Chords for Tennis - Records In My Life

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[D] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ I'm Elena.
[E] This is Patrick.
We're Tennis [A] and you're watching Records in My Life.
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[D] Guys thank you very much for being on the show.
We really [F#m] appreciate it.
Yeah.
Thanks for having us.
I know it's, you know, [B] a lot of time is precious when you're on the road and that.
[E] So yeah, we'll get right [A] down to the nitty gritty.
_ _ Let's do [F#m] it.
Did you discover something recently?
It can be a new release [B] or it can be an older album or something, a friend.
What you want to?
For me, there's a record by the band Big Thief called Masterpiece.
[E] _ That [A] is just really good.
It like totally caught me [F#m] by surprise.
It's not [F#] normally the sort of thing I would listen to, but [B] the songwriting is amazing.
And _ [E] I, the, [A] like the writing is like [F#m] beautiful and personal and like _ very vulnerable.
_ [B] _ And her voice, I don't even know her name.
I don't know much about the band.
I just [A] discovered them, but like really [F#] blew me away.
[D] So yeah, Big Thief, Masterpiece.
I was going [F#m] to say Love Apple.
_ _ _ So [B] this was like a new, and by just founded, I mean like last year, but it's just been
important in our lives for the [G] last year.
NPR did a little feature on like [Em] lost soul recordings _ because it was like [A] a one time
session band put [B] together for this one studio time.
It clearly sounds like it was recorded in 30 minutes.
Like they had, like they paid for a 30 minute slot and that's what they got.
No, but it's very like, there's a lot of accidents in it and it's very free.
So we've been trying to find things that [E] we love that can [F#m] influence us that are a little
more raw and [G#] a little more open, a [B] little more broken and accidental.
[E] And I feel like that captures all of it.
I feel like Plain to Your [B] Strengths, like looking more for like catching that moment
in a [G#m] performance or just like the freedom of experimentation _ suits us [F#] more than [E] like ardent perfection.
Okay, cool.
Let's go [A] back to when you were a little [G] younger.
Do you remember [C] the first record that you [F] bought or cassette?
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, I remember the first record I bought and it [Dm] was [G] a Spin Doctors cassette.
I don't know.
I don't know how much.
Yeah, I can be super honest, but I feel like the more appropriate response is like the
[C] first record I was like [F] die hard into.
And that would be like, that'd be a built a spill [G] album.
_ That'd be a there's nothing wrong with love by built a spill.
They were like the first [C] band that when I was playing guitar starting out, I was [F] like,
oh, this is how you play guitar.
[C] Like this is [G] cool.
And I definitely learned like every riff that Doug Marsh ever played.
_ And I'm still to this day, like kind of [F] starstruck when I've like seen him a few times, [Gm] but I
haven't gone and said hello to him.
[A] I'm just like, _ [Gm] you're a hero.
[D#] You're a God. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ For you, what was your first purchase?
I actually don't know.
[Gm] Probably like Amy Grant or something.
_ It's actually DC [D] Talk.
A [G] Christian rap group.
_ _ Yeah, that was probably that was the first cassette tape I ever bought.
DC Talk, New Thing [D] spelled N-U-T-H-A-N-G.
New Thing.
And they were a [C] big, they were an arena.
DC Talk are arena big, [G] right?
Yeah, they were.
And I [C] _ discovered that all of [G] their hits were sampled from other hits, secular, but contemporary hits.
[Bm] So I remembered thinking like they were these like [C] brilliant artists within the [G] Christian community.
And then I found out that they were literally just making music out of secular music and
[Bm] repackaging it to Christians.
[G] So not to knock their talent, because they are talented, but I mean, they're great musicians.
_ _ _ [Em] _ [G] I'm going to go on a rant.
I only listen to Christian music.
And I [C] now know Christian music just rode the coattails [D#] of actually inventive, pioneering
secular music while denigrating it for not being like pure morally, _ but then just ripping
it off and selling it.
This is my whole experience of music.
I'm actually extremely hard on it.
Meanwhile, on the other side, who was pioneering and inventive in music was gospel music, _ soul music, whatever.
But [G] like, we've met so many people who say that Pastor T.L.
Barrett, the record Like a Ship.
Yeah, extremely influential.
Yeah, amazing record.
But yeah, like sterile Christian church music.
No, no, they're just totally not.
And that was my whole experience [Bm] of music growing up.
I don't even care.
Bring it on.
[D] Let's segue into this.
[C] _ [G] Let's do a Jack Black type of stereo record to my life.
So let's do [C] you have a [G] class and you want this record to be important to them.
Either you want them to [Bm] learn how to play it or you just want it to [C] influence them as
a record they should listen to.
Yeah, [G] if _ I was going to school of rock style, teach some kids a song, I would teach them
Crimson and Clover, the Tommy James and the Shondells version, because it's like the most
basic chord structure, really repetitive.
_ _ It's something you could actually learn in a day.
But the songwriting is stood the test of time.
The sentiment is beautiful.
And then the like, tones are incredible.
[G] So I mean, yeah, I don't know.
I'd pick that production.
Yeah.
_ Our world peace record.
I'm going to throw in an S.E.
Rogge album.
There's an S.E.
Rogge album.
He's [Bm] like it's called like Palm [Em] Wine Music, I think.
_ _ _ But yeah, it's [Em] just really uplifting.
It's very happy.
[G] And it's I don't know.
You can't yeah, you can't listen to it and be upset.
It's like riding a jet ski.
You have to smile and have a good time.
That's a good analogy.
Well, thank you very much for all the for the education and great music.
[C] And do you [G] have any words of wisdom or messages to the folks out there
and the World Wide Web's parting thoughts? _
Since we're talking about a taste in music anyway,
I don't believe in guilty pleasures unless those pleasures
literally make you guilty [Bm] of a crime and even then [Em] only felonies.
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You should like whatever you like [G] and never feel [G] bad about it.
_ _ [C] Confidence in [G] your own taste is the only thing that like spurs
invention and new genres, especially when everyone around you
is telling you it's not cool.
So take it from a former homeschooler who is now in her own band. _ _
[Bm] Just [E] being yourself [F] works a lot [Gm] better than trying to [Em] be cool.
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