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1. Deborah Pickett (futzle@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 06:51:23 UTC Deborah Pickett

   Having just listened to the Alan Parsons album _Try Anything Once_ I reckoned I’d heard some very funky chords, and today upon transcribing some of the songs, my (one good) ear was not disappointed. (Thread)

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   • Deborah Pickett (futzle@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 06:51:59 UTC Deborah Pickett

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     Peaceful “Siren song” in E has plenty of suspended 2nds, and lots of ambiguous harmonies. Is that a GM7/E or is it an Em9? You’ll never know! Later it modulates to G, throws in a F/G, and then then _really_ throws in a F7/G (wtf? or is it Cm6/G? I can’t decide, it’s one of those duckrabbit illusions). Then it chucks in a straight F6, as if we haven’t had enough weird F chords by now.

   • Deborah Pickett (futzle@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 06:51:59 UTC Deborah Pickett

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     Aptly-named instrumental “Dreamscape” manages to modulate from B major to A major and I _still_ can’t figure out how it does it. It ends on an ambiguous A/G or maybe G/A and I find this upsetting because it doesn’t _sound_ ambiguous. Curse you, Dreamscape!

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   • Deborah Pickett (futzle@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 06:52:00 UTC Deborah Pickett

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     Bluesy “Wine from the Water” in F♯m alternates F♯m7 and B like a good blues song but ends the eighth bar on a delicious dangling C♯7(♯9). Also features chords like A/B where the bass note belongs to an entirely different chord that won’t be played till the next bar (I like to call this the “Baker Street” chord, play it and you’ll hear what I mean).

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 06:57:59 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @futzle Wow! There is a Swedish comedy song called "Truck Driving Song" that has a Truck Driver's Key Change at the end of each verse. I've listened to this song most of my life but never knew that term! It's a safe bet the composer did know the term.
     
     In Swedish it's usually called the "Schlager raise" as almost every ESC submission would traditionally use it for the last refrain.
   • Deborah Pickett (futzle@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 06:58:00 UTC Deborah Pickett

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     With Alan Parsons there’s a tradition of the wistful end-of-album ballad, and “Oh, Life (There Must Be More)” [big big CW for suicide] does not disappoint. It even has a Truck Driver’s Key Change, starting in Am and ending in B♭m, subtle enough that I didn’t even notice it.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 07:12:25 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @futzle For 36 years this joke has gone over my head ("Macken" aired in 1986). Thank you for bringing me in the know.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 07:12:26 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Galenskaparna och After Shave – Truck-driving song
     
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     www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp58wc…