Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love
Odyssey
7″ Single, 1972
This song is pretty much single-handedly responsible for me getting into buying 45s. I bought it in an overpriced record store in cleveland about two years ago. It was one of those places where the owner says, “if there’s no price on the record bring it up and I’ll price it for you” and then he smiles a little too much. That and $10 Brothers Johnson records (although good, should be $1) landed me in the 45 section because it was the only section that had a reasonable (and fixed) price, 3/$5. There was also a turntable in the 45 section and six hours later the owner came up to me and asked if i was about done because he had to get home. I walked out with twenty 45s, this one being the masterpiece.
The whole song is beautiful but my favorite interplay is the changing pattern of the hi-hat symbol from the first part of the chorus to the second part (pre- and post- 0:55, 1:49, 3:15)
Also, don’t miss the crazy bass fill at 2:44.
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