Fire Walk With Me
This page is a weird mix of rantings and ravings, Music, graffiti, punk,Doctor Who, postpunk, comics,art, general silliness and GPOB (gratuitous pictures of Bowie). Sometimes I post about the 2012 US elections
white radical nerd lady in my 30s
transplanted to the East Coast US
happily living in sin with my co-conspirator Mr. X
Why did I follow you??
my Dragon Age sideblog
Other tags of interest - Places I Wish I Was Right Now, GPOY, owls, you are cordially invited to my pants, this has been a post, OH MY GOD, Favorite of all the things, Maru is the best cat in the whole world
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Snaps from mini-series Utopia (2013)
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Walls and Street Art Utopia
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That awkward moment where you realize you don’t know what you’re doing.
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z1c:
being 20+ on tumblr
Because mine is “Destroy Everything You Touch” by Ladytron.
the piano has been drinking
my necktie is asleep
and the combo went back to New York
and the jukebox has to take a leak
and the carpet needs a haircut
and the spotlight looks like a prison break
‘Cause the telephone’s out of cigarettes
and the balcony’s on the make
like any dealer looking for a card that is so high and wild he’ll never need to deal another
early dance cuts are pretty fun, especially the factory tracks
this is probably like the sixth time I’ve posted this song but I don’t care: it’s great
more postpunk today
feeding you post-punk tracks today
secret stress-beater playlist
I heard an especially egregious offender (Bryan Adams) while in the pharmacy today, and was reminded of this website.
1. Who or what is a truck driver’s gear change?
Many writers and arrangers feel that when their song is in risk of getting a bit tired, it can be given a fresh lease of life by shifting the whole song up a key, usually in between choruses, towards the beginning of a “repeat-till-fade” section. You may have heard this technique informally referred to as “modulation”, but the correct ethnomusicological term for the phenomenon is thetruck driver’s gear change. This reflects the utterly predictable and laboured nature of the transition, evoking a tired and over-worked trucker ramming the gearstick into the new position with his – or, to be fair, her – fist.Contrary to what many people seem to think, the truck driver’s gear change is in no way inventive, interesting or acceptable: it is in fact an utterly appalling and unimaginative admission that you’ve run out of inspiration and the song should have ended one minute ago; but you’re under pressure to make something which can be stretched out to the length of a single. The concept of the truck driver’s gear change seems to transcend all musical styles, from Perry Como to The Misfits, although my investigations reveal that it’s most prevalent in mainstream pop, and, let’s face it, it’s unlikely to feature in hip-hop. But who’s to say.
This may perhaps all sound a little abstract. So for recommended initiation into the concept of the truck driver’s gear change, I suggest you check out Crazy Crazy Nights by Kiss, which is a perfect example of the, ahem,oeuvre. Many experts agree that the single greatest gear change of all time is Michael Jackson’s Man In The Mirror, though you should be aware that it may make you physically sick. In a subtler vein, gear changes like Gabrielle’s Sunshine are for the experienced listener only.
Once this has been pointed out to you, you will start hearing it all over the damn place.
I’m not a big remix person but I cannot get enough of this Soulwax remix.
