Oh, there have been worse weeks. (That's not an endorsement of this week, however.) Isn't the Enemy song called "Away From Here"? Or are those two separate songs. If so, I refuse to listen to the second one.
I'm opposite to Lex on the BRMC: I think the chorus saves what had been a rather nondescript garage-rock song.
In fact, let's ask the question: CHORUSES: C OR D?
I've barely heard Ash and on this evidence the singer has charisma, or anyway something riveting about him that I can't explain, given that his voice is rather ordinary. When the band pull out the stops in the chorus and go for tunes and harmonies and payoff and shit, they destroy what they'd had previously: a voice holding the floor on a spare stage. A tick for the verse, but dud for the concept of choruses.
Just Jack starts with nice dream funk and a guy talking comfortably with it, then he starts singing in the chorus and ruins the mood. No tick and one more dud for the concept of choruses. On this and the Ash, it isn't just that they didn't pull off the choruses; they didn't need the choruses either, so the requirement of a chorus wrecked what could have been great (Ash) and OK (Just Jack) tracks.
Travis, the voice is pretty but the arrangement is a boring middle ground and while listening I was dreading that it would either stay boring or swell to some godawful "emotional" chorus. Instead, the chorus was a pleasant surprise, a nice tune, a falsetto that is nicely functional rather than irritating. But there's too much nonchorus here to merit a tick. Yay for the concept of chorus, however.
So, a split verdict on choruses: two good and two bad.
I have gone back and ticked the Travis, which has become quite lovely over the last five weeks. This must be owing to its taking its vitamins and getting its beauty rest and leading a healthy life in general. Perhaps it met a girl.
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Choruses, Classic Or Dud?
Date: 2007-04-24 12:57 pm (UTC)I'm opposite to Lex on the BRMC: I think the chorus saves what had been a rather nondescript garage-rock song.
In fact, let's ask the question: CHORUSES: C OR D?
I've barely heard Ash and on this evidence the singer has charisma, or anyway something riveting about him that I can't explain, given that his voice is rather ordinary. When the band pull out the stops in the chorus and go for tunes and harmonies and payoff and shit, they destroy what they'd had previously: a voice holding the floor on a spare stage. A tick for the verse, but dud for the concept of choruses.
Just Jack starts with nice dream funk and a guy talking comfortably with it, then he starts singing in the chorus and ruins the mood. No tick and one more dud for the concept of choruses. On this and the Ash, it isn't just that they didn't pull off the choruses; they didn't need the choruses either, so the requirement of a chorus wrecked what could have been great (Ash) and OK (Just Jack) tracks.
Travis, the voice is pretty but the arrangement is a boring middle ground and while listening I was dreading that it would either stay boring or swell to some godawful "emotional" chorus. Instead, the chorus was a pleasant surprise, a nice tune, a falsetto that is nicely functional rather than irritating. But there's too much nonchorus here to merit a tick. Yay for the concept of chorus, however.
So, a split verdict on choruses: two good and two bad.
Re: Choruses, Classic Or Dud?
Date: 2007-05-29 01:29 pm (UTC)