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Listening to MusicRSL MUSPRA 209
Task 2 - Other people’s choices
Task: Comment on why you like or dislike the song:
Joey: Ariana Grande ‘Just A Little Bit of your heart’
Major Key Slowly building texture
Catchy melody Use of layered backing vocals
Heartfelt lyrics
Lucie Bates: Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
Major Key Catchy acoustic guitar riff
A narrative Dynamics and texture build in Chorus
Connor Berry: RHCP ‘Under the Bridge’
1. Reverb Electric guitar riff at the start 2. Texture builds really gradually 3. Drums with snare rim-shot 4. Gets progressively more aggressive 5. Use of Backing Vocals
Tyler Blunt: Eminem: ‘Mockingbird’
1. Piano riff, really catchy 2. Syncopated electric drum beat 3. Narrative 4. Simple 4 chord sequence 5. Balanced texture 6. Catchy sung chorus
Connor Chenneour: Red Right Hand by Nick Cave
1. Menacing mood 2. Syncopated plucked strings 3. Dubby ostinato bass line 4. Drums with brushes 5. Use of Kettle Drum 6. Interesting lyrics - unusual
Liam Divito Pink Floyd: Brain Damage
1. Vocal harmonies 2. Dynamics increase as texture fills up 3. Use of strong female BV’s 4. Use of special FX (laughter noises) 5. Sounds great on headphones 6. Unusual lyrics 7. Use of a Coda at end
Katie Hobgen The Cinematic Orchestra:
To Build A Home
1. Reverb and Delay on the Piano chords 2. Texture builds with piano broken chords 3. Terrific male voice, with wide vocal range 4. Lots of space in the mix
Ferrari Jordan ‘Run’ by Leona Lewis
1. Rich vocal sound (tone) with a wide vocal range
2. Catchy piano riff at start 3. Anthemic chorus - where it
changes into a major key 4. Really high production values
JCL ‘Life On Mars’ by David Bowie (Live Version)
Cara Hayes Heavy by Anne Marie
1. Catchy keyboard chord backing 2. Melismatic vocals in chorus 3. Neat, balanced texture 4. Combination of floaty backing
vocals and harmonised backing vocals
5. Interesting use of voices and technology
Jenny Weetman My Kind of Woman - Mac DeMarco
1. Interesting, unusual Timbre (sound of the interesting instruments)
2. A strange, almost out of tune-ness quality 3. Rising bass line in the chorus makes it more catchy 4. Guitars are layered really nicely 5. chilled ‘slacker-style’ lead vocal
Ben Whale Kiss My Country Ass by Blake Shelton
1. Country and Western Genre 2. Big, epic and American 3. Lyrics seem to advocate patriotism and
freedom to carry and use arms 4. Big, dynamic chorus 5. Use of instruments matches the tough lyrics
(slide guitar)(
House of the Rising Sun 5 Finger Death Punch
Liam Young’s1. Referencing ‘Spaghetti Western’ genre at the start 2. Song has gone from usual 6/8 to Hard Rock 4/4 3. Lyrics have been updated to ‘Sin City’, from New
Orleans 4. Powerful hard-rock vocal 5. Heavily compressed drum, virtuosic playing with
double-bass drum 6. Virtuosic guitar solo
21 pilots - Stressed Out Brandon York
1. Ethereal synth part 2. Strong 4/4 beat 3. Falling bass line, over static vocal part, makes
chorus catchy 4. Electronic drum kit? 5. Combination of spoken word/rap style and
sung melodies 6. Catchy chorus vocal, with low-high part
Eminem ‘Lose Yourself’ Tom’s choice
1. Classical-style piano intro 2. Dampened 4/4 guitar riff (D and D augmented
5th chord) 3. Tension builds as dynamics and texture builds
Anthemic chorus feels like a release from the tension
4. Synth brass-stabs in the chorus
Simon & Garfunkel ‘The Sound of Silence’
Millie Weaver1. Plucked Doubled Bass 2. Harmonised 2-part vocals 3. Totally acoustic 4. Poetic, visionary lyrics; “People talking without
speaking…” 5. Simile’s such as ‘Silence like a cancer grows”,
and ‘My words like silent raindrops fell”.
Michael Jackson ‘Human Nature’ Megan Nowlan
1. Swirling synth chord intro 2. Rhythm guitar part with chorus effect 3. Syncopated rhythms between electronic
percussion and bass 4. Really catchy vocal part in chorus, which is
doubled by the guitar 5. Word painting on some lyrics, such “Reaching
out”
Little Lion Man Mumford & Sons
Kelan 1. Modern Folk-Rock genre 2. Pushed rhythms on acoustic guitar 3. Passionate male vocal 4. Tension builds as texture builds 5. Layered rhythms, after the chorus 6. Metaphor heavy lyrics “Your boldness lies
within the wreck” 7. Folk instruments, such as banjo and on the
beat Bass Drum part, mixed with ethereal electric guitar
Zach Smith Fall Out Boy
“American Beauty/American Psycho”
1. Dynamics are high from the outset 2. Catchy/shouty Chorus, which starts the song 3. Hard Rock Pop genre 4. Heavy synth bass 5. High in the mix compressed drums and loops
Kieran Walker Berzerk Eminem
1. Produced by Rick Rubin 2. Rock influenced - reminiscent of the Beastie
Boys’ ‘Fight for your Right to Party’ 3. Not typical Eminem 4. Less sense of a narrative (a la ‘Stan’) 5. No melody, until the Chorus 6. Sample of Rock Guitar riff - like 99 problems