03. The Stranglers – Golden Brown (1982)
Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mind she runs
Throughout the night, no need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown
“It’s about heroin and also about a girl… both provided me with pleasurable times.”
The instrumentation is quite unconventional for what is notionally a punk record, featuring a harpsichord very prominently. Dave Greenfield’s keyboard plays in ¾ time, but his harpsicord part has twice as many beats in 6/8 time. Additionally, every fourth bar switches to 7/8 time.
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