Monday, November 23, 2015

"Care of Cell 44"

Backdated, archival post


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A few days ago, I wrote about a feature that the chords in the bridge of "Care of Cell 44" share with the chords in the verses of "I Know She Will" and how - since "I Know She Will" is a Chris White song but "Care of Cell 44" is a Rod Argent song - it seems that Argent took the sequential-chords-with-a-common-note feature from White's song.  Just now though, I found something in those "Care of Cell 44" chords that's characteristic of Argent's writing: two linked half-steps.  After the initial G major, it's A7 (A, C#, E, G), C minor (C, Eb, G), G major (G, B, D).  That same three-note phrase is in the second chord sequence too: G major, A7 (A, C#, E, G), C minor (C, Eb, G), Dsus4 (D, G, A), D major.