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From: bsc@wuphys.UUCP (Bryan Coughlan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Recycled music ( Re: Collins Bashing )
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 17:42:24 EDT
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[Rich Rosen discussing performers who recycle ...]
> Get them off their duffs!  Make
> them do some creative work for a change.

Complete agreement.  Since I wrote my last message, I
have encountered new evidence which back up your claim
about _Sussudio_.  It's a shame that talented musicians
are too lazy to come up with their own ideas all of the 
time.  Speaking of which ...

> (admittedly, "Another Lonely Night", though an incredibly wimpy
> song, had the best McCartney melody in ten years!) 

Try listening to _Yesterday_ by the Beatles.  Paul
seems to have copied from himself!

> Life is complex.  It has real and imaginary parts.
> 					Rich Rosen  ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr

There are alot of songs which are influenced by other
songs.  They range the spectrum from complete ripoffs
(eg. _My Sweet Lord_ - George Harrison) through 
incomplete plagiarism (_Sussudio_) to bands with only
one musical idea that they keep repeating (over and
over and over and ...).  Actually, I find it fun to 
try a figure out the precursor songs when hearing a
new song which seems vaguely familiar!  BUT ...
I want to hear some new ideas now and then.

-- 

Bryan S. Coughlan            ( Yes, that's right. My first 
ihnp4!wuphys!bsc 		two initials are B.S. ! )