{"id":23805,"date":"2020-09-08T07:59:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T11:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23805"},"modified":"2020-09-08T07:59:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T11:59:25","slug":"last-man-standing-songs-that-purposely-change-tempo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-songs-that-purposely-change-tempo\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Songs That Purposely Change Tempo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know you&#8217;ve heard me say this before, but this may be the shortest <em>Last Man Standing<\/em> competition in the history of Rock Town Hall. I thought of this the other day, when Dexy&#8217;s Midnight Runners&#8217; &#8220;Come On Eileen&#8221; came up on a playlist I made entitled <em>1980s Hits That Didn&#8217;t Completely Suck<\/em>.* <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one point in &#8220;Come On Eileen,&#8221; the tempo purposely slows down, then picks up again and gets real fast. I thought of one other song that is arranged to purposely slow down, then pick up again &#8211; even getting faster &#8211; but no other examples came to mind. I&#8217;m NOT talking about changes in time signature or accidental\/incidental changes in a song&#8217;s tempo, but the deliberately, blatantly slowed down or rushed speed at which a song moves along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen (Live Shaftesbury Theatre 1982)\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cs4_LZl1OIs?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I could have thought more about this during my perfect day at the beach, but my company was too good and then on the ride home I played a much better playlist, one attempting to re-create the magic of jukebox at a community pool I used to go to when I was about 12 years old. And I should note, while typing up this post, I thought of a third song that uses this device, so don&#8217;t complain to me that there&#8217;s only one answer left. Help a brother out, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*NOTE: When the playlist ended, at almost precisely the time the drive my wife and I made to the beach ended, my wife said, &#8220;What was that mix? I liked a couple of songs, but it sucked!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you&#8217;ve heard me say this before, but this may be the shortest Last Man Standing competition in the history of Rock Town Hall. I thought of this the other day, when Dexy&#8217;s Midnight Runners&#8217; &#8220;Come On Eileen&#8221; came up on a playlist I made entitled 1980s Hits That Didn&#8217;t Completely Suck.* At one <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-songs-that-purposely-change-tempo\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}