Two-Chord Thing

Written and Recorded in 1992

This tune first emerged almost spontaneously when I began to play the basic two chords with my guitar during a casual rehearsal session of my band called Elegance, in early 1992. Within a week or two, the singer added his temporary lyrics and gave the song a rough structure, while the drummer tried to give some twist in the later part. A couple of demo tracks were recorded before the bass player left the band by the end of March same year.

After the singer also left the band, I decided to re-wright the song with my own lyrics; not sticking to make it consists of only two chords and its demo recording was made in the autumn of the same year. My intention at this attempt was to introduce more pop feelings into the composition by making use of the programmed synthesizer parts and a newly written bridging section was also added (the chord progression of this section was later reused in one of Untitled tracks in the Soft Core Project scheme).

In the meantime, I found the initial two-chord version handy for my later successive bands to play and thus became a repertoire for Culotte, with the original lyrics and additional words by myself (1994-95), and for School, with a brand new lyrics written by the singer of the band (1997-98).

The audio track of this video was taken from the 1992 demo version, from which, the additional bridging pieces are all removed for make it consistent with the title given to the track. The structure conceived by the original singer and the drummer is loosely reflected in this demo and I thought it would be the best way to present the original ideas that formed the notion of OUR two-chord thing and pay my tribute to each of us.