Takin' Care of Business is the thesis, and Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) is the answer waiting on deck.
Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) by Bangles off Gold (3) (2020) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in. Inside Pop/Rock pocket, it still feels like a real choice rather than a decorative one. Inside Pop/Rock pocket, it still earns its place as an authored move. Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) is already changing how the current record reads.
A stretch where Mr Rassy stays with one pocket of sound long enough for the details to show.
Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) by Bangles off Gold (3) (2020) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in. Inside Pop/Rock pocket, it still feels like a real choice rather than a decorative one. Inside Pop/Rock pocket, it still earns its place as an authored move.
Hearing it against Sounds of the Seventies - '70s Gold matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Takin' Care of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive off Sounds of the Seventies - '70s Gold (1998) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.
Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) by Bangles off Gold (3) (2020) instead of crowding the next move.
Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) by Bangles off Gold (3) (2020) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in. Inside Pop/Rock pocket, it still feels like a real choice rather than a decorative one. Inside Pop/Rock pocket, it still earns its place as an authored move.
Hearing it against Sounds of the Seventies - '70s Gold matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Takin' Care of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive off Sounds of the Seventies - '70s Gold (1998) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.
Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) by Bangles off Gold (3) (2020) instead of crowding the next move.
Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) by Bangles off Gold (3) (2020) cools the temperature after Takin' Care of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive off Sounds of the Seventies - '70s Gold (1998) and lets the turn breathe. Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves Ironic by Alanis Morissette off The Collection (2005) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in. Inside Pop/Rock pocket, it still earns its place as an authored move.
Hearing it against Gold (3) matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) by Bangles off Gold (3) (2020) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Bangles, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.
Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to Ironic by Alanis Morissette off The Collection (2005) instead of crowding the next move.
Ironic by Alanis Morissette off The Collection (2005) stays related to Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) by Bangles off Gold (3) (2020) through pop/rock, but changes the pocket enough to matter. Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. Inside Pop/Rock pocket, it still feels like a real choice rather than a decorative one. Inside Pop/Rock pocket, it still earns its place as an authored move.
Hearing it against The Collection matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Ironic by Alanis Morissette off The Collection (2005) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Alanis Morissette, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.
Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead.
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Mr Rassy is lining up Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) by Bangles off Gold (3) (2020). Hearing it against Gold (3) matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Walk Like An Egyptian (Dub Mix) by Bangles off Gold (3) (2020) cools the temperature after Takin' Care of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive off Sounds of the Seventies - '70s Gold (1998) and lets the turn breathe. The transition is earning its place instead of skating by on vibe. Pop/Rock pocket is opening up.