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#168780 by gtZip
Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:24 am
Can you analyze this song?

http://youtu.be/jFmYlasjqzs


To me it's kind of like eastern music, meets the beatles, meets an 80s ballad.

Can anyone put a scope on it and lay out the conventional songwriter notations?
AAB AAB C <--- that sort of thing.

And can you draw any parralels to another song?

To me it's just weird. (And a suicide song if I ever heered one)

#168797 by fisherman bob
Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:12 am
Not available on mobile. Damn, you've got me intrigued. I'll have to get to a computer and check it out.
#168799 by PaperDog
Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:09 am
gtZip wrote:Can you analyze this song?

http://youtu.be/jFmYlasjqzs


To me it's kind of like eastern music, meets the beatles, meets an 80s ballad.

Can anyone put a scope on it and lay out the conventional songwriter notations?
AAB AAB C <--- that sort of thing.

And can you draw any parralels to another song?

To me it's just weird. (And a suicide song if I ever heered one)


It sounds like a melodramatic anthem.....Something along the lines that XTC might do . I dont hear anything eastern in any of it. Its a good piece... And I think the dude, has captured 'urgency', albeit unrequited ...

#168844 by Starfish Scott
Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:53 pm
Ecch soon as I saw it was A7X, that was it for me..

Too bad the Rev is dead but I can't say I am surprised.

#168846 by gtZip
Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:17 pm
I'm not a fan of the band either Scott - a friend turned me on to the song

#168864 by Shapeshifter
Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:33 pm
I'm actually suprised at how little movement there is in the song. I'm not a fan, either, but I have heard some stuff that I liked (this wasn't one). I started to sit down and write out the progression, in terms of verse/chorus/etc., but I'm having a difficult time getting into the song. There are some initial Dream Theater-esque ideas floating around, but it never seems to develop beyond the original theme.

http://youtu.be/jgKHimdfNrY

(You may not want to listen to the whole 23:00, just the intro for comparison).

Also by comparison, the Dream Theater song basically describes one person's entire life. The AV7 song, while clearly having tones of suicide or some kind of self sacrifice, is vague and pretty poorly written...but then again, they are making way more money than I ever will, so they must be doing something right. :lol:

#168880 by gtZip
Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:21 pm
Yep, it struck me how little movement there is too. But it works out somehow.

I'm looking in to 'anthems'.

#168887 by Starfish Scott
Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:52 pm
Didn't the Dream Theatre drummer come into to finish this album because the rev is dead?

That's what i heard.

He's touring in support as well.

#168907 by jsantos
Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:33 pm
Chief Engineer Scott wrote:Didn't the Dream Theatre drummer come into to finish this album because the rev is dead?

That's what i heard.

He's touring in support as well.


This is correct Mr. Scott! Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater is now the drummer for Ax7.

#168926 by ANGELSSHOTGUN
Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:07 am
Intro(TAG) A, Tag, A, B, Tag, A, B, Expanded Tag, A, A,out.

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