Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: More on Recycled music ( Re: Collins Bashing ) Message-ID: <1307@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 19:07:41 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1307 Posted: Wed Jul 24 19:07:41 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jul-85 22:37:30 EDT References: <484@wdl1.UUCP> <321@wuphys.UUCP> <1229@pyuxd.UUCP> <323@wuphys.UUCP> <1253@pyuxd.UUCP> <330@wuphys.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 36 >>>> (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! [BRYAN COUGHLAN] >>The only similarity I had detected between "Another Lonely Night" and >>"Yesterday" is that they are both in F, and I really can't think of any >>other. (let's not get carried away) Could you elaborate? > Oops! I think I got that wrong! The song I was > thinking about had the refrain "No more lonely nights > ..." - which may be the name of the song. Oh well. > They all sound alike to me :-) :-) ! OOPS**2! The song that I called "Another Lonely Night" WAS "No More Lonely Nights"!!! No wonder they sound alike! :-? > My problem with the "Susudio" - "1999" controversy is I CAN'T FIT > THOSE TWO SONGS TOGETHER. There are similarities, > I agree. But there are differences as well. > You say the bass line is exactly the same? wow. > My friend the bass player likes that, because > he can learn two songs at the same time :-). > You say the melody is the same? No Way. The notes > are different and the rhythms are different. They > are not even close! The "feel" is the same? Well, > that's true of most heavy metal, bebop, technofunk ... I never said anything about the bass line. The organ chords at the beginning (and throughout the verse) are exactly the same as the opening chords of 1999 - same notes, same organ timbre, same everything. He based the whole verse on a deliberate perfect copy of those opening chords to 1999. -- "Because love grows where my Rosemary goes and nobody knows but me." Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr