When you step outside of the familiarity you have with many of your favourite songs, and judge them through a purely theoretical or structural lense, it’s actually rather astonishing just how many of the biggest tracks in the history of rock and pop dispense with convention.
Whether it be sudden about-turns, swings into entirely new, un-signposted sections or the presentation of critical musical information late into the track’s runtime - it’s often those moments that make the tracks in question so special.
