When you listen to as much music as I do, and get as little work done as I do, then you start to notice little things about that music. Little things like how some songs seem to be more or less carbon copies of other songs.
Like, say "Sound," by James (song 45)
And "The Stairs" by INXS (#46):
Then again, if INXS was ripped off by James, they can't really complain, because they made "Mediate," (song 47)
Long after Bob Dylan made "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (Song 48!)
So here's what I have to say about all of THAT:
First, I didn't even know they HAD videos in the 1960s. I'm amazed they had pictures in the 1960s, let alone pictures that moved.
Second, it's 5:09 on Friday and I'm goin' home.
Down... to go. It just keeps getting better, doesn't it? It does, right? Song 44 is here.
1 comment:
The lyrics to the The Stairs (one of the verses is a literal translation) are also very similar to the work of a semiobscure poet from long ago. Hutchence was big on poetry and reading it is no surprise that his lyrics should find inspiration within it. "your part of the solution or your part of the problem" from the Strangest Party. Sound familiar?
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