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The Fall vs. Iggy and the Stooges

My punk/post-punk knowledge, while not sadly lacking, is not as excellent as I’d like it to be. Credit for this goes to my favourite Brit and all-round BFF. His band broke up when I was 6 but I have been belatedly appointed its manager. 

Oh, and by ‘this’ I mean the resemblance The Fall‘s track ‘Elves’ has to Iggy and the Stooges‘ ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’. Who knew? Well, maybe you.

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The Dandy Warhols vs. Donna Summer

‘The World The People Together (Come On)’ sounds characteristically like The Dandy Warhols, but more to the point, it has a bit of Donna Summer‘s ‘I Feel Love’ lurking about in it. Your mission is to fish out the 70s disco from underneath the chaotic jangle.
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Asobi Seksu vs. REM

A comment left on my last post accuses me of ‘clutching at straws. I DISAGREE. However I am just one person and, nonetheless, my ears’ reputation MUST be maintained. So – have you already heard Asobi Seksu‘s live ‘n’ acoustic version of ‘Thursday’ and if so did you catch the ‘Everybody Hurts’ opening? Or am I just a terrible REM fan for having taken this long to place it?
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Exit Calm vs. Oasis

Wait, what? Someone sounds like Oasis? Not the other way around? whaaaat? WHO IS THIS OVERTURNER OF WORLDS? 

Why it’s Exit Calm! Here’s a possibly dodgy comparison involving 6 seconds of ‘With Angels’ off their self-titled debut. I think of ‘Stop Crying Your Heart Out’ every time I hear it.

 

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Airiel vs. Highspire vs. Ride

It’s been a while, I know, and this is because FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE I am actually, honestly working on things instead of faffing about pretending to do so. Clearly not working on this, though. Bad, me, very bad. I’ll make it up to you. Here is a shoegaze three-way (ooo, kinky!): 

I can say with 99.9% confidence that ‘Skies You Climb’ by Highspire is my favourite shoegaze song ever, of all time, till the end of time and beyond. It kills me a little bit every time I hear it – ‘petit mort’ for the ears. you could say. Anyway, its arresting opening is v. v. v. similar to the seminal ‘Vapour Trail’ by Ride. 

But that’s not all! Compare the start of ‘Skies You Climb’ to ‘Stay’ by fellow neo-gazers Airiel and you’ve got some beautiful musical incest going on. 

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Interpol vs. Air Formation

Ohhhh Interpol, if it weren’t for us giving you the benefit of doubt, we’d have the Regular Pol on your tail for petty theft – geddit? geddit? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA …. that wasn’t actually funny, sorry. 

HANG ON A MINUTE – Interpol sounds like Air Formation? HOW ARE THESE TWO THINGS EVEN RELATE… let’s not try to wrap our heads around that. Thanks ever so much to the ever patient Tom with the lovely hair (and the spectacularly varied and consistently amazing music taste) for bringing to light the completely unexpected resemblance ‘Next Exit’ has to ‘Into View’ 

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The Stone Roses vs. The Church

So the friend who features in the last post reckons this is a way better example than the one I had to offer. Apart from the similarly slithering guitars on The Stone Roses‘ ‘Waterfall’ and The Church‘s ‘A New Season’, he also points out the – coincidentally? – matching lyrical imagery. “She’s a waterfall” vs. “Girl bathing in crystal waters.”  It could just be a fluke. You be the judge. Of both. 

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Wall of Voodoo vs. The Who

SO I have this wise and learned friend. He is the one who introduced me to ‘Mexican Radio’ by Wall of Voodoo. After hearing it, I bounded up to him and went ‘this sounds a bit like ‘My Generation’!’ 

‘The song by The Who?’ he asked. 

‘Yes!’ I nodded earnestly. 

‘Stuff and nonsense,’ he replied. ‘I’ve listened to both songs COUNTLESS times and have never noticed a similarity. Your ears are dysfunctional.’* 

Shortest sound clip ever, I AM NOT CALLING PLAGIARISM, I am just saying there is SOME similarity and it may just be two notes BUT. IT’S. THERE. 

Enjoy the next 8 seconds.

 

*paraphrasing
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Woven Bones vs. The Rose of Avalanche

Big ups again to the friend with the fantastic hair who shared the Monkey 3 vs. Stone In Egypt soundalike with me. This time it’s Austin vs. Leeds as a little Texan band called Woven Bones seems to have heard a slightly less little UK band called The Rose of Avalanche and consequently riffed opp the rip from ‘L.A. Rain’ and used it in their track ‘Let it Breathe.’ Bonus ups and much gratitude for having pieced the audio file together for me so I did not have to do much/any work at all on this one.
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Sixpence None The Richer vs. My Bloody Valentine

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: