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Tell Me In the Morning

By Paisleyfrog on September 29, 2024 6:37 pm

A bit of a frustrating week for music - started a track on Tuesday and lost it to a crash, plus just a lot stuff going on (as my younger step-kid said, "Friday was a long week".)

Which leads to to Thursday! I've been thinking a lot about the song structure of The Cars and power pop, where the verse and chorus frequently has the same chord progression. (Something I didn’t do in Vicki Says). I was stuck for what to do, so I loaded up three Session players, gave them a I-V-vi-IV progression to chew on and looped it. Put an arp with delay over the top and started playing guitar - and this song popped out. What is it about arps that just creates ideas?

I was initially thinking about The Cure, but the track ended up with a pretty heavy Modern English flavor. Lyrics came up on the way to work on Friday, by singing along with the bed track until some sounds and words seemed to fit. (Related: did I end up singing the chorus with a somewhat faux English accent? Yes, yes I did.)

Much like Vicki Says, the lyrics here seem to fall under the umbrella of “anxious love song.”

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Yesterday 12:23 pm

lament.config

That was great!  I don't know Modern English so well but I sure do know The Cure and the guitars and chorus had some pretty deep Cure flavours in them.  I looooved the synth opening and what you did with the guitar at the end.  Much fun, very well done.

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Yesterday 4:34 pm

neon liminal

Absolutely masterful. I mean you had me at the electric keys and guitar in the first 30 seconds but everything after was "genre perfect" which is a high nerdy compliment from me cuz I really respect the attention to detail. Definitely get The Cure here but also Joy Division - a little Love Will Tear Us Apart here. And props on that fade out! heart

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Yesterday 7:15 pm

MRDRCAT

This is WONDERFUL. Definitely right to my heart (as a fan of both 80s and power pop). The arps are lovely, you NAILED the guitar sound of the era, and can we just stop right here and full-on appreciate your vocal work? You're doing just the right little tweaks to make your voice fit all these styles you're flitting between. Positively stellar.

Side note: I (years ago) backed a Kickstarter for a "new 80s" compilation that was supposed to mimic the new wave comps of old but with all original music that sounded as though it just fell through the cracks until being rediscovered. That comp, while pretty darn good, was a little uneven (some tracks didn't quite fit). If "Tell Me In the Morning" was on that disc it would have been the standout track, hands down.

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Yesterday 10:58 pm

SteveSkiano

Bloody brilliant, mate! I particularly liked the guitar solo break down, and the way the background harmony sat so nicely in the background.

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