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An-other thing I noticed when I listened to SMiLE about a week ago is that there's contrary motion among some instruments at the beginning of "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow." The guitar and piano go down and then up while what I think is an organ (it's organ in the 1966 version at least) goes up and then down. It results in a kind of musical pulling apart that's kind of unsettling, which actually works pretty well in imparting a sense of the apocalyptic fire.
