Songs

There must be various sort of internal definitions, to musicians and more specifically, songwriters, as to what defines a song. It might be a melody, or a certain organization of stanzas (verse chorus bridge etc.). But to me a song, at least a pop/rock song, is largely a chord progression, or a series of chord progressions. Chord progressions provide both the hooks and a lot of the narrative content of songs. This is not to say that every song with the same chord progression is the same song. Certainly a great deal of variety has been produced using similar chord progressions (e.g. "stock" chord progressions like 1-4-5, and relative-minor-4-5 type progressions). Blues is largely centered around a very universal and limited set of chord progressions (which is why I prefer rock as a more free form arena of expression).

[Drat, Wigan lost its most recent match, 1-0, to Middlesbrough, a higher ranked Premier League team. Now they are in the bottom three of the Premier League, and hence in danger of dropping down to the lower league next season. Hopefully they can get some more wins soon.]