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Comment on On Seeing Jeff Mangum by Steve

Steve — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:19:21 +0000

Ooooh shiiiiit

Comment on On Seeing Jeff Mangum by Ted

Ted — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:10:56 +0000

Have you not heard the studio version of Little Birds? http://walkingwallofwords.com/releases.html

Comment on On Seeing Jeff Mangum by Jeff Mangum played at Irvine Auditorium (setlist, videos)

Jeff Mangum played at Irvine Auditorium (setlist, videos) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:21:53 +0000

[...] As you probably already know, Jeff Mangum was in town last night playing a show at UPenn’s Irvine Auditorium that sold out in 34 seconds. That means a lot of people who wanted to go, including myself, couldn’t get tickets. So, we’re left to check out the setlist to see what we missed and watch whatever videos someone was able to sneak in. Fan-shot videos of “Oh Comely” and “The King of Carrot Flowers” have made their way to YouTube via NewJawnVideos. And the setlist was found on Setlist.fm. Check it all out below. Also, you can read a review of the show by Naomi Shavin for The Key and by Steve Goldberg here. [...]

Comment on On hip instruments and un-hip songs by Rich

Rich — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:54:26 +0000

So that’s NOT Mayim Bialik from The Big Bang Theory and Blossom?

Comment on On hip instruments and un-hip songs by Karen

Karen — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:49:35 +0000

Totally agree. I’m sick of hipsters thinking they can only enjoy a pop song after someone does an acoustic cover wearing glasses. You should publish this somewhere!

Comment on Notes On… A Rose for Emily Pt. 1 by Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies » Blog Archive » Notes On: A Rose For Emily, Pt. 2

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:57:11 +0000

[...] back to the Notes On series. In Part 1 of our analysis of The Zombies’ “A Rose for Emily,” we analyzed the verse and found it to be [...]

Comment on Notes On… Life On Mars Pt. 2 by Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies » Blog Archive » Notes On: Things I Used to Know Pt. 2

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:21:02 +0000

[...] exceptions in measures 2 and 7. The F#dim7 chord is used here exactly as it was in the bridge of Life On Mars — as a connector between the F and Gm chords, creating a smooth chromatic bassline. Another [...]

Comment on Notes On… Life On Mars Pt. 1 by Dave Balcer

Dave Balcer — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:29:22 +0000

Love the analysis despite some of it over my head. I just love music that much. Bowie is a classic and considered awesome by many but I still think his quality/skill/talent is rather underrated. He’s not an imitator. To say so is lazy i think. No shit he loves Dylan/Reed/VU/Iggy but there’s more to ‘em than that. Any good artist is being disingenuous if they act “like whatever” about who their influences may or may not be. I can only assume you’re familiar w/ the 1969 version of “Space Oddity”. Have you seen the promotional clip and in general wadda ya think of the song and vid? The later version i like better but the ’69 version? V cool.

Comment on Notes On… Shutterbug Pt. 3 by Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies » Blog Archive » Notes On… Life On Mars Pt. 1

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:37:20 +0000

[...] it E G# B#. The augmented chord functions similarly here to the way it worked in the chorus of Shutterbug — it provides a kind of dominant effect in the way it pulls towards a resolution via a [...]

Comment on Notes On… Shutterbug Pt. 3 by Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:05:09 +0000

I have a weird relationship with this batch of songs, as it is one of the few that were written while I was the drummer, and then I re-learned when I switched to guitar. I seem to remember the quarter note triplet thing being abandoned for straight eighth notes on the way to the verse, which (after much back and forth)we decided to keep as triplets. I was also going through a pretty serious mid period beatles thing which probably explains the “Ticket to Ride” drum quotes on the second verse.