Reply To: The Mandelbrot Set 3: Creepy Monkey Underpants
If it makes you feel any better, it’s not due to age (at least not only). You could probably name any song that was written within the last year, decade, whatever (outside things like SongFu, Coulton, P&S, etc) and I probably wouldn’t be familiar with it either. I’m the one whose musical experience goes: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Coulton. Just to demonstrate my ignorance: I wasn’t familiar with “American Pie” until after I came across Weird Al’s “Saga Begins” on Youtube.
Continuing the comparison further, the first half of Creepy Doll’s verse almost matches HC’s verse, with the exception of two chords (III vs. VII and IV vs. iv). Also, Creepy Doll repeats this progression twice before moving on to the progression I mentioned previously.
Am, E, C, D, F, C, D, E -> i, V, III, IV, VI, III, IV, V
Bm, F#, A, E, G, D, Em, F# -> i, V, VII, IV, VI, III, iv, V