Let's do song of the day instead. And it is...
"Adult Education" by Hall & Oates. Simply because I've been playing it in the car. It's on a "Greatest.." album and they did do quite a few not bad 'uns including "I Can't Go For That" which bloody Mick Hucknall is currently ripping off in a completely redundant sorta way. But I digress. Was Adult Education ever a single? Does it not count if it wasn't? Dunno. The point is, it's just totally fantastic eighteeez production. And you can whack the volume way up and it still doesn't shatter your (car) speakers*. Just sounds really good. I recommend max volume for the inspired drum-fest after "..that she could graduate to adult kisses". Deee-licious. Watch out for speed cameras though. If you're in a sublimely good (or bad - so long as it's extreme) mood, this will cause you to drive somewhat fast.
* same goes for "When Doves Cry" by Prince.
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