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In most forms of entertainment, people like things that are more polished. Most comics fans like skilled art more than stick figures, and TV/film watchers like actors who have training more than random people off the street doing their best. But among many music fans, this is not necessarily the case. A huge subculture likes their music to be as unpolished and simple as possible. To them, rock music is all about protesting against The Man or getting a solid groove on. Anybody can do that. But to do more complicated stuff, you probably need help from a big music corporation, who will corrupt you and steer you away from true artistic revolution. Forget them; all you need is Three Chords and the Truth. This is a Cyclic Trope. Pop music goes through periods (generally at two-decade intervals) where it becomes too pretentious, too slick to be taken seriously or formulaic corporate bubblegum. In response, bands turn to Three Chords and the Truth to "get back to where we once belonged." But with time, the limits of the trope mean that everything begins to sound the same and the simpler songs can even become as slick and corporately produced as the complex ones, and music returns to more elaborate songs feeling that more talent=more heart. At their best, fans of Three Chords and the Truth represent sincere, democratic music that anybody can enjoy, can be played by anybody with a guitar (or otherwise), and rejects pretension or corporate, manufactured emptiness and complexity. At their worst, they just become a mirror of what they're opposing. They rebel against pretentious, complex, inaccessible music that claims to be True Art — but the ones who hate catchy tunes are just as pretentious, and also want music to be inaccessible to ordinary people. They rebel against people who don't know any music other than what's on the radio — but they don't know any music outside their narrow sub-group. They complain about popular music being narrow and limiting to the point where everything all sounds the same, but if they had their way all available choices would just be narrowed and limited to their own musical preferences — to the point where everything would all sound the same. They rant against any form of music that takes too much practice and talent to play saying that the common man should know how to play any band's song within 5 minutes of picking up a guitar regardless of previous experience; soon they get so down-to-earth that the draw of their music becomes too simplistic to get into. And while they rebel against corporate control of music, smart corporations have learned that they can make a marketing trend out of angry anti-corporate songs. Without a balance between 3-chords and 300-chords, music listeners get blown out on one style or the other and each camp uses the lull to fight back until their method becomes popular again. Note similarities to Full-Circle Revolution. An interesting note: now that computers (especially Macs) are so prevalent and high-quality recording software can be had for cheap, (or free, for the many people who use Audacity,) digital recording via USB or MIDI is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to record music outside of a tape recorder. While the phrase "three chords and the truth" was first coined by Nashville songwriter Harlan Howard (to describe country music), the real Trope Namer is a verse added by U2 to their cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" on Rattle and Hum, absent in both the original and the famous Jimi Hendrix version. Contrast with Epic Rocking. See also Epic Riff, which might even be three chords long. A similar trope in pro wrestling is Five Moves of Doom. Add a minor submediant and you get The Four Chords of Pop. Compare/Contrast with Black Metal and related genres, which as noted below takes these same ideas, especially "accessible production values" and uses them in a very different way. Not to be confused with that Leitmotif that accompanies The Reveal (Dun dun DUUUN!) Nor should it be confused with the Dreadful Musician, where incompetence rather than simplicity is involved. Also note that this article is as much about the philosophy this goes with as the actual Three chord song. It should be noted that the "three-chord system" developed rather late in the history of western music. The definition of a "chord" in the modern sense came in use about 1560, and a system based on "three chords" containing all the tones of a full major scale was not defined until 1730. Thus, many centuries of European music (and music from everywhere else), for all practical reasons, will fall outside this trope from a strict musicological point of view. |
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Coal Miner's Daughter: In-Universe. Loretta Lynn tells the guys at her first recording session that her song "ain't got but three chords", and this is true of most of her simple country music style. | |
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Against Me!, prior to (and arguably through, to a more limited extent) As the Eternal Cowboy. They alienated a large portion of their original fanbase when they switched styles, though they presumably picked up a shiny new fanbase. | |
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Liturgy have a few examples similar to Meshuggah's, most notably "Generation". | |
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Kontrust lampshades this trope in Hey DJ!: | |
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Hobgoblins: Club Scum, mocked by Crow. | |
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Vinyl set in the music business of the '70s and partly a chronicle of the birth of Punk Music, demonstrates this in the 8th episode of Season 1. Lester Grimes, former bluesman turned manager to the proto-punk Nasty Bits demonstrates the power of E, A, B and how it forms the skeleton for a nearly infinite variety of popular music, from blues, to classic rock, to bubblegum pop. | |
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Mojo Nixon, as typified by "Rock & Roll Hall of Lame" where he complains about corporate music: | |
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Extremely popular example: Lemmy Kilmister formed Motörhead after being kicked out of Hawkwind, a progressive rock band... which now is much more obscure than Motörhead. | |
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Tracy Chapman made a tremendous splash in the The '80s with her acclaimed hit song, "Fast Car," a soulful and simple folk song amid all the glossy competitors of that time. | |
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The Germs' music was full of this in general, but the biggest example would be their debut single: The a-side, "Forming", was recorded to two track in a garage and features an odd stereo mix where the vocals are in the left speaker and every other instrument is only in the right. The b-side, "Sex Boy", is a live performance recorded on cassette from the audience; glass breaking and people having conversations or shouting can be heard more clearly than the music. | |
