Investigating the music of the Electric Light Orchestra while trying to learn all of the parts.
Friday, September 19, 2025
"Julie Don't Live Here"
The alliteration in the line "A town I knew so well, but it seemed so strange" in "Julie Don't Live Here" provides a small sense of degree.
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Julie Don't Live Here
Thursday, September 18, 2025
"Rain Is Falling"
Near the beginning of "Rain Is Falling," there are pizzicati in the string part. This is a technique that's often used to portray raindrops musically, which obviously fits the theme of the song.
Additionally, the first two notes establish a pattern of descending pairs, so there's even a picture of the "falling." The part is something like this:
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Rain Is Falling
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
"Ticket to the Moon"
"Ticket to the Moon" starts with the lines "Remember the good old 1980s / When things were so uncomplicated." Time is from 1981, though, so this remark is obviously a sort of ironic nostalgia. That the lines have only a slant rhyme (and a strained one at that) seems to hint that the sentiment isn't genuine.
In a small way, the alliterative "so soon" in the line "I'll be rising high above the Earth so soon" gives a sense of degree.
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Ticket to the Moon
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
"Twilight"
I listened to Time again last week and noticed a handful of features.
In the repeated line "I only meant to stay a while" at ~2:53 in "Twilight," "while" has an echo effect applied to it, and because the word has this sort of elongation, there's a sense of duration.
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Twilight
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