Antero wrote:

Jose Luis Perales wrote:the new pornographers - letter from an occupant (very weird and it works)

The second one, where they completely switch up the beat? Awesome.

did you know all the drums on that record were recorded last, after everything was already laid down, in the drummer's home studio, all on the same day?


so cool.

I really like the bridge from XTC's No Thugs In Our House.

I really like the bridge from XTC's No Thugs In Our House.

I really like that song.

XTC have many nice Beatles/Sgt. Pepper inspired bridges.

Redline wrote:

I really like the bridge from XTC's No Thugs In Our House.

I really like that song.

XTC have many nice Beatles/Sgt. Pepper inspired bridges.

that reminds me -- when i'm 64 has a pretty bridge. but i think that's more from the old AABA middle-8 tradition, which as i said has a better track record, than the rock verse-chorus-verse-chorus-i-think-we-need-a-bridge tradition, which is spottier.

The bridge in "Manic Monday" is perfect in that song.

R.E.M., masters of the verse-chorus-verse-chorus, also have many great ones. "Can't get there from here" and "Ignoreland" are two of the best.

"Help Me" by Joni Mitchell is, in my opinion, the finest bridge ever. It's so great how it fakes you into thinking that it's the tag-out and that the song is over before reintroducing that bombastic turn-around and back to the verse.

"We Can Work It Out" has an excellent "middle eight," too, probably because Lennon wrote it, making it even more of an antidote than a bridge normally is to the McCartney verses.

The first three Ramones albums have many examples of how well a bridge can be used. Most other bands would bite off thir own nipples to have a chorus as good as some of the bridges on those albums.

Get dog costumes wrote:The bridge in "Manic Monday" is perfect in that song.

R.E.M., masters of the verse-chorus-verse-chorus, also have many great ones. "Can't get there from here" and "Ignoreland" are two of the best.

TOTALLY!!

see also "Shaking Through"

Get dog costumes wrote:The bridge in "Manic Monday" is perfect in that song.

R.E.M., masters of the verse-chorus-verse-chorus, also have many great ones. "Can't get there from here" and "Ignoreland" are two of the best.

TOTALLY!!

see also "Shaking Through"

lemur68 wrote:

Jose Luis Perales wrote:my favorite song structure is verse-chorus-verse-chorus-BRIDGE and never came back. so, perhaps, it´s not really a bridge, it´s just another part altogether.

That's called a coda.

example: between the sheets by the isley brothers.