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Help me understand "Tainted Love"
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Ba Boom Boom, Boom Boom, boom boom, Boom boom.
Just guessing. I can barely read English, let alone music so... don't count on me.
Just guessing. I can barely read English, let alone music so... don't count on me.
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This. Using diatonic (or classical) theory to try and analyze this song is a pointless venture.
Not really. It's pretty vanilla even compared to a lot of 19th century classical harmony. Just simple borrowing going on, that's all.
Regardless, it's still grossly complicating something that's perfectly easy to understand if you don't try to grossly complicate the theory.
Just out of curiosity, do you think how I explained it is overly complicated:
It's in A minor with occasional borrowing of the Tonic from the parallel major.
My mind was playing tricks on me when I wrote Soft Cell in there, because I knew they covered it, but kind of like RHCP's "Higher Ground", a lot of people think it's their song.
A lot of people think Tesla wrote "Signs" as well.
I remember watching a show where Piers Morgan was talking to Joan Jett & he asked her how she was feeling when she wrote "Crimson & Clover".
There were multiple people speaking to her, so she just blanked him. Joan's biggest hits are covers, with possibly an exception of "Bad Reputation", but she was selling that on tape out of the trunk of her car.
I have tried studying music theory, but that is probably the one thing I am sure of.
I guess I'm saying, "I knew that!", but that's about it, LOL.
I've heard the originals of all of those but I've never even heard of Gloria Jones till today. She's pretty obscure.
...and Coolio wrote the music to Gangster's Paradise.
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Coolio wrote the music to Gangster's Paradise.
He might have written the lyrics, but the music was all Stevie.
I always thought it was odd that Iggy & Bowie shared China Girl.
Didn't Bowie also share Under Pressure with Queen?
bdwgml said: a lot of people think Tesla wrote "Signs" as well.
Elvis Presley. The king. Over 600 songs recorded. 108 songs in Billboard Too 100. 80 songs Top 40. 18 #1 songs.
He never wrote one song. They were mostly covers.
Elvis Presley. The king. Over 600 songs recorded. 108 songs in Billboard Too 100. 80 songs Top 40. 18 #1 songs.
He never wrote one song. They were mostly covers.
"China Girl" was released on an Iggy Pop record done in 1977 with Bowie producing and co-writing. Bowie recorded it again for his 1983 album "Let's Dance" and it did a lot better on the charts the second time around.
Carmine Rojas played great stuff on most of the "Let's Dance" album. Nobody really talks about it on TB.
Borrowed chord. Snag a chord from the parallel major in this case (Amin to Amaj) and it provides pleasant chromatic movement that the brain hears regardless if whether or not its there. Relatively common in jazz/blues stuff. Fun to play too love this song
Pretty sure much the same can be said of Luciano Pavarotti...
That line gets a little hairy
but no, I got what you mean. I just thought the OP's question about how it's derived was needlessly complicating the issue.
I play jazz tunes where every chord (some times 4 or more/bar) change the 'diatonics' - no music more boring than whole tunes made up of one scale - geeze
