Need You Tonight by INXS

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 11

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Verse ×2 → Chorus → 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

• C – E♭ – Gm/D – Cm (×2)
  I – bIII – v⁶₄ – i

Verse 1

• C – F7(no3) (×5)
  I – IV7(no3)

Chorus 1

• C – E♭ – Gm/D (×4)
  I – bIII – v⁶₄
• C
  I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 3

• C – F7(no3) (×3)
  I – IV7(no3)

Chorus 2

• C – E♭ – Gm/D – Cm (×4)
  I – bIII – v⁶₄ – i

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 5

Same chords as Verse 3.

Verse 6

Same chords as Verse 3.

Chorus 3

• C – F7(no3) (×2)
  I – IV7(no3)

Outro

• E♭ – Gm/D – C – F7(no3) – C
  bIII – v⁶₄ – I – IV7(no3) – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Gm/D (v⁶₄) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Cm (i) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• F7(no3) (IV7(no3)) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0687, 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.