Doug Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...undalike-songs/ What do y'all think of that comparison, and what about those other so-called soundalikes? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
virtualreason Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 Born to Run is on there twice. Seems like they were lazy making this list, imo. OH! You could put it on there a third time with Arcade Fire's (Antichrist Television Blues)! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jhh4321 Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 that wilco spoon comparison is rediculously unwarrented Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 Yeah, that's totally stupid. So both songs have piano. That doesn't mean they're similar otherwise. I think it's unfair to the Spoon song, which I love. I don't much care for "Walken." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
quarter23cd Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 I've never heard half of these songs...but, evidently, if you listen to one Green Day album its like listening to a copy of every song anybody else ever made. (not that I didn't know that) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jhh4321 Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 Yeah, that's totally stupid. So both songs have piano. That doesn't mean they're similar otherwise. I think it's unfair to the Spoon song, which I love. I don't much care for "Walken." haha...truth Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Reagent Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 Sounds like the songs might be in the same key but other than that they're really not that similar. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilco Worshipper Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 I totally dug Spoon's song, but no...doesn't appear to be a "sound-alike" to me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigWheeledWagon Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Several of the "sound-a-likes" on RS's list are pretty out there, but the Spoon/Wilco thing is the craziest. Both feature piano and similar rhythms, I guess, but the overall tone of the two songs are drastically different. I guess they share some similarities if you only consider the breakdown part of "Walken" towards the end, but even then the similarities seem slight at best -- certainly not enough to warrant being on this list (like say Pearl Jam's "Taken to Fly" and Zep's "Going to California.") I've always thought that "Sister Jack" from "Gimme Fiction" sounds like it could have been on "Summerteeth," though (but I'm not implying it's a sound-a-like to anything of Wilco's). Speaking of Spoon, the new album is fantastic and has now displaced "Sky Blue Sky" as my favorite release of the year so far. The more I think about it, I'm amazed at the consistency of their output. From "A Series of Sneaks" to "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga," every album has been brilliant. Hell, even "Telephono" was pretty darn good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AGTierney Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 That list is a little weird. The two examples that bother me are the Nirvana/Boston one and the Sublime/Beatles one. It's (I though) common knowledge that Cobain modeled his song after Boston's And Bradley Nowell from Sublime used the melody line from Lady Madonna to write What I Got, among other things. Bradley borrowed a lot of stuff. I thought Rolling Stone would know that... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigWheeledWagon Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 That list is a little weird. The two examples that bother me are the Nirvana/Boston one and the Sublime/Beatles one. It's (I though) common knowledge that Cobain modeled his song after Boston's And Bradley Nowell from Sublime used the melody line from Lady Madonna to write What I Got, among other things. Bradley borrowed a lot of stuff. I thought Rolling Stone would know that... The Nirvana/Boston one bothered me as well . . . not because of any idea out there that Cobain intentionally modeled "Teen Spirit" on more than a feeling (though, whether it's true or false, I've heard that somewhere, too), but because the only thing similar is the rhythm and strum pattern (which differs on the fourth chord anyway) of the four chord pattern -- the chord progression itself is different and gives the two songs entirely different feels. As with so many songs on the list, Rolling Stone found one common element between two songs and then decided that this made them almost the same. If that makes two songs the same, then the list could go on endlessly -- just think of every song with a I-IV-V chord progression or with a 12 bar blues pattern. I don't know why I'm acting so surprised at Rolling Stone, though -- it's not exactly the publication it once was. Oh, welcome to Via Chicago, by the way -- I noticed that was your first post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
raquelita Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 The list, along with this particular comparison, is ridiculous. Gahhhh what were they thinking?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
W(TF) Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I thought Rolling Stone would know that... Umm. I'm on a global quest to expose exactly what music critics know. FUCK ALL. I swear to God, my son can be whatever he wants to be in life; but if he becomes a music critic, I might have to disown him. Perish the thought. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I don't feel the need to read this. Similar sounding songs is not so unusual really. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 > not because of any idea out there that Cobain intentionally modeled "Teen Spirit" on more than a feeling i thought he modeled it on Uncle tupelo's That year Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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