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[hmpf]

The transition is almost done and the first line of the last scene is written; the dialogue's roughly sketched out. But I still need music advice - now more than yesterday, because it turns out the last scene demands at least one song reference, too, and the transition needs yet another one as well. I wish I had a working knowledge of popular music...

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Some suggestions:

[loz]

Songs a rudimentary guitar player who listened to these songs a lot could hopefully remember (but, erm, my brother's a bit of a virtuoso and he *forgets* after about six months --- the premise in itself is asking a lot --- the way I figure, Sam could remember how to *sing* these songs, but the playing would take time):

New Order - True Faith, Blue Monday or Regret
U2 - Pride (In the name of Love), With or Without You, Sunday Bloody Sunday
Suede - Wild Ones, The Beautiful Ones, She's in Fashion
The Pixies - Where is My Mind
REM - Bad Day, Happy Shiny People, Losing my Religion
The Smiths - (already mentioned) How Soon is Now, There is a Light that Never Goes Out
Oasis - Wonderwall, Don't Look Back in Anger

Can't play, mostly because they're synthpop/synthesiser and he doesn't know how to transpose to guitar:
Erasure - Always
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Happy Mondays - Step On
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Anything by The Chemical Brothers

Re: Some suggestions:

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Wow! I think this comment should sort me right out. :-)

And yeah, I don't need Sam to be *successful* in this endeavour, exactly. I do know that that would be massively unlikely. He's close to seventy when he begins it, for one thing, and it's been decades since he last had a chance to listen to any of these - and about fifty years since he last tried playing the guitar! And his entire practical experience with the instrument is a year or two of hapless experimentation in his teenage years. I'd say it's probably hopeless. :D

It's merely an exercise in nostalgia, and I needed to know which parts of that exercise would be *slightly* more successful, and which wouldn't. :-) I'm calling it archaeology in the text - and archaeology rarely manages a complete reconstruction of anything. And often it doesn't even manage anything coming *close* to even an incomplete reconstruction.

Re: Some suggestions:

[loz]

Echo and the Bunnymen! Definitely Echo and the Bunnymen. The Killing Moon is so distinctive, I reckon he could remember that years after the fact.

Re: Some suggestions:

[loz]

Mmm. You're best to stick to tracks like Blue Monday, Pride in the Name of Love, Shiny, Happy People --- songs that have such signature riffs it's hard not to remember them.