Wednesday, October 27, 2010

A Rock Symphony With A Weird Moment

So, one other thing from my night that I kind of left out: a few months ago I discovered a song called "New Morning" by a band called Alpha Rev. I heard it again tonight on the radio, which leads me to believe that it's becoming more popular, which is pretty cool. In my opinion, this is a song that actually makes worthy use of all of the strings and wailing guitars that, in many songs, just sounds trite and makes the song's delivery overstated. I think I would like to hear this song performed by a full orchestra. There are just two weird things about this song to me--particularly weird things, actually:
  • The words, as a whole don't really make sense. This usually bothers me. In this case it doesn't. I really do like many individual lines, though, like "all the gold that we could eat." Kind of makes you think about how some people try to fill themselves up with money.
  • The music is perfect except for that weird piano that comes in about 40 seconds in to the link above. It takes away from this whole grand symphony sound the song has going for it with the strings just before it. It sounds very folky, almost country-ish. It's also a very boring, staccato arpeggio. I just find it kind of lame because it sounds exactly like what I played on my electric guitar one time to avoid just strumming a D chord--I just played the top three notes that way. Just kind of weird how it's placed.

Anyway, this song's merits and faults both make it extremely interesting, more so than any other song that has something that normally really gets on my nerves.

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