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| From | "Seaman, Dave" <seamand@upmc.edu> |
| Subject | one hook blunders and wonders |
| Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:16:50 -0500 |
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<<< From: "Robert Sutliff" <Rsutliff@columbus.rr.com>
Y'now, I like Semisonic a pretty good bit, but if I hear Closing Time one
more time I'm gonna barf. It was pretty good the first thousand or so times
I heard it. They do have a way with hooks that the rest of us
musicians/auditeers could learn from.>>>
Is it just me, or is anyone else not so impressed with "Closing Time"?
Assuming that the hook in the song refers to the vocal melody that is
introduced in the first few lines of the song -- well, I thought the hook
was decent - not good or bad, just decent. And the song is basically just
this one hook repeated over and over and over and over and over again.
Sorry, but the song just plain kinda bores me.
There are a lot of rock and pop songs over the years that rely upon one
melodic hook and repeat it ad nauseum throughout the song - with maybe only
one or two (or no) brief respites from the one hook. This type of song
usually leaves me cold. There exceptions though -- Rebel Rebel and Twist
and Shout, to name a few more well known ones. Rebel has basically one
hook, the guitar riff - but it is such a great riff... this, the lyrics and
the attitude carry the song for me. And T&S just has such great singing and
spirit and passion - even though I've heard it 10,000 times and it's really
only one vocal hook with a call back vocal, over the same 3 chord pattern -
I still dig it. Usually, though, I prefer a melody that goes some where.
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