aka ‘WTF?!?!’
Sometimes I hear a song and I’m all ‘OH this sounds an awful lot like… but it couldn’t be…’. I chalk these first impressions down to over-eager ears and allow myself to forget about them. However if the comparison pops up the next time I hear the track, and if it continues to pop up on subsequent listens, I give up and post it on here, no matter how ‘WHAT?!? NO!’ it may seem. No, please, just listen – it sounds impossible, but I swear I’m not delusional.
It’s just that the two notes opening Sixpence None The Richer‘s ‘Kiss Me’, possess a strikingly similar texture to the two notes opening My Bloody Valentine‘s ‘Don’t Ask Why’ – crazy, I know, but:
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^ I don’t think it’s fair to call it a stolen ‘riff’ (…even though chord progressions are not riffs). It’s the tonic chord of the key, followed by the major 7th. A very common change in tons of chord progressions. And the SNTR vocal melody doesn’t sound a thing like the MBV one. I agree with the blog poster that it is interesting to listen to the occurrence of the same chord change, but I strongly disagree with Bob that it’s a case of theft. Music has patterns and formulas by its very nature, but an occurrence as simple, common, and small as this one is not a result of stealing.