2: Strange Trails

Bad Music Hertz

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You can listen to Lord Huron’s Strange Trails on:

• Apple Music
• Spotify

Or purchase Lonesome Dreams on:

• Amazon Music

Links

• Previous episode - Bad Music Hertz Episode 1: Lonesome Dreams
• Michael the Marmot
• Strange Trails “Teaser Trailer”
• Strange Trails No. 7 “The World Ender” Comic Book
• Paul McCartney’s RAM
  • 3. Ram On
  • 11. Ram On
• Stephen King’s 11/22/63
• William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience
• “The World Ender” - Official Music Video
• Major, minor, and diminished chords explained (with examples)
• Song titles to lyrical speaker, as noted on the LP labels:
  1. “Love Like Ghosts” - Francine Lu
  2. “Until the Night Turns” - D. Redmayne/Phantom Riders
  3. “Dead Man’s Hand” - Buck Vernon
  4. “Hurricane (Johnnie’s Theme)” - D. Redmayne/Phantom Riders
  5. “La Belle Fleur Sauvage” - Remy Fusil
  6. “Fool For Love” - Buck Vernon
  7. “The World Ender” - D. Redmayne/Phantom Riders
  8. “Meet Me in the Woods” - Francine Lu/Claude Fox
  9. “The Yawning Grave” - Traditional
  10. “Frozen Pines” - H.W. Justine
  11. “Cursed” - Buck Vernon
  12. “Way Out There” - Traditional
  13. “Louisa” - Buck Vernon
  14. “The Night We Met” - Francine Lu
• “Fool For Love” - Official Music Video
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Planetarium by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, and James McAlister

Definitions

• Reprise: “The repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition.” (Wiki)
• Theme (Also called “Subject”): “A recognizable melody upon which part or all of a composition is based on.” (Wiki)
• Rockabilly: “One of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South … The term ‘rockabilly’ itself is a portmanteau of ‘rock’ (from “rock ‘n’ roll”) and ‘hillbilly’, the latter a reference to the country music that contributed strongly to the style.” (Wiki)

References

“Yeah I definitely let things spin off into fiction. But, my sort of approach or philosophy has always been to begin with something that happened to me, or to someone close. There’s always something at the centre that’s from a real experience. To me that feels like the only way for the work to be true.” - AAA Backstage interview with Ben Schneider

“All the stories on the album are either about my life or the lives of people who are close to me. I look at them through a fictional lens, but they all come from stuff that’s happened to us.” - LA Music Blog interview with Ben Schneider

Marc’s Sophomore LP Categories and Examples

• Sophomore Slump 👎🏻
  • Mumford & Sons
    • 2009’s Sigh No More → 2012’s Babel
  • Florence + The Machine
    • 2010’s Between Two Lungs → 2011’s Ceremonials
• Sequelitis 😐
  • Real Estate
    • 2011’s Days → 2014’s Atlas
  • Phoenix
    • 2009’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix → 2013’s Bankrupt!
• Transformative 👍🏻
  • Fleet Foxes
    • 2008’s Fleet Foxes → 2011’s Helplessness Blues
  • Sturgill Simpson
    • 2014’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music → 2016’s A Sailor’s Guide to Earth

Art

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