shut up and listen

• mood of sadness, depression, debauchery, relationship breakdown
• orchestrated song cycle of “love, jealousy, rage and loss”
• ‘rock opera’ or ‘song cycle’ or ‘concept album’; structure of songs, overall narrative
• use of atmosphere sounds; bar, kids
• redrafts of previous songs, incl. 2 versions of the one song (Caroline Says)
• baritone vocals
• lush orchestration (strings, horns, choir)

cover of The Tremeloes track

• only the main chorus hook has been retained from the original
• long build up featuring loops of noise
• final note bends upwards to a minor 3rd
• chorus:
  I / / / IIIm / / / IIm / V7 / I / / /
  I / / / IIIm /  VIm / IIm / V7 / I / / /

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. taking only a fragment of an existing song and building a new track
2. long build of noise and texture leading into melodic section

cover of The Rolling Stones track

• recognisable piano melodies
• rapid panning of electronics
• heavy vocoder doubled vox
• repeated chords incorporate edit clicks and pops

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. piano melodic phrases ending in electronic ‘punctuation’

cover of Ryuichi Sakamoto track
(famous versions by Hatsune Miku and Momus)

• great lyric – invented words eg. ‘thatness’
• no ‘i this … you that’

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. poetic lyric

cover of David Bowie track

• lyric prosody “i’m stuck (music stops) … (restarts) with a valuable friend’
• switching register for different characters
  “got a message from the action man (high)
  i’m happy, hope you’re happy too (low)”
• doubling with spoken phrases
  “i’ve never done good things (repeat spoken)
  i’ve never done bad things (repeat spoken)

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. lyric prosody