Losing My Religion, Nothing Else Matters etc

Not so sure about Losing My Religion but Nothing Else Matters is really quite beautiful, and I love the original…

Also, Michael Jackson and Nirvana content…

Interesting; I thought the losing my religion wasn’t too bad; the others sound absolutely awful. Nothing else matters for example; it now sounds like it’s a song about the christian faith being sung/played by a happy clapper.

I can’t quite get into it – interesting idea though.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should – if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Minor scale solos over major scales work quite well. What they’ve done there is make everything major all the time. It just messes it up to my ears.

Major chords are the music of fascism, you can hear the hatred of immigrants

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKFPKh-CqaY[/video]

Major Losing My Religion sounds like basically every Idlewild song after they went shite. I kind of want to learn nothing else majeur though, just to make people furious.

There’s a reason people do stuff in minor keys. I don’t think any of those are improved by this – to me they now just sound bland and have lost their edge. I can’t help but feel that there’s an element of novelty here – people are going all wow because they’re new versions of old songs – the idea that downbeat lyrics with upbeat melody is a clever thing just seems a bit **** over-analysed. It makes me think of Juliet, Naked (crappy chick lit, so I wouldn’t particularly recommend it, but I hope anybody who’s read it gets the point – otherwise you can google for the plot).

Brilliant NW – a far better use of my time than listening to popular songs redone in a major key. Though why is it that major keys are perceived as being fascist happy and minor keys as being sad? Is there something fundamental which works on our psyche, or is it just cultural conditioning.

I used to wonder that aracer, but it would seem to be fundamental after observing my kids at least…

any studies on this?

I wondered (partly prompted by NW’s vid) whether major stuff converted to minor would be more interesting and whether they also did that – sure enough there’s quite a few here: https://www.facebook.com/majorversusminor

I have to admit I quite liked this (though it’s not quite right – a couple of points there’s something disjointed)
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=45&v=6JyFrIH2-ns[/video]

…not sure what it says about me, but have worked my way through a few more songs on there and the minor to major all seem bland, but I quite enjoy most of the major to minor. I think I’ve found the work of genius:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbTxfN8d2CI#t=42[/video]

I believe the ‘minor’ thing works on our psyche – on the basis of the (semi-) tonal drop our voices inflect when we are feeling sad.

Quite like the REM version. Others not so. NW’s vid about fascism is hilarious 😆

Edit: Agree – ‘don’t worry’ is transformed into something amazing! 😯

…and a couple more really good ones

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dcfpH8oJoM[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-pqV7S79U8#t=45[/video]

actually I’ll edit my earlier opinion – Hey Jude really is genius, even if Be Worry, Don’t Happy has something else.

After 40 Happy Birthday should be played and sung in the minor key as per NW’s vid.

Be Worry, Don’t Happy… 😆

Losing My Religion

it now sounds like it’s a song about the christian faith being sung/played by a happy clapper.

This. Just makes it sound more shallow.

The differences between minor and major arrangements are more than just the notes – the phrasing tends to be slightly different too.

That Hey Jude version sounds like it has only been half-transposed. Terrible.

How about Frere Jacques in the minor key. Mahler’s First Symphony. Somewhat idiosyncratic performance but quite compelling.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5A5tFyXQio[/video]