Word: chorus
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...Pixies, monstrously obese, bleating out how much he still wanted to be a “Debaser,” even at his current ripe old age.Several weeks ago, I emceed and sang a bit at the first Quincy Cage concert. While attacking the crowd on the final chorus of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” I felt like I could do what those artists did. I was ripping into my innards, and handing them to the crowd as a gift. I don’t know whether they appreciated it, but I did. Maybe...
...example, instead of simply repeating the chorus, they'd use the first line in different ways: as the first line of the verse ("Dawn, go away I'm no good for you"), as the resolution of the bridge ("Big girls don't cry") or as the entire bridge ("I'll go on living and keep on forgiving..." from "Ronnie"). To ramp up a song's intensity, they'd modulate chords like crazy. One Seasons website asserts that "Opus 17" "ties Bobby Darin's "Mack The Knife" for the largest number of chromatic key changes in a Top 40 hit." (Five...
...Seasons combination of hand-claps and marching feet that lent a military air to the enterprise. The unique element, of course, was Valli's voice, stretching two words into ten aching, urgent syllables ("Sheh-eh-eh-eh-eh-er-ry bay-yay-bee") over half of the four-line chorus. / Sheh-eh-ry, can you come out tonight?" The falsetto is used to establish the singer as the proper young gent ("You better ask your mama. / Tell her everything is all right"). Then the tenor shout in the bridge reveals him as the panting teen wolf ("With your red dress...
...call her Dawn"). Then the drummer has a quick snit fit, and organ and chimes lead into the plaint, "Dawn, go away, I'm no good for you," as a guitar strums 2/4 Latino figures. There are six different melodic elements-hard to call anything in this song a chorus, a verse or a bridge-under the strong harmonic vocals and, of course, the marching feet...
...thinking for both of them. "Before you say / That you want me, / I want you to think / What your family would say. /Think / What you're throwing away. / Now think what the future would be with a poor boy like me." And back to the chorus, repeated four times as he marches slowly, backward, out of her life. "Dawn, go away, I'm no good for you"? It should be: Go away, I'm too good...