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13 ‘Miles Davis’ Funeral’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • instrumental to close the album
  • rain sfx
  • acoustic gtr picking
  • mournful verbed elect. gtr solo, lynchian
  • shakers, then conga and bass join

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. instrumental bookend to album

 

12 ‘Sheila’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • all in 3 piece
  • sax drops out for verse vox
  • vox ‘sheila’ doubled with sax
  • sax doubled and hard panned
  • lyric

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. vox ‘sheila’ doubled with sax
  2. lyric

11 ‘Let’s Take A Trip Together’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • 3 piece all in from start – slow, plodding track (in contrast to prev. fast track)
  • big verb on sax, pushing it back into the distance
  • radio effect (EQ) on vox
  • harmonies; high is distant (with delay/echo) low is close
  • chorus breakdown; beat breaks down, sax gets very low, ends with pause
  • organ solo (drums use cowbell instead of hats)
  • strange ending … just peters out

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. vox harmonies; high is distant (with delay/echo) low is close
  2. strange ending … just peters out

10 ‘Mary Won’t You Call My Name’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • fastest track on the album
  • all in from the start except vox
  • sax makes room for vox in verse
  • chorus; hi hat only, vox harmonies. hats stop for delivery of title vox
  • sax solo, distant sax backing
  • ending; vox only, slows down

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. chorus; title repeated. hi hat only, vox harmonies. hats stop for delivery of title vox
  2. ending; vox only, slows down

09 ‘Cure For Pain’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • all in from start – 3 piece (sax, 2 string bass, drums)
  • subtle vox doubling (or chorus/delay?)
  • more obvious doubling in outro/refrain
  • song title sung in inst. pauses

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. song title sung in inst. pauses
  2. vox doubling/chorusing increases throughout track
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