Chords for Johnny Marr - The Joy Of The Guitar Riff

_ _ [G] _ The riff had taken a wrong turn into a cock-rock cul-de-sac.
Guitar culture just took on this very corny, _
[D] you know, kind of [C] sexist sort of posturing.
There was a lot of stuff that needed [D] throwing out, really.
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In [D] 1983, a 20 [C]-year-old Johnny Marr's reductive post-punk approach
on this charming [D] man harked back to [G] a cleaner,
more melodic era of guitar riffing. _
_ [D] Johnny Marr [C] placed severe restrictions on himself.
He wasn't [D] allowed to look at heavy [G] metal for inspiration.
He wasn't allowed to look [D] at classic [G] rock.
And it was [C] the conflict, the battle,
between his innate [A] ability and talent [F#m] and these [C#m] restrictions,
_ and that's where the sparks come [D] from. _ _ _ _
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HE SINGS
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It is a useful device [E] _ _ _ [Bm] to _ _ _ [D] pare down, _ get rid [C#] of,
and then just find out what you're left with
and then do [E] something within those sort of narrow _ _ _ _
[N] constraints.
_ Long solos were out, _ distortion was out, really.
You know, [F#] rockism. _ _
[D] Yeah, that was [C#] the _ [E] _
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You know, I didn't want to do anything [F#] rockish. _
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_ _ _ _ [N] sound is almost political, really.
I was trying to write just as melodically as I could,
but not use kind of [D] big rock chugging chord changes.
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But _ [Bm] _ _ [A] I wanted to make [Em] a big sound.
It was like this [B] constant kind of [D] arpeggioing,
and to fill out the [E] sound_
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He's like the [D] master of the clean tone. _
Not many [G#] guitar players can make a riff sound heavy without distortion.
He did that really, really well.
The riffs have so much drama to them.
They're quite pregnant riffs, you know.
You don't really know where they're going,
but you [Bm] know they're going somewhere. _ _
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Mars' approach formed part of an emerging anti-rockist [Em] trend
the age of the indie band was [Bm] dawning. _ _
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[A] _ _ _ [E] _ [Bm] It had a [Em] huge influence on the development of indie music.
The sort [G] of wash of sound that Mars gets,
that lovely [B] meshed sound of many notes jangling away [F#] together,
they call it the Rickenbacker jangle.
[G] Sort of weaving around the [Em] vocal line, I think it's hugely influential.