Category Archives: Ways of Ending
The Tangent and the Tease: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, “Long Hard Book” (2011)
“Long Hard Book” by Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks is already an eccentric experience– dreamy, slide-y, almost crashed by strange modulations at 0:58 and 1:45–when at 1:58 the band goes off on a totally different path of guttural guitar statements … Continue reading
Experiments of Ending: Everything But The Girl, “Before Today” (1996)
Although I’ve claimed elsewhere that pop music is a spinning carousel of pleasure that never wants to stop, it’s also a fact that any piece of music is full of intended endings—the endings of notes and phrases, at least, but … Continue reading
The Happy Last Chance: The Assemblers, “Media Mind” (2002)
Ending is a difficult subject to take up in the Hooks context because popular music is against the whole idea of ending. It wants to be an inexhaustible fountain of joy. The aesthetically lame but amazingly prevalent device of the … Continue reading
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