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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: