I like it when the vocalist announces what's coming next, like yelling "GUITAR!" right before a guitar solo or "bring back the horns" right before the brass section kicks in or "sing it, girls" right before the female backups echo the refrain.
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I really like this one for certain genres like Funk or RnB that are generally more energetic and spontaneous when performed live. Helps the recorded material feel a little more alive.
Even better when the singer "requests" it from their bandmate by name. (e.g. Honey Don't by The Beatles)
GUITAR
I Believe in a Thing Called Love!
I love songs that completely change genre partway through. Can be slow acoustic songs that switch to fast techno; loud, bangy songs that turn calm and soft; rap songs with calm, piano-based choruses; whatever.
Examples would be:
- Still Loving You by Sonata Arctica
- Lost Winter Days by Alpine Universe
- Journey to the End by Windir
- Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance.
Don't forget Bohemian Rhapsody, the all-time king of this niche.
Stairway?
Yeah, Stairway is another great example.
Aqualung does it well, too.
God yes, using changing genres to tell a story in your music is such a power move
Stone Cold Metal by Ensiferum does that as well
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I love that train track or horse gallop chugging rhythm some songs have.
Gives me feelings of movement forward, travel or progression.
Great car songs!
Muse - Knights of Cydonia, Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night is probably a good examples of this.
A lot of old Iron Maiden will fit that quite well, of course, maybe most infamously, The Trooper.
All the Kings Horses - Two Steps from Hell
I quite enjoy it when songs sneakily build up, starting out with a mellow rhythm and after a few minutes, you find yourself in the middle of an epic solo on top of this thick carpet of rhythm, and it's all very much over the top, but it works, because of that slow build-up.
I used to get annoyed by pink floyd songs being so slow. I now realize it's so much more powerful and overwhelming because it started slow
I don't know you or your general taste in music but if you ever want something a bit more modern yet als doing the 'start slow until you made a wall of sound out of it' thing, I highly recommend you check out the band Motorpsycho! Pretty much every album they made in the 90s and early 2000s have always at least one great song which will build and build and build up to a great crescendo. Their other stuff is absolutely great too! Their song Vortex Surfer got played for 24 hours on new years eve (I think it was 99 to 2000) on a Norwegian radio station.
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My favorite is when a high energy song does a soft version of the chorus towards the end of the song, and the singer sings more mellow, or sometimes even an octave down. Then the singer goes back into full energy and original octave for one line before all the instruments come back in at full volume.
2, 5, flat 6 to the key change. Or a nice 4 minor chord.
Never knew I liked this too, but it sounds nice so I guess I agree.
I like it when a chorus gets built up more on each repetition, either with the addition of more instrumental parts, new harmonies or background vocals, or a beat change that brings up the intensity.
Similarly, I like when that same effect happens within 2 halves of a chorus. Example of one I heard recently is the chorus of the song "Breathing" by ELLEGARDEN. The 2nd half adds a higher vocal harmony + a picked lead guitar line that open up the sound a bit and just give it a nice little emotional boost.
i love the "stepped sound" electro swing music has, especially when brass instruments come into play; the best example i can find is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGbW44AEHeM
Aeolian/Dorian mode mixture
I call them groove breaks, when the song takes a little break and just grooves for a bit.
The video version of Even Flow by Pearl Jam has a great one, Stranglehold has one, the album version of Sweet Emotions has one as the intro, so maybe not technically a break.
You might like Utah, Gateway to Nevada by A Plage of Locusts then. It changes back and forth between a slower, groovy chorus, and a slightly more energetic refrain.
Not sure if it's a trope, per se, but I love finding good covers of my favorite songs in other languages.
Edit: When the lyrics switch into a different language on a breakdown. That's a trope, right?
My favorite example is this one, because it's a faithful translation of the meaning of the song while substituting words to keep the rhymes.
If you're on Twitter, the account @foreigncovers posts covers in other languages.
I fucking hate the word trope
This one is probably very specific but Utada Hikaru has one that I love, where towards the end of certain songs she sings the chrous, and then keeps the same melody going multiple times but with different lyrics. It's like she extends the feeling and rhythm of the chorus but keeps it interesting by using different lyrics the whole time. Some examples: Goodbye Happiness, Making Love, About Me, LETTERS, Sakura DROPS.
I think sidewinder by avenged sevenfold does what you're talking about.
I love when something is sung in a lower, more calm register and towards the end when things get fast the same thing is said but with a higher octave and more energy like it's so exciting it feels like character development but for music
I love a good "stickedibum". Which is a song ending in 4 quick drum sounds. I can't quite explain it, but for example the four very last drum notes on Alive by Pearl Jam is a stickedibum.
I don't know how to describe it or have the music theory knowledge to understand why it's so satisfying, but the outro for Tank! (Cowboy Bebop opening song) is just so good and I can't explain it.
I like short intros with only vocals like "Hush" from Stick to your Guns.