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Much better. Thank you!

#1 refers to Friday's show.

Except U2

And Travis.

MCC?

MONDAY


'Three Chord Country and American Rock & Roll' - Keith Anderson & Steven Tyler

A rompin', stompin', romper stomper. Drunk people will love it!


>8-D

#5

Norrie,

Mary-Chapin was magnificent, as always.


If I apply an adjective to U2 I'll be busted by the mods.

Lou Reed said "One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz

I hate technical themes.......I have no idea how many chords are in any of the songs that I listen to.

#9. Thank God! Thought I was the only one!

Paul - 2. All of them. Same here. Stick together we can get through this....

Where is Jimfrae.....he could help here, Capn and Glen also know....

I think it's worth pointing out that Bang A Gong ( Get It On) T Rex is a three Chord song.

Others are:

All Along The Watchtower ( Jimi's version, please)

The Ballad Of John & Yoko

Get Back

Long Tall Sally - The Beatles ( McCartney on blistering form)

Stir It Up

Tumblin Dice

Twist & Shout

regardez youse

henri

try again....

non stop Status Quo - just what doctor blog ordered.

giving this one a miss. I'm sure other folk will come up with something more inspired. Or be really funny and biting about those who do. have a good weekend, all!

just request any song you like and the adjudicators can throw out any that don't fit. Or that they don't like of course.

Gaie - are you ok?

Anyway, one of the best songs ever, might be 3 chords I care not:

Sweet Jane

take your pick

Velvet Underground
Mott The Hoople
Cowboy Junkies

If the team had 8 mins or so to spare I would go for the trinity revisited version...nicely combines the spirit of VU with their own interpretation...

#16 Probably not, norrie. My brain's be totally frazzled today. I misread it, but still Blues, country, punk, rock & roll - plenty to chose from.

Monday




Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols





DC

I bet Scotch is playing Pretty Vacant and counting on his fingers at the moment...........

One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz!

Lou.

Whoops, sorry Norrie!

Wild Thing has four chords.

You Don't Mess Around with Jim ~ Jim Croce

Keepin' it Country!


We're we blessed with Willie's feelgood 'On the road again' tonight B.T.W?

Great shout MM? Weary? fulfilled?

#22 I do believe Wild Thing is 3 chords!

Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison

#22, #26

Dunno. Can any musicians out there explain in a Chord Structure for Numpties kind of way?

no gaelic times tables; today's challenge, three chord songs. Use it or lose it.

Free Fallin' - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Nothin' But a Woman - Robert Cray
Call Me the Breeze - JJ Cale
Crossroads - Cream
Born under a Bad Sign - Albert King
Key to the Highway - Eric Clapton

#27

#27

#29 was no good.. try

Roy Orbison - In Dreams

David Bowie - Soul Love

#30

Frank,

It has been quite a while since I was forced to question my masculinity. Now I can add inferiority complex to my extensive list. Thank you.

My therapist would like to extend her thanks as well. Now she can order that new Mercedes-Benz. (Other outrageously expensive German automobiles are available).




















inadequate git

3 Chord Song
Roxy Music - Over You
Roxy Music - Psalm
Roxy Music - If It Takes All Night
Roxy Music - Mother Of Pearl
Roxy Music - Casanova
Bryan Ferry - Don't Stop Dance

When I was about 13-14 I was learning to play guitar on an old acoustic. My mate in the next block had 2 older brothers who played guitar and bass in a band. He was learning to play bass on his brother's bass and when his brothers were out we would jam together with me using his brother's electric.

One day his brother came home early and 'caught' us. He asked us what was it we wanted to do. We said play in a local band playing pubs/weddings etc earn a few bob. He looked at me and said 'a wedding band ehh!!, how many chords do you know? With a very coy look I replied "four" not wanting to show my inadequacies and hoping he wouldn't ask me to show him the chords, he sucked his teeth and shook his head and said " four chords??? that's no use for a wedding band, you will have to forget one you are over qualified"

Now my 3 chord Roxy Music song has lots of great memories for me. I got into music when I was 14 half way between Roxy's Manifesto album and the Flesh And Blood album. So everything I bought and heard before F+B was retrospective. The first single from Flesh And Blood was 'Over You' so this was the first 'new release' Roxy Music record I had bought, the first record I wanted to buy before it had even been released.

