Reply To: The Mandelbrot Set 3: Creepy Monkey Underpants

[Caleb]

As is typical for me, I’m not at all familiar with the other song. But just looking at the chords you’ve posted, I’d hazard a tentative guess of Bm. If that’s the case, the progression at the end of Creepy Doll’s verse almost exactly matches the progression at the end of the other song’s chorus. Specifically, the progression would be VI, III, IV, V.

Am, F, C, D, E -> i, VI, III, IV, V
Bm7, G, D, E, F# -> i7, VI, III, IV, V

Edit: Actually, we can go back a bit further than that. If we compare the part starting at “And the flashlight…” to the other song’s entire chorus, we have the following progressions:

F, C, Bm7b5, Am, F, C, D, E -> VI, III, iim7b5, i, VI, III, IV, V
G, D, Em, Bm7, G, D, E, F# -> VI, III, iv, i7, VI, III, IV, V
They’re only different by [1] JoCo’s signature substitution of a half-diminished chord (which plays scale degrees 2,4,6, and 8) in place of the other song’s iv chord (which only uses scale degrees 4,6, and 8), which are basically the same chord, and [2] the other song’s addition of a seventh to the tonic (i) in the following chord.

These progressions are amazingly similar. Now I’ll have to listen to this song to see just how similar it sounds.