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Ever been suddenly amazed at one part of a song?

Farmhand

Farmhand

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I was just driving home and "Kid Charlemagne" was on the radio. For some reason my ears focused on the bass line of this song I've heard ten thousand times, and I was suddenly amazed at what Walter Becker was playing on that song. It's completely random but completely solid and completely F.U.N.K.Y.
That kind of thing ever happen to you?
 
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Yes. Way back in the day when I first heard the Jeff Beck Group Rough And Ready album I was blown away by a riff on the song New Ways/Train Train: it appears at 3:33 into the song and is repeated a few times. Here's a weird factoid: the first time I heard that riff was in a radio commercial for that album on WBCN. Must have been 1971. Are albums promoted via radio commercial anymore?!
 
This just happened to me the other day. Bargain came on the radio and I paid particular attention to Moon's drumming throughout the song behind Daltry's lyrics - Not just between verses where his prowess is unmistakable. Just awesome.
 
About a year ago I'm sitting in the garage when a song by YES comes on, I think it was Roundabout. Now I'm not a huge fan but I do like their tunes.
I made a speaker for my garage radio a few years back that for some reason brings out the bass lines VERY clearly.
I was not only impressed by how solid Chris Squire's bass playing was but how each verse had it's own unique bass line.
 
When listening to Led Zeppelin I used to listen to the singing and the guitar playing. A few years ago I started noticing the drumming a lot more. In the last few months I've been noticing the bass more than ever before.
 
Briefly, and not for the first time but for the first time in a long time as I'd not listened to this piece in many years: geetar transition b/w the ending of "Debra Kadabra" and the intro to "Carolina Hard Core Ecstasy" on the album Bongo Fury (Zappa & Mothers + The Captain, 1975).
 
I wasn't a big fan of Wishbone Ash back in the day. A few years a go I picked up some Ash LPs and began listening to them. I was really impressed by the dual lead guitar work of Andy Powell and Ted Turner on "The Phoenix". I still crank it up on a regular basis when I want to sit back and really listen. There is so much going on in the song, it always keeps me interested.
 
Sort of related - during a recent drive home in a friend's car Springsteen's Born to Run came on. I couldn't for the life of me figure it out, but something was missing. When I got home I put the lp on and it immediately clicked. Glockenspiel. The car audio just wasn't up to the task, but my home system let it shine. A definite Ah Ha moment.
 
Farmhand said:
I sit corrected.
One car trip a month ago I played The Police's "Demolition Man" over and over to enjoy Stewart Copeland's drumming.
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Two of my favorite Police tunes were never on LP's.
'Once Upon a Daydream' was the flip side of the Synchronicity II single and should have been on the LP instead of 'Mother', the worst thing the Police ever put to tape.
'I Burn for You' was on the Brimstone and Treacle soundtrack and features an excellent Stewart Copland drum 'solo' over a repetitive tribal bass/vocal line.
Both tunes, actually all their tunes ever recorded are on the Box Set. As much as I've listened to their tunes I always hear something new in them.
 
stereofanboy said:
When listening to Led Zeppelin I used to listen to the singing and the guitar playing. A few years ago I started noticing the drumming a lot more. In the last few months I've been noticing the bass more than ever before.
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Stairway to Heaven when i first heard it as a kid in the 70's -woooow...
 
Man, I thought that I was ALONE in this music world who really focussed(can't use "dig" old slang, eh?) on a certain point in a song...then would crank it up. For me it's "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress", by the Hollies ('72). I dunno? It's just a short riff in the chorus, but a good one! Least I think so.

There's some others with some bass work, but can't think of it right now, eh?

I'm not alone!:)

Q2
 
valvenator said:
Two of my favorite Police tunes were never on LP's.
'Once Upon a Daydream' was the flip side of the Synchronicity II single and should have been on the LP instead of 'Mother', the worst thing the Police ever put to tape.
'I Burn for You' was on the Brimstone and Treacle soundtrack and features an excellent Stewart Copland drum 'solo' over a repetitive tribal bass/vocal line.
Both tunes, actually all their tunes ever recorded are on the Box Set. As much as I've listened to their tunes I always hear something new in them.
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Yep, I was listening to the box set which has everything on it.
Another thing about my listening is that I tend to prefer a band's first one to three albums. Debut albums in particular tend to reflect all that the band has focused on in their formative era- their strongest songs, the crowd pleasers, perfected outside the influence of contracts and studio budgets, in the crucible of vans, dives and ouch tours.
Solo artists, on the other hand, I tend to appreciate for their evolution captured on record. Not in all cases, but in general.
 
stereofanboy said:
When listening to Led Zeppelin I used to listen to the singing and the guitar playing. A few years ago I started noticing the drumming a lot more. In the last few months I've been noticing the bass more than ever before.
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It's cool how a piece of music that one has heard many many times suddenly becomes new again when one concentrates on a new aspect of the piece. I love it.

Anyway, to the point of the OP, yesterday I was listening to some Keb' Mo', "Keep It Simple" and the song "Let your Light Shine" was playing. Suddenly there were 2 backup singers sweetly letting it loose about a meter to my left. Now this is near field listening, about a 1 meter triangle (Yamaha A-520, Canton Quinto 510s and a killer PC sound card). And the imaging with these speakers is fantastic. But I've never heard anything like this before. These girls weren't singing in front of me on the stage. They were singing beside me! And just these 2 ladies, everything else was properly positioned up there on the stage. It gave me goose bumps it sounded so real and so good. I love these little speakers.

Cheers,
James
 
Many, many times by many different artists. Most recently by JJ Grey on "Lochloosa" from the Brighter Days album. First his harmonica playing and then his voice. WOW! Goosebumps.
 
Latest for me is Arcade Fire's Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles). I was on the road for 26 hours with a half decent system in the car and a big box of CDs and was amazed by this. The violins and acoustic guitar are subtle and gorgeous given Arcade Fire's usual ability to go "BIG". Got home and played it on my main system and was blown away.

 
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