It was also the very first song played on the very first 'paid' gig I did with my band the legendary 'Trade Secret' on May 6th 1981

J.O'B.

#26

I think there's an unstopped barre chord at the fifth fret (C D bass) preceding the A chord after each line of the verse - "......think I love you"

I notice that our blog has had the addition of symbols added near the top which show the true range of the show's inter-activity, representing f***book and twitter et al.

There is only one final move to be made.

A new era has begun - a royal wedding in which the couple seem to like each other, the world's leading terrorist has been eliminated and our small country has the world's most sophisticated electorate.

But surely, what the public really really want is a web cam to be installed in the studio so we can watch Bryan and Babs dancing about to 80's disco records?

regardez youse

henri

#35

Henri,

You mean this an eighties disco show?!?



That explains a lot.......

#32

Your very welcome

Such a great laugh out loud site

#10, #11 LOL, nice to know i'm in good company!

So how to participate then?

Think of a basic tune and google it?

Give up?

Tune to Westsound?

#38

Nope! Do what i did. Google 'Famous Three Chord Songs'

Pick a few that you like and put them up on the blog, people will think you know something about it.

When you look at the list, you'll get the idea and think of others that are similar.

No problemo.

regardez youse

henri

tsk tsk Henri, your secrets out :o).....I wouldn't normally stoop to this level but......I have a sore throat.......it's raining and i'm bored.............

:-D

Let's hear it for the Irish!

Aisling - Christy Moore

Catch Me If You Can - Brendan Shine

I'll get this bloody song played if it kills me!

;o)

3 chord wonders:

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha

you can also think of a possible song and google the tabs for it

so there you go, Scotch Git, we're all inadequate except Frank and Glen we've just had more practice at covering up - though in my case rarely successfully, #15. Doh!

Glen;

The Boomtown Rats - Looking After Number One

The Undertones - Get Over You

It Hurts Me Too - Tampa Red
Mean Woman Blues - Allman Brothers
Angel Dance - Robert Plant

Tanita Tikaram - Cathedral Song

....after a bit of research........

Flying Saucer Attack - The Rezillos


Paul from Ayr

Am I the only one getting fed up of the blog? The continual moaning and grief is beyond tedious.

You're right, Norrie. The others just complain all the time. If they'd occasionally express appreciation of the team's efforts to satisfy a wide variety of listeners' tastes, the world would be a better place. When all these short-sighted fools have been eliminated there will be no obstacles to our plans. To a better tomorrow!

Well said Glen

Credence Clearwater Revival - Fortinate Son

#50/51

I know, the last time I pointed out how well Bryan and Babs work together as a team all hell broke loose - but I stand by them both. Since that blog row, Richard has noticeably bucked his ideas up a bit and been more communicative when producing - in fact, all the producers are more communicative.

So, although the blog, in the round, seems to be increasingly drifting to the margin - as though we were the looney left of music appreciation - the bloggers do make a difference.

Disappointingly, I notice long periods can go past in the show now when blog requests don't get a look in. There was a show quite recently when the blog was almost completely unrepresented and some of us have taken to blogging first, texting later.

I feel certain, though, that such ongoing constructive criticism as our blog produces serves the best interests of the show overall and that we are indeed a positive contribution to the work of genius that is Get It On.

regardez youse

henri

#54

Henri,

Let the record show that Scotch Git is on the looney right!


Purely in the interests of balance, of course.


Sometimes it feels more like

#54 Communicative producers...hmmm...that was part of the problem was it not?

Having re-read all the comments on this thread, the only moany ones I see are #50 & #51


I suppose you could include #3 & #4 if you were being particularly pedantic...


>8-D

#56

Julie,

Was that a moan? If so, why the past tense?


We should be telt!

#58 It was a remark about a past remark. I must say though that I rather enjoyed most of last week's shows.

#59

I thought Friday's show was very good!

So did I...It was quite jolly!

#50,51 etc your right of course, apologies for all the whingeing, I for one will resolve to carry forward Friday's positivity to next week :-)

#50 - 51 - he's taking the rip, norrie. Shame on you, glen - you must think we're all fools. ENJOY. Smartarsery is fine so long as it's consensual. It's not here - you're just having a laugh when you think others are too thick to get your smartarsery.

