{"id":5975,"date":"2011-02-24T11:29:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2011-02-24T11:33:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:33:36","slug":"get-this-guy-a-guitar-strap-but-first-let%e2%80%99s-talk-about-bowie%e2%80%99s-choruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/get-this-guy-a-guitar-strap-but-first-let%e2%80%99s-talk-about-bowie%e2%80%99s-choruses\/","title":{"rendered":"Get This Guy a Guitar Strap, but First Let\u2019s Talk About Bowie\u2019s Choruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sa6bI_95G9I?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Bowie makes the effort to don an eyepatch, but no one thinks to pack a guitar strap for this promo shoot? Was this guy&#8217;s priorities straight, or is this an awkward attempt at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/holstering\/\" target=\"_blank\">holstering<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, though, I&#8217;ve been meaning to ask if anyone else too often feels let down by David Bowie&#8217;s choruses? Clearly he&#8217;s got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/mr-mod-releases-the-list-of-30-bowie-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">nearly 30 winning choruses<\/a> to his credit, including this one, but I wonder how many more Bowie songs I&#8217;d like if he didn&#8217;t climb up to the dramatic heights he so often attempts to climb. I thought of this a couple of weeks ago, while listening to <em>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars<\/em>. I was digging the verses on &#8220;Starman,&#8221; as I always do, then feeling like I was getting my chain yanked during the long, sweeping choruses, also as I always do. It sounds like an advertising jingle until that great guitar riff gets the song set up for the next verse.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/73qNW12Yx_0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>&#8220;Soul Love&#8221; is another song from that album with a chorus that seems to try too hard. <em>Station to Station<\/em>, with one of my favorite Bowie songs, &#8220;TVC15,&#8221; is loaded with overblown choruses. Don&#8217;t get me wrong: I&#8217;m well aware that writing a great chorus one of the hardest things to do in songwriting, but there are times I wish Bowie would keep it simple. Following,\u00a0however,\u00a0is a cool performance I&#8217;d never seen before of a song of his that I think nails his goal of a grandiose, climbing\u00a0chorus:<!--more--><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VMZ0-nJ0Ipo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowie makes the effort to don an eyepatch, but no one thinks to pack a guitar strap for this promo shoot? Was this guy&#8217;s priorities straight, or is this an awkward attempt at holstering? More importantly, though, I&#8217;ve been meaning to ask if anyone else too often feels let down by David Bowie&#8217;s choruses? Clearly <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/get-this-guy-a-guitar-strap-but-first-let%e2%80%99s-talk-about-bowie%e2%80%99s-choruses\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975"}],"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=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}