Once In A Lifetime

[Undertoad]

The orgasm. It's just awesome, but only lasts a few seconds. So what if it could be ALL orgasm? Well, how you do that is you turn the compression way up, multitrack the same guitars to death, have a terribly confident "cock-sure" lead vocal, and only take the whole thing down a step for the first half of the third verse. Basically have all the instruments and vox in a big cage match for who can get the most attention. And if you land on a particular riff, switch it out for a new one before anyone has time to enjoy it or react.

Trouble is, this doesn't allow for anything particularly memorable. If everything's out front, nothing's out front. So there is no opportunity for a hook here. And it turns out the orgasm is an orgasm because it lasts seconds. If the orgasm lasts minutes, it becomes something different and we are probably looking for relief from it. That's why this song is 2:45, because if it was 3:00 we would be annoyed and if it was 4:00 we would be pissed off.

Musicians learn that the space between the notes is where the special is. Well, here there's no space at all. That's not good.

If you* want to understand this song and what I'm saying about it, try to whistle it alone. If you can't whistle it, you can't identify a melody. Now remind me what you hate about rap/hip-hop. Right.





*not you Jim, but the editorial you, meaning everyone