[Music] Band on the Run.

[Leekbrookgull]

No doubt apart from a few here on NSC i can't play a note but like many love live music and pub band's even better. The question is from writing and playing just how good is Band on the Run musically ? A simple tune or work of art ?

 

[Leekbrookgull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCZuCgyqLDs

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Still have it on cassette would you believe. I deffo liked it at the time but haven’t played it in ages - I think it had quite a few good tunes personally - I thought they were largely simple tunes but am not really qualified to answer technically - BOTR and Jet were great pop singles

 

[GT49er]

It's OK - fairly standard pop/rock track of it's time, better than average but not outstanding. IMHO of course.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

No doubt apart from a few here on NSC i can't play a note but like many love live music and pub band's even better. The question is from writing and playing just how good is Band on the Run musically ? A simple tune or work of art ?

These terms are not mutually exclusive…a simple tune can be a work of art.

 

[Pavilionaire]

A work of art. Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.

 

[Jam The Man]

Love the song, but prefer Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five from the same album.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Shite.

 

[Beach Hut]

17:15 BBC1 Weekdays and meeting daily objective

 

[studio150]

Shite.

"I hope you're having fun"

 

[LamieRobertson]

Shite.

Jet

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Jet

oo oo oo oooo oo oo

 

[LamieRobertson]

Gawd just thinking about when this was released 1973…I bought my copy in early 74 when I was working Saturdays at WH Smith in Churchill Sq …if memory serves me correct the record section was downstairs and I kept on deserting my post to thumb through the vinyl…sacked two weeks later

 

[raymondo]

Love the song, but prefer Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five from the same album.

Yep, absolutely ��

 

[Is it PotG?]

.....and I kept on deserting my post to thumb through the vinyl

 

[GT49er]

A work of art. Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.

They're only the band The Beatles could have been ................ if it had been dragged on long after its course was run, but fortunately John,George and Ringo had the sense to know when it was time to bale out.

 

[Sirnormangall]

I thought this was going to be another thread about the government…….

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I thought this was going to be another thread about the government…….

No, that would be called Boris On The Run.

 

[GT49er]

I thought this was going to be another thread about the government…….

There's more than enough of those already!

 

[Barnet Seagull]

To answer the original question, it's relatively simple with nothing particular interesting going on in the progressions.

If you want something which sounds simple but is complex, Nik Kershaw's The Riddle is interesting. Not many people notice that the last chorus is a half-note higher than the first. To make that happen requires a very interesting middle eight and progression

For anyone who has a grasp of music theory, there's an interesting walkthrough here.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjjlPi_FBA