Nik Kershaw's The Riddle is... actually insane

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If you ask me what surrealism is in music, here is my answer: Nik Kershaw’s “The Riddle“ is an enchanting, but totally weird piece of art, and I’m only referring to the melody and the chord progressions and not even the words or the video. With this analysis, I want to break down the structures of the chord progressions and hope to inspire those that seek for harmonic inspiration without adding too many extensions.
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Clarification: 4:50 The ‘slide‘ term in Neo-Riemannian Theory refers to the D major – D# minor connection.

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