#63 ???

Monday and keeping on the Sunny Side, enjoying this theme


Six Days on the Road - George Thorogood & the Destroyers

Diddy Wah Diddy - Bo Diddley

#64/63 etc

Ah yes, big 2nd for 'Six Days On The Road' - in my yoof I had a CBS sampler called 'Fill Your Head With Rock' which had a version of this by Taj Mahal, which is great.

Steady MD, I thought it was Norrie who was taking the p*** though I don't recall Glen ever doing anything else (except once).

regardez youse

henri

#63

Con..sensual - do you refair per'aps to ze caged Cupid cloober Cheri Dane? And, despite 'er brilliant disguise, has anyone evair seen Married All and Jaime d'Erse-Skin in ze same rheum?

#25
Weary? Nope but the others were after the 'speed march' through the Lairigmor LOL "told 'em I'd get them to Fort Bill in 4 hours!"
Fulfilled? For sure ;-)

Would Roxette ~ Dr Feelgood meet Monday's criteria?

'e is deerskin jam?

Dram? Are ill....

- The Rockin' Rebels

Don't know if these are 3 chord songs or not...

Chuck Berry - 'Promised Land'
Blink 182 - 'All The Small Things'
Joe Cocker - 'Unchain My Heart'

The Hollies - 'Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress'

'peggy sue'..............buddy holly..............has only 3 chords but has given a lifetime of joy.
interesting(?) fact..............it was originally called 'cindy sue'.............so maybe its the only 3 chord song that benefitted from a name change.

cheers frae the dale

# quiz question..................which famous person was heard saying..........'those who tire of the blog are tired of life'?

cheers frae the dale

Double Trouble - Lynrd Skynrd

To Ohio - The Low Anthem

* Lynard Skynard - Sweet ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Alabama
which is the same 3 chords as
* AC/DC - Back in Black
* Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
* Boston - More than a Feeling
Why yes, I do have a mashup of all of the above...

From V IV I (though the 12 chord Boston song is stretching it) to I IV V:

Words of Love - Buddy Holly
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
Twist & Shout - Isley Brothers
Wild Weekend - The Rockin' Rebels
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen (unusually V minor)
Hang On Sloopy - The McCoys
Soul Limbo - Booker T & The MGs
Spanish Stroll - Mink de Ville

Special entry here for all 12-bar-blues (Sorry, Ricky, it's "bars of 12 or fewer").

....

That being a space left for you to supply your own (long) list.

Here's my particular entry:
* Cream - Strange Brew

#77

Let's not forget the I-V-IV tracks like
* The Who - Baba O'Riley

or I VII V like

Gloria - Them

Couple more hard rockers:

* Black Sabbath - Paranoid
* Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
(although if you want to get picky, it's got a keychange and a Neapolitan 6th in the new key substituting for IV in the chorus)

Two chords: I VI:

* The Jam - That's Entertainment

`for Scotch Git

Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Is there not a forum that the Capn and Glen can go away and have fun in?

Good to see the art of the liquid post is still alive and well on the blog!
:)

#85 but Norrie, this is so much more fun for them when they can show off to us morons

#85#87

We're not treated like this on the Sword and Sandals site.

nay too sure whit a 3-chord song is... I don't play music...

Is 'The Sound Of Silence' (Simon and Garfunkel) one?

For the XVth time, they're to be called III chords now

DC

Hmm, just a thought, does DC = D?

#89 Glenius and Ramius 'll be long in a minute to tell you that obviously it has no chords apart from the time they played Barrowlands and a can was dropped in the middle of the Silence, thereby introducing and aberrant X-X-X-X

Okay lets see if factoids are the key... Any Carter Family song uses only three chords, the I, IV and V chords Example: Little Darling Pal of Mine (which is the predecessor of This Land), Keep On the Sunny Side, and the other 300 or so.

Keepin' it country!

#90 silly me mixing my Ds & Ls up

DC = -CD

At least six chords in Whatever You Want and four in Brown Eyed Girl but who's counting?

The quality of music is inversely proportional to the quality of arithmetic taught in our schools

Do they still teach arithmetic? There at least five chords in Back In Black.

Oh dear. Tricky theme then?

Maybe we will have reached 100 chords by the 100th post.

You can count on it

is it passe to claim a goal for this post?