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September 12, 2005
Sigur Rós
Sigur Rós has rolled back into town with a new album, Takk, which doesn't particularly break new ground, but certainly demonstrates they are still capable of being exactly as awesome as they have always been. They put on a hell of a show the last time they were in town; I was in the balcony at the Moore, and I still felt like I needed a seat belt.
Sigur Rós - Glósóli
Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla
Sigur Rós - Sæglópur
Recently on the Comfort email list, Coe asked, "You know how in 'Stairway to Heaven' it's really mellow, and then there's the part towards the end where the singer and the guitar go crazy, and then it's mellow again? What do they call that part?" Sigur Rós is a master of that song structure, but no one on the list knew if there's a term for it. Anyone?
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Posted by Scotto at September 12, 2005 08:00 AM
Comments
DYNAMICS is the best way to describe a performance that methodically gravitates from the loud to the soft to the rock to the roll as in "Stairway To Heaven".
Posted by: Nebu11a at September 13, 2005 08:41 AM
Nirvana's career was almost completely based on the "quiet/loud/quiet" structure. And looking through old music reviews of them and others, that's exactly how it's repeatedly described.
Posted by: dr. c at September 13, 2005 09:53 AM
'dynamics' is a good term to describe how it's done, in that it refers to the idea of variable musical phrasing, but it's not the best term to describe this particular song structure - quiet/loud/quiet, as dr. c points out, is accurate, but we were just wondering if someone had hung a clever tag on that quiet/loud/quiet structure.
Posted by: Scotto at September 13, 2005 11:17 AM
Looks like Todd and Julian did get it. Wikipedia says this, among other things, about a musical bridge: "If when you expect a verse or a chorus you get something that is musically and lyrically different from both verse and chorus then that's the bridge." Sounds right to me. Anybody know otherwise?
Posted by: Coe at September 15, 2005 02:51 PM
then i misunderstood your question; i thought you were talking about the fact that it goes mellow/loud/mellow and does that whole structure have a name. you're talking about 'what is the name of the loud section'. gotcha. wikipedia's description is ok when you're talking about a typical pop song - AABA (verse/chorus, verse/chorus, bridge, verse/chorus). stairway to heaven doesn't use that song structure. there's a ton of verse/chorus, then there are actually two different sections before you close with a familiar refrain; so it's essentially ABCrefrain instead of AABA. i guess you could call them both bridges, but they're more akin to different movements in an unusual song progression - freedictionary defines movement as "A self-contained section of an extended composition" and that's what this seems like, especially since in this case it doesn't actually bridge you back to a proper verse/chorus, just a small partial refrain. my take anyway!
Posted by: Scotto at September 15, 2005 03:15 PM
Thanx_for_the_Sigur-Ros_Scotto---i_love_them)))
Posted by: driftin_alone at September 21, 2005 03:21 PM
links dont work hen
peace out
Posted by: doogie fae scotland at May 4, 2006 12:30 AM