Chords for Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig in Tracks that Changed My Life | Radio X

Hi, I'm Ezra from Vampire Weekend, and these are the tracks that changed my life. _ _ _ _ _ _
A track that takes me back to my childhood, because it reminds me of when I first had my own radio.
I think my parents got me some little cassette radio things I could listen on headphones.
You know, when I was eight or nine, this was like this big song, and the kids at school would talk about it too,
and I'd hear it, and it was very mysterious.
And it was _ Meatloaf, I Would Do Anything For Love.
And I think it really holds up.
I like [A] that songwriter, Jim Steinman, a lot.
And I like Meatloaf.
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_ It was the [G] first time that there was a viral song that I can remember in my microcosm of my little hometown,
because everybody wanted to know, what does it mean?
I'll do anything for love, but I won't do that.
That's the big line.
And it's so dramatic, and I remember seeing the video on [F#m] TV, and being like, [G#] what is this?
I had no reference for it.
You know, because at home I'd hear The Beatles or something, and I understood what that was.
And I'd see Meatloaf, and the name is so weird, and the video is so weird, and the lyrics are so mysterious,
that it reminded me.
I [D#] was like a kid, and it was the first time I was just like, what is this?
What does this mean?
And I've thought about it quite a bit since then.
A track that takes me back to a great moment in my life is [A]
[F#] Aerodynamic by Daft Punk. _ _ _ _
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I just remember with my friends, [G#] Wes and Andre, [B] growing up, we [F#] would listen to that song in the car,
and there's this part where it goes to this metal guitar solo, these metal arpeggios, which I love.
That just to me epitomizes being in high school, just hanging [G#m] out in a car, like Wayne's World [G] style,
just being in a [D#] car for no reason, just listening to music.
[A#] We'd play it, and there's this real anticipation for this moment where [Bm] everything dropped out,
and you just hear that _ metal guitar [G#] solo.
That always [Em] _ takes me back to that kind of joy [A] of just hanging out in a car in the suburbs.
A song [B] that reminds me of somebody that I love is a song I've only heard through my girlfriend.
It was a big song in the 90s.
I was maybe a little bit young for it.
It's called Optimistic by Sounds of Blackness.
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_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ You [C#] can see all our friends [D#] floating [B] around _
It's [C#] a very beautiful song.
You can [G#m] dance to it.
It's a song that she loves to dance to,
so I have very [G] positive associations of being out [C] somewhere and hearing it, and just the way that [N] she reacts to it.
It's such a cool song.
It's got a very _ dreamy feeling.
Even though I'm not much of a dancer, it's just one of those songs that when you witness [Fm] people dancing to it,
it's _ energetic and calm and serene all at the same time.
So that one, that's a big song.
A track that takes me back to a sad, not moment, but just a sad feeling is [F] Wuthering Heights by Kate [F#] Bush.
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_ _ _ That [G#] was a song I [C#] discovered when I was [F#] probably 14 or 15.
So you have [D#m]
a lot of [G#] angsty feelings around that age.
And there was [C#] something about [F#]
that song in particular [G#] that the [F#] drama of it really [A] appealed to me. _
I love the whole song, but specifically the guitar solo on the fade out.
I remember just being [D#m] kind of an angsty [G#] 14-year-old and just [C#] going back and hearing it.
[F#] It's one of my favorite guitar solos of all time, actually.
[G#] It's just so [C#] emotional.
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I [D#m] just love what they do.
[G#] I associate that [C#] with an angsty, [F#] sad period.
A song that makes me feel fantastic no matter [C#] what is [G#m] Call On Me by Eric Prid.
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I just [G#m] always thought that was a [B] really fun [F] song.
And I love [E] what it samples, [B] Steve Wynwood, Valerie.
I like any kind of [G#m] dance track that just really zeroes in on one [F#] perfect part,
whether it's a [G] perfect bass line or a perfect drum [F#] pattern or something.
[E] And there's something I like about it over and over again.
[G#m] _ _ [B] _ [F#] And it's just [B] zeroing in on something that I already love.
There's just [F#] something so [B] fun about that song.
It always puts a smile on my face. _
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