Anyone who talks music with me knows that Patrick Wolf's "The Magic Position" was one of my top 5 favorite songs of 2007. Let's analyze this banging, beautiful, B major tune. I love when songwriters do simple things really well or make simple things seem complex or unique. The intro to this song (and other parts like after the choruses) is one of my favorite examples of this. Wolf simply plays an ascending B major scale over and over and it sounds great while setting up anticipation. When he lands on the B the starts the songs main theme ( the simple 3 note melody dominated mostly by the tonic note- B) it's powerful. The vocal melody uses a pretty standard pop theme. The melody in the verse slower and mostly lower, prechorus low or even lower, the melody in the chorus the highest, but when Wolf lands on "It's You..." at the beginning of the chorus, it is especially powerful. Of course the greatest part about this song is that it is insanely catchy (oh and it has baritone sax carrying the bass line, that's cool).
The Magic Position
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