Every time I hear ZZ Top’s “La Grange” come on, I find myself singing the lyrics to “Spirit in the Sky” over it, though faster than normal of course. And sometimes the reverse as well!
The Mark E. Smith thread just now reminded me of The Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog” riff, which melds right into The Fall’s “Elves” riff.
Would this be a very basic Andalusian* cadence, then?
*And all this time I was spelling it And"u"-l-"a"sian, basically getting the second “a” and the “u” reversed, which, in turn, misled me to think that there was somehow some ancient Asian connection of some sort that I probably could’ve thought through a little more as to such plausibility. Oh well - ignorance fought!
Whilst Christmas shopping for my wife (I bought her a black shawl - not lingerie!) I found myself singing
‘Gonna dress you up in my love,
Remember what makes you happy’
I realised later the second line is from George Benson’s Never Give Up On A Good Thing
MiM
Yes! I can’r believe that song became a hit, because it just seems ludicrous to combine those two songs!
I do this all the time, but I don’t remember any now.
Part of this comes from the fact that I am one half of a Celtic folk duo, and many Celtic songs are very, very similar.
Wait a minute. I’m a member of a celtic folk duo too. Is that you moishe?
:dubious:
Actually appearing in many songs, this basic strumming pattern can meld between Heart - “Barracuda”, Nazareth’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s “This Flight Tonight”, “Immigration Song” (which, admittedly, is a bit choppier than the previous two, with much different accents, but I felt was still close enough in the neighbourhood), SCTV’s David Thomas’s brother Ian - “Liars”, UFO - “Lights Out”.
Gotta say I’ve always loved that dirty, almost menacing-sounding pickin’, like it’s building suspense, chuggin along. Awesome if anyone can find more of that particular example! Love it! Heap that shit on! I’m sure that little Dio* rascal or someone of his ilk might have something up their rascally sleeve.
*yes I’m aware he’s not a guitarist.
That feel is “martial” I have one that isn’t so macho, or overdriven. Tell me if it’s a hit.
The Decemberists - The Infanta
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That feel is “martial” I have one that isn’t so macho, or overdriven. Tell me if it’s a hit.
The Decemberists - The Infanta
[/QUOTE]Oh I guess this emasculated offering will do.
When I hear “Funk 49” by the James Gang, it’s tempting to sing “Footloose, footloose, kick off your Sunday shoes…”
This made me make up a new verb: George Benson-voxing. (given that he’s the most well-known guitarist to melodically match up his scat-vox with his playing) Here, Loggins is George Benson-voxing Walsh.
This one might be a little painful, but mercifully brief - some 70’s britpop band called Middle of the Road shitskiddin’ into fellow druids Slade.
It may be that but the sarcastic bitchy snark in it and the fact that it has an actual enemy goes in it’s favor for a cris de guerre.
Indeed, yes - very martial.
Art Pepper sashaying into Steely Dan.
Today’s driving around with the radio on reminded me of another Beatles-related one: Offspring’s awful Why Don’t You Get a Job. (Ob-la-di being the song I want to sing, of course. How they managed not to get sued for that, I don’t know, given how tangential similarities can get you in trouble these days. That one is blatant, IMHO.)
Really? I don’t hear it myself.
Maybe a 10% similarity. But I ain’t no musician.
You don’t hear it in the chorus? Hmm… Seems blatant to me. Much more so than the “Blurred Lines” lawsuit of a few years back which really was just suing on the feel of the song, so far as I can tell.
I mean listen here to them side by side. 10% similarity?
Certainly the songs’ loping tempos was the first similarity that jumped out at me, and an overall “sound” (for lack of a better way pf putting it) linking the two, but I myself probably wouldn’t have made a connection between the two to begin with. YMMV.
Heh, if anything, the similarity that jumped out at me was when (ok pardon the irrelevant editorializing - but manoman I soooooooo cannot stand that vocalist) Offspring dipshit goes, in the chorus, “No way-ay-ay-ay”, which I immediately melded (and dead on, I thought) into “You’re breaking my heart” from G&F’s Cecilia.
I guess I wasn’t much help, there. :o