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the rollercoaster clunges down into the abyss. | the rollercoaster clunges down into the abyss. | ||
Now Clem Burke sets the pace, hauling frantically at the beat, a brisk four-on-the-floor stomp, | Now Clem Burke sets the pace, hauling frantically at the beat, a brisk four-on-the-floor stomp, | ||
{{Quote|Atomic vamp drum beat}} | |||
dragging the band along at 135 — you know he’d go 150 if they’d only get a leg on — just two measures in and he’s given up on the quarter notes and is impatiently drumming his fingers with sarcastic hi-hat triplets | |||
{{Quote|quarter notes triplets}} | |||
as if to say, NO RUSH GUYS JUST WHEN YOU ARE READY. | |||
Come on, man, we haven’t got all day — don’t you know there’s a sweaty disco cataclysm going down? | |||
But | But Stein and Infante and their cool-hand Ennio Morricone guitars will not be rushed. | ||
There is a new sheriff in town, his vibe is dreamy double-tracked twang and I want to believe that this is where | |||
{{Quote|wicked game}} | |||
James Calvin Willsey learnt everything he knew, God rest him. | |||
{{Quote| fade in Atomic CR 808 + keyboard swells}} | |||
But underneath it all this tension: | |||
— | |||
Fast against slow. Happy in the face of sad. Lively, but morbid. Descending dark depths but somehow aspiring to the heavens. Is there a mounting, rising angelic keyboard swell? | |||
For all the sombre sombrero guitar, that marching four-beat has got a place to be and Burke lets loose a machine-gun snare to tell us we’re arrived — | |||
====Verse==== | |||
Kaboom! There it is! | Kaboom! There it is! | ||
{{Quote|atomic verse}} | |||
Suddenly we’re exultant: it’s a breezy major. We notice the bass for the first time. | |||
For all the bossanova sequencing, dance music is all about the sync of the bass and kick drum and here it is. Harrison can't decide whether to play it straight, as he does in the first two measures or a walking disco as he does in the third, but the menace is gone. It's triumphant, like an army riding back to the citadel, and people disco dancing in the street , the disco bass leads, and the drummer, Burke, is back in the pocket like he’s saying I told you so. He’s just doing the cha-cha, cheerleading now, for here is the golden goddess. | |||
The Chords | ====The Chords==== | ||
In the verse we have E minor – not quite, but nearly the saddest of all keys . An E minor to a melancholy C, to a | In the verse we have E minor – not quite, but nearly the saddest of all keys . An E minor to a melancholy C, to a dolorous D, to a morose A, and then a D, augmenting back to the E. | ||
But at the same time, listen to the progression rise. There is hopeful expectation of something better? | But at the same time, listen to the progression rise. There is hopeful expectation of something better? | ||
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Atomic. | Atomic. | ||
This broadcast is entirely fan-fictional. Any coincidence between it any any real events is accidental, and highly unlikely. | |||