Anyway, "Immigrant Song" takes the nick from "Bali Ha'i" South Pacific. True.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 12:45 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (one month ago) link