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The Greatest Pop Of All

This song tells about heartbeat - the life-sustaining force, the greatest pop which is surely the first sound we hear before we are born and which we can hum and enjoy our time of life.

The song was originally written in 2009, inspired by the music of Paddy McAloon. The Vocaloid version has been around since then, but finally I can release this with a real singer. Big thanks to Miira for her amazing vocals, especially the heavenly angelic choir she created and lifted the song to even higher level. Once again BIAB provided great instruments for the arrangement, this has quite many MIDI instruments. The guitar solo needed quite much copy-paste before it was good enough.

MIDI:
by me: piano, oboe, SynthDrum

CelticAir Piano - MST
Orch60.sty Brass - ST3
Orch60.sty Strings - GPO4
Orch60.sty Piano -> Sforzando Acoustic Str Bass
Piano_F.sty Piano - GPO4
Spring.sty Bass - IO
Spring.sty Pad - GPO4
Spring.sty Piano GPO4
Spring.sty Drums
Heartbeat - XV5050

RealDrums: NashvilleEven8,1-SideStick,Ride

RealTracks:
Acoustic Guitar Pick #365
Acoustic Guitar Strum #368
Electric Guitar Slide #382
Electric Guitar Solo #583
Harmonica #626
Resonator Guitar #377
Sax #403

Vocals: Miira

Lyrics:

Through the clouds
filled with helium
through the unknown
Voyager glides,
space citizens like us
living by the stardust highway
hear this magic melody.

Mellowing the tough guys
a song even a punk must croon
catchier than modern jazz
pretentious to enchant
prog fans on the
dark side of the Moon.

I've been humming
the world's simplest pop tune
sacredly touching
it has made me swoon.
God has sown this hymn of the blessed ones
let all your prejudices fall
find it in your heart
there's the greatest pop of all.

Sailors adrift
on an endless sea
mountaineers
stuck on the snow top of K2
Divers in the Mariana trench
these chords still strike in their hearts.

Widows seeking for comfort
singles having a broken heart
what if they could join their hands
lifted by the
anthem strong enough to
pull the seas apart.

[Chorus]

Not a praise of the highness
but a fanfare for the smallest ones
who fumble through thorny lives
without sweet solace
they deserve to hear this
gentle chant of nuns.

[Chorus]

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Janne

Hello Jannesan, Great work on this! Really enjoyed the vocals and the guitar solo. Definitely the greatest pop of all!

Nice song, great use of BIAB tracks

another great vocal and interesting lyrics

I always like your melodies

Kenny

Beautiful song. Great vocals.

Excellent production!

Janne, this is such a lovely song! The vocal performance is outstanding! The build up of sound at 1:40 is great with such a full lush sound. Great chord changes! Thanks, Torrey

Hello, Janne

Very beautiful song.
Mira' s vocal performance is outstanding!
The chord progression is very pleasant as usual.
Heartbeat is very effective.
Very enjoyable listen.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi

Hi!

Such a pretty song and love the chord pattern. The vocal is great and the backing tracks are outstanding. The backing is full and lush. Beautiful!

Alan & Di

Very pretty song. Excellent vocal

Thanks Joe for your nice comment I'm glad you liked the guitar solo, I had to work hard to get it right - I had to transpose the original song several semitones for Miira's vocal range and I tried Melodyne to transpose the original guitar solo, put it didn't sound good. So I had to build a new solo from several generated sections.

Janne

Thanks Kenny for your kind comment Good to know I didn't disappoint you with the melody

Janne

Thanks David for your very kind words about vocals and production

Janne

Nice song again, Janne and we like the guitar!
Sometimes we even hear some ABBA influences.

Rob and Anne-Marie

Thanks Torrey for your kind comment Thanks to Miira for the build up of lush sound, the melody in that part was originally played by an oboe sound, but I asked Miira to sing that part also, just to test how it would work. And I'm really happy I asked because she made such an excellent work on it.

Janne

Thanks Shigeki for your positive feedback I'm really glad you liked Miira's vocal. And always pleasure that the chord progression is mentioned

Janne

Beautifully lush.

Everything sounds very nice on our monitors.

Torrey mentioned the build which is, indeed, very effective.

Enjoyed it!

J&B

Thanks Alan & Di for liking my song I tried to make it sound lush with the strings and I'm glad I've succeeded

Janne

Thanks Scott for your kind words, especially about vocals

Janne

Thanks Rob and Anne-Marie for liking and commenting And another plus for mentioning ABBA, makes me smile

Janne

Thanks Janice & Bud for your kind words I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Janne

"Mellowing the tough guys
a song even a punk must croon
catchier than modern jazz
pretentious to enchant"

This is so true of a lot of modern pop songs! I remember even during my high school years my thrasher friends would be singing the pop songs from the radio almost compulsively. There's some unknown power in pop songs that we all succumb to at some point in our lives, no matter your genre preference. At least that's my belief!

Awesome tune! Can't wait to hear the next one.