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Undertoad · 07-14-2012, 08:38 AM

It's all about the rule-breaking here!

The drum and bass parts are mostly a loop. Most of the rhythm section is a 2-bar loop. There is no way in hell, ever, that a 2-bar loop can be interesting for four minutes. But the Gavin Harrison bit points out, yeah, it gets interesting when things are not where you expect them. Listen to Once In A Lifetime for the cymbal crashes and you find them at exactly the wrong place! The single out-of-place tom beat is such a rule-break and to have it be consistently "wrong" is just weird. It throws you just slightly out of kilter and that's the entire point of the song. Where does that highway go to?

07-14-2012, 08:38 AM	#10
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It's all about the rule-breaking here! The drum and bass parts are mostly a loop. Most of the rhythm section is a 2-bar loop. There is no way in hell, ever, that a 2-bar loop can be interesting for four minutes. But the Gavin Harrison bit points out, yeah, it gets interesting when things are not where you expect them. Listen to Once In A Lifetime for the cymbal crashes and you find them at exactly the wrong place! The single out-of-place tom beat is such a rule-break and to have it be consistently "wrong" is just weird. It throws you just slightly out of kilter and that's the entire point of the song. Where does that highway go to?