Love Comes Quickly by Pet Shop Boys

Overview

Key: B minor · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Instrumental → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Verse → Chorus → Chorus

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

• B5 – B7(no3) – B5
  I5 – I7(no3) – I5

Instrumental

• G/B – F♯m/A – Bm (×4)
  bVI⁶ – v⁶ – i

Verse 1

• G/B – F♯m/A – Bm (×3)
  bVI⁶ – v⁶ – i
• Bm7 – G/B – F♯m/A – F♯m/B
  i7 – bVI⁶ – v⁶ – v (bass B)

Chorus 1

• Gmaj7 – F♯m/A – Bm – Bm7 – Gmaj7 – F♯m – Bm – Bm7
  bVImaj7 – v⁶ – i – i7 – bVImaj7 – v – i – i7

Verse 2

• G/B – F♯m/A – Bm – Bm7 – Gmaj7/B – F♯m/A – Bm – Bm7 – G/B – Em7 – F♯m/A – Bm – Bm7 – G/B – F♯m/A – Bm
  bVI⁶ – v⁶ – i – i7 – bVImaj⁶₅ – v⁶ – i – i7 – bVI⁶ – iv7 – v⁶ – i – i7 – bVI⁶ – v⁶ – i

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

• G/B
  bVI⁶
• Bm7 – Em7 – F♯7sus4 – Bm (×2)
  i7 – iv7 – V7sus4 – i
• Bm7 – Gmaj7 – Em7 – F♯m7 – Bm (×2)
  i7 – bVImaj7 – iv7 – v7 – i
• Bm7
  i7

Verse 3

• G/B – F♯m/A – Bm – Bm7
  bVI⁶ – v⁶ – i – i7

Chorus 3

• Gmaj7 – F♯m/A – Bm – Bm7 – Gmaj7 – F♯m7 – Bm – Bm7
  bVImaj7 – v⁶ – i – i7 – bVImaj7 – v7 – i – i7

Chorus 4

• Gmaj7 – F♯m/A – Bm – Bm7 – Gmaj7 – F♯m7
  bVImaj7 – v⁶ – i – i7 – bVImaj7 – v7
• Bm – Bm7 – G/B – Em7/B – F♯m/A (×2)
  i – i7 – bVI⁶ – iv⁴₃ – v⁶
• Bm – Bm7 – G/B
  i – i7 – bVI⁶

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0526, 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.