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If it sounds like they are a little unsure and struggling somewhat consider that the song has many awkward aspects and lacks -except in the chorus- the preferred antecedent consequent phrasings of popular music. 6/8 may have been a better meter choice for the Biblical words to align with but that...

They start out circa 94 bpm and end at circa 101. Louie Louie is hardly a song to engender a tempo rush.

Lovely. Studying her delivery suggests there was much more than anorexia tormenting her. The production is sure is slick but that was the era of getting a sheen with those 8 or 16 tracks. Bass seems tight. Who was the sax player?

He starts the car then closes the door-yikes but I guess that is par for a guy who leaves his Buick in the surf.

Nice reinterpretation of the Lennon song! Dark but appropriate.

Appropriately tragic. Clearly tapping into Bach's output.

Narcissism isn't that interesting. Those who find this compelling should perhaps try and move beyond 6th grade tastes.

Is Cher suing?

It looks like Weinberg has half abandoned his traditional orthodox stick grip. The song's message calls out for an "unorthodox" drum stick grasp. What year was this?

Ellroy states that Carey died in his seventies but wikipedia states Carey died at age 65. That misstatement seems odd.

It would be pretty agonizing for even grown children who just lost their mother to hear their father use this song to court a new wife after only a few months.

To avoid a devastating elegiac impact the tempo was kept "perky". If you listen carefully you'll hear a guitar part in the intro veering off on the last count. There are many possible explanations considering the recording technology of the 60s. Today, such a minor slip up in tracking scrutiny w...

Serious pianists have lusted for a grand that stays in tune. A prototype was built but it is doubtful it would be affordable. It had each string adjusted at the hitch pin (280 strings!)

An acoustic piano that never needed actual tuning and affordable. That would be a good thing.

Paid too much for drumming I guess. Few of us could just destroy our stuff in a fit of anger-we don't have the funds to buy a replacement before the next modest booking. Yes, many of us have been highly annoyed at balky or actually possessed equipment out to harm us or make us look incompetent ...

Many found this song very compelling and unsettling. Did we relate to the one cursed with a roaming desire or the one who would inadvertently join with such a person.

To heiak2llu: such a comment shows your massive ignorance. One can indeed compose a better song but is that the secret to winning? Hardly. The winning song this year is very cliche and immature. There were probably better crafted and more compelling songs which lost out to this treacly boring song.

It seems that Wayne is reading his lines. Lee Marvin in an interview said much of Wayne's iconic movie persona was sculpted by the director John Ford. Nothing wrong with that-both were professionals but it should be a reminder that the iconic images we see in our movie stars are highly calculated...

Even at very low quality (45rpm singles) many listeners can still glean the impact of culturally relevant musical expression. Most pop/rock/metal music today can still engender a powerful visceral impact with compression tricks and perfectly sculpted samples even mixed down to MP3. Maybe the high...

Wonderfully giving music. It took concentration and dedication to write as he did yet the result seems to be devoid of self aggrandizing ego. He tapped into something positive about existence. His engagement with sound, harmony, rhythm and melodic line was so joyful hearing the results of his wor...

Kubrick certainly made a powerful statement about how war can induce sadism in fragile males. Guys who shoot unarmed peasants for fun are weaklings. Those who find it "cool" or bitchin' or manly need to see a psychiatrist immediately. If you make comical comments you are a threat to normal minds...

Used for rueful affect in SOLARIS in suggesting that any contact and intervention by radically different life forms would most likely result in tragically misguided results. Bach's music suggested that mankind's existential dread might be assuaged by reaching out to a merciful deity. Might that ...

As used in SOLARIS this piece ruefully pointed out that communication and intervention between radically different species would most likely turn out tragically misguided. Bach's music suggests that mankind should seek existential solace from communication with a merciful deity. Might that also b...

@themightychickens My version or treatment (called FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH DARKER VERSION UPDATE) is certainly not a mash up. It's really more of an elegiac homage. The tune is from my era just before I got drafted in '67. I used the tracks from the Forest Gump CD and just rolled off the bass somewh...

This is almost unbearable to watch. Monroe had everything going for her physically and yet she was probably as unhappy with her life as any woman could be. Miller crafted the lines but some couldn't have been more heartbreaking if she had written them herself.

@SuperKingjazz No connection I can discern or glean. Just that deep male choir sample heavy on reverb and some noddling. Space cocktail music?

Very enlightened right material right? Let's see now- the function of Annie was to put out and when a pregnancy occurred the sperm nozzle male became annoyed that her first allegiance then switched to a helpless and sadly hapless baby. Hey, that's a hoot. These male utterances are just too funn...

Ripping off The Animals isn't nice.

Professionals know that ALL songs can be improved. Most omprove the progression -just look at any jazz fake book. Don't make the guy out to be some god please. The tune basically is a rip off of Makin' Whoopie which was written by a better composer ten years earlier. Hey, Fats did his thing and ...