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Though its sonic palette doesn’t strike me as particularly æstival, The Hollies’ “Bus Stop” is, in fact, a summer song, and one I have loved for as long as I can remember.  If music is, as I believe, about conflict and resolution, then two things make the song special: first, the Picardy third coming out of the instrumental break; and, second, the vocal harmonies in the section that follows:

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And we can be glad to learn that, somewhat atypically, the speaker’s love lasts even when summer doesn’t.

Filed under: Musings, Popular Music on August 9th, 2010