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9:30 Coffee Break: Split Personality

July 31, 2013

Split personality
What songs what split personalities? They start out one way and then switch up.
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Most songs have a set theme and style. There may be a bridge that changes key, but for the most part songs feel like one consistent world that exists for 3 minutes or so. Listener Kevin from St. Paul, gave us the idea of songs that have a shift around the middle of the song that radically change to almost a completely different song.

Thanks for the suggestion Kevin. How about putting together a list of songs with split personalities? Give us your suggestions for songs that switch at some point to sound like a completely different song.

Songs Played:

Paul McCartney - "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"

Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"

Death Cab for Cutie - "Different Names For The Same Thing"

Fleet Foxes - "Helplessness Blues"

Foxygen - "Shuggie"