AMR Music Month: “Bleeker St.”
Click to listen to “Bleeker St,” performed by Mark Fullmer
Context: A couple weeks back, as I sat transcribing the lyrics for “Beijing Huan Ying Ni,” my mp3 player got stuck on “Bleeker Street,” a Simon & Garf. number from their pre folk-rock phase (and did you know folk-rock wasn’t even really their idea?). Well techically, I got my mp3 player stuck on it, but the point is I found a new appreciation for the song’s simple intricacy. The counterpoint melodies weaving back and forth above and below each other. The subdominant-to-mediant suspensions. Funny how it doesn’t sound nearly as nice when you put it into technical terms. Anyway. I figured I could write something like that. So I did, recorded it, listened to it, and promptly concluded that I liked the original song far better. Thus this cover, born’d.
Posted on 12 March 2010 at 4:45 pm
HARMONIES ARE HARD! This sounds great.
Posted on 10 March 2010 at 5:29 pm
Not bad though, very great!