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"Dogs" is a UK single written by Pete Townshend and released by the Who in June 1968. [1] It reached number 25 on the UK singles chart , lower than any single the band had released in several years. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The B-side of the UK single was " Call Me Lightning ".
The main theme features what were, for Pink Floyd, rather unusual chords. In the final version's key of D minor, the chords are D minor ninth, E♭maj7 sus2 /B♭, Asus2sus4, and A♭sus2. All these chords contain the tonic of the song, D—even as a tritone, as is the case in the fourth chord. [4] [5] [6]
A human with red-green color blindness will mistake one color for another. For example, black may be perceived as shades of red, while bright green could be identified as yellow, Healthline reports .
Dogs have only two types of these cells, making it difficult to differentiate between colours. Dogs can see blue and yellow shades distinctly but fail to distinguish among shades of red, green and ...
AllMusic called the song "guitar pop at its best" and noted that it was "amazingly, [a] mainstream Australian hit". [6] Beat Magazine said the song had, "entered Australia's popular music lexicon" and "epitomised the irreverent wit that defined the era in alternative music, embodying a sense of misanthropic sarcasm that revelled in being the outsider."
The song has been used to teach children names of colours. [1] [2] Despite the name of the song, two of the seven colours mentioned ("red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue") – pink and purple – are not actually a colour of the rainbow (i.e. they are not spectral colors; pink is a variation of shade, and purple is the human brain's interpretation of mixed red/blue ...
(The saying "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" is often asserted to have been coined by Rudyard Kipling but no precise source is ever cited.) The song begins with the first 10 notes of "Rule Britannia". This song is considered a patter song, because the lyrics are mostly spoken rather than sung. One of the memorable lines ...
The song is split into distinct segments: a groupie (Trudy Young) performs a monologue ("Oh my God, what a fabulous room!") while a television plays, under which a synthesizer makes atonal sounds, which eventually resolve into a quiet song in C major in 3/4 time ("Day after day / Love turns grey / Like the skin of a dying man."