6 tiny moments to enjoy
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nubi_faeAll hail the return of the six song weekly listener!
This week's theme is, "Little moments in songs you probably didn't notice before." We start with:
"Open the Door" by Otis Redding At the end of the first chorus, where Brotha Otis is begging his baby to let him in on a late, late night, the drummer taps a muted snare at the right timbre, sounding like a rap, rap, rapping upon a door at 3 am; not quietly, but just enough to be noticed.
"Crossroads" by Tracy Chapman While Sista Tracy is warning you about the Deciever, the tiny sqeaks from her guitar strings are in perfect counter point with the percussion. The way those sqeaks are mixed in make them sound like some otherworldly stringed instument percussively bowed.
"Tether" by Indigo Girls An exhausted drummer throws down his sticks at the end of this song. Must've been the 20th take or something.
"H to the Izzo" by Jay-Z Despite being a horrible rapper, and sloppily borrowing the strings from a 70's Motown track, the hook itself is pretty tight. Even a stopped clock...
"Can't Hide Love" by Earth, Wind and Fire Say what you will, but I like the way they mike a Fender Rhodes electric keyboard patched via Leslie speaker. Unlike their comtemporaries, EWF never let that sound override everything else. The focus was always the vocals and horns.
"Specialty" by Howard Jones The chorus. That beautiful, beautiful chorus -- a perfect madrigalism of discovering calm and sanity in an other wise hectic, frantic, mad world.
This week's theme is, "Little moments in songs you probably didn't notice before." We start with:
"Open the Door" by Otis Redding At the end of the first chorus, where Brotha Otis is begging his baby to let him in on a late, late night, the drummer taps a muted snare at the right timbre, sounding like a rap, rap, rapping upon a door at 3 am; not quietly, but just enough to be noticed.
"Crossroads" by Tracy Chapman While Sista Tracy is warning you about the Deciever, the tiny sqeaks from her guitar strings are in perfect counter point with the percussion. The way those sqeaks are mixed in make them sound like some otherworldly stringed instument percussively bowed.
"Tether" by Indigo Girls An exhausted drummer throws down his sticks at the end of this song. Must've been the 20th take or something.
"H to the Izzo" by Jay-Z Despite being a horrible rapper, and sloppily borrowing the strings from a 70's Motown track, the hook itself is pretty tight. Even a stopped clock...
"Can't Hide Love" by Earth, Wind and Fire Say what you will, but I like the way they mike a Fender Rhodes electric keyboard patched via Leslie speaker. Unlike their comtemporaries, EWF never let that sound override everything else. The focus was always the vocals and horns.
"Specialty" by Howard Jones The chorus. That beautiful, beautiful chorus -- a perfect madrigalism of discovering calm and sanity in an other wise hectic, frantic, mad world.
