a thought

[Castro]

just something to occupy me while i recover from hangover (i dont expect you to reply)

this could be a new way of listening to music, unfamiliar stuff in particular, could be a new way of writing music or as the title suggests, something just to think about

i've noticed that with a lot of songs there is something that sounds either out of place, ugly, boring, wrong, a mistake - basically anything that if we were the artist we would omit or change

most times it wont resolve or doesnt fit in the context of the song and it detracts from the song

HOWEVER...some songs use this to their advantage and resolve it later with something nice/harmonic etc. most times this is actually better than the nice bit on its own because the nice part has much more emphasis than before

there are lots of analogies for this; sitting down after a long day is one. sitting down wouldnt feel as good if you weren't tired

the best example i can give of this is a song by arthur russell called 'lets go swimming' give it a listen bearing in mind what i've said

i'll upload it sometime because i hate the hassle of downloading stuff other people tell me to download

[Castro]

heres lets go swimming in .wma

uploadhut.com/view.php/310338.wma

right-click, save target as

[Rubberneck]

so this is going to sound pretty lame, however it is the best example i can think of. download and listen to sarah mcclaughlan...i have no idea how to spell her name..."arms of an angel" i believe is the title of the song. i'm no huge fan of her music, but this song has a unique approach to harmonic progression. the key signature of the song doesn't change, however the I chord (the chord that brings all the resolution) is substituted with a vi chord (the relative minor, this is acceptable in theory) except for at the end of the chorus. so the entire song has this strange detached feeling until the chorus "in the arms of an angel, may you find some comfort here" and she hits the I chord right on the word here...the concept is a lot cooler than the song...if you have heard this tune and blew it off, listen to it again and keep this in mind.

[Castro]

i struggled to find the detatched feeling you were talking about. but i when i thought of it in terms of chord progression it seemed very uplifting - i actually liked it when i focussed on the overall mood created by the chords