All Together Now

I recently listened to Argent's All Together Now a couple times and found some things to write about.

"Hold Your Head Up"

After the organ solo, starting at about 4:24, the titular "Hold your head up" is sung to this melody:

(I'm still not sure whether "Hold Your Head Up" is in D major or D minor, but this part fits more readily into D minor since there's an F natural.)

First of all, the melody here ascends, so there's a musical portrayal of "up."  More interesting though, this is something of an inversion of the famous phrase that opens Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.  Here are the first few measures of the string section:

(notation found here)

Like Beethoven's phrase, the phrase in "Hold Your Head Up" consists of three notes of one pitch followed by a single note of an-other pitch.  Although the phrases are going in opposite directions, the phrase in "Hold Your Head Up" even uses the same notes as the second phrase in Beethoven's opening:  D and F.

Musically, it's flipped, and the mood is flipped too.  The opening of this Beethoven symphony is often used in television and films to convey foreboding.  In contrast, "Hold Your Head Up" is a song about encouragement: "And if it's bad, don't let it get you down / You can take it."

"He's a Dynamo"

I still can't make out many of the lyrics in this, but I noticed that the line "Smoke risin' high from his strings" ascends (I think it's F# G# A A# C# D# F#), so there's a musical representation of the "risin'."

"Pure Love"

"Rest your head / Waiting you lie / For tomorrow you die" resembles part of Isaiah 22:13: "'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.'"  "For tomorrow you/we die" is the same at least.