As you can see in the Killers’ version it has straight for music structure from the table above. If we compare this with Paul Anka’s rendition of Mr. Brightside, he does sing all the verses in the same order, and leaves out some words, but on the second time he only sings the second verse. So already, it is clear that Anka is making this his own song. To get a better understanding about where these changes occur, see the list order below:
1. In the verse 1 Anka sings all words in the
2. In the verse 2 he misses out the word ‘While’ at (00:43), ‘Now’ (00:45), and ‘And’ (00:48)
3. The Bridge section he sings the 3rd line twice at (00:55), in the 4th line, he adds in a word ‘because’(01:05), and the 5th line, adds ‘It’s’ (01:10)
4. Chorus section Anka
Vocal by Anka in the left position (00:28)
4. Anka sings ‘’ She’s touching his chest now” (00:54 – 01:00) with the answering muted trumpets bottom right corner
5. Guitar comes in at (01:08) very far left, followed by the piano far left (01:14)
6. Saxophone interlude solo take over in the same position as Anka’s vocal.
There is a very distinct stereophonic sound because of the data established above. This does not sound a live recording because you do not hear any reverb. The constant changing of sounds left to right is more like an effect had been created to give the sense of a live recording. Multi-tracking is something that lends to the fact that you hear instrumental sounds all one position, while Paul Anka, sings close the microphone to make it sound more live performance. If we now make a comparative assessment as we did with Paul Anka’s recording, there is a noticeable difference here. We do not have the big band sound, but instead rock band with one vocalist, electric guitars, string bass, drum kit it seems. Here then is a few things in the list that tell us more a about this songs production technique:
1. Distorted sounding guitars introduction (00:00 – 00:08) only can be heard in the left
An often-used technique for creating rhythm sections of Beefheart’s - which actually dates back to Safe As Milk and the song ‘Electricity’ – is to mirror melodic elements of the track with the drums. When working on Electricity, Beefheart approached drummer John French, and asked him if he could play the guitar riff of the track on his drums, to which French complied. They would then set about making a drum part, which identically matched the rhythm of the guitar riff. For the Trout Mask Replica sessions, French’s involvement with the compositions became much more intense as he was the one that Beefheart would rely on to score the instrumental parts (this is why the drum parts would have to be left until after everything else). Examples of John French’s rhythmic ‘mirroring’ exist all over the album. The track ‘My Human Gets Me Blues’ starts with a simple (but still dissonant) two-note bassline, which is directly twinned with French’s drums, and examples of interplay between the two elements exist throughout the track as it goes through different
”The Blackpool Letters” jumps right out of the gate with “Shotgun.” Deeply reverbed piano (slightly de-tuned) and understated synths roll quietly before waking you up with heavy double time drum hits and big coarsely chopped guitar down strokes. Alternative by nature, this is my favorite rocker on the disk. Performance highlight is when Scott’s last vocal note of the chorus lingers to melt brilliantly into the first two measures of the bridge before fading. And even though Liss has nothing to do with Ozzy, the lead work of Dave Rosen jumps in out of left field with tonal qualities of Randy Rhoades. Frenetic synthetic and expressively manic, its Hungarian (harmonic) minor mode...
The piano plays the main themes, and it was absent from playing before. The piano plays two octaves in the treble register. There is a viola in the background playing a counter melody, which slows towards
Starting out with an instrumental intro, then leading into the first verse sounds like it follows the form so far, although the differences are clear once the listener hears the first verse. The verses are longer than the typical verse, and they are not followed by the pre-chorus, they both just go right to the refrain, “Oh, Girl, you stand by me, I’m forever yours, Faithfully.” The two verses are separated by a short instrumental chunk which reminds the listener that it is indeed a rock song. After the second verse comes the second refrain, which then leads into another short rock instrumental followed by a series of “Woahs.” This is the bridge of the song and tells us that the end of the piece is near. Finally, the listener hears the refrain one more time, but this time it is slightly changed. This coda creates the perfect ending to the
A couple of other songs they played were “Bothered,” “Cruel and Pretty” and “Changes Come.” If you had never heard the band before tonight, this is where you would probably think all the songs sounded very similar. Slow, piano and sad. The variety lies in the songwriting, if you start paying attention to the lyrics now, you’d have a different opinion. I almost think what they say is so poignant sometimes it should be in a book or poem by itself. But on the other hand, if you took away the way Barquist sings it, or the accompanying instrumentation, I doubt you would get the same idea. They can even make an acoustic guitar sound like it’s in pain and crying.
In the third stanza of “He Got Game” it sates, There's a man with a gun over there/ Yeah that's right HA HA/ Telling
The second tune comes in in bar 25 with the Oboes a third apart, a
...with variations on the main melody. There were some parts that were removed in the performance, just like in the Pirates of the Caribbean performance. The purpose of this looked like the song had to be shortened because it was part of an awards ceremony and the full second movement may have been too long.
It makes the piece stand out from the rest, as it is incredibly different from the rest. Song #4: “All Blues” The fourth song on this album was “All Blues.” This piece was a lot different from the rest, in terms of style. The tune starts with a soft piano playing two different notes. If you listen very closely, he continues the notes throughout the piece.
bar 1 and bars 59-61 in the clarinet part. Bar 3 and bars 62-63 in the flute part.
I noticed he constantly switched from the synthesizer to the keyboard, and this was to change the tune and make it sound layered as I mentioned before. I also noticed that at times he played the keyboard slowly and other times he would play extremely fast. So rapidly that I even questioned how a man can first not only move his arms so fast but also play so beautifully at such high speeds. A tune he played even sounded like a swish-swashing sound, and I was amazed by how a synthesizer and keyboard can possibly make such sounds. I also noticed that for this song that both Lionel Loueke and Dave Holland played the guitar, and I think this was to match the fusion electric instrument style. Overall, the entire band did a great opening for their performance; everyone looked like they were doing their own thing and were very content.
Look him up on genius’s YouTube channel. There he explains his songs word for word verse by verse. He tells what the song means to him and what kind of messages he was trying to get from it. When he goes on genius he tells what he was trying to say in his songs. One of his best videos is The Incredible True Story.
The musical style of this piece is West Indian soca (sokah) music. The performance is by Black Stalin and the title is “Black man Feeling to Party.” The social setting of the performance is a concert setting. This particular function of this musical style is for entertainment, parties, and dance. The ensemble set up for the performance is arranged with the band behind the performer, (as known as the artist) who is in the front and center of the stage. The four backup singers are also behind the artist; however, they are not directly behind him they are located to the left back side of the stage. The audience is facing the performer and the band. The bands instruments used for this performance constant of a piano, two electric guitars, a drum set, two trumpets, one trombone, and two saxophones.
The first three verses are about other people and the repition is to give it atmosphere.
He did, though, follow a standard pattern in verses 1 through 8. This was done by rhyming the first and last word of verse 1 and 4; he rhymed the words arms and harms. Verse 5 and 8 rhymed the words charms and warms. Verse 2 and 3 rhymed the words sease and please whereas these and seas rhymed in verses 6 and 7. This follows the pattern abba and abba. In verses 9 through 14 a different pattern was used a as resoluti...