Archive for November, 2011

04 ‘All Wrong’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • 2 string (fretless) sliding riff, drums and sax
  • chorus; no instruments except rim shot ticking like a clock, and vox (harmonies) and sax doubling melody line
  • background gurgling atmosphere in chorus, audible because the other instruments drop out
  • sax solo through wah wah

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. chorus; no instruments except rim shot ticking like a clock, and vox (harmonies) and sax doubling melody line
  2. background gurgling atmosphere in chorus, audible because the other instruments drop out

03 ‘I’m Free Now’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • bass riff, sax and drums, vox
  • main vocal line ‘ cause you pain’ – gets echoed later in the track ‘Cure For Pain’
  • vox and sax voice the same melody simultaneously

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. lyric echoes of other tracks on the album
  2. vocal and other monophonic instrument doubling ’cause you pain, ohhhhhh’

02 ‘Buena’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • opening 2 string bass guitar riff, subtle acoustic gtr
  • drums, vox,
  • sax (doubled and panned hard) joins in bridge/chorus
  • sax solo goes mono and not doubled

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. simple elements
  2. monophonic inst. only (vox, sax, bass – well, maybe some polyphony with 2 strings being played at once)

01 ‘ Dawna’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • short instrumental
  • sax and quiet organ

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. instrumental aside/intro to album, sets the mood/tone

Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • baritone vocals, overall ‘low sound’: two string slide bass, baritone sax, drums
  • simple elements
  • some lyric ideas; ‘Thursday’, ‘Sheila’

01 ‘ Dawna’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  1. instrumental aside/intro to album, sets the mood/tone

02 ‘Buena’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  1. simple elements
  2. monophonic inst. only (vox, sax, bass – well, maybe some polyphony with 2 strings being played at once)

03 ‘I’m Free Now’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  1. lyric echoes of other tracks on the album
  2. vocal and other monophonic instrument doubling ’cause you pain, ohhhhhh’

04 ‘All Wrong’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  1. chorus; no instruments except rim shot ticking like a clock, and vox (harmonies) and sax doubling melody line
  2. background gurgling atmosphere in chorus, audible because the other instruments drop out

05 ‘Candy’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  1. verse and chorus are same chords but chorus is led into by a bridge
  2. hard panned monophonic instruments to create chords

06 ‘A Head With Wings’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  1. main lyrics line inserted in pause.
  2. breakdown section; no bass, sax stabs at riff, drums focus on toms

07 ‘In Spite Of Me’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  1. complete break in style from previous (and later) tracks
  2. radio effect (EQ) on whispered vox

08 ‘Thursday’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  1. vox and inst. call and response
  2. monophonic instr. harmonised riff, hard panned

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

  1. song title sung in inst. pauses
  2. vox doubling/chorusing increases throughout track
10 ‘Mary Won’t You Call My Name’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

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

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

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