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- Hey everybody, welcome to Phantom Power Music Review.
You made it to Friday.
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- Thank you guys for joining us
on this special value cast that we do every Friday.
- We're just about every Friday.
- If poker games and gigs don't get in the way.
On this show, this is where we break down music
that you will only find in the value verse.
You can only find it in the value verse.
And we do a little bit of theory review.
We do a little bit of lovin' of the liner notes.
We geek out over the gear.
So this show is for all my fellow music nerds
and appreciators of music who would like to learn
a little something extra.
My name is Jim, I'm your host.
I've been in and around the music industry for,
oh, I don't know about 30 years,
but I spend a lot of time in the studio,
a lot of time study in theory,
a lot of time study in composition,
a lot of time on the road.
And I love supporting independent bands.
And one of the ways I figured I could do that
is to break down their music
and let you guys know what I hear
and maybe you'll hear the same thing
or find something else.
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All right, so let's dive in to our first song
from a band out of Minnesota called 12 Rods
and 12 Rods has a value for value concert coming up.
Saturday, April 6th, live in the value verse
from Taylor Sound, which I believe is up in the Minneapolis,
Minneapolis, Minneapolis, land of lakes area.
All right, I think so.
All right, let's check out.
Private spies.
Let's listen to it first
and then I'll break it down for you.
You ready? Here we go.
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♪ You are now ♪
♪ Where does your point come up ♪
♪ You all alone ♪
♪ All those clouds you can't hear ♪
♪ That's how long ♪
♪ I told you a secret ♪
♪ Will you promise not to get so mad ♪
♪ For is that the pride and faith ♪
♪ The secret lead in life ♪
♪ You're bound to play ♪
♪ And don't forget the word of God ♪
♪ You're faith ♪
♪ All these colleges ♪
♪ All these shins and men ♪
♪ What is my reason ♪
♪ I'm blinded ♪
♪ There everything I have got to do ♪
♪ Is bringin' a little vow ♪
♪ Bring out your account ♪
♪ All those times ♪
♪ I will bring you to the point ♪
♪ What I know ♪
♪ Where does your girl and her girlfriend go ♪
♪ What was I known that you loved under God ♪
♪ You won't be your best friend ♪
♪ So you don't gotta worry about who you know ♪
♪ You'll give me that you're the station ♪
♪ You'll know we had a great battle, hey ♪
♪ You don't gotta worry about the new love ♪
♪ I said you don't wanna ♪
♪ You don't gotta worry about the battle ♪
♪ What is my reason ♪
♪ I'm blinded ♪
♪ There everything I have got to do ♪
♪ Is bring a little vow ♪
♪ Bring out your account ♪
♪ All those times ♪
♪ I will bring you to the point ♪
♪ What is my reason ♪
♪ I'm blinded ♪
♪ Where does your girl and her girlfriend go ♪
♪ Bring out your account ♪
♪ All those times ♪
♪ I will bring you to the point ♪
♪ What is my reason ♪
♪ I wanna know we never met ♪
♪ I don't wanna know ♪
♪ It's temptation, all this and no patience ♪
♪ I am blinded ♪
♪ There everything I have got to do ♪
♪ Is bring a little vow ♪
♪ Bring out your account ♪
♪ All those times ♪
♪ I will bring you to the point ♪
♪ What is my reason ♪
♪ I am blinded ♪
♪ Where everything I have got to do ♪
♪ Bring a little vow ♪
♪ Bring out your account ♪
♪ All those times ♪
♪ I will bring you to the point ♪
♪ What is my reason ♪
♪ I am blinded ♪
♪ Where does your girl and her girlfriend go ♪
Literally feel like I just walked out of a John Hughes movie.
Like I was just watching breakfast club or weird science or Uncle Buck.
Plains, trains and automobiles.
That is that sound, that whole vibe screams late 80s, right?
It reminds me of the very first four bars, the guitar picking part in the first four bars.
