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Old 03-24-2020, 10:02 AM   #2416
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Man, it wore me out watching this guy:

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Old 03-28-2020, 10:14 AM   #2417
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"Hounds of Love" -- Kate Bush's idea of being foxhunted by love, being frightened, a coward, but in the end giving in to it, is magical.

In the middle of being frightened of love, she finds a fox being hunted, embraces it, feels its fear; and realizes she has the same fright, but it's of "nothing real" and she feels embarrassed by being a coward about love.

Her chords go major, the chirping violins change, and she loudly and confidently announces "So here I go/Don't let me go/Hold me down/It's coming for me through the trees". At that point, she and her lover are actually facing the cowardice of love together. "Take my shoes off and throw them in the lake", she sings -- to avoid giving her scent to the hounds -- but by the end, it switches to "take YOUR shoes off."



But today, 35 years since the original, I feel like the song is overproduced. Here's a version by Lancaster, PA's own Beth Sorrentino which emphasizes the lyrics and chord changes.

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Old 03-30-2020, 02:51 PM   #2418
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John's on a ventilator.

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Old 03-30-2020, 06:13 PM   #2419
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Yeah but he's almost as old as I am, one of the expendables for the economy.
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Old 04-02-2020, 01:06 AM   #2420
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Have you heard their latest?
No, but someone told me it is good, how's the bass line go?
Bass line? The guitar plays the music, the bass just goes boom boom boom like the drums.
Iszatso?

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Old 04-02-2020, 01:34 AM   #2421
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Jamerson played that, and all the Motown hits, with one finger.
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Old 04-02-2020, 01:46 PM   #2422
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Hot damn! That video is incredible.
I like it when he plays a really low note to describe how low of a valley wouldn't be enough.
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Old 04-02-2020, 01:56 PM   #2423
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I've watched it at least 20 times, mesmerizing, seeing where he's going to go and hearing him do it adds a whole new dimension. It shows the subtleties your ear may not pick up, especially with everyone playing at volume.
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Old 04-02-2020, 02:04 PM   #2424
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Genius. The next chorus around, he reverses the mountain and the valley. And then when he plays the chorus through the outro, he just plays the groove, smoothed out. Such composition!

I noticed that some of the "peaks" are leaning backwards, meaning (I think) he played the peak note ahead of the beat of the surrounding notes.
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Old 04-02-2020, 02:19 PM   #2425
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And it's perfect for the song. Imagine a more mundane bass part and the song still working. You can't
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Old 04-02-2020, 03:11 PM   #2426
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Yes, the bass is the whole song.
Here's another one, in this case just fundamental bass under the vocals:
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Old 04-02-2020, 10:48 PM   #2427
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I'd still love to see it diagramed, animated.
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Old 04-03-2020, 05:50 PM   #2428
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This guy does several wicked acoustic tool covers. Just discovered him today. Win.
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Old 04-03-2020, 06:07 PM   #2429
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And something I found down that rabbit hole
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Old 04-03-2020, 10:07 PM   #2430
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Whitney Houston raised the bar of female vocal performance, leaving a mark on history that can never be erased.



Here are some other amazing performances:
as a 22 year-old kid on David Letterman, and here*, taking chances in a raw performance that hits you right in the feelings.

*today I learned: the lyrics to All At Once were written by Jefferey "On the Wings of Love" Osborne
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