Adding Chords, Omitting Chords

A friend of mine gets very very irritated by Scottish football (and rugby) fans substituting a major for a minor chord in the chorus of "Flower of Scotland". Terrible song though.

also agree about the saint etienne, smoothing over the interesting bass note stuff that neil throws in.

another example: dua lipa and elton re-working "rocket man" to fit the minor key house groove on "cold heart"

avalanches greatly simplify the chords of belle & sebastian's "i'm a cuckoo" in their remix

― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, August 22, 2023 8:20 AM (yesterday)

...and interpolate a completely different melody altogether as the kids wanted to sing another song instead.

As much as I respect the deliberately odd choices Shudder To Think makes with their compositions, I'm driven a little crazy by the 2nd more-than-half of X-French Tee Shirt being just one chord the entire time, despite the fact that the lead comes in to support the vocal melody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eLnhDzf6p8

I love that about "X-French Tee Shirt"! The little semitone hammer-on at the beginning of each repetition is a great musical joke, like "oh, you want some harmonic variety? Here's one E before we play F for 16 more bars".

Isn't that just the bass? Guitar teases nothing!

Pedantic correction: it's a seven-bar pattern, and they do the hammer-on twice, before the third and seventh bars.

If it's just the bass, that's even funnier!