The 'End of the Album' Blues - AlexGB231 ft SOLARIA, Kevin, and Mai from Synth V (Neural Anthems)
Channel: AlexGB231
Date: 2023-09-15

And here we go, the final track of the album! It's a fun one, very bluesy, and kinda leads off well from This Big World as well, with both of them being in the key of D and having those theatre musical vibes, with This Big World feeling more like the final song in the narrative of the musical, with The 'End of the Album' Blues feeling more like the final curtain call. You know, the song that plays when all the actors all come up on stage and take their final bow? This is basically the song that goes with that! As such, the lyrics are pretty light-hearted, the song is very energetic and catchy, and it's just fun vibes to end the album, you know?

The chord progression for the entire song is pretty much just a 12-bar blues, except that V7 - IV7 vamp is repeated three times before it resolves back to I7. So, the entire progression (in D major) is D7 - D7 - D7 - D7 - G7 - G7 - D7 - D7 - A7 - G7 - A7 - G7 - A7 - G7 - D7 - D7. This essentially makes it a 16-bar blues progression, but there are a lot of different ways to vary the 12-bar blues progression to make a 16-bar blues progression, and I don't know whether this version I'm using is *the* 16-bar blues progression. In any case, though, it's fun, it's catchy, it's bluesy, and those subtle trumpet fills in the second and final choruses are a lot of fun indeed!

Anyway, with all that said, I hope you enjoy this song, and I hope you enjoyed the album more generally as well! I've worked so hard on it over the past few months and I hope you lot think I cooked and all that hard work paid off!

Lyrics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13dQ3N6SNaVSKkYZa5hY1G2FqO-Tg6bi3/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=105345916162945874673&rtpof=true&sd=true

Listen to 'The 'End of the Album' Blues' on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3pr65TBGelGLyS9w8LsIE0?si=13f2cf1d28af4f07

Listen to the whole of Neural Anthems on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/123DPRpoRcWsKB6VnI9DZd?si=XqiHPIj8Qxek8HfeR7jMVw