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Elements of Rock Era Music draft - Categories firming up, Sign Up here (1 Viewer)

1.09 - Layering - David Bowie - "Heroes"

I'm not entirely sure what layering means and the the definition and techniques have changed dramatically along with studio technology.  This song was recorded in 1978 in the time period after synthesizers but before digital records. So it combines the possibilities to create unique sounds while still forcing ingenuity to get the sound from the artists' head to the tape.

"Heroes" sounded like nothing before it and almost 40 years later, still is unique.  It's amazing to think they accomplished this with technology more primitive than you can get today with a laptop and cheap keyboard.  

At the risk of going all Bob Magaw on you, here's a link to a fascinating (to me anyway) interview with Tony Visconti describing how the recording was constructed.  It was recorded to 24 track tape, 23 of which were backing instrumentation with Bowie's vocal laid down last.  As Visconti plays individual tracks, you can hear elements that are almost subliminal on the final record but contribute to a masterpiece that's much more than the sum of its parts.
 

 
Ilov80s said:
Ok now that I have found the direction I want to go, let's get back to harmonies. I knew exactly what album I wanted, it was just a matter of picking the right song. Hummingbird a is beautiful album full of great harmonies from one of the best Cali Indie rock bands. 

1.9 "Ceilings" Local Natives (2013) - HARMONIES 
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Are you doing all songs post-2012?  I was considering doing the last decade only.  I think there are a few mid-00s ones I might want though.

 
This is an obvious pick for me but one of the best songs by one of my all time favourite artists and one that is completely defined by the Harmonica playing on it.

2.04 - Neil Young - Heart of Gold - Harmonica

 
Steve Tasker said:
I feel like I've drafted a bunch of their songs in drafts over the years.  I wanted to do all female vocalists for this draft but there's 1-2 categories that require a male vocalist so that was out the window so I'll throw this one out there early.
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Earlier Against Me! songs as a workaround :unsure:

 
Crescendo is a tougher category than I first thought so I'm getting it out of the way early.  Crescendos seem to be more common in classical music than pop, in part because of the dynamics of acoustic vs electric instruments and probably some reluctance to play too quietly at shows or on the radio. 

A lot of the quiet/loud songs I came across when researching turn out to not really have crescendos at all.  I'm talking about songs that have a quiet verse but transition abruptly to a loud chorus.  A band that rhymes with Dixies does this a lot.

The songs that finally made my crescendo shortlist fell into two categories:  either songs that build from the beginning or (mostly dance) songs that build into the drop. 

2.02  Crescendo - The Afghan Whigs - Crime Scene Part One

Crime Scene Part One is an example of the former.  It opens their 1996 Black Love LP and spends half of the 6:00 song length building up. It starts with a funereal organ part that lasts for 1:04.  It then adds a one note rhythm guitar pattern and the bass line.  Greg Dulli finally begins the verse at about 1:25 in a quite and controlled tone (for him) on top of the guitar and bass.  The organ reenters  at 1:51 accompanied by a rimshot on all four beats.  It continues to build through the "too loose, too tight, too dark, too bright" section before the crescendo climaxes right at the 3 minute mark. 

I've listened to the song a lot over the years and am unsure what crime was committed or whether the narrator is the perpetrator or the victim.  But it sure is a great way to start off side one of an album.

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I have to go back to my list, if whoever is after me is around and wants to pick, I think I'm going to time out before I have a chance to think about it, busy morning.

 
Another simple pick. This is part of the 'early-rounds grab the low-hanging fruit' method. Not bad songs, just get the easy ones before others grab them!

2.06 - 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen - Overall Unique Structure

For the Overall Unique Structure category, there is no better fitting song than 'Bohemian Rhapsody'; none like it before or since. Like many songs/artists, this one could have fit in a bunch of categories.

@Doug B - You're up!

 
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2.05 - Los Campesinos! - "2007, the Year Punk Broke (My Heart)" - Instrument: Strings

Relatively anonymous song from this band, this is a deeper cut, the last track off of Hold on Now, Youngster.  They're not a band known for their strings, and considering they have 7 people on-stage, the delicate strings often get drowned out by the fast-paced guitar.

But this is one of my absolute favorite Los Campesinos! songs, and has, for me, a very memorable wailing violin for most of the song.  It's a depressing song, one 26-second verse about unrequited love followed by 3-and-a-half minutes of noise.  It's the violin that has always drawn me to this one...it has a very "depressing wedding procession" feel to it and shows the instrument in a way you rarely hear in this genre of poppy mildly-punky rock music.  There's no violin solo, it's sorta just there with the rest of the instruments, but you can't help but hear it the entire time she's playing it.  It even holds it own during the ever-increasing barrage of noise that is the last 2-or-so minutes of the song.

