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Coffee Break: Full stop!

by Anna Reed

August 31, 2017

Pixies at Minnesota Public Radio
Pixies at Minnesota Public RadioMPR / Leah Garaas

Thanks to listener Eric for today's theme idea - songs that come to a full stop in the middle.

Eric says he's looking for "somewhere in the middle of the song when either a hard stop or fade out occurs, and for a split second you think the song is over, before the music comes rushing back in," a situation that is all-too-familiar to radio professionals who frequently lunge at the controls during these sorts of breaks in songs.

Current digital producer Luke Taylor told us that there's a name for a break in a verse where one phrase ends and the following phrase begins - it's called a "caesura" and in sheet music it's marked like this: //.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that come to a full stop in the middle?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

Van Morrison - Wild Night
The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait
The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
The Breeders - Cannonball
Booker T. and the M.G.'s - Mo' Onions
The English Beat - Rankin Full Stop
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Adele - Rumor Has It

Coffee Break: Full stop!