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Favorite Montage Song
« on: May 11, 2005, 11:33:55 PM »
I was wondering what everyone's favorite "montage" style song (Beatles or otherwise) was.  By montage, I guess I mean the bits and scraps of songs that were plugged together into a single song such as Paul's "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" or the b-side of Abbey Road.  Brian Wilson did some similar stuff on Smile.   I'd say these songs are lyrically descended from the modernists such as Pound or Eliot.  Dylan did a lot of montage lyrics but never a montage musically, as far as I know.  

Right now I'm gonna go with "Happiness is a Warm Gun"--I think it hangs together thematically, and builds musically, the best of all the montage songs I've heard.  

The b-side of Abbey Road is almost there but is a little too transparently weaving together song scraps.

Any ideas?
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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2005, 12:16:51 PM »
My favorites would be:

"Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys - a three-and-a-half-minute "pocket symphony" that took six months to record, and its many melodic changes and complex vocal arrangements were worked out over 90 hours of tape.

"Heroes & Villains", "Cabinessence" and "Surf's Up" from Brian Wilson's SMILE - besides being elegantly structured musically, lyrically and sonically, the interesting thing is each of them is just a part of a bigger piece called "suite" or section, and SMILE is a unified long work in 3 sections (Americana, Cycle of Life, Elements) with a 4th short section comprised of "Our Prayer" into "Good Vibrations"as a coda. Freakin' genius!

"A Day In The Life" - no need to explain

Abbey Road Side 2 suite - of course
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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2005, 11:46:47 PM »
Besides the obvious Beatles stuff, I'd have to add things like "Starship Trooper" among others by Yes; and any number of things, especially off of "Hemispheres" by Rush.
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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2005, 01:42:16 AM »
Good Vibrations is probably the greatest of the lot.   A summit.  

In re. Yes and Rush, it's interesting how 70s prog-rock jumped on the montage song and developed it.  I guess Punk kinda killed it, since the songs got shorter again.  Are any 90s or current bands doing montage songs again?
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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2005, 02:00:07 AM »
You Never Give Me Your Money
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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2005, 02:13:21 AM »
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Tim got it. Close the thread.  ;)


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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2005, 04:06:35 AM »
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Good Vibrations is probably the greatest of the lot.
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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2005, 06:57:08 PM »
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Are any 90s or current bands doing montage songs again?

Yes I almost forgot (slaps forehead), a lot of stuff by Stereolab, Neutral Milk Hotel, and some by Grandaddy.
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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2005, 06:59:32 AM »
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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2005, 07:08:27 AM »
Most Floyd. ;)
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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2005, 07:27:43 AM »
The fave for me is Golden Slumbers/CTW/TE though.
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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2005, 09:53:28 PM »
D'oh!  I forgot about Floyd.  They're the obvious successor to the montage song concept.  Although I prefer the Syd Barrett stuff personally.  

There's a kinda of quicksilver change to the Beatles montage songs (and Brian Wilson's), that sounds kinda labored or too premeditated by the 70s successors.  
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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2005, 08:59:57 PM »
For a more recent pick, I'd say Paranoid Android by Radiohead.

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Re: Favorite Montage Song
« Reply #13 on: June 11, 2005, 02:02:49 AM »
Abbey Road Medley most surely, but if you wanna talk smaller, You Never Give Me Your Money is pefect.
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