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| From | Kerry Kompost <kerry_kompost@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Great Outros |
| Date | Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:03:43 -0700 (PDT) |
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After bridges, outros are my favorite things about songwriting; I often strive to make my outros completely different and uplifting as compared to the rest of the song. Some songs lend themselves to cool outros moreso than others...
Two of my all-time favorite outros are XTC's "The Wheel and the Maypole" from "Wasp Star", where Andy Partridge masterfully melds the preceeding two completely musically-unlike sections into one glorious, cosmic mind-fuck.
The other is the ending of Transatlantic's "Duel With the Devil" from the "Bridge Across Forever" album; the chord progression -- utilized subtly in many preceeding sections (it's a 25-minute epic after all) -- is one of the most beautiful, spirialing, emotional set of changes I'm ever likely to hear in this lifetime. Absolutely inspired.
And I've always had the softest of spots for the outro of "California Girls" (as well as the intro, verses and choruses LOL). Just spine-tinglingly great; it's just two chords but that interval does something to my soul, especially with all tbose rainy-day Southern California vocal harmonies. That song makes me cry...
kErrY
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