1/5/12

Sticky Music

I'm still on winter break and not quite focused, so pardon my continuing obsession with The Shins. Let's see if we can get a little reflection going anyway.  Question:  what makes their music so damned sticky?!  I adored the song below (from Chutes Too Narrow) the very first time I heard it. This morning I woke up literally hearing it.  What gives, and why is it that so many Shins songs are so immediately addictive?  If you wanted to write a very sticky song, how would you do it?  Oh hell, let's just listen.  My new goal:  see The Shins next time they go on tour.

2 comments:

ʞʊɨʖʯɿəʠɖɯɱɐɬɕʮʘʉɢʥʩ said...

I loved Sacks' "Musicophilia"

http://www.amazon.com/Musicophilia-Tales-Music-Oliver-Sacks/dp/1400040817


http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/15-10/ff_musicophilia

He talks a lot about these "earworms" as he calls them

Jean Kazez said...

Aha--I'm actually reading it now. Just read the chapter on "ear worms" (unfortunate term!). I wish there were more there about what, on a musical level, makes some music so catchy.