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Where Is My Mind by Pixies is mainly based upon rather an unique and rarely seen chord loop. I vi III IV or E C# m G # A. Nevertheless, albeit uncommon, there are other tunes that use this progression, and a few of them might have been straight inspired by Where Is My Mind!
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0:00 Where Is My Mind? by Pixies.
1:00 Taylor Swift.
2:10 Arctic Monkeys.
3:14 more examples.
4:38 what's up with that III chord?
7:23 Roli.
8:25 Weezer.
9:47 vi III IV I.
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Probably because of the influence of the Pixies but the progression sounds so quintessentially 90s.
the Pixies were ahead of their time since they were doing 90s sounding songs in the 80s 😁
Don’t mean to sound like a smart a$$ or nothing but what would be a 2025 chord progression ?because I just want to be updated as I just listen to old stuff 🤗 and don’t think of music like a technological “smart phone” type upgrade perspective.
@someguy67693 I-V-vi-IV maybe?
@zimmejoc thanks Sir 😊 🙏
@someguy67693 That is Taylor swift’s most common chord progression. Chord progression don’t sound like any decade, the production techniques is what makes things sound like a decade.
Married with Children and She’s Electric by Oasis start with these chords, but the 2nd and 3rd are swapped.
I would give an honorable mention to Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?”. It’s missing the second chord in the progression but the other three are essentially the same and it also has the same “title in the form of an existential question” as “Where Is My Mind?”.
I think the closer analogue for Billie’s song is ‘Evaporated’ by Ben Folds Five – it’s very similar.
@daviddalby6217 In tone yes, but just in chord progression I’ve actually found that the Billie Eilish song fits really well with Kings of Leon- Use Somebody also.
@ethanbarnes7163, ‘Evaporated’ is F/Am/Bb and ‘WWIMF’ is C/Em/F.
Which is ‘Evaporated’ in C.
(The KoL track is also the same pattern in C, though so, yes, they’re very close. But Billie’s def a BFF fan as she covered one of the their songs)
Nice! I was hoping you would mention Say it Ain’t So!
8:50
@jamyreaf I don’t think you understood my comment
@barnabyotoole2016 Shi u right
@jamyreaf no worries, thanx anyways
Also the sweater song is very much a rewrite of i bleed
Came for the musical theory, stayed for Kim Deal howling
Pixies fan of at least 25 years now and I’m embarrassed to admit I only recently learned it was Kim doing that, not Charles. I guess in my own defense, it could have just as easily been his falsetto haha
@staticloop-n9m He wouldn’t have told himself to “STOP.” That type of aggression was reserved only for Kim. 😂
do we know Charles was actually saying that to anybody in particular? I know Albini captured and inserted lots of random studio banter on that record so I wouldn’t take it so literally
Complete opposite for me
@staticloop-n9m I’m not taking anything personally. I’m just cracking jokes about a very-well-reported and tense interpersonal bandmate relationship.
My world is richer today knowing there’s a Pixies-Bonnie Tyler axis.
🤩
Sidenote – The chorus and outro of Piledriver Waltz actually is a waltz 🙂
Good point 😊
8:53 from the first second of the video I’m screaming, “THAT’S SAY IT AINT SO, BUT DIFFERENT STARTER!!!”
thanks for finally getting there David!
me too! well, maybe not screaming
my personal favourite use of this progression is in the song Covet by Basement
I was wondering if it was the same chord progression and was waiting for it to get mentioned
mine is mrahc by title fight!
@purrfect6257 hold up, i hadn’t even realised
Yessss I was hoping this one was in the vid
It sounds to me like Covet uses either a IV-ii-vi-I progression or maybe a I-vi-iii-V (those chords are enharmonically equivalent, but the lead guitar part makes me lean towards the IV-ii-vi-I), but the Title Fight song does sound like a I-vi-III-IV progression to my ear.
this video speaks to me in a unique way as i’m a massive swiftie and my dad was married to kim deal for a while. my two worlds colliding lol
John Murphy? Jim Greer? Wow.
Hell yeah, Ren’s finally getting mentions. Absolutely genius artist
Can’t believe there were no Radiohead songs with this progression.
Or Beatles
There are but no one who tried to listen to them survived long enough to let anyone know
Yet…
@pyro-u4tshut up lmao
@pyro-u4t hahaha ur so funny and edgy!!!!1!1
My mind was blown twice, first by the chord progression from “Where Is My Mind” being nested in a small part of “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” and then by that same progression being in “Say It Ain’t So” but starting at a different point in the loop.
The vi -> III shift immediately evokes Where Is My Mind. It’s so distinct
I often think it’s unfair to name a chord progression after a single song, but most of these songs feel like covers for “Where Is My Mind”.
💯 all similar or identical time sig, rhythm and tempo. One even borrowed the Kim Deal backing vocal.
How do you get that out of Halsey lmao
I literally sing the lyrics to Where Is My Mind when I hear “Actually Romantic” so I can enjoy the Max Martin production without having to hear the cringe lyrics.
I don’t know what possessed her to write a diss track in response to misunderstanding a track absolutely baring the singer’s soul.
Came here just to say that “Say It Ain’t So” makes a great segue with “Where Is My Mind”
Piledriver waltz bringing lots of memories back, with Alex Turner peaking his work in 2010 – 2011
My favorite arctic monkeys song mentioned.
Always heard it with Say It Ain’t So and Under the Bridge, as well as many others.
It’s a unique enough progression and iconic enough song that anything close to it immediately grabs my attention
great video!
Thanks ❤