Composition #1: Chants/Chants Particles

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Chants1

1.
All I hear are
CROWS CROWS CROWS CROWS2

2.
You who have seen me weep, who have watched me take a beating, you will know
I AM NOT DEFEATED YET3

3.
You know it’s not right but it’s something you like4

4.
HEY
housebrick5

Chants (Particles)

1.
Chant your shopping list

2.
Chant your internet passwords

3.
Chant your family’s shoe sizes, jumper sizes

4.
Chant the names of your Twitter followers6

5.
Chant the track titles to your Springsteen records7

1 The power of many voices. Not (just) ritual, not (just) football, not (just) protest.

2 I had forgotten about Gaggle. The internet reveals the album version of this song, but I remember, somewhere, an earlier version that was stripped, raw, powerful. The power of many voices.

3 From A Year Without Regret by The Middle Ones – one of the greatest songs you might not have heard. On the Slow and Steady album on Stitch-Stitch Records. Live, Anna and Grace were kind enough to let me do a whistling solo at the end. Steve laughed at me.

4 Hmmm. Not sure what I think of the Cribs. I like the albums I have (early ones), even the one where Lee Ranaldo says ‘blowjob’ a lot. This chant is a bit football-y for me, but it ‘works in the song’ as no one ever really says.

5 Not really a chant, but lovely unison shouting. Holiday tune. Look it up yrself.

6 I follow four people called Luke.

7 I don’t have any but (shhh) I might get the re-mastered Born To Run.