Episode notes
Musician/Writer Gabriel Ramos of Ssleeping DesiresS and Nero discuss Eno's 40 Infallible Tricks For Successful Songs
- Mindless dives and absurd jumps (steel guitar, whammy pedal)
- Sonic hooks (Telstar, the snare on 'she drives me crazy' fyi, Del Shannon instrumentals)
- Lap-steel or Hawaiian guitar (or anything else slide and unsquare)
- Sliding up or down to the right note (appoggiatura) (24 hours from Tulsa)
- Lyrical Rhythm guitar (eg Nile Rodgers, Carlos Alomar)
- Klaus Dinger beat (motorik)
- Handclap patterns eg 'Carwash' (invitations to listeners)
- Male humming (cf Jordanaires)
- Frozen reverb
- ...
Keywords
artLos AngelesMusic snob singingEnoBowieSongwriting