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calumlynn


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Can anyone think of any Pulp songs which strongly remind you of other songs?

Obviously She's A Lady seems to borrow very heavily from I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor.
Also We can Dance Again, in the chorus, sounds very like the verses to Tragedy by the Bee Gees.
Can anyone think of any other examples?

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A Little Soul quotes Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' Tracks Of My Tears, and Disco 2000 famously references Gloria, which I've not heard.


Also, After You sounds a bit like both Stay and The Secret Life Of Arabia by David Bowie to me, but that's probably more just a genre thing.

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Also, the verse of We Can Dance Again sounds kind of like Love Is In the Air.

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The Idiot wrote:

A Little Soul quotes Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' Tracks Of My Tears, and Disco 2000 famously references Gloria, which I've not heard.



You almost certainly have, but here: Hrrmmmm.

It's a completely different song, and yet at the same time still sounds very similar.

I can't think of any others at the moment, but the other way round Blur's "Tender" has an opening almost identical to Dogs Are Everywhere, and there's an REM song which came out around the same time as "This Is Hardcore" which pretty much is Glory Days. Though some argumentative REM-fan person on the Lipgloss mailing list insisted it didn't count because Pulp had already nicked the tune from Leonard Cohen.

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Steve Devereux wrote:

 

The Idiot wrote:

A Little Soul quotes Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' Tracks Of My Tears, and Disco 2000 famously references Gloria, which I've not heard.



You almost certainly have, but here: Hrrmmmm.




Ah, yes.  Not sure if I want tp thank you for that.

Oh and Glory Days rips off Common People if anything.


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I can't remember precisely off the top of my head, but there is an Oasis song and also a Suede song which both sound like Ansaphone.
That Gloria thing freaked me out! I hadn't heard it before.

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Oh crikey! I can't believe no one mentioned The Fear 'borrowing heavily' from Blondie's Fade Away & Radiate. How'd that slip my mind?!

(Oh, & My Erection is very Sparky The Magic Piano.)

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The chorus of We Can Dance Again sounds VERY MUCH like the theme tune to Blake's Seven!!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pnautWFuEnQ

Listen there if you don't believe me. Kicks in about 0:16.

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Wow, that has GOT to be intentional!
(I once did a song where the chorus melody was taken from 'Bridge Zone', from the 8-Bit version of Sonic The Hedgehog. I don't quite know why I'm owning up to this.)

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Hahaha. I remember it well James!

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"Der-der-der-der
der-der-der-der
der-der-der-derrr, de-de-de-der-der"

I had a Master System when I was little cos we couldn't afford a Mega Drive so I was stuck with the 8-bit Sonic.

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James wrote:

I can't remember precisely off the top of my head, but there is an Oasis song and also a Suede song which both sound like Ansaphone.
That Gloria thing freaked me out! I hadn't heard it before.



I think you're thinking of All Around The World and Lost In TV. They all have the same C-G-Am-F verse. But Ansaphone was recorded first and is ten times the song of either.

The cod-Latino guitar intro of After You is very similar to the beginning of Beautiful Neighbourhood by Space aswell.



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Yes, they are the ones I meant, precisely. It's amazing Pulp didn't sue. (Well, unless they got it from somewhere else too!)

On the subject of After You, as I've mentioned before the rhythm guitar is very much like Another Brick In The Wall part II by Pink Floyd.

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The chorus of 'Weeds' is 'Oh Come All Ye Faithful' which put me off a bit when it hit me recently. Also an old flat mate of mine ruined TV Movie for me, when at the point Jarvis sings, "Anything clever to say... to say... so I say..." he continued into "Thank you for the music, the songs we're singing" (ABBA)... I still haven't forgiven him for that!

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There was something on the Mark & Lard Show (back when it was on Radio 1 late at night, so mid '90s) where they played some obscure Spanish new romantic record that had the exact same tune as Common People.

Myself I think that Joking Aside has a certain something in common with Leonard Cohen's 'So Long Marianne'.

Good grief Laura Branigan had scary eyebrows.

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& later-on (about 2000?) there's the Placebo song Slave To The Wage which recalls the Common People melody. & subject matter to a certain extent.

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Christ, only Placebo would have a song title as cliched and shit as that...

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Sturdy wrote:

There was something on the Mark & Lard Show (back when it was on Radio 1 late at night, so mid '90s) where they played some obscure Spanish new romantic record that had the exact same tune as Common People.



I remember that! It was a female singer and there was quite a similarity with the first verse. I think O.U borrows from Artery's In the Garden a bit. We Can Dance again definitely steals from Blakes Seven and Party Hard is a David Bowie song.



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The Spanish song apparently ripped off by Pulp was, I think, this one - Los Amantes by Mecano, a Madrid pop group who apparently enjoyed huge success in the Mediterranean and Central America in the 1980s.




The little riff is the same, the rhythm of the verse phrases (even in a different language) also uncanny...and you just know that it's the wilfully obscure type of thing that Jarvis would admire.


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It's only the melody on the first bar of the verse, & when you get to the chord change it alters completely. I reckon "apparently ripped off by Pulp" is totally unquantifiable in this instance...Luckily!! (:

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It's obviously just coincidence, the melodic phrase is based on 3 notes from the major scale and the chord change is to chord V which is hardly unusual.

Common People was influenced by "Fanfare for the Common Man" according to Jarvis.

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But it sound nothing like Fanfare for the Common Man and a lot like this!

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Thank f**k it doesn't sound like Fanfare For The Common Man, I f**king hate that godawful song!!

(Sorry for that outburst. I used to work in a fast food joint & it was playing all the bloody time...!)

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It is a very 'worthy' head doing piece of music.

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I thought Bob Lind was the most obvious



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6727qgmRbY

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