• 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