Sweet Jane
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 24 June 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
B-b-but that one has a fourth chord!
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 June 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCmhNRqN27I
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Sunday, 24 June 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
I can't see the youtubes on iPad, are any of these "Hard to Make A Stand" by Sheryl Crow? If not, that one.
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Sunday, 24 June 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
Fox On The Run - The Sweet
― Mark G, Sunday, 24 June 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7miRCLeFSJo
― MarkoP, Monday, 25 June 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, yeah! I was thinking of that one. That's one where the root of the chord goes up for the IV and V chords, whereas the root goes down in "Baba."
― timellison, Monday, 25 June 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
I thought the Superchunk song that bit "Baba O'Riley" was the outro of "Song For Marion Brown."
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Monday, 25 June 2012 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
John Mellencamp - "Small Town"
― timellison, Friday, 27 July 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
'straight to hell'/'paper planes'!
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 27 July 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
"Must of Got Lost" - J. Geils Band
― timellison, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
Noah & the Whale - Tonight's The Kind Of Night (from memory, at least)
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
Witchy tai to
― Trip Maker, Friday, 7 September 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
"Do Ya" - same year!
― timellison, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
Just read thread title as "Songs with the Bill O'Reilly Chord Progression." Unsettling.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
"Won't Get Fooled Again" - chords so nice, pete used em twice.....
― m0stlyClean, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
Isn't this just I-V-IV? That's pretty standard in rock music, isn't it? Or are you looking for the same rhythm as "Baba O'Riley" too?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
i always think about starting a companion thread about riffs with the same cadence as the "Baba O'Riley" riff because i know tons of those but have no idea when the chords are the same or not
― some dude, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I-V-IV is that common really! Not as a repeating sequence, anyway. (I'm sure there would be lots more songs where I-V-IV is part of a larger pattern.)
― timellison, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I just scanned a couple of articles on rock harmony and you seem to be right.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
Aerosmith - Angel
this has to be the most blatant one, it mimics not only the chord sequence but also the tempo
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
― m0stlyClean, Monday, March 11, 2013 11:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Nope
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
i can see for miles and miles and miles and miles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZWzYSu2luo
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, "Baba" is F-C-Bb, WGFA is A-G-D. Different chords, different chord progressions.
xp
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, I guess it would be I-VII-IV
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
....unless D is the root, then it would be V - IV - I ....
― m0stlyClean, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
Should be a silmiar thread for "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
Do you hear D as the tonic in "Won't Get Fooled Again" though? I think it's clearly A.
Other nerds might find this interesting and somewhat relevant: http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.11.17.1/mto.11.17.1.temperley.html
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
really more of a sweet jane rip, but still:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlqC6SuhIXM
― s.clover, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
This is a great video if you like this song and have been misled about the song's construction:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA7Y5f_C-tw
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
tbf, the organ track on Townshend's demo (which was nine minutes, and edited down for the band recording) was put through a couple of warbly synth modules at about the four- or five-minute mark. But yeah, as the clip shows, at no point was data about Meher Baba's life fed into a computer with that music being the result.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
So, the new One Direction single "Best Song Ever" is a "Baba" pastiche, but the chords are F# (three beats), C# (one beat), G# (four beats). The I and IV chords are switched around.
The thing is, there's just so little use of the tonic chord in this progression. It's only on one beat (a weak beat). Nevertheless, it works.
― timellison, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
that's precisely why it works, really
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
it's basically a variant of playing IV-V over and over again which is a common pop music trick (c.f. "Call Me Maybe") - IV-V blatantly sets people's ears up for a resolution to the I chord, but you get that release only sparingly, so everything stays in a heightened state of energy
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
Yeah. Of course, "Call Me Maybe" sticks to the tonic a lot in the verses. Kudos to 1D for jamming it through the whole song and making it work!
― timellison, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
"Call Me Maybe" only hits the tonic right after the chorus & before the verses start, actually. otherwise it's IV-V the whole way through.
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
I don't hear any V chord in the verse. Sounds to me basically like an alternation between IV and I with a vi chord thrown in before the IV
― timellison, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, didn't finish that post. Try again.
I don't hear any V chord in the verse. Sounds to me basically like an alternation between IV and I with a vi chord thrown in before the IV the second and fourth time through.
― timellison, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
(I LOVE the use of the tonic chord as that stuttering accent preceding both the IV and V chords in the chorus of "Call Me Maybe," by the way.)
― timellison, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
Coda of "Pilot of the Airwaves" (starts at 2:52)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGKrgJZhpzk
― timellison, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 04:23 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2gy1Evb1Kg
― tsrobodo, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 07:27 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bhLw3v_tiY
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 07:40 (ten years ago) link
"Let My Love Open the Door" - Pete Townshend
― timellison, Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4qKKRn4kZs&sns=fb
― timellison, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
"Camarillo Brillo"
― timellison, Friday, 27 July 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
"You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet"
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 27 July 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
Shawn Mendes - "Believe"
― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Friday, 5 October 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
Hoyt Axton tune but with some added "Baba" for the fun of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gptRvXfkhvc
― timellison, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 02:26 (five years ago) link
The Cars - "Bye Bye Love" (chorus)
― timellison, Monday, 16 September 2019 04:12 (four years ago) link
og Brinsley Schwarz version of "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding"
― timellison, Monday, 23 December 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
new one! california band Spice referencing baba oriley (via superchunk?) https://spiceispain.bandcamp.com/track/26-dogs
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
"If Not for You"
― timellison, Friday, 20 November 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTzWeyNJLwI
― xzanfar, Saturday, 21 November 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link
Chorus of "The Weight"
― timellison, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link