Musical Notes

[kingandy]

Heard on the Radio One this morning:

BLINDED BY THE SUN LIGHTS by The Streets - By use of keen observation and dilligently-produced trance backing track, FrankMike Skinner successfully recreates all the emotional trauma of a horrible nightclub experience. By which I mean, I just don't get it.

DON'T STOP by The Beautiful South - more than made up for The Streets, it is a cover of an old track by The S Club 7s inna mellow Jazz stylee. Nice. It has been noted that I am a fan of dreadful punk covers; this is not entirely accurate, what I favour is unusual covers of familiar songs.

These are my beliefs. I appreciate that they are WRONG JUST WRONG, but unlike some people I would rather die for my beliefs than kill for them.

EDITED TO ADD: Today's Scary Go Round seems strangely relevant, but I can't quite pin it down.

Comments

Re: Thank you for leaving the knives at home

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

I never leave the knives at home. But sometimes I do tricks with them, rather than cutting flesh from bone.

It's all about resonance. Blinded By The Light leads you recall, re-live & re-imagine events in the past that share something with how the character or something in the song makes you feel. "The Way" by Divine Inspiration, though it only came out this year, stirs up memories of clubbing, parties and times long gone, when I was a very different person. Same with Narcotic Thrust's "I Like It".

What you're seemingly doing is associating memories - a song you listened to a lot in 1996 reminds you of 1996 and you get nostalgic, for good or bad. It's a very different thing to resonance. Associating memories is what I use to remember something. Titian's NWO brief was read and re-read to Static X's "Machine" album, and so I had that running through my head whilst playing the character. Gawain, oddly, was memorised to William Orbit's "Barber's Adagio for Strings" both the original and the Ferry Corsten remix. it soundtracked awain's final battle with Blaine, which made it all the more cinematic for me.

Re: Thank you for leaving the knives at home

[kingandy]

Though I was not there at the time, I can now picture Gawain's last stand quite vividly. It's set to Barber's Adaggio, and it's all in bullet-time. There is no sound but the music. It is raining. Intercut with shots of Xavier, somewhere else, going about his business. Possibly striding.

The knife enters Gawain's body. Drop Barber, Timpani shot. Sound of rain. Somewhere else, Xavier pauses, looks over his shoulder. Has he missed something? Hold for a moment. He shrugs, continues about his business, unconcerned.

Rain falls. A knife falls. Gawain falls, slumped against his adversary.

They're all just meat, Blaine.

Fade to black.

Re: Thank you for leaving the knives at home

[kingandy]

Perhaps not timpani. That goes "BONG", what I was looking for was a sort of crash-boom noise. Maybe a slowed-down gunshot, or a really deep bass drum like on the T2 soundtrack.

Re: Thank you for leaving the knives at home

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

Drawn out thunderclap?

Re: Thank you for leaving the knives at home

[kingandy]

Evocative of, but I think an actual sample would be cheesy. Sympathetic weather (rain) is one thing but orchestrated is strolling into the realms of cliché.

BOOOOOOOM.

Re: Thank you for leaving the knives at home

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

Simulate by hitting a huge sheet of thin metal with a soft-headed mallet. It's metallic, yet booming.