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It's a quite small thing, but an elaborated version of the minor chord major seventh riff from Confide In Me also snaked its way into War On Drugs around the time they were playing the Kylie cover.
If vampires played music, it would sound like this
Poisonheart wrote:Unless I've somehow missed it in the previous pages Some Kind of Stranger is clearly a rip off of New Dawn Fades.
yeah, the bassline and the chorus riffing are definitely inspired by it (although quite different in the end, SKOS ends stepwise on V for one). also the guitar part in the verse sounds a lot like that from ziggy stardust
i guess i was wrong to finger millennium as the source for arms earlier, since a similar static chugging riff appeared in tons of songs before that...
Not that I think it is a case of riff stealing, rather coincidence, but I'm currently spooked at how similar the first 4 notes of The Church's "An Interlude" sound similar to the first 4 notes of Blood Money.
Well, they are the same 4 notes, but the whole sound is VERY similar…
It's true that the resemblance is shocking, they're not just the same 4 notes, but the same 4 notes played the same way! It's not as if there was on one hand these 4 notes played quickly on an electric guitar and on the other and, the same ones played quietly on a bassoon...
And so THAT's why Gouge Away felt so familiar!
But to be honest, I'm starting to think that so much music has been written that it's hard to write something that doesn't sound, even just a little, like anything else.
Lancer_MiG wrote:It's true that the resemblance is shocking, they're not just the same 4 notes, but the same 4 notes played the same way! It's not as if there was on one hand these 4 notes played quickly on an electric guitar and on the other and, the same ones played quietly on a bassoon...
And so THAT's why Gouge Away felt so familiar!
But to be honest, I'm starting to think that so much music has been written that it's hard to write something that doesn't sound, even just a little, like anything else.