Friday, April 7, 2017

"Maybe after He's Gone"

A couple days ago, I realized something about the bridge of "Maybe after He's Gone," specifically the line "All the days and all the nights."  Colin Blunstone sings "All the days and" by himself (although I'm pretty sure his vocal is double-tracked), but then the backing vocals (I'm assuming it's both Rod Argent and Chris White) come in for "all the nights."  There's a bit of staccato for that phrase too, and both of those things musically emphasize the "all."  The additional voices sort of represent the multitude, and the insistence of that slight staccato is almost like a tally counting up the number of nights.