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my vote: transmission

― brains (cerybut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jane Says"

― Rufus King, Thursday, 31 July 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"Stairway to Heaven"
"Not Great Men"

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 31 July 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 31 July 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Franco & Rochereau, "Lisanga Ya Ba Nganga"
Grateful Dead, "Fire on the Mountain"
Phish, "Reba"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 31 July 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

What's a whole step?

― mei (mei), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Unfinished Symphony" -- Massive Attack

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

RE: "What's a whole step?"

About eight percent of the way to recovering from alcoholism.

Thanks, I'll be here all week...tip your bartender! drive safely!

― Happiness Stan (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Return The Gift

― samuel, Thursday, 31 July 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"tired of waiting for you"

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 31 July 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"stairway to heaven" modulates?

( i haven't heard it in a long time )

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Stone Temple Pilots, "Vasoline"

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Teen Competition" - Redd Kross

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Stairway to Heaven" doesn't modulate, as such, but it has really powerful whole steps upward (the end of the guitar figure you hear at the beginning, as well as that figure's fourth & fifth and eighth & ninth notes) and downward (the riff behind "And as we walk on down the road" &c.).

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

aha... sorry, my bad. "tired of waiting" owns this thread then (as mentioned by FCC).

"jenny ondioline" by stereolab... 17 minutes of this.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

(and by default "hallogallo" by NEU!)

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

If I understand what y'all are talking about (dang music stuff), I think Steve Earle's "Devil's Right Hand" qualifies -- the shift comes at the beginning of the last verse, the one where he catches a miner cheating and shoots the dog down.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

everyone knows joy division's transmission right??? the first two bass notes - that's a whole step right thar

― brains (cerybut), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"major scale"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

What's a whole step?
-- mei (meirion.lewi...), July 31st, 2003.

― mei (mei), Friday, 1 August 2003 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

In a major scale, Do to Re, e.g. (but not Mi to Fa - that's a half step), or the move from one white piano key to another, provided that there is a black key in between, or vice versa.

I've never heard the Joy Division song, but Jane Says and my choices (though the Franco/Rochereau one is totally wrong; I must be thinking of something else) are songs that consist, or contain parts that consist, entirely of movements up and down the same whole step.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 1 August 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks you gabneb.

songs that consist, or contain parts that consist, entirely of movements up and down the same whole step

so like the 'Jaws' music (but that's only a semi tone)?

― mei (mei), Friday, 1 August 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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