Of course I'm going to take as much twee pop as possible.  Here's a bonus grainy cell phone video from a Manchester nightclub in 2008, which is the only live performance of this song I can find on Youtube.

 
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Mr. Ected said:
Another simple pick. This is part of the 'early-rounds grab the low-hanging fruit' method. Not bad songs, just get the easy ones before others grab them!

2.06 - 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen - Overall Unique Structure

For the Overall Unique Structure category, there is no better fitting song than 'Bohemian Rhapsody'; none like it before or since. Like many songs/artists, this one could have fit in a bunch of categories.

@Doug B - You're up!
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Song structures don't get much more unique than this.

 
Steve Tasker said:
Are you doing all songs post-2012?  I was considering doing the last decade only.  I think there are a few mid-00s ones I might want though.
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Yeah 2012-now, aka the Spotify era.

 
Steve Tasker said:
2.05 - Los Campesinos! - "2007, the Year Punk Broke (My Heart)" - Instrument: Strings

Relatively anonymous song from this band, this is a deeper cut, the last track off of Hold on Now, Youngster.  They're not a band known for their strings, and considering they have 7 people on-stage, the delicate strings often get drowned out by the fast-paced guitar.
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:wub:  Los Campesinos. I was considering the "hit" from this album for a different category. My favourite album of theirs is actually No Blues.

 
Northern Voice said:
:wub:  Los Campesinos. I was considering the "hit" from this album for a different category. My favourite album of theirs is actually No Blues.
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I don't think it's possible to dislike them if you enjoy pop music.  There is another particular song off a different album, not No Blues, that has a fantastic crescendo that I almost went with, but I'll stick with this one.   Hold on Now, Youngster is honestly probably a top 10 all time album for me, as crazy as that may sound.  I love the entire thing, top to bottom.

 
Doug B said:
Make-up pick:

2.07: "Pump Up the Volume", M|A|R|R|S (Sampling)

Got house music out of industrial warehouses and onto the airwaves.

7" Radio Cut
12" Club Release (preceded the radio edit)

Handy chart of samples used in "Pump Up the Volume", which differ between various UK and US releases.
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Love this song. One of the first that came to mind in this category. There's one other really big one in that category then after that, I'm going to have to do some :nerd:  research.

 
Glad to see a lot of recent stuff here.  I'll be mostly staying older but with a little variety. 

 
Sorry about the delay.  

Crescendo - Baba O'Reilly,  the Who.  First song that comes to mind, the last minute always gets me psyched. :nerd: running sprint intervals, when timed right with this song, :excited:

 
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Sorry about the delay.  

Crescendo - Baba O'Reilly,  the Who.  First song that comes to mind, the last minute always gets me psyched. :nerd: running sprint intervals, when timed right with this song, :excited:
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This would've been my 1st rder. for a different cat, tho.

 
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2.10 Acoustic: Country Roads--John Denver

His pitch perfect vocals get most of the recognition, but he has a distinctive way of picking that is always recognizable.

 
Change baba O'Reilly to keyboard

3.02 Dave Matthews Band, All along the watchtower, Crescendo (though could easily be switched to strings later )

A favorite song of mine, might not be the best version of the many, but this is one of my favorite songs partly from experiencing it live a couple of times.  

 
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Change baba O'Reilly to keyboard
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wOw. the defining synth loop of the rock era wasnt synthesizer, but the marimba setting on an organ. Townshend tried moog first but liked this better i guess. Learn sum'n old every day...

i should put this in the "memories triggered by songs" thread, but i was a runaway hitching round the country when Baba ORiley came out and the airplay was so ubiquitous on the radio of every car that picked me up and that loop so new and hypnotizing that there were hours&hours i'd be standing in some hitchhikers' hell with that 'ditditdidladitditdidla' going thru my head it almost drove me mad like Schumann's note. But i still dug it every time another car would pick me up.

 
3.05 - 'Karn Evil 9 - First Impression, Part 2' - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Keyboards - Electric)

Another easy one, there are few keyboardists ever who are better than Keith Emerson (RIP). To know that they played mostly with a keyboard, drums and a bass guitar makes their complex music more special; add to that the fact that the song released in late '73 makes these keyboards even more incredible. Now on this song, there is a regular electric guitar solo in the middle (~2:00 on this version) followed by a small drum solo that are not to shabby (Lake and Palmer are great musicians in their own right) but it is the keyboards throughout that are spectacular.

 
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KarmaPolice said:
Just one big megamix?
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Yeah that's all we need for this one I think since we didn't label it a "mixtape" draft, if everyone wants to post their own of their finished draft at the end, they can do that. It might be fun to play with grouping together the categories but that again might make more sense to do at the end, especially with songs already being moved from one category to another.

You sure you don't want to jump in on the draft, KP?

 
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