Subject: Level 42 Digest, #38

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                              * LEVEL 42 DIGEST *
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Digest 38                                                  Sunday, 10/10/93

Today's topics:
Re: Level 42 Digest, #37
"Something About You"  CRD and Boon's solo tab

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From: mstewart @ ecn.purdue.edu (Michael W Stewart)
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1993 10:38:51 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Level 42 Digest, #37

> > they were announcing community events and the weather, and in the
> > background, they were playing "Something About You" !!!!!!!!!
> 
> I shudder to think how many times I've been in a store and heard the Muzak
> version of "Lessons In Love" come over the speakers.

I must say that the muzak version of "Lessons in Love" is slamming, almost
as good as the muzak version of Swing Out Sister's "The Waiting Game", which
is the ultimate funk infested muzak groove. It was always a highlight 
of my workday when those songs came on the muzak. The muzak version of
"Something About You" is somewhat of a dissapointment. I replaces the
cool distorted keyboard riff with a melba-toast horn arrangement. And
Mark King's singing gets replaced by a cheesy xylophone. As far as 
actual songs being played in the background, I have heard the intro 
to "Children Say" being played on commercials, newscasts, etc. many 
times. I even heard "Guarranteed" at K-mart, that was weird.

Mike
mstewart @ gn.ecn.purdue.edu

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From: etrinida @ scf.usc.edu (Elson R. Trinidad)
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 93 20:23:38 PDT
Subject: "Something About You"  CRD and Boon's solo tab

"Something About You"
Level 42
>From the album "World Machine"
Words and Music by Mark King, Wally Badarou, Mike Lindup and
Roland Gould
 
Intro: C        D       E     (repeat)
 
 
E   C#m7        D
How, how can it be?
         Bm7                  E
That our love, copped out of caring
           C#m7                   D
Fashined by faith, would suffer so hard
         Bm7                      E
And the games we played once too often
C#m7          D
But making mistakes
     Bm7                 E
Is a part of life's imperfections
             C#m7            D
Borne of the years, is it so wrong
      Bm7         E
To be human after all?
 
               C         D           E
Drawn into the stream of undefined illusion
              C            D                   E
Those diamond dreams, they can't disguise the truth
 
Chorus:
                         C         D        E
That there is something about you, baby, so right
                       C        D       E
I wouldn't be here without you, baby, tonight
 
 
 
If ever our love
Was concealed, no one could say that
We didn't feel a million things
And the perfect dream of life
Gone, fragile but free
We were made so tender together
If not so in love, is not so wrong
We're only human after all
 
These changing years, they add to your confusion
Oh when you need to hear the time that told the truth
 
That there is something about you, baby, so right
I wouldn't be here without you, baby, tonight
Because there's something about you, baby, so right
I couldn't live without you, baby, tonight
 
Solo
 E                         G                          F#m
|----------------------12-|----------15--------14-12-|---------------12--14---|
|--------------------12---|13------------------------|15-----12--15-----------|
|------------------13-----|--------------------------|------------------------|
|----------------14-------|--------------------------|------------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
 
 
 E                         E                          G
|12--------------16-------|--------16-14-12-16-14-12-|15----------------19-19-|
|-------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
 
 F#m                       E                          E
|17-----------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
|-----19-19-19---17--15---|17------------------------|------------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------16----------|16-16-14-13-14-13-14-16-|
|-------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
 
 
Repeat chorus chords, then fade
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Notes: On the recording, for the verses, Level 42's
guitarist plays this repeated pattern:
(play muted)
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------1-----------|
|--------------------2-3---2---------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
 ^         ^         ^        ^
 
For the chorus, the guitar plays powerchord 5ths.