Not a huge fan of this tune. It's overtly political - which is fine, it just comes across fairly heavy-handed. Although, famously, Michael eased off a bit from his original lyric: "Hang your freedom fighter", which Bill thought was a bit over the top. Some of the other lines (Propagate confusion... Annotated history) sound like Michael is reading from his poly-sci text. This becomes common place on "Document".
Musically, it's one from the REM-minor key-song generator. You can practically sing along to "Maps and Legends". Again, not a bad thing, it's just not a stand-out song. There is one nice little unexpected movement when the whole gang shifts to the second of the minor root (Fmaj7 from Em) for the bridge. It's quick, but I'll take what I can get.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment