Favourite Accidental Musical Allusions....

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From a track (3 or 4?) xiu xiu "fabulous muscles" i heard the doogie howser theme - just the first few notes.
if only it were true...

― ddd, Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Closing subway doors in New York City used to play the first couple of notes of Sebadoh's "Kath."

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the puddle's 'power of love' reminded me of the doogie howser theme.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Listening to Phoenix "Victim of the Crime" I was dying trying to remember what the beat reminded me of. Couple days later I realized it's a deadringer for Dr. Dre "Still D.R.E."

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear "It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To" in the early
Genesis nugget "For Absent Friends." Probably just a coincidence/delusion.
I will maintain til my dying day, however, that Aerosmith's
"Hand That Feeds" is a Genesis tribute, quoting "Slippermen"
and "Lillywhite Lillith."

(BTW, did anyone ever slap Peter Gabriel's hand for singing,
in one of their signature songs, about a menacing "host of
dark-skinned warriors" ?")

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

could be that the ENTIRE remainder of Peter Gabriel's career is some strange way of atoning for that

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

A portion of the Gilligan's Island theme surfaces with glaring obviousness to me in Kraftwerk's "Elektrisches Roulette" off Ralf And Florian.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

my dishwasher cycle has the same pitch and rhythmic chug as the opening notes of the walkmen's "they're winning."

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

an airplane i was on beeped every once and a while and it was the first few notes of the "home alone" theme

another example but in a slightly different sense: my car "open door" noise is an F note, so it supplies innumerable pedal tones for songs in F - it sounds best on a song like "passion dance"

― brains (cerybut), Monday, 12 April 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Not accidental, but classic:
On a recent open-mic blooz jam night at the local hole, the keyboard player, a blind guy, was doing his bit when somebody's cell phone rang loudly near the stage. The guy instantly mimicked the ring-tone on his hammond and incorporated it into a phrase in the middle his solo!

― briania, Monday, 12 April 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a pharmacy in my neighborhood wherein a bell chimes twice when you enter the door, and it's the first two notes of the sinewy, sinister guitar riff of "Meninblack" by the Stranglers. It's now so ingrained in my head that the song will pop into my mind everytime I walk by it (without even hearing the bell).S

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"poor leeeeno, wider than a mile..."

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The beeps before an announcement on Virgin Trains are the first three notes of the theme tune to Fraggle Rock.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

The theme music to the Sweeney in the first part of A Love Supreme

― bham, Friday, 18 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

this is an awesome thread

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

We have a newer Ford truck at work and the warning device when the key is in the ignition and the door is open, plays something that sounds like the beginning of "Cold As Ice" (Foreigner). I hear that song every time.

My at-home Volvo doesn't do that, thankfully.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 19 June 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the slower songs on experimental jet set seems like it's entirely based on the music from the nintendo game "goonies" when you're underground

they are probably both swipes of something older, tho

― mig (mig), Saturday, 19 June 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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