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At the 5:35 mark of this video The Box Tops get ready to play “Soul Deep,” a song containing perhaps my favorite 1-2 punch in rock: the quick chord progression from the IV back to the I chord on which the song had been chooglin’. It’s the chord progression that accompanies the song’s hook line, the “soul deep” part in the choruses. There may be no more satisfying 1-2 punch for me in rock than this simple device. It’s like giving a kid a sugarcube.
What’s your favorite 1-2 punch in rock? It doesn’t need to be anything as nerdy as a 2-measure chord progression.
Mick and Keith singing together at the same mic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ3l8r2wgtg
Love the Box Tops clip. Even after all these years, I still cannot work out how Chilton sang like that for the Box Tops and then as he did for Big Star. Different voice entirely.
Hard Days’ Night, John gets the verse, they both take the bridge, Paul takes the chorus. That’s teamwork.
I’ve been wracking my brain all day to try to place the double 1-2 riff — I-IV/IV-I — that kicks off this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHX0Phufv_k
It’s The Devil Came From Kansas, a song from Procol Harum’s greatest album A Salty Dog. The whole song is based on that 1-2 rhythm too, until they do that weird rhythmic variation at 2:48.
(Dig the scary cartoon too.)
Ramblin’ Man. Most of the song is strumming truckbed storytelling, even when it gets to the chorus. They rock out a bit, “Lord, I was born a ramblin’ man,” with your drawn-out harmonies and the air-guitar friendly “tweedle-dee” guitar fill, but the chord change for “Trying to make a living and doing the best I can,” just kills me for some reason. It makes the whole song worth listening to just to wait for that interval.
I like that one too, Steve. I think Procol Harum remains the least-discussed of the relatively well-known acts of the late ’60s/early ’70s here, though I’m not sure what I’d have to say about them, either.