I started this song a while back, when I was in a phase of writing singer-songwriter style things on guitar. The original idea of this one was an uptempo boogie shuffle number in the mold of Can’t Get Enough by Bad Company. As I developed it, it became slower and bluesier and a bit less glib, since I’m not so young anymore and my relationship goals aren’t that same as a teenager’s. So it’s a bit more retrospective, looking back on young love from a distance.
Musically, it’s alot more pop than my last song, but still with some interesting twists. The meter shifts from 4/4 to 6/4 throughout, but is more easily expressed as 2/4. I had the basic arrangement of guitar, piano, bass and drums, with the bass kinda channeling Geddy Lee in the verse. But I felt it needed something more. To finish it off I added a horn section of tenor and bari sax, and an ’80’s style lead synthesizer. It took a little while to get the tone and dynamics right on the synth. Lastly I added some real cymbals, played with mallets, to the intro and outro to support the guitar and bring some warmth into supplement the midi sample drum kit.
I now have six complete songs for my new album, whose working title is Plutonium Dirigible. That’s about twenty-eight minutes of music. I have another close-to-ten-minute epic about halfway tracked, and one more song to record after that. Hope to have the record out by the end of year.
Here it is, enjoy!
https://zingman.com/music/mp3/bzvr/AllOfTheAbove33.mp3
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All of the Above
I wasn’t lookin’ for a true love
I was just lookin’ for a new love
I wan’t lookin’ for a long love, strong love
Yeah yeah yeah no, none of the above
I seen you out dancing last Saturday
Monday you’re in my class in chemistry
Now I’m thinking ’bout you and me
Let’s get together for some history
If I invite you backstage tonight all right
We just might dance and party all night
Okay day by day into brave and new love
Now I ain’t waitin’ on no old love
An’ I ain’t wastin’ time on slow love
Tonight I’m wakin’ to some fresh love new love
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, all of the above
And maybe if the love grows who knows how it goes?
A few more shows electric glide power slide
Side by side into a tried and true love
So now I’m sowing seeds of strong love
Maybe grows into long love
It all started with a fast love new love
Yeah yeah yeah, all of the above
So tonight it’s fast love new love long love true love
Yeah yeah yeah yeah all of the above
Oh fast love new love long love true love
Yeah yeah yeah yeah all of the above
Hey fast love new love long love true love
Yeah yeah yeah yeah all of the above
– JFS 7/19