Ruins
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Post by Ruins on Feb 25, 2007 14:57:22 GMT -5
"Sitting" has a great one too: "And if I make it to the waterside, will I even find me a boat
(or so)?"
Huge climax
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Post by Ortega on Feb 25, 2007 16:40:51 GMT -5
Yes, that's a great line in SITTING, but maybe Cats songs are nor really up to an climax like the songs of a band like YES... (sorry, for this one!)
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Post by waterice on Feb 25, 2007 22:29:21 GMT -5
Sitting is a great example.
Not sure about Yes though...too much noodling around with not enough dynamics - a lack of Auralgasms if you ask me.
W.
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Post by Daddy-o on Feb 26, 2007 1:18:12 GMT -5
Yes, were/are great musicians, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman... however, their lyrics are mostly pretentious nonsense. As the actress said to the Bishop, "I much prefer the Cat climax!" Cat's songs have really stood the test of time whereas Yes I feel are stuck in that 70s pomp rock time warp and certainly way too much noodling. :-) Don't ask me about Jon Anderson's vocals please!
Actually, I will say he sounds like Minnie Mouse on helium. sorry Yes, pet hate!
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Post by valleycreeper on May 2, 2007 23:58:36 GMT -5
"18th Avenue" has one of the biggest of all time building in that big instrumental break, only to let it drop right at the end rather anticlimactically-- which is great. It was the fatalistic early 70s, realistic, aware of the promise of life, but aware that it can slip away, without one having control over it...
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Post by georgeringo2 on Jul 22, 2010 5:38:39 GMT -5
When I was a teenager I learned to play and sing all of Cat Stevens's songs. I had two big thick anthologies which contained articles about Cat Stevens as well as sheet music. In one of the articles, Cat Stevens describes "Peace Train" as a "sexy song." I recently mentioned this to a friend and she said she doesn't believe he ever said that. Does anyone know where I can find that quote?
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Post by Vivian on Jul 22, 2010 6:48:57 GMT -5
When I was a teenager I learned to play and sing all of Cat Stevens's songs. I had two big thick anthologies which contained articles about Cat Stevens as well as sheet music. In one of the articles, Cat Stevens describes "Peace Train" as a "sexy song." I recently mentioned this to a friend and she said she doesn't believe he ever said that. Does anyone know where I can find that quote? I sort of remember seeing that quote somewhere, but I think Cat was trying to be funny when he called Peace Train "sexy", because its meaning should be obvious. If Cat had really meant it to be "sexy", I don't think Yusuf would sing it today. Just my thought. Peace,Vivian |
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Post by doorcat13 on Jan 10, 2011 23:27:58 GMT -5
Listen again to "trouble". He starts out calm and peaceful and builds to agony. I think that my be what you mean
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Post by peacock on Jan 11, 2011 0:39:20 GMT -5
Most songs have climaxes. So do stories, if they're any good. It's the classic literary arc.
The "Peace Train" thing is discussed in another thread here . . . and some of the replies were really funny.
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Post by Monty Python on Jan 11, 2011 6:06:03 GMT -5
In "Hardheaded Woman", leading into the "I know, many fine feathered friends"... the music drops right down, and then BAM!
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Post by s271 on Jan 12, 2011 8:25:19 GMT -5
In "Hardheaded Woman", leading into the "I know, many fine feathered friends"... the music drops right down, and then BAM! Yes, I LOVE it! |
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Post by purplemoon on Jan 20, 2011 18:26:16 GMT -5
I composer I once knew always referred to this
as a "musical aspiration." Rachmaninov was famous for
this -- especially in playing Chopin. Franz Liszt
was often forced to stop playing because women would
faint during his recitals. (Did anyone ever faint at a
Cat Stevens concert?) My favorite Cat Stevens aspiration
is in Caritas.
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Post by aurarisma on Jan 20, 2011 21:12:38 GMT -5
they are called "crescendo's" "staccato's" "allegro" "adagio" etc.... in music theory and composition LOLOLOLOL His voice is an instrument remember people :  I feel he is like a conductor when He sings because He feels all the instruments .. He envisioned the orchestration ...truly magnificent ! |
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Post by aurarisma on Jan 20, 2011 21:14:24 GMT -5
if you listen to classical music you will feel it as well... his orchestrations are prolific !!
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Post by csgoldengirl1 on Aug 2, 2011 16:39:16 GMT -5
i gotta say hard headed woman,live, and tuesdays dead, those are ultimate orgasims, and for a third i would say i wish i wish csgoldengirl1 canada
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2011 3:26:30 GMT -5
Listen again to Sweet Scarlet...
She could move mountains in the dark as silent as a knife,
She cut loose a life that she never, no never really wanted,
All those days are frozen now and all those scars are gone,
Ah, but the song carries on...so holy.
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I feel he is like a conductor when He sings because He feels all the instruments .. He envisioned the orchestration ...truly magnificent !