Some Amazing Facts About Music
About Repeating Songs or “ELEVATED OBSERVATIONS”
If we like something, we try to get more of it resp. to do it again.
Obviously our brain is programmed to repeat the good things in order to feel well and comfortably. You can confirm this by listening to music. There is a certain nice feeling, if you play your favorite song more than one time.
One of the biggest pop groups of the Sixties and Seventies, called The Hollies managed the trick of bringing the same song twice onto a record.The remarkable album “Butterfly” contains a tune named “Elevated Observations” followed by …. the same song. So, the astonishing fact is, that the same song on this album can be found twice. I don’t know any LP, that contains a double in this form.
So The Hollies made a historic album, congratulation boys!
And by the way the album is an orchestral masterpiece, dealing with the flower-power area of this time.
Silence In Music
There is a famous german author named Heinrich Böll, who published the story of “Dr. Murke’s collected Silence”. In this novel all the breaks without speech were collected, one minute in the whole.
Refering to music we know a similar thing. You don’t suspect it, but there are tunes, which don’t just have vocals and instrumental music but short moments of …silence. You’ve read correctly. Breaks, stops, interruptions or pauses that make the recording attractive.
For instance sometimes a song gets to the end und it is finished — so you think — but after after a short while it continues. It’s a terrible thing for a discjockey, if he doesn’t know this, because he begins to talk after the supposed end, until suddenly the music goes on.
Famous examples herfore are
Hello Goodbye (the Beatles)
No Matter What (Badfinger)
Zabadak (DDDBM & T)
Maybe you know another tune, that fits in the described scheme.
Songs And Dogs
Animals are also a topic in pop music occasionally. “Me and You and A Dog Named Boo” by Lobo or “Mad Dogs and Englishman” by Joe Cocker.
However, it will be more interesting if these animals also make their characteristic sounds before, in or after the music. For example, in “Sweet Little Rock ’n’ Roller” by Rod Stewart or in the midst of “The Universal” by the Small Faces. Here the dog barks loudly and amicably. And by the way, these are by no means the worst songs …
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