![]() ![]() Part of the reason the song’s unusual time signature works is because it’s all in the guitars - that gorgeous spider web of an acoustic riff (played by Lou Reed and Alice Cooper guitarist Steve Hunter) circling the song’s perimeter and providing its pristine, immediately recognizable framework. ![]() The fact that it’s always noticeable but never distracting is a tremendous accomplishment for Gabriel as a songwriter, and makes “Solsbury” a standout from the very beginning.Ģ. The 7/4 stomp of “Solsbury Hill” is one of its indelible and striking features, that feeling of a beat missing in every measure giving the song a constant sense of struggle - and subsequently, of endurance. Writing a perfect pop song is hard enough, but writing one in an imperfect time signature is damn near impossible.
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