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| From | "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: Introducing Sparks-Repeat The Hook Line Over And Over |
| Date | Sat, 1 Dec 2007 23:36:11 -0800 |
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> To tell the truth, if I see an unknown guitar-pop CD in the bins that
> has the timings on the back cover, I will almost always put it back if
> the songs average over four minutes, because I know that most of those
> songs are going to have two minutes' worth of repeated choruses at the
> end, and they're almost always going to be songs that would be 100%
> better if they were over and out at 2:45.
>
> S
Now that I think about it, another reason several of today's pop songs are
too long is that their intros are overly extended; sometimes it seems like
I'm waiting interminably for the vocal to kick in.
David
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