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foma

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Mark's Songs Keys
« on: June 25, 2011, 05:50:09 AM »
Hi all! I rarely write here, but recently I've found something interesting.

It's the statistics of almost all Mark's songs and scores keys.
Don't know when (and why lol) I've done this, probably five years ago.

So, here it is (I'm working on list constantly, so it's becomes accurately and hopefully will be spot-on):

31 in D MAJOR (D-dur): Water of Love, Wild West End, Skateaway, Les Boys, It Never Rains, Ticket To Heaven, How Long, The Rocks and the Thunder, Whistle Theme, Smooching, Going Home, Irish Love, A Secret Place Where Will You Go, Waiting For Her, Last Exit To Brooklyn, Victims, Wag The Dog, Imelda, Are We In Trouble Now, Do America, The Long Highway, Kingdom Come, Devil Baby, Coyote, Donegan's Gone, Red Staggerwing, If This Is Goodbye, Let It All Go, The Car Was The One, Miss You Blues, Go Love
24 in E MAJOR (E-Dur): Real Girl, Eastbound Train, If I Had You, So Far Away, Walk Of Life, Why Worry, The Bug, Heavy Fuel, The Way it All Starts, In The Heartland, Cannibals, The Last Laugh, Gravy Train, The Next Time I'm In Town, The Ragpicker's Dream, Everybody Pays, Our Shangri-La, Whoop De Doo, Beyond My Wildest Dreams, Heart Full Of Holes, Monteleone, Remembrance Day, I Used To Could, Today Is Okay
19 in G MAJOR (G-dur): Angel Of Mercy, Two Young Lovers, When It Comes To You, Freeway Flier, Irish Boy, The Road, Father And Son, Potato Picking, The Long Road, Annick, Metroland Instrumental Theme, Drooling National, Golden Heart, Don't You Get It, Tall Order Baby, The Other Side of the Moon, Who's Your Baby Now, Daddy's Gone To Knoxville, The Fizzy And The Still
23 in C MAJOR (C-dur): Portobello Belle, Hand In Hand, Love Over Gold, Wild Theme, Boomtown, Metroland, We're Going To War, I'm The Fool, Nobody's Got The Gun, One More Matinee, My Clame To Fame, Beachcombing, Donkey Town, All The Roadrunning, True Love Will Never Fade, Secondary Waltz, Hard Shoulder, You Can't Beat The House, Piper To The End, Haul Away, Don't Forget Your Hat, Corned Beef City, Hot or What
17 in D MINOR (D-moll): Sultans of Swing, Making Movies, Single Handed Sailor, Tunnel Of Love, Expresso Love, Telegraph Road, The Man's Too Strong, Fade To Back, Think Fast, Comfort, Joy, Silvertown Blues, Your Own Sweet Way, Why Aye Man, You Don't Know You're Born, Sucker Row, Punish The Monkey
16 in E MINOR (E-moll): News, Follow Me Home, Private Investigations, Private Dancer, Ride Across The River, One World, My Parties, A Fistful Of Ice Cream, He's the Man, Down Day, A Walk In Paris, She's Gone, El Macho, Camerado, Hill Farmer's Blues, Summer of Love
15 in A MINOR (A-moll): Six Blade Knife, Southbound Again, Once Upon A Time In The West, Where Do You Think You're Going, On Every Street, Planet Of New Orleans, An American Hero, Tralala, No Can Do, Rudiger, Speedway At Nazareth, Say Too Much, A Place Where We Used To Live, Behind With The Rent, Before Gas And TV
14 in B MINOR (B-moll): Down to the Waterline, Lions, Millonaire Blues, Iron Hand, Just Instinct, Je Suis Desole, Baloney Again, Florin Dance, Let's See You, Back To Tupelo, Don't Crash The Ambulance, I Dug Up A Diamond, We Can Get Wild, Madame Geneva's
14 in A MAJOR (A-dur): Setting me Up, Communique, Solid Rock, Industrial Disease, Twisting By The Pool, Brats, Meeting Under the Trees, A Love Idea, Working On It, Darling Pretty, Sailing To Philadelphia, Vic And Ray, A Night In Summer Long Ago, Time In The Sun
11 in F MAJOR (F-dur): Romeo And Juliet, The Ceilidh And The Northern Lights, Stargazer, Badges Posters Stickers T-Shirts, What I Have Got To Do, Quality Shoe, In The Sky, Good As Gold, Redbud Tree, Yon Two Crows, Seattle
7 in C MINOR (C-moll): Prairie Wedding, Sands Of Nevada, Fare Thee Well Northumberland, Scaffolder's Wife, The Fish And The Bird, Border River, Early Bird
8 in B MAJOR (B-dur): Calling Elvis, Sons of Scotland, Four in a Row, Quiet Theme, Stand Up Guy, Get Lucky, Got To Have Something, Radio City Serenade
5 in G MINOR (G-moll): Money For Nothing, You And Your Friend, Marbletown, Boom Like That, The Trawlersman's Song
4 in G-Sharp MINOR (G#-moll): Brothers in Arms, Stretching Out, Training, Rollin' On
4 in B-Flat MINOR (Bb-moll): In the Gallery, Junkie Doll, Postcards From Paraguay, So Far From The Clyde
3 in F-Sharp MINOR (F#-moll): Wanderlust, What It Is, Two Brothers And A Stranger
8 in E-Flat MAJOR (Eb-dur): The Rocks And The Water, All That I Have in the World, 5:15 a.m., All That Matters, Privateering, Dream of The Drowned Submariner, After the Beanstalk
3 in D-Flat MAJOR (Db-dur): This Is Us, Cleaning My Gun, Pulling Down the Ride
4 in B-Flat MAJOR (Bb-dur): Done With Bonaparte, Hard Cases, Gator Blood, Blood and Water
3 in C-Sharp MINOR (C#-moll): Lady Writer, Your Latest Trick, Kingdom of Gold
2 in F-Sharp MAJOR (F#-dur): Old Pigweed, Home Boy
1 in E-Flat MINOR (Eb-moll): The New Laird, Bluebird
1 in F MINOR (F-moll): Small Potatoes
1 in A-Flat MAJOR (Ab-moll): Right Now

All 24 keys are used. Mark is like Bach :)

154 majors and 91 minors.

