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03 ‘I’m Free Now’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • bass riff, sax and drums, vox
  • main vocal line ‘ cause you pain’ – gets echoed later in the track ‘Cure For Pain’
  • vox and sax voice the same melody simultaneously

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. lyric echoes of other tracks on the album
  2. vocal and other monophonic instrument doubling ’cause you pain, ohhhhhh’

02 ‘Buena’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • opening 2 string bass guitar riff, subtle acoustic gtr
  • drums, vox,
  • sax (doubled and panned hard) joins in bridge/chorus
  • sax solo goes mono and not doubled

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. simple elements
  2. monophonic inst. only (vox, sax, bass – well, maybe some polyphony with 2 strings being played at once)

01 ‘ Dawna’ – Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • short instrumental
  • sax and quiet organ

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. instrumental aside/intro to album, sets the mood/tone

Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine

  • baritone vocals
  • overall ‘low sound’: two string slide bass, baritone sax, drums
  • simple elements
  • some lyric ideas; ‘Thursday’, ‘Sheila’
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