ordinary pop songs and why they're great.

Saturday, November 01, 2003

 
Can You Feel The Force by The Real Thing

So far the only entry I've been listening to as I write bcos I've just downloaded it. Not in my singles collection but a veritable must in that there's a reason it's good AND it proves that music = life. It has single handedly turned me happy from sad in the space of listening to it. How did they do that eh? Eddie & Chris Amoo I believe. Did they write their stuff? Think they did.

Anyway (ooh two paragraphs on a Real Thing song - I worry myself!) from the top... a pretty credible if a trifle over-long "aliens out there" opening (it was from that little spate of StarWars-lite chart stuff) into the joy-inducing exhilarating "whoo hoo hoo ooh". That's the happy bit. The icing on the cake, the reason it stands up to be counted, is the two "You can feel the pressure lifting off your head..." / "You can see a change in people's attitude..." bits. Not sure what they are musically, bridges I guess, but they're bloody good, well constructed I'm sure, if I knew what I was talking about.