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Citation : Jark, allez écouter Polythene Pam, laissez votre mauvaise foi habituelle de côté, et répondez moi objectivement : Polythene Pam, sans être un morceau Punk, a des accents qu'on retrouvera dans le Punk plus tard, non ? Le titre, les paroles, la façon de chanter,les sons ? Non ?

Citation : Notes on "Polythene Pam"

Intro
Next note Lest there be any lingering doubt about it, the final D-Major chord of "Mean Mr Mustard" (and which could have just as easily been the first chord of "Polythene Pam") is found at the end of the album, just before "Her Majesty" kicks in.
Next note The actual splice that ties "Mean Mr Mustard" and "Polythene Pam" together is pretty darn smooth in any event, though it places that opening D-Major chord (along with the other two chords in the introductory double plagal cadence) of an pedal point of E in the bass:


--------------------------- 2X -----------------------------
1 2 3 4 1 & 2 & 3 4
Rhythm: |Bom! Bom! | Ba, Ba, Ba, Bom! |
Bass: |E E |E |
Chords: |D A |E |
E: flat-VII IV I

[Figure 187.1]

Next note This instrumental section alternates with two verse sections, thus appearing virtually unchanged three times over, and providing the musical basis for the extended instrumental outro.

Verse
Next note The verse is an unusual ten measures long that you parse as a quatrain plus additional spacer phrase; AABA' + spacer. The latter stands in formal counterpoint with a tiling of musical phrases running AABCC:


---------------------------- 2X -----------------------------
|D A |E |
flat-VII IV I

|G |B |
V-of-flat-VI V

---------------------------- 2X -----------------------------
|C D |E |
flat-VI flat-VII I

[Figure 187.2]

Next note Similarly, the change of harmonic rhythm for just the middle phrase, combined with the extent to which both outer phrases converge toward I via flat-VII but by different routes, creates an harmonic structure of AABA'A'.
Next note I'm left wondering here if the "Yeah, yeah, yeah" lyrics for the spacer phrase are an ironic tip of the hat to "She Loves You" or by this point in time just a lazy habit.

Outro
The outro is relatively long, accounting for as much as about 40% of the overall track length. It is twenty-two measures long and parses out as eight iterations of the double plagal phrase (the version with the root note of each chord in the bassline) followed by six measures of build up on just the I chord. The last four measures of the latter phrase contain a dramatic downward scale in the bassline that effectively leads right into the next track by making you hear that E-Major chord pivot as V of the key of A.


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6
|DA|E |DA|E |DA|E |DA|E |DA|E |DA|E |DA|E |DA|E |E |E |E |E |E |E |A
Bassline: E D C# B I

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