A silly blog about silly discoveries in my favourite songs
The first time I listened to Hallelujah by Fit For Rivals, I was immediately distracted by how drunk Renee Phoenix sounds. Her voice itself sounds kind of ‘gravely’ in the way one would expect a voice to sound after drinking an amount of hard liqueur, and she’s somewhat out of time and slurring her speech….
I figured out that it’s not actually a bass, and the original post has been edited to reflect that.
When listening to Welcome to The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance, I noticed the distinctive hiss of a tape recording. Although tape was still relatively common in 2006, I found it to be a bit of a strange choice for a band with so many members, and a song with even more instruments. So,…
I was listening to The Man on the Silver Mountain by Rainbow (my latest musical obsession), when I noticed that I heard something bass-like in the right channel (that wasn’t playing the same notes, nor did it have the same timbre as the bass guitar panned to the center). I shifted all my focus there…