From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #425 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Wednesday, June 11 2003 Volume 02 : Number 425 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:39:19 -0400 From: "Henry Biedenkapp" Subject: seven-seas Fav Will's stuff Hey, Red, you never answered teh lst poll question about your fav Will recording. I know it's a tough a question, but you better answer before this new thing comes out and we have to add another great recording to the list Henry _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 01:08:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas The Art of Mac aka Mac Art(hur) > I've been listening repeatedly to "Slideling" and my first impression is > growing stronger. > I'm really enjoying this album -- groovin' to every song. In fact, I can't > find a weak song > in the bunch, however, by the same token, I really can't find one > outstanding track when > compared to the bunch. Yup, it does grow on you -- and as someone else pointed out, "side two" or the latter half of the songs seem to be the best, though I love "Playgrounds...." which is on "side one." The fact that no one song really sticks out is proof that the album fits together well as a whole, which is rare in these days of albums consisting of shock-impact singles and then wet cardboard fillers. > I'm not a musician and i don't what a chorus,verse, bridge, or an eight, > etc. Maybe someone > can briefly enlighten me. I guess that the chorus is a group of lines that > gets repeated and > that's about it! A bridge is probably a group of lines that "bridges" or is > set between 2 verses > or something like that Pretty much .... there are probably more formal definitions out there on google, but a chorus (or refrain) is indeed usually repeated with only minor variations. The verses tell a story in more narrative format, and the chorus repeats the summary or moral of the story. A bridge almost always occurs just once in a song, and provides a bit of relief from the standard verse-chorus-verse-chorus. Often it's instrumental -- no vocals, but not always. One of the most famous bridges is found in the Beatles' "A Day In The Life." John and Paul had written two separate songs, each in a different key, with a different tempo and feel. John's was the more complete composition: "I read the news today oh, boy" -- though it has a very short chorus of just the line "I'd love to turn you on." There's a brief buildup of brass instruments to Paul's section: "Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head...." Then George Martin supposedly wrote / arranged the bridge back to John's work, which has no lyrics but rather just John singing "Ah...." to a series of chord changes which transition from Paul's "and I went into a dream...." back to John's gloomier existential funk. On _Slideling_, two bridges that come to mind off-hand are in "Playgrounds And City Parks" -- after a chorus, there's a brief piano solo (bridges often feature guitar solos) and then "Inside again..." bridging into the final chorus and a trademark Mac/Bunnymen repeated lyric outro, "Light up my lonely, light up my lonely, light up my lonely, light up my lonely life..." (think of the outro to "A Promise": "Light on the water/We could sail on forever/(There's) Light on the water/....") "Kansas"' bridge is more obvious; the amount of vocal effect on his singing renders the lyrics unintelligible to me, but part of it (I think) is "In the glow/shadow..." In this song Mac also blurs verse and chorus (as he often does) by using an almost-mini-bridge between verse and chorus that changes slightly lyrically: "Where I'm goin'/I can't tell/Down to heaven/Or up to hell" becomes the more definite "Where I'm going/I can't tell/(It's) Not to heaven/ (It's) Not to hell." > his now "limited" range. I would bet that 98% of us would love to hear those > golden oldies > even if he sounded like Bob Dylan or maybe Cohen (ok, maybe's that's > stretching it, It's not just *my* quibble. To be fair, he's got to cover 25 years of singing having hit a peak before he turned 25 himself! Imagine a 25-year-old beautiful model wearing next to nothing; then imagine that same model doing it at age 43. It almost always is not going to be nearly the same; the best you can do is to be "well-preserved" and at worst people say "she really hasn't aged well." No matter how much her fans like the early outfits, wearing them at age 43 might not be the wisest thing to do -- instead, outfits that highlight her strongpoints at age *43* are the way to go. - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 01:09:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: seven-seas _Slideling_ review links Apologies to Kristin if any of these are repeats; I've enjoyed reading the reviews and interviews she's posted links to, and I found these tonight: http://www.2-4-7-music.com/searches/index.asp?ArtistName=IAN%20MCCULLOCH http://www.cookingvinyl.com/mcculloch/index.php http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/webpages/ianmccullochx27x03x03 http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/m/mccullochian-slideling.shtml The second many of you have probably already read ;-) - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #425 ********************************