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"A Day in the Life" by The Beatles

Strong Songs

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The Psychodelic Experience in Beetles Music

This section is where any kind of semblance of focus and structure that we had just melts away. The music begins to reflect much more directly the psychodelic experience that the lyrics are hinting at. When the beetles sang, i'd love to turn you on, it's a not so subtle reference to delic drugs. And when they broke out the studio orchestra and did that massive glasando to set up the next section in the song. I love this section for what it is and for the function that it fulfils.

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