This week’s “Music Monday” comes from Matt’s playlist!
Admittedly, I’m not the most knowledgeable person about music. While I played in marching and concert bands for most of my life from elementary school through college, the theory, language of music, and even the basic titles and band names have always eluded me. Which leads me to a musical comedy trio from Australia, “The Axis of Awesome”.
The “4 Chords” song explores the similarities between many of the most popular pop and rock songs in history. The Axis of Awesome show how four basic chords can be used to create most of these songs. “4 Chords” is an amazing and hilarious spoof that exposes the irony of how easy it can be to create an “instant hit”.
There a number of different version of “4 Chords”, with several updates including the most recent pop hits. This version, from a concert in Australia, is one of the latest versions and quite possibly the funniest!
Good one, Matt! One of the older versions of this is how I found out about Bic Runga’s music! And now she’s one of my favorites! This really is the greatest pop song ever!
It’s a great collage of pop songs. So fun to listen to. I never get tired of it. And I like how they update it with newer songs.