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04 ‘Stranger Strange’ – Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March

  • prosody: vox melody jumping from low to high notes
    ‘some go high and very low’
  • breathy bv, enters slightly ahead of lead vox. same lyric
    ‘stranger strange’

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  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’

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

  • 3/4, 6/8
  • double note melody line
  • beat, bup ba-dup, ba-dup, ba-dup

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. double note melody line
  2. beat, bup ba-dup, ba-dup, ba-dup

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
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