02 ‘Victoria’s Secrets’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  • big distorted gtrs, without being heavy or hard
    long languorous strums
  • 3/4
  • gtr solo: siren sound. follows final lyric ‘vain!, vain!’

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. big distorted gtrs, without being heavy or hard
    long languorous strums
  2. gtr solo: siren sound. follows final lyric ‘vain!, vain!’

01 ‘One Crowded Hour’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  • through-composed
  • ascending chord sequence, almost cyclical
  • chorus is only a slight variation on verse chord sequence
    incl. key change?
  • vox melody hold/hovers around the one note

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. ascending chord sequence, almost cyclical
  2. vox melody hold/hovers around the one note

 

Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  • lush instrumentation, haunting melodies + big rockers
  • intricate, verbose, obtuse lyrics

01 ‘One Crowded Hour’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  1. ascending chord sequence, almost cyclical
  2. vox melody hold/hovers around the one note
  1. big distorted gtrs, without being heavy or hard
    long languorous strums
  2. gtr solo: siren sound. follows final lyric ‘vain!, vain!’

03 ‘The Cold Acre’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  1. double note melody line
  2. beat, bup ba-dup, ba-dup, ba-dup
  1. prosody: vox melody jumping from low to high notes
    ‘some go high and very low’
  2. breathy bv, enters slightly ahead of lead vox. same lyric
    ‘stranger strange’
  1. boxy drum beginning
  2. prosody: ‘rise, rise, rise and tune your pianos’
  1. ambience: other worldy
    brushes, verb soaked ekc gtr, breathy vox, distant keys, verbed tambourine
  2. vox: high (falsetto) doubled with low vox

07 ‘Just Passing Through’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  1. single element of track (preferably something relatively hidden) as intro that fades in and out
    eg. subtle organ fade in intro, stops
  2. differentiate 2 chords in a progression with different drum beats
    eg. chorus is just 2 chords; first instrumental version of chorus features 2 different drum beats for each chord

08 ‘Thin Captain Crackers’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  1. lyric: ‘don’t bring em up if you can’t put em down’
  2. middle: elc gtr – single chord whilst bass etc continue progressions

09 ‘Bottle Baby’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  1. no percussion
  2. ac gtr up close, piano distant

10 ‘Mt. Wellington Reverie’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  1. vox lines delivered via alternate takes; ends overlap
  2. lyric: ‘so many souls were sold, so many lies were told’

11 ‘ The Baron of Sentiment’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  1. long, descending vox melody line, cut short and extended then repeated

12 ‘ Bolte and Dunstan Talk Youth’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  1. doubled lead vox with high falsetto harmony (octave?)
  2. 2 instruments doubling melody
    ie. piano and gtr picking doubled together
  1. mid section vox: monotone
    eg. ‘in a berth of the port wharf the song of the penitent sailor…’
  2. melody progression reminiscent of Nick Cave’s ‘People Ain’t No Good’

14 ‘Vernoona’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  1. 1. call: high vox, multi harmonies
    ‘autumn leaves are flying’
    2. response: low, doubled with bass
    ‘time to find yr wintercoat’

Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  • lush instrumentation, haunting melodies + big rockers
  • intricate, verbose, obtuse lyrics

16 ‘ The Suburbs (continued)’ – The Suburbs (2010) – Arcade Fire

  • last track on the album, continuation of first track on the album
  • very short
  • same chords, same melody, same chorus lyric, same tempo
  • strings open the track
  • hi hat subtly enters with beat (drum machine snr?)
  • vox, verbed
  • fem vox join as harmony
  • synth bass joins for chorus
  • vox: male/fem call and response
  • starts to fade out as soon as the chorus starts

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. last track on the album, continuation of first track on the album – bookend the album
  2. same chords, same melody, same chorus lyric, same tempo but different feel
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