• 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. (snr is a little roll)
  2. everything drops out one by one
  1. spooky electronic ‘animal’ noises
  2. shuddering, pitch dropping, white noise at a slower tempo

05 ‘Motherless Child’ – Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution

  1. bongos and gtr riff provide rhythmic basis – allowing bass and drums to do others things
  2. no resolution chord at end

06 ‘The Last Dictator I’ – Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution

  1. middle: ‘dream’ minor sounding, backwards gtr texture loop
    • multiple ‘voices’
    • ending: multi-vox, call and response, incl whispered fem vox
      ‘yes i am!’ yes you are!’

07 ‘The Last Dictator II’ – Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution

  1. bass line: 2nd string
    8 0 8 0 8 0  8 0 8 0 8 0
    5 0 3 0 3 0  5 0 3 0 3 0
    ‘basis’ note between every other note
  2. gtr plays same riff but offset – they play the same thing at the same time (doubling) for only 2 bars every cycle
  1. vocal breathing gasping persussion
    • big impact when bass and drums enter, key point in the story ie. character’s pov
    • bass keeps beat, drums dance around the beat
    • drums and bass drop back to on the 3 / 1 every few bars
  1. jangling gtrs
  2. drums enter softly, buried, and build both in loudness and instrumentation ie. snr enters, then tambourine etc