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Just confirms what a lot of people think that today's music sounds the same. More "whoas" in songs now than ever. We had "underground music " in my day that separated the "pop" from the "rock" ,Pop was OK but if you wanted to listen to anything different you had to dig out albums from Free, Traffic, CSNY, The Band ect.
That chord sequence has always been ubiquitous, as has I-IV-V ( the “three chord trick” and the basis for blues and therefore a lot of the popular music that followed)
Most jazz is over the foundation of II-V-I because they mostly improvised over Tin Pan Alley songs (The Great American Songbook) that used the formula (see also: the circle of fifths which is prominent in all Western music).
It’s what you do over the chords that’s more important...
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According to (a piano player himself) Pete Waterman ABBA wrote some (when compared to other groups) very complex structured songs like classical music of old. Now, that group had a supreme ability to produce memorable and quality songs at a production line pace.
The Beatles also had the same ability for writing catchy songs that seem to stick forever in the memory banks just like ABBA... I was not born when they were in their prime and had less exposure to radio play than some, but for some reason I recognise all their single releases and can name them all despite never having purchased any.
So I take it Lennon and McCartney were supremely talented geniuses at that song writing thing, I think record sales back that up. Perhaps song writing of high quality is a flair some naturally have and some don't, like painting a masterpiece maybe?
Argus!
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