For fans of Top 40 from the past decade or two

[Moustache_Bash]

I swear every book I read has the same fucking words in it.

[behndy]

[Dark Barn]

Music is a language we inherit, just like English. Of course it's derivative, things that work get copied, just like in nature, same goes with art. Many of the artists we admire aren't adding anything new, just borrowing from an idiom we are unfamiliar with. Hating such a popular chord progression is an act of willful deprogramming and I commend you for it. Keep deprogramming, never stop!

[dubkitty]

lately i've been writing by trying to find weird chord sequences that still make musical sense, inspired by Brian Wilson's more baroque wrk with the Beach Boys. he's a master of mixing up sequences in ways that are fresh but still make musical sense...e.g. "The Warmth Of The Sun" uses a cycle similar to the Taco Bell Canon, but it's reharmonized to a Imaj7>IIImaj7>IIm7>V. i particularly love the Imaj7>IIImaj7 change, which combines the major-7th voicing with the flatted-third step so it's simultaneously consonant and dissonant.

[snipelfritz]

Go to the Mirror (from Tommy) opened a whole new world for chord progressions for me. I started to think of the progression itself as being the melody. Somehow I came up with a song with a chorus that goes: Am - Bb - G - Am - C - F - [quick walkdown] Em D C Am.

That said there is a time and place for a good old I - IV - V as long as you don't use that exclusively.

[Dark Barn]

Check out The Infinite Jukebox, some interesting stuff right here. Beat structure deconstructed by computers.

The analysis:
http://musicmachinery.com/2012/11/19/vi ... pop-music/

And the tool:
http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html

Edit: Interesting enough maybe I should give it a new thread?

Ok I will.

Edit x2: Infinite Jukebox requires Chrome or Safari, sorry Firefox/IE users.

[smallsnd/bigsnd]

infinite jukebox is pretty rad