Sunday, March 17, 2019

"Thunder and Lightning"

I listened to Argent's Encore this morning and noticed a number of things, although I have to go back and make sure I haven't already written about some of them.

About four years ago, I noticed that in "Thunder and Lightning" after the lines "There are times when you feel so good / That the only way to move is down" there's a descending phrase in the bass part to representing that "mov[ing]... down" musically.  Listening to the song this time, I noticed that the "down" in the lines "Thunder and lightning / Striking me down" is sung with a descending melisma (C Bb Ab F) for the same effect.  This is present in the live version on Encore and in the studio version on Nexus.