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Neil Young
Trans (1982)
Moderate 120 BPM
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Song DNA

Dynamic Range6/10
Sudden Changesmild
Texturelayered
Predictabilitymedium
Vocal Styledynamic vocals
Notes: Features distorted, vocoded elements in the album context with a breezy yet foreboding rock texture, building to a soaring mini-epic with electric guitar solo; live versions add brooding intensity and snarling delivery without heavy electronic processing.

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Mouth Soundsnone
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A nearly ten-minute mini-epic rock track closing Neil Young's experimental electro album Trans, blending organic slide guitar and pedal steel with thematic foreboding lyrics about loss and change.

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Moods: introspective, melancholy, transcendent

Traditions: experimental, rock

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