Into the Afterlife

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I listened to Into the Afterlife to-day because it was released to-day in 2007, according to Russo's Collector's Guide.  I noticed two things.

The organ part at the very end of Neil MacArthur's "Don't Try to Explain" bears a pretty strong resemblance to the opening organ part of Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale."  I should really write a more in-depth post about this.  Interestingly, the organ part in "A White Shade of Pale" apparently comes from the second movement of Bach's third orchestral suite.  I watched this lecture last year, and it's briefly mentioned at about twenty minutes.

As usual, I worked on my lyric transcriptions, which forces me to pay attention to the words.  So I finally realized that "To Julia for When She Smiles" is very much like "Beechwood Park, Pt. 2."  The later half of the chorus ("An orchard wind will warm my face / Summer senses touch my spine / And 'round my head fine feelings race") seems like a re-working of some lines from "Beechwood Park" - "And the breeze would touch your hair, kiss your face, and make you care / About your world, your summer world."