I was surprised to note that I hadn't featured the resolutely awful Noval label in just under four years, and thought I'd probably rectify that.
I think that if you weren't paying close attention to "Our Song", it would just sound like another terrifically terrible Noval musical and vocal performance, with its plodding music and a male singer whose sense of pitch is akin to what a sense of balance is to someone with vertigo.
I, on the other hand, was dialed into the words right away. From the first moment, I got a chuckle out of a song called "Our Song", which starts with the phrase "Our song had no words".... and yet, you're singing words in a song called "Our Song".
But that was just a start. Consider these pearls of songwriting craft:
"Our lips hummed our song" (not sure I've ever heard a reference to lips humming before)
"Oh yes, our song was worthless" (I dunno why, but that just cracks me up)
"but told of love so true" (recall that the lyrics made a point of saying that the song has NO WORDS)
The vocal performance at 1:35 is pretty special, too.
Download: No Artist Named - Our Song
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The flip side features the other most common singer on Noval releases, a female vocalist who, unlike her male counterpart, seems to have a bit of style, although she also seems to find melody - any melody - challenging. This record - "Loved and Lost" - is as equally plodding as the flip side, and has the disadvantage of an extra 35 seconds, but is otherwise much more forgettable.
Download: No Artist Named - Loved and Lost
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2 comments:
I think he said the song was "wordless", since it had no words.
Let's just call this A-side stupendously inspiring. From now on, it will always be OUR song, indeed.
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