# THIS song sound just like THAT song.

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Tito & Tarantula’s 1996 song “[After Dark](http://youtu.be/cG0qv9s0VNo)” bears a _remarkable_ resemblance to Pere Ubu’s 1978 song “[Over My Head](http://youtu.be/-4vyCsdnCoQ)”. Listen:

[ul]  
[li]same key (C minor)[/li][li]same chords in the same sequence[/li][li]same rhythm[/li][li]same tempo[/li][li]melodic similarity[/li][li]lyric similarity[/li][/ul]

Compare:  
AD: “In her eyes  
A distant fire light  
burns bright”

OMH: “In the gas her eyes are imagined  
And what she sees cannot be detected”

AD: “In the dawn  
I wake up to find  
her gone”

OMH: “It’s pretty cute the way she tucks me in at dawn”

It would seem inescapable that Tito must have ripped off Ubu. Unless both songs are imitating an earlier model with that guitar rhythm, chords, and spooky mood.

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