https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsnBT3NofiQ
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 April 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link
I like the Stone Roses' "Second Coming" a lot, but "Tears" always puts me off due to its weirdly slavish imitation of the structure and arrangement of "Stairway"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 April 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
Ok this list totally left off that they lifted "Immigrant Song" from The Osmonds' "Hold Her Tight."
Well that and the theme tune from Get Smart
― The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 00:55 (six years ago) link
holy shit how did i not notice that before
― a but (brimstead), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
Heh I started this thread and it might seem like I hate LZ but I actually love them. They stole from so many artists (mainly Plant and Page) but Bonham and JPJ + production make otherwise thin songs sound massive. It's the credit thing I have an issue with, not the transformation of said songs into something epic.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 07:00 (six years ago) link
"Immigrant Song" posts are jokes, I assume? I can't tell who's being serious anymore.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
Uh no every time I hear it a few hours later I have Get Smart stuck in my head and it took me years to figure out why
― The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
Just in case: "Hold her tight" was 2 years after "Immigrant Song"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
Anyway, "Immigrant Song" takes the nick from "Bali Ha'i" South Pacific. True.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
Ha, well, it's totally the same rhythm and contour, but the intervals are different (iirc, "Immigrant Song" = up an octave, down a semitone, back up a semitone; "Get Smart" = up a P4, down a semitone, back up a semitone). So it's a cool observation and interesting connection but def not plagiarism. The Osmonds song obv came a couple years after "Immigrant Song". 2xp
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 12:48 (six years ago) link
Indeed it does. I played that one in the pit only about 680 times, my brain clearly has no concept of where ideas actually come from.
― The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link
Not plagiarism, but ye Gods does "Thank You" sound like the Small Faces.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 November 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Afterglow?
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Sunday, 29 November 2020 10:31 (three years ago) link
I wasn't thinking in term of an exact track, more of the overall feel of the Small Faces ca. 1968/69, Plant's vocal is very Steve Marriott in places - that verse after the guitar solo!
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 November 2020 10:55 (three years ago) link
definitely. also, the hammond.
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Sunday, 29 November 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
or whatever sort of organ it is.
A hard organ, I’d wager
― calstars, Sunday, 29 November 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
"Moon-Face explained about Joe, and how he had gone to the Land of Ice and Snow, where the big white bears lived." -- Enid Blyton (The Enchanted Wood (1939))
and the hot springs blow
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 11 March 2024 18:31 (two weeks ago) link