"they stole it from me!"

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Happened to you?

Here is my awnser: in '98 I was finishing an "experimental music... with no hypothesis (ha)" noise phase and getting into art-popmusic, pre-napster time. I started what I wanted to be a long term personnal project: a half-fake musical biography, sounding like, er, post-rock going IDM but with the feeling of intimacy of house recording (like j-indie group de Kooning I would later find).. do you see where I'm going(?)... the project had 26 songs... I did song A, B, C, E, and Z when I learned Radiohead called one of their album _Kid A_ . How a cool cat should feel realizin' hes THE ideal economico-philosophical demographic of Radiohead... (rheurh..). Other creepy but totally coincidental note: I had still more than 4 hours of recorded material to dig in, among this a song named (and I 'kid you not) _how to disapear completely and never be found_ . And another named _alone together_ (like the strokes, but possibly like zilion others I would be pleased to learn). I know it doesnt mean a thing, I just lost my hardon about this and naturally moved into something else.

Enough about me, how about YOU?

― Sébastien Chikara, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was fiddling with piano chords on the sampler and found something I rather liked. Then I heard Portishead's "Western Eyes" and became frustrated. I was playing with toybox sounds and experimenting with carnival-nightmare ideas. Then American Mcgee's Alice came out and Chris Vrenna's soundtrack angered me. I used a particular break on one track I was working on and AFTER I used it, I started to hear it everywhere. I probably made 2-step 5 years ago and forgot, hell if I know. I take so long to make music, by the time I finish a song 10 people have already made it.

― Honda, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was wanting to sample the Gunter Kallmann Chorus 'Daydream' since 1995... and then three (!) tracks come out in 2001 all using it (Beta Band, I-Monster, and something else)

― m jemmeson, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Me and a friend were doing drum and bass using Casio keyboard drum boxes at maximum velocity and a graphic equalizer back in 1982! And the instrumental bits on the early Beta Band EPs sound a lot like what we were doing in '81.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was fucking around and making shit like the 'straight outta compton' remix around summer of 2000. i started dropping indie rock into gangsta rap around that time too. fuckin prefuse.

― ethan, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wrote all the Beatles' songs.

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wrote a song that was stolen by U2. It was a St. Patrick's day song: "In the name of luck." I don't know why they named it "Pride" and changed the melody.

― Dave225, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gosh, this is interesting. I can't quite remember whether it's happened to me. But I probably should fear that someone will soon release a pair of epic double LPs set in Great Yarmouth and Bermondsey that will make my career redundant.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks to the people who awnsered so far. This original question is a bit inspired by music therapy so come-on people don't be shy; share, share! It's good to talk about these things. Let go the entropic feelings. Learn to say good-bye to what is gone and greet what is coming :)

I can't come up with a serious explaination why this stuff happens; it might be due to some sort of pop-culture morphic field in wich we all go fish or it's probability treory à la it's raining weird things. Bof.

On the other hand heres something constructive: there should be a music claims/speculation database online in wich people would submit their cultural object (demo,songs,theory,audio-video etc) publicly, mainly to record what time it was. Then people could speculate on wich material is fit to make it, and win $ if it made it one way or another. If a major artist "steal" some solid material from the database, well, one scenario might be that a big journalist somewhere might use this information as an argument in an article on the "who did what before who" therefore

draining some of the biomass to whom "rightly deserves it"
augmenting this person's possible exposure, contracts, sex, and whatnot.

In the long run, its more about respect than copyright. This institution/database (hosted by the good folks @freaky trigger? Or an add-on to mp3.com?) would surely be a good creativity stimulant and help in the advancement of pop. So quick, Sundar Subramanian! Make the next Beatles and register the stuff before you just sit there as the world iggs you! ;)

― Sébstien Chikara, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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