Oh. I just gave in and watched a live video because I was so curious about that "fingerbanging guitar solo" and oh. Oh oh oh. First, I'm glad that my ears for production are accurate, and the guitar is doubled. But mostly oh. Oh oh oh. The ~secret~ to that sound and it is not a tremolo arm either it is oh it is oh oh oh ooohhh. That is very clever, very very clever, oh.
But really, I cannot wait until this obsession ends because spewing this obsession over every thread is really getting silly now.
But still. Oh.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Sunday, 23 February 2014 01:00 (ten years ago) link
"Surrender"
― timellison, Saturday, 9 April 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
The Who - "The Real Me"
― timellison, Monday, 6 June 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
Styx - "Fooling Yourself"
― timellison, Friday, 10 June 2016 03:18 (seven years ago) link
every Hüsker Dü song
― flappy bird, Friday, 10 June 2016 03:22 (seven years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Rqvry3K05qQ/T3dqKlRbQNI/AAAAAAAAAG4/2Pr1sD7uqJE/s1600/U2-With-Or-Without-Y-351964.jpg
― brimstead, Friday, 10 June 2016 03:35 (seven years ago) link
The "California Girls" one where it goes from a tonic major chord to a minor five chord at the beginning of the verse.
― timellison, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
That's a good chord change.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 00:31 (seven years ago) link
"Darling Be Home Soon"
― timellison, Sunday, 23 July 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
Hm. Will have to listen to again
― Under Heaviside Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 July 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
"Detroit Rock City"
― timellison, Saturday, 20 January 2018 07:54 (six years ago) link
Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Love or Confusion"
― timellison, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
"Got to Get You into My Life"
― timellison, Thursday, 12 July 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp1HWhnpfvs
― timellison, Monday, 16 July 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Thursday, June 9, 2016 11:22 PM (two years ago)
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 July 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
Really?
― timellison, Monday, 16 July 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
somebody pointed it out upthread--joni mitchell is the queen of pedal points
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Monday, 16 July 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
Pavement - "We Dance" almost qualifies, there's a brief A-major containing a C# but all other chords in the song pedal around the D on the b-string.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 16 July 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
Your Song (the intro)Maybe I'm Amazed ("maybe i'm a man")
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
"Xanadu"
― timellison, Saturday, 21 July 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
"Even in the Quietest Moments" by Supertramp wins this - the backdrop of a constant D in the bass throughout the entire song underlies a shifting palette of major, minor, dominant, and diminished chords, often with 7ths atop them. There's at least seven different chords in the verses and chorus, more if inversions are counted separately. très cool
― Lee626, Saturday, 21 July 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link
Opening riff and chorus to Cliff Richard, "We Don't Talk Anymore"
― timellison, Saturday, 21 July 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
"Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies"
― timellison, Saturday, 3 November 2018 06:22 (five years ago) link
ooh i like that this thing i like has a name. is there a name for its kind of opposite, e.g. when a bassline changes under a repeating melody (if that makes sense)?
My favorite example of this is Peter Gabriel's "It Is Accomplished" (from Passion). The whole song is one four-note sequence (A-G#-F#-E) while the bass creates new chords each measure (A B F#m C#m A B E). The bridge is the same four-note sequence with the bass adding a new chord and sequence (D E, repeated).
― SlimAndSlam, Sunday, 4 November 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link
There are so many Genesis and Phil Collins tracks that make use of this.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 4 November 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
Holger Czukay to thread.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 November 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
"If I Needed Someone"
― timellison, Monday, 3 December 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
The Human League - "Mirror Man"
― timellison, Monday, 7 January 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
"Love American Style" (on the "By the dawn's early light, my love" section).
― timellison, Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
ooo nice one
― flappy bird, Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
"A Groovy Kind of Love"
― timellison, Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
A pedal on 5 when it goes to the ii chord!
― timellison, Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link