Tag: songs
The Beatles: Authorship and Collaboration from Michael Deal’s exploration of Beatles music through infographics. Looking forward to what comes out of the Charting the Beatles project. (via the ever-reliable Wehr in the World)
It’s the lyric that makes a song a hit, although the tune, of course, is what makes it last.
Irving Berlin. This applies to many things besides songwriting.
Saudade
The famous saudade of the Portuguese is a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness but an indolent dreaming wistfulness.
(via molly lambert)
Which reminds me of Chega de Saudade, which some say is the first bossa nova song, which makes perfect sense.
Radiohead: Harry Patch (In memory of)
When I first read this, I thought they meant Harry Partch, which would have been cool, too. Nice tune.
What Johnny Cash likes:
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, judgment day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak, and love. And Mother. And God.
Over the course of more than a decade, Alan Pollack analyzed every Beatles song. Lyrics, form, melody, harmony, arrangement, performance. Wow.
Mark Larson 