Chords for CHVRCHES flashback to their teen years with these classic records | The LP Spree

I do think that without women like Debbie Harry or Shirley Manson or Carano
it would never have occurred to me that you could be in band.
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] Hi, we are Churches [Bb] and we are in Sonic Boom in Toronto for the LP spree.
[D] I cheated a wee bit because I saw one's on the way in.
[C] _ _ I'm [Gm] looking for _ _ _ [C] Leonard Cohen record.
People use the word artist very loosely but I feel like [A] he's an actual [G] poet that sets it to music.
I don't know, [E] I just love him very much.
[D] _ I know it's crappy to choose [Bb] the greatest hits but because it has [F] all of those on it.
Suzanne and So Long Marianne are my two [D] favourites.
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I'm going to go with this _ [Fm] _ wonderful piece [Dm] of work by Mr Iggy Pop.
_ This was made [Gm] I think just before [F] Bowie made Low.
[G] I think Iggy and [Bb] Bowie were hanging about all the time in Berlin and causing riots
and just being [A] awesome and artistically out [Cm] there.
Notably it opens with [G] Sister Midnight which there's actually another version of that song,
Lodger by David Bowie.
It's basically exactly [D] the same backing track but he's _ reinterpreted the music.
I prefer Iggy's version to David's even though David [F] is the man
because it's darker and weirder [Bb] and [F] that's always better in my opinion.
This is a good one.
[A] Downward Spiral by Nine Inch [Fm] Nails.
This is another [G] one of the key records in terms [C] of making me interested in being in a band
and [B] teaching me what synthesizers were [Gm] and how to [F] process guitars.
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[Cm] _ _ I'm [G] looking for _ _ Nick Cave's record.
He's always been somebody I really love in terms of how he writes songs and how he tells stories.
So much imagery in the way that he writes but again I feel like he seems like the kind of person
that he _ [Bb] doesn't create things based on [Eb] what he thinks people think he should be doing.
It's more like you feel like [G] he just has to make certain things.
And such a multi [Ab]-talented man.
I love his prose.
I love [Eb] the score work he does.
I love the whole thing.
So [Bb] two really uplifting [Eb] _ _
[C] artists so far.
[G] This is [Ab] actually the best album ever.
_ This is the album that made me want to be in [Bb] a band.
This is the band that made me want to be interested in music in any [Eb] way. _
[C] So this one is kind of more of [Cm] a curveball _ [F] than compared to these last two.
[Ab] Not a curveball in general but [F] I love Beyonce man.
I love her.
I don't care what anybody says.
I don't care.
I can combat all these arguments because everything like the writing, her performance on it,
the imagery that was [C] around it, what she was talking about, I think was really important.
And there's nobody else.
I [Ab] don't know what other artist [F] could have made a statement like that.
[Cm] So this is an album called [Eb] Surfer Rosa by The Pixies.
And I remember the ride back from school with the headphones on hearing this for the first time.
[Cm] And Steve Albini produced and [Eb] just like this raw drum sound.
And I became a massive fan of this band.
And I know where my final one is [C] because I saw it on the way in.
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Talking about awesome women who've done [Bb] awesome stuff and make awesome music.
[Eb] Debbie Harry.
I loved [Cm] her when I was 15 and I love her now.
[G] You see all these other [Ab] boys that were in all these bands that we listened to when we were
growing up and [C] I really loved like [Ebm] Jimmy Eat World and the Foo Fighters and [Bb] stuff like that.
But [Eb] we weren't really seeing any women doing that [Cm] at that level.
And that was [Ab] really inspiring to me.
And I feel like this is [Eb] my favorite Blondie record.
And what an iconic cover [E] too. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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First record I [Ab] picked out was Surfer Rosa by The Pixies.
It kind of changed my life as a teenager.
I'd never heard sounds [B] like that before.
Iggy, The Idiot.
Hanging about with Bowie at the time.
They were working together.
They were [Dbm] sharing instrumental beds and generally being [Eb] awesome.
Lots of early sampling on this album [Gbm] by Depeche Mode.
[B] This kind _ of best of [E] John Peel collection from The Smiths.
It was a great [Ab] entry point to the band like if you never heard them before.
This is actually essential.
It's called The Downward Spiral.
It's by Nine Inch Nails.
[Ebm] _ _ _ [E] Followed up [Abm] by the undisputed [E] best album of all time.
The reason why I'm in a band, the reason why I'm a musician is this album.
[Bb] This is like _ my most important record [E] ever made.
This is another big like learning album for me.
This is how I learned [Db] how to _ _ [E] understand the value of music that appears to be simple on
the surface but is actually really complex [Ab] and really esoteric [E] in ways that you can't
tell until you really listen into it.
It's my [B] favorite album of last year. _
_ Which [Db] these two know and never shut up about.
Every [E] day, every day is like if you heard it all with them.
I think I must have heard it 50 times and I'm [Db] actually serious.
Nick Cave, the last Nick [E] Cave record. _
_ Obviously it's a really harrowing listen but I feel like they're so amazing.
He's such an amazing [Ab] lyricist.
We all love [Eb] what he does and [Db] this was a really special work of art.
I [Abm] know it's a bit tacky to choose the greatest hits but I [E] couldn't decide.
I was standing there being like which one do I want?
Which record do I want?
_ _ Just think Leonard Cohen is such an amazing lyricist.
He's a true poet in the real sense of the word.
_ Ever since I [Abm] discovered him I've loved him. _
[Dbm] Parallel Lines by Blondie.
_ I love [B] most Blondie stuff but this is my favorite one.
I love that they're playing on the idea [Dbm] that [Db] _ [E] to be a woman in that position she has to
be this badass ball [E] breaker and she's wearing [B] a t-dress.
She is a badass ball breaker [Db] so it's pretty cool.
Finally, La Fiesta [E] Resistance.
Lemonade. _
I'm sorry.
_ _ Lemonade which was one of my favorite records of the last couple years.
[Db] I just love [E] Beyoncé to the ends of the earth.
I think she's really, I don't know, I think we'll look back on this time and think that
[Db] this was a really brave, important piece of art and I'm just here for it.
I'm here for political Beyoncé all day.
All day.
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