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RockNRoll Mercenary wrote:Those ones^ are really similar, you can even sing NTTC over the top and it fits until you get to the chorus then it changes.

I highly doubt Florence listens to the Sisters though.
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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.
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Can't help but think Pixies' Gouge Away borrows quite a bit from Lucretia, My Reflection
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Pista wrote:Can't help but think Pixies' Gouge Away borrows quite a bit from Lucretia, My Reflection
Never noticed that. Not just the bass but the way the guitars come in. No wonder I love Gouge Away so much!
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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:
Pista wrote:Can't help but think Pixies' Gouge Away borrows quite a bit from Lucretia, My Reflection
Never noticed that. Not just the bass but the way the guitars come in. No wonder I love Gouge Away so much!
That "shotgun" snare sound too.
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Unless I've somehow missed it in the previous pages Some Kind of Stranger is clearly a rip off of New Dawn Fades.
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and Body Electric was always a ringer for Zerox
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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.
Very much agree
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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.
Very much agree
Yes, good call, as is the Ants one, which I'd never spotted before (but is obvious now that you mention it). :notworthy:
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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...
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Poisonheart wrote:and Body Electric was always a ringer for Zerox
Never noticed that before - although they both owe a debt to Scooby Doo.
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it's not 1:1 but obv inspired by temple, walking with strangers by the birthday massacre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57BUcxEv_yM
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Not sure if this has been mentioned before...
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Brad wrote:Not sure if this has been mentioned before...
Siouxsie & the Banshees "Red light"


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I've always thought U2 "New Year's Day".
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Just listening to Thin Lizzy & the bass riff at the start of Killer On The Loose is very similar to that in Doctor Jeep
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Ok ,I really like this and have preordered, but billed as between FALAA and God's Own Medicine, nah!

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Even the chorus sounds reminicent of something but probably not Sisters related.
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Pat wrote:Ok ,I really like this and have preordered, but billed as between FALAA and God's Own Medicine, nah!

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Even the chorus sounds reminicent of something but probably not Sisters related.
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Pista wrote:
Pat wrote:Ok ,I really like this and have preordered, but billed as between FALAA and God's Own Medicine, nah!

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Even the chorus sounds reminicent of something but probably not Sisters related.
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Pat wrote:Ok ,I really like this and have preordered, but billed as between FALAA and God's Own Medicine, nah!

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Even the chorus sounds reminicent of something but probably not Sisters related.
I would enjoy a new sisters record sounding like the mischon
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jost 7 wrote:
Pat wrote:Ok ,I really like this and have preordered, but billed as between FALAA and God's Own Medicine, nah!

Dominion
Even the chorus sounds reminicent of something but probably not Sisters related.
I would enjoy a new sisters record sounding like the mischon
I think we're getting a new m*****n record sounding like the Sisters :innocent:
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
Nork1 wrote:
RockNRoll Mercenary wrote: I highly doubt Florence listens to the Sisters though.
The way she bellows I doubt she can listen to anything.
Never understood why anyone would voluntarily listen to what I lovingly call "Florence IN The Machine"...

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Hmm. I dunno much about her/them, but why do you lot hate her so much?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p__BvILfp5w

kind of Marian-ish.....almost like a remix....
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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…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LxVfXowQGc&t=875s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5S622kAGZY
Introducing....Gothzilla?!?
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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.
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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.
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