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PlatrixECV wrote:So just to nerd out on why it sounds Western to a lot of us (probably especially in the US) . The root-fifth pulse that begins this track is basically a Country and Western trope. It's the sound of clopping hooves.

Here's the most salient Morricone example:



And then the echoey guitars is very reminiscent of Morricone and 60s country generally. E.g. like Nancy's Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood's "Bang Bang" (which incidentally also is built on a root-fifth progression)



Johnny's Cash's Folsom Prison Blues is a perfect country example and is actually descending like Into the Magic Land.



Another classic example most may know (from Fallout at least) is Marty Robbins' "Big Iron" where the base line alternates between alternating and descending root-fifths.



I'm not an expert music theologian but what then makes this track special and pure BoC is how they build on the basic sequence and melody (and I believe it further delves into circle of fifths in terms of harmonic progression)

Just a left field masterpiece.

Wildfire wrote:Totally invokes something form my childhood (Gen X, born mid 70s) but I can't put my finger on it.

Waterbagel wrote:

Wildfire wrote:Totally invokes something form my childhood (Gen X, born mid 70s) but I can't put my finger on it.

it's all that chorus pedal on the guitar! and the jilted intervals in it. real grungy. hell you could convince it was pulled from a Nirvana demo and i might believe you!