From songs that sound like other songs:
I wonder how many other REM/BOC parallels we can track (maybe deserves a separate thread?)― Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Monday, September 14, 2020 11:00 AM Can you start it? How many do we have so far?― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, September 15, 2020 12:57 PM
― Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Monday, September 14, 2020 11:00 AM
Can you start it? How many do we have so far?
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, September 15, 2020 12:57 PM
1. "don't fear the reaper" (BÖC) bites the opening of "when i touch you" (spirit) pretty hard― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, September 5, 2017 6:48 AM
2. R.E.M.’s “So. Central Rain” sounds like a distant cousin of “Don’t Fear the Reaper.”― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Friday, August 2, 2019 3:34 PM
3. the opening riff of "burnin' for you" by BLUE OYSTER CULTthe opening riff of "disturbance at the heron" house by REM― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, September 9, 2020 1:00 PM
(hat tip also to pplains for the thread title)
― Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
Whoops, I miffed the first citation (lol):
"Driver 8" sounds like "Don't Fear The Reaper."― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, February 23, 2013 11:53 AM
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, February 23, 2013 11:53 AM
― Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
As a student i used to watch reruns of the Monkees drunk in the middle of the night and I decided there and then that REM were a parody of the Monkees
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
R.E.M. used to cover "Stepping Stone" in their early live sets so NV is OTM
― Brad C., Tuesday, 15 September 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
jeeeezus fing christ i like spirit actually but i swear to god every time they string together five notes in an intro to a song some classic rock band that's way better than them gets accused of stealing it....i don't hear it at all
it's a weirder accusation since you know the Byrds was clearly the inspiration for it and I don't think Buck hides that he loves the Byrds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z_e17GJ_Ao
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
I'm digging the concept of the thread actually but it's got to have more meat on the bone than "arpeggio + clean guitar tone" witch hunt
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
https://archive.org/details/MonsterTour1995Part3/55+Don%2527t+Fear+the+Reaper+(1995.11.19+-+The+Omni%2C+Atlanta+GA).mp3
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
xp (great find with that cover!) Yeah - I mean the fact that James heard "Reaper" in "Driver 8," and then I heard it in "So. Central Rain" (independently, several years later), means there's not actually an outright swipe happening in any one particular song, as much as a general style/sound thing (which is still fun to track)
― Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
Also, I don't think I ever thought of these bands as being connected - as opposed to, say, the oft-noted Byrds or VU influence on R.E.M. - so it's just kind of a cool discovery.
― Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
yeah I'm into it, the Byrds have a very odd and malleable influence that probably isn't explored enough because they never really got to be huge in the Beatles/Stones sense
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
The Patti Smith connection, two guitarists named Buck– DO U SEE?
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
no offense to REM but that's more fans vs peers (BOC) wrt Patti
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
So you are saying there is no there there?
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
There is a tenuous minutemen connection, their last tour before d boon died was opening for REM, during which the minutemen would sometimes close their set by covering "the red & the black". They closed out the tour by joining REM onstage in the encore for d's last performance ever, a cover of television's "see no evil". Then they got back to home to find that BOC lyricist Richard Meltzer had written lyrics for them too: http://hootpage.com/hoot_spielgushermeltzerminutemen.html
― BrianB, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:50 (three years ago) link
REM had a lead guitarist named Lincoln and he was killed by Blue Oyster Cult's original drummer who was named Kennedy.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 05:37 (three years ago) link
J0hn and I did a brief goofy Agents vs Document thing here in 02: Taking Sides: Smiths vs. REM
I love REM, despite what it seems like there. I knew them before the Byrds so I heard "Reaper" as proto-REM as a kid. Idk that the connection really goes further than a vibe in the end, though.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
Thought about that tenuous minutemen connection last night and read a few Mike Watt interviews to reconfirm. Didn't really get much to bolster the, um, case of this thread. Did learn that apparently D. Boon styled his name after E(ric) Bloom.
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
Blue Oyster Cult's live album "Some Enchanted Evening" is partially recorded at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA 1978.
I'd say there is a pretty decent chance that one or more members of REM 'might' have gone to that show.
― earlnash, Thursday, 17 September 2020 03:25 (three years ago) link
Interesting.
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 September 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
Another connection: neither band is Boards of Canada
― Brad C., Friday, 18 September 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
I was waiting for that one, couldn't figure out how to phrase it myself.
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 September 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link