shut up and listen

• all in from start; ac gtr, bass, drums,
• change of chord as vox enters
• verse lyric is prediction/fact, using two different ‘voices’;
  ‘there will be no rain / and there was no rain
  there will be no shame / and there was no shame
  all will be explained / and all was presently explained’ etc.
• chorus: multi vox
• ‘this road is my road, this road is your road, this road is …’ pause, all stop ‘our road’
  then all start again
• violin joins second verse
• middle: change gear to 3/4 time, heavy elc gtrs
• third verse: response bvs
  ‘there will be no remorse / and there was no remorse / [no remorse]
  ‘there will be no use of force / and there was no use of force / [use of force]

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. verse lyric is prediction/fact, using two different ‘voices’;
   ‘there will be no rain / and there was no rain
   there will be no shame / and there was no shame
   all will be explained / and all was presently explained’ etc.
2. middle: change gear to 3/4 time

• narrative, themed album
• use of different ‘voices’ for different characters and points of view
• atmospheric, unusual instrumentation

01 ‘I Have The Gun’ – Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution

1. verse lyric is prediction/fact, using two different ‘voices’;
   ‘there will be no rain / and there was no rain
   there will be no shame / and there was no shame
   all will be explained / and all was presently explained’ etc.
2. middle: change gear to 3/4 time

02 ‘The Sly Persuaders’ – Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution

1. vox: call and response; delayed distant repeat of lead vox, line by line
2. section 2: horns out, violin riff enters, chord changes underneath

1. jangling gtrs
2. drums enter softly, buried, and build both in loudness and instrumentation ie. snr enters, then tambourine etc

• narrative, themed album
• use of different ‘voices’ for different characters and points of view
• atmospheric, unusual instrumentation

• very different ac gtr sound – low quality, boxy
• ac gtr doubled
• no drums or other instruments
• vox, falsetto doubled, hard panned – very clear in contrast to gtrs
• first line descends into full voice
• chorus; some gtr melody
• structure: chord holds between vox lines in the verse, builds expectation
  ‘This my excavation and to – [hold] day is Kumran’
  ‘I keep throwing it down two [hold] hundred at a time’
• structure: verse 1, chorus, verse 2, chorus, verse 3
  stops just as expected 3rd chorus should come
• long after track ambience – gtr knocking, footsteps, beep

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. structure: chord holds between vox lines in the verse, builds expectation
   ‘This my excavation and to – [hold] day is Kumran’
   ‘I keep throwing it down two [hold] hundred at a time’
2. structure: verse 1, chorus, verse 2, chorus, verse 3
   stops just as expected 3rd chorus should come

• muted strum 4 count
• all in; ac gtr, bass drums, horns, elc gtr lines soaring/bending
• vox enters, horns drop out
• horns come in to reinforce start of some vox lines
• bvs – falsetto/full voice double, hard panned. response; ‘running on, running on’
• inst break – ac gtr, horns and elc gtr – static noise
• then drums, bass, horn solo join
• ends with chorus chords, no lyrics, wordless vox

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. horns and monophonic elc gtr lines etc. providing chordal harmony
2. bvs – falsetto/full voice double, hard panned. response; ‘running on, running on’