Reminds me of John Wait.
You guys remember that song?
♪ I am missing you at all ♪
Right?
That picking part reminds me of John Wait.
And John was in a band called The Babies.
Kind of had a side bar with some of the guys in the journey.
Also reminds me of World Party.
If you guys ever heard that band, now I'm dating myself by saying that.
But I flip and love this project.
And I just came to find out I was just reading about it today as I was doing a little bit of research on the band.
These guys, they're from Minnesota, the primary songwriter is a guy with an even Ryan Alcott.
And I guess they were huge up in Minneapolis in the 90s.
And I guess he had written these songs or forgotten about them or even demoded them.
And then pulled them out again during COVID and put the band back together.
I mean, holy crap, man.
That is such a cool story.
So the first thing that really strikes me about this song is just the overall John Hughes vibe.
It reminded me of the 80s and early 90s.
And I didn't know anything about it.
And then when I started reading about it, all of those memories started flooding back.
From a music theory standpoint.
All right, let's get geeky.
It's 113 BPM, roughly.
But what's really cool is how they bounce back and forth between these two keys.
F and D.
Which in many respects are not related to each other at all.
And how Ryan and the band are able to oscillate between those two different keys is really cool.
And you just don't hear bands going from something like F to a D major.
You would hear them go to the relative minor a lot.
But you don't hear them go down to the major key.
And the fact that they played that back and forth throughout the entire song is just fascinating.
And I absolutely love it.
I also love if you sit here and count out all the sections.
Like, count out the intro. That's eight bars.
Then you get to the verse, you know, where he goes, I wanna know what does your boy-
Right, that's a seven bar phrase. Then they do an eight bar phrase on a pre-chorus on the line where it told you a secret.
Then they go back to a seven bar phrase when he's up in his higher register, play your little nympho games.
And there's some really cool beats, accents that happen on the fourth measure of that song.
And then when he hits private spies like the whole chorus of it, that's an eight bar phrase.
And they change the key again on measure five.
Not only are they oscillating back and forth between two really weird keys, F major and D major,
but he's going back and forth between eight bar phrases and seven bar phrases.
It's like if John Hughes told Rush, "Hey guys, I need a song."
For this latest Brad Pack movie, right?
And then the other two things that I love about it, number one, the length of the song.
The fact that the form just doesn't mean shit, you know?
I really love it when bands surprise me like that and they do multiple solos.
There was two guitar solos in this song, really.
There was the one after the second chorus and then there was the outro solo.
So that is refreshing to hear and it's also refreshing to hear songs that just breathe in their own space
and that are not sitting under three minutes.
This one clock's in it over four.
I would love to see this band.
I would love to see how they pull this off.
The last thing that I will say is as I'm sitting here in front of my piano, you know,
and I was going through the chords, trying to figure out the bass line, right?
I sat here and I thought it...
Whatever the line is, I just screwed it up there.
But I thought it for a while because I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on.
And then I realized, "Oh, like, they must have recorded this tape because it is slightly off of 440."
And what I mean by that is where I have my piano set right now is at 433.8.
And 440 is the standard tuning.
So maybe there was an issue with the tape speed, maybe it was intentional.
But if this sounds a little out of tune to you, I would suggest two things.
Number one, you might have perfect pitch.
You are far too accustomed to pop music always being 440.
And you should look up some research on the effect that music has on you when it is recorded at tape speeds or lower hurt settings.
There's been some fascinating studies on that that you ought to check out.
So that is 12 rods, that is private spies.
I could spend an hour diving into it, but I don't want to get too geeky. I want to try and keep it high level.
I love the key changes. I love the 7-8 measure phrases that are atypical.
I love the structure. I love the dude's voice. I would love to see them live.
So I hope you checked them out live in the value verse on April 6th. Sound cool?
Alright, let's move on to the next one.
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Thank you fellas that was a lot of fun. I love that track.
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