
Episode 8 - Andy Partridge
Sodajerker On Songwriting
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Scarecrow People
Your songs often don't conform to typical structures, rhythm or harmonic rules. A song like scarecrow people touches on sort of the atonal at times. Do you like working those sorts of clashes into pop songs? It's probably the fact that what you would call a musical clash, or an unusual harmonic thing, or unusual chords, are probably the reason they exist. That's happened in 90 % of my songs. And then it was purely the your describing to yourself the chord or the motion of what you're playing. And the description of that picture to yourself becomes the lyric. We've always been fond of is love on a farm boy's wages. Can i remember how that one came
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