Some songs are simply NOT meant to be grinded to (ground to?). "All of Me" is not a grinding song.
"Sweet Caroline" is not a grinding song.
"Story of My Life" is not a grinding song.
Really, unless a song has one or more artists with a name that begins with "Lil," it is NOT going to be the ideal grinding song.
Mother-fucking "Wagon Wheel" is NOT a grinding song, nor is, "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Radioactive," or anything else that could plausibly be sung around a campfire.
Obviously there's the complexity of the harmony: though the band will ground songs in rhythmic patterns lift from Motown, disco, blues and funk, it's not afraid to load up those songs with jazz chords, or as in "Parker's Band," quotations from actual jazz songs.
When a rock band draft in a gospel choir, it's usually out of a desire for authenticity: their presence is supposed to comfortably ground the song in a familiar musical tradition.
They had composers, arrangers and lyricists, and they ground out songs almost assemblyline".
With Beatallica, a novelty act that grinds Beatles songs up in the dark sonics of vintage Metallica.
But she was more awkward and actressy trying to look sincere in "Big Girls Don't Cry," backed by acoustic guitar, than she was doing a mechanized, choreographed bump-and-grind in songs like "Fergalicious" and Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps".
