the one thing that spoils it

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blissblogger

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this is a ragingly beautiful piece of music except for one element that lets the side down


which is the winded and thin-sounding horn section, whose paltry and clumsy parping resembles the brass section in Dexys if each player had one collapsed lung

what other songs or pieces of music are there whose perfection is marred by a single defect? A limp vocal, a clod-hopping drummer, a lyric that clunks, a chorus that doesn't quite match the expectations set up by the verses - or an even a really bad title.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Luka will curse me for going all mojo but the baroque harpsichord solo on "In my life" ruins one of the Beatles most poignant songs for me.
 
luka

luka

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Interesting thread but this record sounds awful in all its parts to me. No offence
 
luka

luka

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Barty talks about the 'turnaround' in jazz. Same thing. Any slackening of the tension strikes modern ears as a let down
 
luka

luka

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We have fundamentally diffrperent expectations. It's a major shift in how we listen

In my opinion
 
Leo

Leo

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yeah, I'm just yanking' yr chain.

RE: the one thing, I find I have little tolerance for horns anymore (aside from jazz). I'll stumble across some great 80s/90s house track and be loving it and then some horns come in and I literally lose interest in hearing the rest of it. not sure why but it's become a dealbreaker. an unnecessary accoutrement tacked on.
 
luka

luka

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I was in the pub this afternoon and they had winehouse I'm no good and I noticed how the horns were ghostface horns
 
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mvuent

Void Dweller
sometimes the part that should ruin it, that doesn't fit on paper, is actually the part that makes it good
 
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