As you'll have gathered, I've been listening to an awful lot of Sixties girl group music lately (like, even more than usual).
It's jogged my memory that several of the very greatest singles of the genre - eg "One Fine Day" by The Chiffons and "He's A Rebel" by The Crystals - are almost ruined about 2/3 of the way through by the type of saxophone break which, in the mind of any British male of a certain age, is inseparable from the image of Benny Hill chasing scantily-clad women across a public park.
It's the musical equivalent of what, in lyrics, Taylor refers to as 'Big-Birding' (something to do with Neil Young, which he can explain better than I can if he sees this thread).
Anyway, this is WSC/OTF, you know what to do. Your own examples of unfortunate musical moments which, through resonant connotations or sheer bathos, threaten to ruin otherwise-immaculate songs... or, y'know, just veer off at a tangent, whichever.
It's jogged my memory that several of the very greatest singles of the genre - eg "One Fine Day" by The Chiffons and "He's A Rebel" by The Crystals - are almost ruined about 2/3 of the way through by the type of saxophone break which, in the mind of any British male of a certain age, is inseparable from the image of Benny Hill chasing scantily-clad women across a public park.
It's the musical equivalent of what, in lyrics, Taylor refers to as 'Big-Birding' (something to do with Neil Young, which he can explain better than I can if he sees this thread).
Anyway, this is WSC/OTF, you know what to do. Your own examples of unfortunate musical moments which, through resonant connotations or sheer bathos, threaten to ruin otherwise-immaculate songs... or, y'know, just veer off at a tangent, whichever.
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