In anticipation of American Dust's release of superior song craftsmen The Bye Bye Blackbirds debut album, House and Homes, we're going to introduce a new feature to the AD blog called Anatomy of a Song.
Every week we'll introduce a different song element and request that you, the readers, write comments that include your favorite examples of that particular element from the history of "popular" song.
This week: The Bridge
Writing a great bridge is a lost art in songwriting and it's sorely missed.
Let us know your favorite all-time song bridges.
For example, my favorites are:
Carole King/Aretha Franklin/et.al. - You Make Me Feel Like
A Natural Woman
Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman
Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
The Beatles - She Said She Said
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7 comments:
Carole King/Aretha Franklin/et.al. - You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman
Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman
Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
The Beatles - She Said She Said
obv i am the walrus
sitting in an english garden waiting for the sun, if the sun don't come you get a tan from standing in the english rain
Nirvana: "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter"
In the middle of an otherwise unrelenting blast of noise aggression comes a diamond of truth wrapped in a blanket of emotive pop:
Hate, hate your enemies
Save, save your friends
Find, find your place
Speak, speak the truth
how about the bridge in that one lightning bolt song?
Top 5 All-Time Favorite Bridges:
1. A Day in the Life - The Beatles
2. Hung Upside Down - The Buffalo Springfield
3. Do Ya - E.L.O
4. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Tarrel
5. Autumn Almanac - The Kinks
Party Pick: Little Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham and the Pharoes
In the Morning of the Magicians - The Flaming Lips
Answering Machine / Favorite Thing (tie)- The Replacements
Botchla - Poison the Well
Yes, recent Rush is universally panned, but a) they're still in my Top 2 of All Time Bands, and b) I can't argue with my heart, so:
On "Test for Echo," there's a song called "Resist," which is pretty much standard fare musically, but possesses a strange lyrical structure, the bridge of which goes:
You can surrender
Without a prayer
But never really pray
Pray without surrender
You can fight,
Fight without ever winning
But never, ever win
Win without a fight
Part of me hates these lines because it comes across like any lyric by Gavin Rossdale/Bush. Yet I don't know, it loops in my head, it's never left me. Dig it.
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