Total Originality

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Can anyone think of songs so original they don't remind you of anything else? And let's stick to popular music here, it'll be cheating if anyone mentions avant garde or zeuhl.

― masta ace (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 26 May 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

haha

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 26 May 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Ray Parker Jr's "Ghostbusters"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 May 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beach Boys "Surfin' USA"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 26 May 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beach Boys "Surfin' USA"

didn't Chuck Berry reclaim some of this song's 'originality' from the Beach Boys in the end, ha?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 26 May 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel about "originality" the way mark s feels about influence

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 26 May 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" doesn't remind me of anything but acid

― Adam A. (Keiko), Monday, 26 May 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ant rap" obviously.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 26 May 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Savoir Faire" by Family Fodder

― bongo, Monday, 26 May 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

It's pretty hard to say what Jad Fair sounds like, apart from Jad Fair.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 May 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Stakka Bo

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 26 May 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought ray parker ripped off huey lewis and the news for ghostbusters?

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 26 May 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Korean p'ansori folk music (see Chunhyang)

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 26 May 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"savoir faire" went on to give stereolab every idea they didn't steal from neu! or old brazillians.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 May 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

or the beach boys jess

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 26 May 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

well, that's a bit like saying they stole from god, innit? < /elephant6>

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 26 May 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

People dismiss the Ghostbusters theme as a Huey ripoff,
but that instrumental "spooky" bit is original isn't it? and that part made the song

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Purple Haze kinda stands by itself.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 12 April 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

So does "Mr. Roboto."

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Monday, 12 April 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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