Minor Musical Observations (7 Viewers)

[Cormcolash]

I get the impression that Liam used to be an absolute wanker but has pretty much wised up ever since the band actually split up, and is probably sounder than Noel nowadays.

 

[seanc]

I've listened to this many times, but still can't get my head around it.

It starts out as a la-di-da singalong, then it turns into Mull of Kintyre. And then FOOTBALL.
The meter is odd, odder still is the massive gang of geezers who do it perfectly every time.

'Valley Floyd Road' - Charlton FanChants

Once released as a single and our best chant. (Ed: Better audio version added of this classic)

www.fanchants.com

 

[seanc]

Having listened to it a bit more, I might nearly have got it now. The rhythm of it is so strange though.
Try singing it to yourself.

 

[dudley]

Never noticed this as a child, but the timing on this is nuts. The last bass run at the end every cycle, what the hell count is that? First happens at :39

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[ann post]

I think it's a waltz but the bassist goes to NAMM

 

[egg_]

I'd guess alternating 4/4 and 2/4 bars

 

[ann post]

I had to look.

6/8.

 

[dudley]

I can just never get the last phrase right. Hate when tunes do that, or I just don't *get it*. Like when drums kick back in the half time bit at the end of Raining blood at about 2:09. It's the tiniest thing, but can never get it.

This, by the Beach Boys, confuses me similarly. Just something wrong to my ears with the verses. Ace tune though.

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[Cormcolash]

Never noticed this as a child, but the timing on this is nuts. The last bass run at the end every cycle, what the hell count is that? First happens at :39

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It's 6/8 the whole way, the bass player just plays the last bar of the cycle differently from the rest of the bars to give it the phrase a liquidation.

 

[egg_]

Fair enough, though it doesn't feel to me like 6/8

Feels like 1-2-3-4-1-2 rather than 1-2-3-4-5-6

 

[dudley]

Fair enough, though it doesn't feel to me like 6/8

Feels like 1-2-3-4-1-2 rather than 1-2-3-4-5-6

Whatever it is, it discombobulates me if I try to follow along, which is pretty mental for a massive chart smash. Any other big hits that are similarly odd?

 

[egg_]

Whatever it is, it discombobulates me if I try to follow along, which is pretty mental for a massive chart smash.

Isn't it though? I can't imagine something like this being a hit today

 

[seanc]

Peter likes his odd time signatures and suchlike.
Shur isn't he the mascot of WOMAD.

 

[ann post]

Isn't it though? I can't imagine something like this being a hit today

Nothing with some fucker in his late 30s standning about is gonna be a hit for sure, nevermind the inventiveness of it all.

also the comments on the video. people have a really intense relationship with that tune

 

[Cormcolash]

Fair enough, though it doesn't feel to me like 6/8

Feels like 1-2-3-4-1-2 rather than 1-2-3-4-5-6

Think you're getting that feeling just from the upbeat kick drum hits and occasional bass notes on beat 6. The rhythm instruments basically give the song a sense of swing, without actually moving away from 6/8.

 

[seanc]

If Cormcolash is posting stuff like that, I'd better up my game.

 

[Cormcolash]

It's almost as if I have a degree in it or something

 

[seanc]

A degree in shitposting?
I have a degree in marketing. So, basically the same. But you're funnier.

 

[seanc]

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[seanc]

Further to that guy from the Clothes and Haircuts thread being on fire tonight:

Tonights DJ was playing lots of 80's hiphop, a bit of Kraftwerk. Actually doing DJ skills, which I don't fully appreciate, as in understand, but I could tell he was doing some kind of thing, and it was good.

So C&H guy asks what i reckon about the music. I said well, there's a lot of 808 stuff that I've never heard before. It is certainly not my thing etc, but it's interesting etc. Yes obvs, I said, I've heard plenty of 808 music before, but this guy is playing stuff I've never heard before. And that is good.
Hobbitish local Uni students, (one of whom is apparently doing a doctorate in music) were listening in on us, and they ask:

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"What is an 808?"

Much well natured conversation ensued.