Garbage v Nikka Costa

I'm not sure how to really begin a blog but with a neat discovery, so I'm skipping introductions for now and moving right along. I was listening to some Garbage a few weeks ago and found a song I wasn't familiar with, Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go) from their album Absolute Garbage. This particular song has some bars of a very upbeat, electronic tune.

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!)