Songs with good/bad bridges
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there's heaps of great songs out there with the simplest structures.
no need to graft on a bridge or coda or extra chorus/refrain if it's not gonna help the song.
but i'm still a fan of good bridges and (especially lately) codas...tho some ppl seem to use a coda as an excuse to tack an unrelated musical idea onto a song, which to me is kinda like surgically implanting a sightless eye into your armpit.
no need to graft on a bridge or coda or extra chorus/refrain if it's not gonna help the song.
but i'm still a fan of good bridges and (especially lately) codas...tho some ppl seem to use a coda as an excuse to tack an unrelated musical idea onto a song, which to me is kinda like surgically implanting a sightless eye into your armpit.
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+999Tatertot wrote:"If you don't know me by now": great classic song, no bridge, no need for one.
Not to mention that the verse isn't all that radically different from the chorus.
Where do melodies like that come from? Where do singers like that come from? Even the strings are right on.
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I like this topic. One bridge I always hated was 'the good in everyone' - Sloan. perhaps it is more intro/outro, but I think it sounds forced.
I do like the bridges of the skate rock scene, like Seaweed, Pennywise, green day, although usually formulaic.
Styx - come sail away. Oh yeah!
Smashing Pumpkins - lots on Gish and Siamese Dream, especially the heavier songs. Corgan would describe "resetting the song" which is taking the bridge to a new high/low. ok, a few choice examples - Siva, I am one, Geek USA.
Perhaps stretching the term, but the extenda-bridge in 'Right in Two' by Tool is crazy good.
I do like the bridges of the skate rock scene, like Seaweed, Pennywise, green day, although usually formulaic.
Styx - come sail away. Oh yeah!
Smashing Pumpkins - lots on Gish and Siamese Dream, especially the heavier songs. Corgan would describe "resetting the song" which is taking the bridge to a new high/low. ok, a few choice examples - Siva, I am one, Geek USA.
Perhaps stretching the term, but the extenda-bridge in 'Right in Two' by Tool is crazy good.
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It took me a while, but I finally stumbled upon one of my least favorite bridges of all time: Guns n' Roses "My Michelle".
The verse and chorus are very different (chorus is double-time from the verse), but they work together well. The bridge, on the other hand, sounds completely tacked on and crappy.
And for those here without the same sense of what constitutes a "bridge" section, I'm talking about the 8 bars that start with "everyone needs love....".
The verse and chorus are very different (chorus is double-time from the verse), but they work together well. The bridge, on the other hand, sounds completely tacked on and crappy.
And for those here without the same sense of what constitutes a "bridge" section, I'm talking about the 8 bars that start with "everyone needs love....".
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OK: "My Sharona" (the Knack) has the absolute WORST bridge I've ever heard. It came around on the radio last night. Holy cow. It leaves the hooks behind altogether and goes into new changes and rocks out for like a minute and half, and there is a total wank-off guitar solo. It has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the song ... and then the song just starts up again right where it left off, as soon as the guitar solo has reached the inevitable searing climax.
I think mainstream FM has traditionally cut out the 'bridge'/wank-off section altogether, as I don't remember ever hearing it before.
I think mainstream FM has traditionally cut out the 'bridge'/wank-off section altogether, as I don't remember ever hearing it before.
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