Songs with weird key changes

[Jarobi]

I need your help Talkbass!
I'm looking for songs with a half-step up/down key change (or any weird-sounding/unusual key change I guess), like in People Get Ready:



All genres welcomed. Feel free to talk about key changes in general also.

 

[JTE]

It's a common move in lots of classic country recordings, like Waylon Jennings' "Good Hearted Woman". And it seems every single Barry Manilow single did that.

 

[thewildest]

Most jazz-rock, fusion and progressive rock music have unorthodox key changes, too many to count.

On pop music I got (by accident, just joined a cover band) the song "It's my life" (talk talk, no doubt), the changes are what i would consider "weird" if that means inelegant, unnecessary.

 

[10cc]

 

[yodedude2]

too numerous to enumerate. and all of them are weird, except for any manilow song and for songs that move between the major and relative minor or vice versa (ex.: 'the letter' by the boxtops).

one nicely done and insanely popular one is 'something' by george harrison.

 

[Mike N]

Surrender by Cheap Trick.

 

[Febs]

I wouldn't call them weird, but two songs that come immediately to mind with 1/2 step key changes are Soul Man and Mack the Knife.

 

[brianrost]

That's not weird, it's called a modulation.

 

[Jarobi]

That's not weird, it's called a modulation.

That's what I'm trying to tell my guitar player, but he's quite stubborn. Thanks for the examples so far guys!

 

[RDUB]

Wow... too many to count. Moving up a half or whole step is very common. It helps to build the song. The listener hears it as more intensity.