So there I am, laying down on the floor tapping my foot to the beat and getting all zen with Garbage, and this feeling of deja vu sweeps over me...Haven't I heard this melisma somewhere before?
All of a sudden, it hits me. I won a CD in a karaoke contest at a mall overnighter and I remember this song. Flipping through the CDs in my disc book, I find it - New Noise. It was some compilation album from 2002 that FYE produced. I'm all excited, knowing that I have a hard, legal copy of this great song in hand... but when the disc loaded on my laptop, I get a totally different song that's eerily similar: Everybody Got Their Something by Nikka Costa.
*blink blink*
Here, check them out yourself:
Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go) - Garbage
Everybody Got Their Something - Nikka Costa
Bizarre, isn't it? I'm going to do some research on these two; compare the actual notated music, see who is REALLY behind the music, official release dates, etc. Foul play or cooky coincidence? Encyclopedia Alyx is on the case!
(For the record, I like them both: Cherry Lips is good to just listen to, but Everybody Got Their Something makes me want to get up and move!)
I don't think they're really that similar. They are a little bit, but not enough to make me think it was intentional.
ReplyDeleteOpen your ears, old man! :) I think they sound really close, but no - its probably not intentional. Nothing that I've found backs that up. I'm ok with being wrong on that but DON'T tell me that they don't sound similar! :P
ReplyDeletePeople who say it doesn´t sound similar are either def, or tone def, or mentally disabled. They sound VERY alike, but are not exactly the same. It´s like you pitch shift a sequence to a different tone.
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