Saturday, April 25, 2009

The Shins "Strange Powers"

As I said in a previous post, I'm a huge fan of the Shins, and will try to get as many playable versions of their songs on my Shins guitar chords page as possible - but a lot of their stuff is pretty quirky, and the songs don't always translate to playing simplified acoustic versions.

But one of my favourite of their songs is a cover they did of Magnetic Fields' "Strange Powers", for which the rhythm guitar part uses just 5 chords - F, C, G, Dm and Am. The song doesn't feature on "Wincing the Night Away", but was the "B-side" for the "Sea Legs single.


You can find my version of The Shins "Strange Powers" on my guitar chords website at the link below:

The Shins - "Strange Powers" guitar chords and lyrics ( cover of Magnetic Fields song )


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The Shins official website is at http://www.theshins.com/ and their MySpace page is at http://www.myspace.com/theshins


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Friday, April 24, 2009

The Smiths "How soon is now" chords & lyrics

In a recent post I made the (slightly) exaggerated claim that "Oasis saved my life!" After the mid 70's punk and late 70's post-punk/new wave we entered into that musical void commonly known as the 80's. My point being that with the arrival of Oasis, I could once again pick up my guitar and work out and play a current song, after enduring 10 years of 'New Romance', Disco and electro-pop.

But there was one band who sustained me through the trauma - Stephen Patrick Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke & Mike Joyce - aka The Smiths. With a new album every year from 1984 to 1987, each packed with classic songs, few if any fillers, I really just switched off the radio and listened to REAL music by the few good bands there were - and The Smiths were tops.

I haven't worked on a Smiths song for some time, haven't even listened to their stuff much ( bad idea to group your iPod/Zen playlists by decade...! ) But I had mine on random play recently, and the booming reverb that kicks off "How Soon is Now" brough me right back. So, I've worked out the chords and lyrics, and added this song to the 16 Smiths already on my "Smiths song chords" page, you can check it out at the link below:



Guitar Chords and Lyrics to The Smiths "How Soon is Now"

If you'd like to play along with the song, this is the YouTube link: Smiths "How Soon is Now"

I hope you'll have as much fun playing the song as I've had!

The Smiths website is at http://www.askmeaskmeaskme.com/ if you want to read more about the band.


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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Script "Man who cant be moved" chords & lyrics

I had already posted chords and lyrics for "Breakeven" by Dublin three-piece band The Script, who are maintaining the trend of new Irish band producing pop-rock anthems over the past few years.

"Breakeven" was actually the third single take from their eponymous first album, released in 2008, which contains a number of gems, and few, if any, "fillers".

I have now worked out my interpretation of their second single from the album "The Man Who Can't be Moved" and posted it to my Rock Guitar songs page, at the link below:

Guitar chords and lyrics to "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" by The Script

If you want to play along with the song on YouTube, the link is: The Script "The Man who cant be moved"

The band's official website is at: http://www.thescriptmusic.com/ie/home/


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Friday, April 17, 2009

April Site Update and Newsletter

Main site update completed and April newsletter issued to 6,000+ subscribers on April 17th .

The Newsletter is now available online at: http://www.guitarsongs.info/news170405.htm

Ten songs added from Avril Lavigne, Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, Keane, Snow Patrol, Natasha Bedingfield, Greenday, Damien Rice, Beck and McFly, plus guitar tips from Andrew Koblick at AmazingGuitar, Chris Elmore at GuitarTips, and a new article and multimedia lesson from James Todd at Guitar-Leads, plus recommended online guitarist resources and more!

I hope you'll find it useful and informative!



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PJ

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Friday, April 10, 2009

Nilsson - Without You chords and lyrics

As my site has now been around for 10 years, I've come to assume that I had posted all of the older, classic songs years ago. It's really only now, when I'm struggling to find good, new guitar songs, that the "Golden Oldie" radio stations are getting me to rush to the PC, just to confirm that the song I'm listening to is already on the site.

Which wasn't the case today, when listening to Harry Nilsson's "Without You", which for me will always be a classic 1970's ballad, while I know that many will think of it as a Mariah Carey song ( see... I'd written down Whitney Houston, but luckily Googled it, just to be sure...! ).

Either way, there can be very few of my website visitors and Blog readers who won't be familiar with the song, and it has the great advantage of being a huge ballad which was a big success for both a male and female singer, so let's take this one out of the shower and into the public performance domain, eh?

You can find chords and lyrics for "Without You" on my Pop Songs guitar chords page, at the link below:


Miscellaneous Pop guitar songs - Harry Nilsson - Without You

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The official Harry Nilsson website can be found at: www.harrynilsson.com


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