Saturday, August 18, 2018

"Pleasant Valley Sunday"

Last Sunday, I was thinking about "Pleasant Valley Sunday," and I realized that the lines "Mothers complain about how hard life is / And the kids just don't understand" contain a grammatical ambiguity.  I'd always thought these two lines were linkt and that the mothers complained about two things: 1) how hard life is and 2) that the kids don't understand.  On Sunday, I realized that these could be two distinct statements: the mothers complain only about how hard life is, and - as a separate comment - the kids don't understand.

Thursday, August 2, 2018

"Good Clean Fun"

Yester-day I figured out most of the chords for "Good Clean Fun," and I noticed a small feature:  in the bridge, "I look down" descends (C# A E), musically giving a sense of that "down."