Always Something There to Remind Me by Naked Eyes

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 11

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Interlude → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Intro

• D – D/C – D/B – D/A (×2)
  I – I (bass C) – I (bass B) – I⁶₄

Verse 1

• G/D – D – Em
  IV⁶₄ – I – ii

Chorus 1

• D – G/D (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄
• D
  I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge 1

• F♯m – Bm – G – A – D – G/D – D – F♯m – Bm – G – A
  iii – vi – IV – V – I – IV⁶₄ – I – iii – vi – IV – V

Interlude

• D – D/C – D/B – D/A (×2)
  I – I (bass C) – I (bass B) – I⁶₄

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge 2

• F♯m – Bm – G – A – D
  iii – vi – IV – V – I

Outro

• D – G/D (×9)
  I – IV⁶₄
• D
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0181, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.