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Music Appreciation

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8. Some very jazz-inflected bossa nova chords...

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 19, 2026, 11:57 PM

Jun 19

…which were inspired by a jazz guitarist (IIRC, can’t remember who it was). One of the band members saw him performing and borrowed some of his harmonic ideas for “Undun”. The song definitely comes off much more like a standard than the usual pop songs of the time.