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Parodied in Metalocalypse, where the band members once insisted that a certain cut of music sounded like "ones and zeroes" and "microchips" and that they need to be "as analog as possible", despite them demonstrating (and their producer pointing out) that they've been deafened so much by all the loud music that they can't even distinguish each other by voice. The solution is to record on the most analog material possible: water. From the same show, a Black Metal shop called their music "Too Digital." |
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Slash and Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses parodied this mercilessly in a skit. Slash claimed to have invented a "fourth chord", and played a wild variety of chords with Axl claiming that each one wasn't the right one. | |
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Ranko Ukulele usually just posts the chords underneath the song video on YouTube . | |
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Woody Guthrie has been quoted as saying, "If you play more than two chords, you're showing off." | |
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"Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus is one of many songs that uses only two chords (I and V). | |
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Burzum, a solo project of Varg Vikernes and one of the founders of the genre, is a prime example. His production values are comparable to those of pre-Perestroika Russian rock music. Vikernes's personal reminiscing on the recording of Burzum's fourth album, "Filosofem", gives a good idea of the sort of aesthetic he was going for: when recording the vocals (which are all tortured, indecipherable screams in any case) he asked the technician in the studio for the worst mic they had and didn't even use an amplifier for the guitar parts, instead plugging his guitar into the speaker from a boombox. | |
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Parodied in Bloom County. When Steve decides to form a heavy metal band, the casting notice says that musicians must know three chords and "be able to grimace musically." | |
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Country music singer Sara Evans used this as the title of her first album. | |
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The Proclaimers' first album, This Is the Story, is composed of only Charlie and Craig, one acoustic guitar, and occasional percussion. Their voices and stories are given plenty of room to breathe as a result. | |
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Lead Belly: His music tended to be rather simple but would sometimes deal with topics like prison life and racism. | |
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AC/DC's career is built around this trope. While Angus Young's guitar solos are fairly sophisticated, most of the band's songs not only have three chords, but many of them are in the keys of A or E. By sticking to these two keys, almost all of their rhythm parts can be played in open position (the first several frets on the guitar fingerboard), giving the band's music a fuller, throatier sound. Not to mention the drumming. Phil Rudd is famed among drummers for his simple, solid grooves. It helps that many learn to play AC/DC songs when they start playing. |
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British reggae group UB40 was especially this early in their career since they had just stepped off the dole queue (hence the band's name) and hadn't yet learned to play their instruments. They did, however, more than make up for it with uplifting enthusiasm. | |
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The verses and chorus of "Winter Wrap-up" from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. | |
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British punk band Crass stuck strongly by simple chord progressions and generally didn't even care much for melody. | |
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Iron Maiden's music, while criticised for being overly long and complex, nevertheless revolves almost entirely around the chords Em, C, and D (and sometimes G). Hallowed Be Thy Name, considered to be one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time, is definitely a victim of this. It's rather telling that one of their most complex choruses is in the song Wasted Years. | |
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Revenge operates on nothing but pure, unadulterated savagery in their music, often lacking any semblance of melody in their music whatsoever. | |
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J.B.O. have a song named "Drei Akkorde" (three chords). Three guesses what it's about and the first two don't count. | |
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Parodied on Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the band Dingoes Ate My Baby. | |
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Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave albums include a similar statement that the only things used in their albums are vocals, guitar, bass, and drums, although in their case it's mostly not being bothered to learn the new technology. This might have more to do with the fact that the uninformed listener could be forgiven for thinking that the freaky noises Tom Morello produces came out of a synthesizer. (Morello is in many ways the antithesis: the famous disclaimers were put on the records essentially to brag about Morello's technical abilities. It takes a lot of foot pedals to make some of the noises he makes.) | |
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Even before going electric, Dylan faced criticism from some in the folk community for shifting from protest songs to a more surreal, impressionistic type of lyricism on his Another Side of Bob Dylan album. One critic, Irwin Silber, accused him of having "somehow lost touch with the people". Dylan, in his turn, wrote "Maggie's Farm" on Bringing It All Back Home as a Take That! towards these very same people, and later wrote Nashville Skyline as an attempt to distance himself from them once and for all. | |
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Li'l Abner: "The Country's in the Very Best of Hands," the most political song in the show's score, limits itself almost entirely to basic tonic, subdominant and dominant harmonies as a nod to the prevalence of this trope in Country Music. The orchestration does layer on some fancy fills, and the short opening verse uses a fourth chord once. | |
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