Investigating the music of the Electric Light Orchestra while trying to learn all of the parts.
Saturday, September 25, 2021
"Help Yourself"
In "Help Yourself," there's the recurring section "But you can never change / You just keep on being you." That this repeats without any variation illustrates the "never chang[ing]."
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Help Yourself
Saturday, September 18, 2021
"From out of Nowhere"
I have a handful of notes about From out of Nowhere to write about, and I'm going to try to write a post a week, going song by song.
I noticed a couple small features in the chorus of "From out of Nowhere":
Let me goLet me flyTo a place that I loveLet me fly awayAnd start again
"Go," the first "fly," and "away" are all sung with melismas (I think they're E F# E, E F# E, and D C# B, respectively). These all provide a musical sense of movement.
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From out of Nowhere
Saturday, September 11, 2021
"Alone in the Universe"
I was thinking about "Alone in the Universe" yester-day and realized that - like "When the Night Comes" - the lyrics contain the phrase "all alone" and since "all" and "alone" start with the same sound, there's a sense of the singularity of being alone.
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Alone in the Universe
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