Sheeran wins! After 2.5 hrs of deliberations.
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
good, I think his attorney was exactly right in that statement
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
Sheeran guilty of seditious conspiracy!
Proud Boys not rip-off of Proud Mary!
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
The difference between “most other I-iii-IV-V songs” (substitute I6 for iii in the case of “Thinking…”; functionally the same chord)— the difference IS those anticipations. Drawing parallels between these songs and the standard earlier examples of songs with the same progression (“The Weight”, “Just Like A Woman”, “Ziggy Stardust”) only (to my ears) emphasizes the general “mood” similarities between Sheeran and Gaye, which are notable!
Glad Sheeran won and I hope that professor/expert witness has something shitty happen to him this year
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
This just in: Sheehan to start writing atonal aleatory 12-tone pieces inna Schoenberg stylee, accompanied by Yoko Ono screams and occaional input from Tibetan yak herders who do circular breathing, so as to never have to go through this shit again
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:02 (one year ago) link
what if this could lead to pop songwriters being forced into only using convoluted, lawsuit-safe chord progressions and everyone just gets acclimated to it?!!
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Thursday, 4 May 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
Every pop song will sound like "Bitches Brew"
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 May 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
fievel is glauque would become the biggest band in the world!
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 May 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
My next song's chord progression will be I IV€ vii(dim) ii¤ IX X XI V(sus)
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 May 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
Gawd – it turns out there are still two more pending lawsuits over Sheeran's song, filed by Structured Asset Sales LLC, a firm which owns a portion of the Townsend estate's rights in "Let's Get It On."
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Friday, 5 May 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
I recently picked up Al Stewart's "Time Passages" and the opening of The Palace of Versailles is reminding me of Foxygen's Shuggie(not the melody so much as the overall vibe... Al Stewart should get in touch with Ed Townsend's legal team)
― enochroot, Thursday, 11 May 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
Helloween's "Forever and One (Neverland)"'s chorus sounds very similar to "Lost in the Darkness" from Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde.
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 May 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
Somehow I spent a significant chunk of my life never having heard "Islands In The Stream". And so for years I thought "Ghetto Supastar" was based on "It Must Have Been Love" by Roxette.
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Monday, 15 May 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
Here's another copyright infringement suit currently being litigated – Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (and Disney) are defending a claim that this Frozen II song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS2hfKN9b7Y
...rips off a 1999 song that a guy uploaded on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7NM8B9B2mY
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
quite a stretch there
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
― gelatinous cubist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
um that song above sounds like Jill Sobule's "I Kissed a Girl"
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link
(the riff, that is)
like the song above is so facelessly generic I'd be wary of suing anybody
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
The guy says in his complaint that when he saw the movie in the theater, his daughter turned him and said – “Dad, Disney took your song”…
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
Star witness
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Thursday, May 4, 2023 3:29 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, May 4, 2023 4:05 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
fucking bring it on imo, i'm here for this
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
Honorable Judge Hongro presiding
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
hey
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
What if to release a song you had to get government approval like when submitting for a patent
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
i take your point, just sayin i'd love it if more pop songs were written with unusual chords and progressions.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 22:36 (one year ago) link
i'd love it if *most* pop songs were written with unusual chords and progressions, even.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link
i wouldn't make a federal case out of it tho.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link
Nah. I think I vi IV V and I V vi IV still have potential for good, even awesome, songcraft.
Taylor Swift recorded "All Too Well" twice and it's still a better and catchier song than anything Frank Zappa ever did, fuiud
― gelatinous cubist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 23:15 (one year ago) link
ooh you know what, i'll also take pop songs with no chords and pop songs with one static chord the whole way through.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 00:15 (one year ago) link
zappa is a low blow
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link
Oh lol Deflatormouse I was in no way calling YOU Geir oh heck no. That was a non-sequitur
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link
Deflatormouse, you say that but in an alphabetical list of famous musicians, Zappa is normally one of the last to be mentioned.
― gelatinous cubist (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 00:20 (one year ago) link
xp oh lol i thought that was directed at me but took it in a playful spirit!
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link
Neil Young - Too Far Gone sounds like The Rolling Stones - "Dead Flowers".
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Thursday, 18 May 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
Turning back to the copyright issue – for the interested, Justice Kagan's (blistering) dissent in Warhol v. Goldsmith contains a two-page discussion of copying in music (pp. 28-29); including a long footnote on Dylan, and a block quote from the blog of "songwriter Nick Cave (he of the Bad Seeds)".
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Friday, 19 May 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
I just realized today how much Black Eyed Peas' Where is the Love sounds like Des'ree's Life.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 11 June 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
ben harper's "steal my kisses" seems to borrow a lot from william onyeabor's "fantastic man"
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Monday, 12 June 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
"As It Was" by Harry Styles owes a lot to "California" by Delta Spirit― daavid, Monday, June 20, 2022 1:15 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― daavid, Monday, June 20, 2022 1:15 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
And "Late Night Talking" sounds like Robyn's "Keep This Fire Burning"
― Indexed, Monday, 12 June 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
I heard Miranda Lambert's "Me and Charlie Talking" in a Sporting Goods store
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 12 June 2023 19:44 (one year ago) link
seems like “Shoot to Thrill” has some resemblance to “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”
― Johnny Bit Rot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 June 2023 06:00 (one year ago) link
jump into my mouth and breathe the stardust by black moth super rainbow has the same guitar line as there she goes by the la's.
― ledge, Monday, 26 June 2023 09:19 (one year ago) link
Miranda Lambert's "Safe" and Kurt Vile's "Air Bud"
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
bob marley's "baby we've got a date" is basically "ring of fire"
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
King Crimson's "The Sheltering Sky" sounds a lot like Jean-Luc Ponty's "Ethereal Mood."
― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Thursday, 27 July 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
I heard Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy" on the radio last night, and it reminded me that I always hear it and Clapton's "Let It Rain" melting together in my head.
― budo jeru, Friday, 28 July 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
Same chord changes in the same key. Apparently Clapton played on an early take of the Ringo song around the time he was recording his first solo album. Both obviously owe a lot to George Harrison.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 28 July 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
lol yeah, chords for the first part of both are D, Am, C, G, D
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 28 July 2023 15:27 (one year ago) link
I often hear a double-time "It Don't Come Easy" when I play this, also in D although the changes are different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCVGRBUODbw
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 28 July 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
For years I carried around this vague memory of a song I heard in my childhood that has a chorus sort of like Bon Jovi's "Runaway," but with a different second half. Eventually I resigned myself to believing that I must have just been misremembering "Runaway" and my brain had completely made up that other part. Then last week Eddie Rabbitt's "Drivin' My Life Away" came on the radio and I flipped out: that's the song!!
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 02:26 (one year ago) link