Tag: Song Analysis

STATION TO STATION (ROCK CLASSICS)STATION TO STATION (ROCK CLASSICS)

Kevin MathewsKevin Mathews 9:05 am

Station to Station is the opening track on David Bowie’s classic 1976 album of the same name. Clocking in at over 10 minutes, Station to Station is Bowie’s longest studio recording and is seen as a pivotal landmark in Bowie’s musical development in the 1970s. That decade was a seminal epoch for many influential rock genres and Bowie had his finger on the pulse of most of them!

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SONG ANALYSISSONG ANALYSIS

Kevin MathewsKevin Mathews 4:22 pm

As mentioned in my article on Story Analysis, besides being a singer-songwriter/composer and a pop culture writer, I am also a teacher of arts and music subjects. So the same approach I applied to Story, I can also apply to Music (Song Analysis) but of course, with different elements. Now, I don’t intend to go into any musicological concepts that require music theory training to decipher but will try my best to keep things simple for non-musicians as well.

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