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"jeffnmoe"
'Underwhelmed' by Sloan
from the album Smeared
(Sorry kids; no lyrics included because I don't remember
'em & I don't have the album anymore).
chords (from low E to high E)
A - x02220
Asus2 - x02420
B - x24442
E - 022100
F# - 244322
The song starts with a chunky (palm-muted) F#.
The verse chord progression is F# - Asus2 - B, with
a slight variation on the F#...
--2--2--2--2--2---0--0---2--2----
--2--2--2--2--2---2--2---4--4----
--3--3--3--3--3---4--4---4--4----
--4--4--4--2--4---2--2---4--4----
--4--4--4--2--4---0--0---2--2----
--2--2--2--2--2------------------
The chorus is A - E - F#. Only variation is an A - B
progression after the 'i just ate my young' vocal.
There are several Chuck Berry-style blues scale slurs
in F# during some of the verses that go something like
this:
-------------2-2-----
---4-(5)-4---2-2-----
---4-(5)-4-----------
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..and theres an octave riff at the end similar to this, if
I remember correctly:
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--11-11-11-11--14--14--16--16-----
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---9--9--9--9--12--12--14--14-----
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Jon Badass |
#1 by Jon Coath at Aug 22, 1971 at 7:15 AM EST |
| This is one of my favourite songs lyrically. Paints such a clear picture. To me the girl in the story likes the boy, but certainly not to the extent that he likes her. She is a free spirit and certainly doesn't worry about the little things. The boy, for all his infatuation, just doesn't "get" her, and misses every message she sends. The boy reacts opposite to how the girl wants every time. Message: "You is funny" - Response: Correcting grammar. Message: "Its okay" - Response: Boy feels guilty. Message: Read between the lines - Response: Grammar again. Message: ..caught up in triviality. - Response: Boy wants to know what she thinks of him. Each time the girl gets frustrated with the boy, the boy gets lost in his attraction to her - "Her beautiful eyes / Her beautiful R's" I love the last couple of verse. The line "Her spelling is atrocious" is magic. A line like that shouldn't work in a song, but here it is perfect. The language barrier, as mentioned by others above is definitely there. I've always pictured the girl as French speaking, simply because Sloan is an eastern Canadian band. I could spend way too much time picking apart this song, and I probably already have. Again, a lyrical favourite of mine. | |
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Jeff Average |
#2 by Jeff Berg at Oct 19, 1972 at 3:42 AM EST |
| I'm inclined to agree that the girl in question is a Latina. Her spelling's atrocious and she has a loose grasp on English ("She said, 'You is funny'"), which make me suspect that she's from another country and English isn't her first language. Plus when she curses him up and down, she rolls her R's, which would mean she's probably from a Spanish or Italian speaking country. It would also explain why grammar and vocabulary are such important themes in this song: there's a language barrier between them. | |
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Reece Wanna Be |
#3 by Reece Brown at Jan 7, 1974 at 7:35 AM EST |
| I though it was about a nerdy guy who is into the grammer and all those little details who really liked this rebel chick who could've cared less about those little things. I still don't see how you got latino chick out of it. | |
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spencer Wanna Be |
#4 by spencer mccarthy at Sep 30, 1979 at 1:52 PM EST |
| oh yea, like Refreshe said. | |
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!Ace Rhythm Player |
#5 by !Ace Youngs at Sep 8, 1984 at 5:49 PM EST |
| underwhelm un*der*whelm verb transitive UN*DER*WHELMED , UN*DER*WHELM*ING , UN*DER*WHELMS (1) To fail to excite, stimulate, or impress: "He is just as entitled to be underwhelmed by the prospect of reigning over a fourth-class nation as the rest of us are by the prospect of living in it" Source: Peter Jay Latina girl? I never thought of it that way. I always basically pictured some girl that didn't focus on the little things so much. Really creative and smart and such. I believe Chris Murphy said he thought this song was really Canadian because it had a lot of wordplay. | |
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Rodney Wanna Be |
#6 by Rodney at Oct 31, 1986 at 6:29 AM EST |
| This song follows the relationship between this white kid and this Latina girl that he meets in grade school thru high school. I love that interplay at then beginning when they misunderstand each other because her english isn't perfect. But, he's too hung up on the process and she just lives life; he loves her but he doesn't understand her...just like the end says - I think my love for her makes me miss the point. | |
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Lead Player |
#7 by Michael Leathers at Jan 7, 1992 at 1:23 PM EST |
| I'd agree that she is probably not a native speaker of English, but I'm not sure that she's Latina, specifically. She could just as easily be Eastern European or something. Of course, while I'm not so sure Chris Murphy's the type to work an ethnic stereotype into his songs, her "cursing him up and down" for "noticing all the little things" sort of fits with the Latin fiery-ness. | |
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Quinn Rhythm Player |
#8 by Quinn I killed my last name at Oct 28, 2003 at 6:39 PM EST |
| I'm inclined to agree that the girl in question is a Latina. Her spelling's atrocious and she has a loose grasp on English ("She said, 'You is funny'"), which make me suspect that she's from another country and English isn't her first language. Plus when she curses him up and down, she rolls her R's, which would mean she's probably from a Spanish or Italian speaking country. It would also explain why grammar and vocabulary are such important themes in this song: there's a language barrier between them. | |
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Jesse Professional |
#9 by Jesse Garcia at Jun 13, 2006 at 9:44 PM EST |
| she didn't like him too much cause he wasnt her style. the guy speaking in the song is obvioulsy a nerd of some sort and she doesn't care too much for him and he feels the opposite about her. he finds her bad grammar and bad english cute but him pointing that stuff out to her annoys her. "my love for her makes me miss the point" he likes her too much to accept the fact she finds him nerdy. | |
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