Hope it can be interesting for someone.
« Last Edit: July 29, 2012, 05:37:35 PM by foma »

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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2011, 08:06:43 AM »
I am not a guitar player in any ways.  I have to applaude your immense effort in putting all the songs keys together.  Although I don't quite understand what it all means.   ??? I know in my heart that Mark is an extraordinary musician !!!! that's why I loveeeeee him soooo much !!!

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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2011, 08:14:40 AM »
Same here! But I appreciate it very much that you also put all those little soundtrack themes and pieces into your statistics! And about Bach, isn't there this quote from Glen Worf where he said the same about Mark? Hope Glen is still a member of the current band... He always seemed to be a very important musical influence to Mark and Guy...

Impressive list of songs by the way that came together over the last three decades. Would love to see if you put the next new ones into it, too!  ;)

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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2011, 09:43:54 AM »
A remarkable list! Do you mind if I copy / paste this to the MK guitar style forum? It will be useful reference.

I'm sure somebody will find a song they disagree with, but I couldn't with a cursory look! Well done.
Hey, i`ve got a truffle dog - finally a song the ordinary man can relate too!

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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2011, 12:53:27 PM »
Great effort. The only query I would have is Donegan's Gone, isn't that D major?
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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2011, 01:00:17 PM »
Interesting statistics :)

Tunnel of Love shouldn't be F major??
It's hot in the desert
But I'm cool in the zone
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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2011, 01:25:00 PM »
Fletch, feel free to copy! Thank you all!

Yes, I have some arguable decisions, but I listened carefully and dead confident in >90% keys.

Although most music on "Princess Bride" OST have multiply key changes, like some Local Hero and Cal stuff as well, so I just didn't include it.

For non-musicians there are no secrets. If you listen e.g. El Macho, Camerado and Summer of Love in sequence you will hear that songs have the same root, sounds alike, but have different chords and melody of course. Not without purpose composers decide to write in particular key. Actually I've read a lot about composers and their sense of keys, each key have its own definite voice and I thought it would be cool to try to analyze Mark's music.

dustyvalentino, oh thanks. Yes, obviously Donegan is in major, why I've put it in minors... I need more sleep ;D Anyway sorry about that.
boboDS, no, Tunnel of Love is in D minor, but chorus in F, you're right, anyway verse in highter priority to mark whole song key signature.
« Last Edit: June 25, 2011, 01:34:13 PM by foma »

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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2011, 02:12:37 PM »
Yes, "chorus" is in F, "verses" in Dm, but why are they higher priority? What decides which parts of a song have higher priority than other parts?
(Especially when considering the chorus goes on for more than 2 minutes at the end of the song...)
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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2011, 02:35:22 PM »
While My Guitar Gently Weeps is in A Minor, but have chorus in A Major. But you will find A Minor key in any beatle sheet-music book. Because typical structure of song is AABA, so it's one reason of higher priority

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« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2011, 02:52:31 PM »
Yeah, TOL starts off minor so should go in minor. It's a fairly standard trick, going to the relative major for an uplifting chorus.

Calling Elvis and Speedway are others that are in between, he's playing 5th chords to start off with so no major or minor to speak of.
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« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2011, 03:39:50 PM »
Yeah the quantity of verses - actually there is more chorus than verses timewise in TOL imho :)

And when a song starts with a chorus instead of verse, how can you then tell what is verse and what is chorus, when the quantity is more-or-less equal?? If TOL started with chorus and ended with chorus, would you still say it is in Dm??


And Dusty what they taught us in music school at the very beginning (15years ago) was that it didn't matter at all if it started in major or minor, the most important was the ending.  But I don't think it is overly right either...

What I find odd with MK's songs is those endings. I don't get it why he ends some of the songs not on the root, but on a previous chord. E.g. Sultans on C or Telegraph Road on D (sounds alright though), On Every Street on G (this one sounds really "unfinished")...
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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2011, 05:24:35 PM »
I am sure this would probably be interesting for Guy, or even Mark himself. I bet he never made such great effort to sort it all out. Maybe you should send it to Guy!

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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2011, 09:42:20 PM »
The trewlermans song in Gminor? for me is a Cminor thanks !

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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #13 on: June 25, 2011, 09:47:15 PM »
All well over my head.  :lol ???
But sure sounds fascinating!! :)
I know nothing about how music is constructed,
all I know is that I love listening to it. ;) ;D

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Re: Mark's Songs Keys
« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2011, 09:55:31 PM »
LE, I will! But, certanly I don't think about any interest from Mark or Guy. On some interview Mark said something like "Down to the Waterline in B minor", so I even think he either has a list like mine or just remember key signatures of every his own songs. This is a kind of silly child's question, like "how many hamburgers I've ate in my life?" and so on.

emilianomk, maybe it's hard to belive, but however The Trawlersman's Song is in G minor. Belive me ;)

 

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