1 Song A Day: Tragedy - 'Stayin' Alive'
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Which is why Tragedy totally works as a concept. Their album We Rock Sweet Balls And Can Do No Wrong is all Bee Gees gone metal, from a very Spinal Tap spoken word metal section in ‘You Should Be Dancing’ to the Led Zeppelin-y ‘Too Much Heaven’. And the Bee Gees, for all their sleek disco rhythms, are a 1960s pop band at heart, a bunch of Beatles fans done good. The guitar riffs in ‘Stayin’ Alive’ are influenced by the kind of guitar riffs in Beatles tunes like ‘And Your Bird Can Sing’ or ‘Ticket To Ride’. But then, plenty of 70s metal bands were basically Beatles fans gone bad; the Beatles famously introduced Eastern-influenced drones and riffs into rock and roll, and you can trace the kind of droning riffs of the likes of Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath back to the Beatles.
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