Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Lady - Little River Band

From 1978. A blast from my youth.  Deep pop atmospherics here.  High narrative content in the chord progression and instrumentation/production.  Particularly in the verse.  In the chorus, the vocal harmonies take over the song (in a good way but the atmosphere isn't there like in the verse). The jazzy verse-break about 2/3 of the way through sort of reduces the impact for me.  But it was an arrangement of its time, so that kind of thing probably couldn't be avoided...

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