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For my
Collection Audit project, I listened to Argent's
All Together Now to-day. I never got around to mentioning something that I noticed last time I listened to it: in "Tragedy," after the synchronized guitar and bass part, there's an overdubbed percussion part (I think it's a hi-hat, but I don't know much about percussion, so I'm not sure) starting at about 2:38. It does something similar to the mellotron at the beginning and end of "Changes" (the stereo version of "Changes," at least). But where the mellotron part in "Changes" goes in only one direction (from left to right at the beginning and from right to left at the end), this percussion part seems to travel in a circular direction. It goes right to left, but then left to right and continues on that way. There's a similar effect (I think also with mellotron) in the Moody Blues' "The Best Way to Travel." They add echo or reverb or something to every other pass to create some depth though, which Argent doesn't do.
Listening to it to-day, I also noticed something about "I Am the Dance of Ages." Some sections of the lyrics have doubled-tracked vocals. I can't find anything in the lyrics that would really lend themselves to having doubled-tracked vocals though (I can't find anything that they particularly emphasize, I mean).
It's the bold sections below:
I am the beat of anger
The temple of your hate
Horseman in the night
Hell-bound in the night
And
I am the body power
The rhythm of your joy
Spiral in the air
A line inside a prayer
That "I am the body power" section appears twice, but only the second time has that vocal double-tracking.
