top 50 songs that use the "louie louie" chord change

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50. undone (the sweater song) - weezer
49. all star - smash mouth
48. here i go again on my own - whitesnake
47. louie louie

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

B-but 'Louie Louie' is actually A/D/E MINOR. Aren't you thinking of "Wild Thing"?

― dave q, Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

if you wanna get that technical about it, the smashmouth and whitesnake songs won't count either; however i think this is referring relatively to the 1/4/5 formula, correct?

― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

in which case add "hang on sloopy."

― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

46. wild thing
45.hang on sloopy

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: "Like a Rolling Stone" vs "Je T'aime...moi non plus"

― dave q, Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

44. the joker - steve miller

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

close but no cigar: The Wiseguys 'Start The Commotion'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Boston 'More Than A Feeling'?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"More Than a Feeling" does not. It goes I - IV - VI - V rather than I - IV - V - IV

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I - IV - V only please

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Baby I Don't Care - Transvision Vamp. Uh, probably.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

also by the troggs "i want you"

― cameron, Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

lots of songs

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Blur "On Your Own"

― dave q, Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Don Dixon - Praying Mantis
(why do I remember that fuckin song?)

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Certainly a lot of songs, yes. But if you are looking for songs that, like "Louie Louie" repeats that same progression throughout the entire song, without ever varying with some other chords, then the number is narrowed down somewhat.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"La Bamba"

― Burr (Burr), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Have Love Will Travel" (also by Richard Berry)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cheree" by Suicide

― s woods, Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

if you wanna get that technical about it, the smashmouth and whitesnake songs won't count either; however i think this is referring relatively to the 1/4/5 formula, correct?

if this is in fact referring relatively to the I-IV-V, then you really need to change the name of the thread, because the minor V is the entire reason that "louie louie" is "louie louie." it is fundamentally UNLIKE almost any I-IV-V song you can think of.

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry CAN A MOD CHANGE THE TITLE TO "WILD THING" INSTED OF "LOUIE LOUIE" SHEESH YOU SNOBS

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm just amazed you named yourself after Pablo Cruise - I might change my name to England Dan & John Ford Coley

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

and you can call me the little river band. but don't call me a snob. i'm just a disappointed reader who came here hoping to find a list of pop songs that actually did follow the "louie louie" changes!

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"what ya gonna do?" - pablo cruise

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Stand" - R.E.M.

― kickitcricket, Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

my band used to play a medley of louie louie, wild thing, the sweater song, that "i will remember you" song by sarah mclachlan, and the chorus of lucy in the sky with diamonds all with G-C-D-C. we also had one with bush's glycerine, green day's when i come around, and a couple other songs i cant remember.

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

my fav. I-V-IV is Springsteen's "I Wanna Be With You"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"Any Way That You Want Me", The Troggs.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

― david day (winslow), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

ddd to thread

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Er. No.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Why can't people realize that SLTS and MTAF have NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER???

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

other than the strumming pattern, i agree completely.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Other than the fact that Nirvana acknowledged the similarity openly, not much.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

because they do sound sort of alike and they both have a similar triumphantly melancholy sound like so many songs that are instantly recognizable as hits

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 30 October 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

anything by the band the 145s

LONG GREEN - the follow up "hit" which is just louie louie backwards

― ddd, Thursday, 30 October 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"Perfect" - The The

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 30 October 2003 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Sean Paul - "Like Glue"

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 30 October 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Other than the fact that Nirvana acknowledged the similarity openly, not much."

despite that kurt acknowledged the similarity, you have to admit 'teen spirit' and 'more than a feelin' have little in common beyond 3/4's of a strumming pattern.

― billstevejim, Friday, 31 October 2003 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"It smells like teen spirit...when I hear that old song they used to play." SLTS is an update of MTAF for the 1990s; it had a darker sound, a darker attitude, but was, just like MTAF, little more than the high school rock anthem de jour of its time.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"...de jour of it's time"?

― pauls00, Friday, 31 October 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

pierre henry & michel columbier: psyche rock

― Myron Kosloff, Friday, 31 October 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

pauls00 in typo busta shocka.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 31 October 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway, the point is not whether they're both high school anthems (whatever that means), the point is whether or not they share the same chords.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 31 October 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I should have said US High School Anthems, I guess; songs suited for homecoming game pep rallies. Think BTO.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 31 October 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

'twasn't so much the typo as the use of both "de jour" (sic) and "of its time". Kinda redundant. Like this post. Oh, well.

― pauls00, Friday, 31 October 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

There's no doubt that Nirvana intended for Smells Like Teen Spirit to be a kind of bizarro-world teen anthem - just watch the video: it shows the band playing at, you guessed it, a high school pep rally. However, the irony of the situation is that the song exudes self-loathing and doubt - the opposite of the sentiments you'd normally associate with a pep rally.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I knowingly heard Louie Louie for the first time today, on Brian Matthew's Sounds of the 60s.

I was glad that it used an Em rather than just an E, which would have been merely... 'dumb'.

Also, it had a guitar solo. That was a highlight, relatively.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 1 November 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Q and Fact Checking are obviously OTM. It is foolish to view this song's structure as identical to that of something like 'Wild Thing' or 'Baby I Don't Care'. There are so few really different chord options in pop that we need to take account of the ones that actually get used.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 1 November 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

That's What You Always Say - Dream Syndicate
Street Hassle - Lou Reed

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop

― mzui, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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