The Challenge this week is to write a song that uses the famous four chords of popular music – I – V- vi and IV! They do not have to be in that order though. These four chords have been played over and over in
As she descended the Rivington Street-inspired stage, she sang the opening chords of “Dance in the Dark,” a number that meditates upon body dysmorphia. Her “piss blonde” hair referenced a Monroe-esque style with the electric yellow Warhol used in female caricatures. This combination ...
But my chords - nobody in the coffeehouses ever played chords like those. And they're not jazz chords either. Wayne Shorter came in on - what song was it? Ethiopia? - and he said, "What are these chords? These are not piano chords and these are not guitar chords - what are these...
The song’s enduring appeal has led to countless reinterpretations and appearances in numerous films, television shows, and even video games. Many Christmas-themed movies and specials feature the song, either in its original form or as a cover version, often serving as a pivotal moment in the ...
With its aqueous chords and Paul Banks’ quietly desperate, yet poker-faced pronouncements, nothing, perhaps, vents the city’s confusion and ambivalence as elegantly as “NYC”. Everyone always remembers “subway is a porno,” and forgets the chorus, “New York cares,” but this song isn’...
But I was doing that around the Factory. I went back and wrote a song, “Vicious/You hit me with a flower/You do it every hour/Oh baby you’re so vicious.” Then people would come up and say, “What do you mean by that?” I didn’t want to say, “Well, ask Andy.” ...
But on "While You Wait for the Others" all that billowing excess is funneled and concentrated-- both within the song and the album, as the song's late-run sequencing pulls taut the airy slack around it. Clean, terse guitar chords muscle through a murky field of reverb, plowing the way...
roberts/redferns the boss 's 9/11 anthem was actually written in 2000 about the decline of asbury park, new jersey. built around the chords of curtis mayfield's "people get ready," it became the climactic prayer of his album the rising . related: • photos: bruce springsteen...
The squeak was the most his old vocal chords could muster in the way of a meow. But we loved him right off. Abe the cat, Old Abe, Honest Abe. When he wasn’t sleeping his long hours, he was quite alert and notably conscious of human company, looking you in the eye for acknowledgm...
he can bang out some killer church piano power chords just fine too. As for Meg, bless her heart, she still bangs her drums like an enthusiastic fourth grader. It’s a good thing that the sloppiness of the rhythm track on “My Doorbell” plays perfectly into the song’s petulance.Keefe...