The album may or may not be obsolete, but the fact remains: Listeners have long obsessed over individual songs. The Single File is The A.V. Club’s look at the deep cuts, detours, experiments, and anthems that make us reach for replay.
Having studied music theory is a bit like being Hurley with his numbers on Lost: You can’t help perceiving patterns everywhere, but are cursed with the knowledge that pointing them out will get you only hairy eyeballs. I’ve devoted a pretty good portion of my life to studying and playing music and try to keep my Hurley cooped up, but sometimes alcohol weakens the “this is only interesting to you” levees and a song on the jukebox or radio will trigger a blurt of useless trivia: “Hey, that Bruno Mars chorus on the radio has the same chord structure as ‘Santeria’!” or, “Hey, that weird ...
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