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25 Aug 2014, 10:53 pm
I just heard that today
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26 Aug 2014, 2:31 pm
I just heard that today
Fans of Weird Al will probably get a good laugh out of his parody of "Blurred Lines" called "Word Crimes", which is on his new album.
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26 Aug 2014, 10:52 pm
i second this, especially the rap part.
why?
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27 Aug 2014, 10:45 pm
I've mentioned it before, but "Mambo No. 5" by Lou Bega is incredibly annoying. It's annoying enough that I was actually compelled to look it up just to see what it stole its horn samples from.
I can appreciate creative use of sampling, like when the samples are used sparingly or deconstructed or used to make some sort of a weird sound collage, but it annoys me when an artist just steals another artist's song and raps over it or something, like what happened with "Ice Ice Baby". If you don't know the story behind that, basically its famous bassline, which makes up ALMOST THE ENTIRE SONG aside from the vocals, was stolen from "Under Pressure" by Queen feat. David Bowie.
Going by that logic, I should almost have a beef with "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails, as it makes extensive use of a reversed kick drum sample from the Iggy Pop song "Nightclubbing", except that the song itself has tons of other elements as well, all thanks to Trent Reznor's trademark demented genius. 
Of course, what does annoy me is that they released it as a single, and that people flocked to it because the chorus says "I wanna f*** you like an animal" and they all thought it was just a dumb song about sex, when really it has a much deeper meaning in the context of The Downward Spiral.
Should I become a music critic? I think I could be like Robert Christgau, only without his dumb bias against heavy metal.
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09 Sep 2014, 10:54 pm
I'll agree to that, as well as most post 1970's country and western music (excluding bluegrass, which I can take in small quantities). The only songs I could never stand are Everything is Beautiful by Ray Stevens (dad used to sing that damn song continually, just to get a rise out of me. Yet, let me start singing Every Valley shall be exalted from Messiah, and dad would start doing a falsetto singing way off key just to cut me down to smaller than him.), as well as Bear Necessities from Disney's Jungle Book
I agree about the Ray Stevens song. It was played over and over again on the radio when it was on the charts.
As well, as much as I like Creedence Clearwater Revival, I sometimes cringe whenever I hear "Proud Mary". Just about every party I attended as an undergrad and every watering hole I'd be in would have that song on the turntable. The thing is, it's not a bad song, but how many times can you hear that chorus without wanting to climb the walls?
I always liked Ike and Tina Turner's take on Proud Mary.
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09 Sep 2014, 11:05 pm
I can appreciate creative use of sampling, like when the samples are used sparingly or deconstructed or used to make some sort of a weird sound collage, but it annoys me when an artist just steals another artist's song and raps over it or something, like what happened with "Ice Ice Baby". If you don't know the story behind that, basically its famous bassline, which makes up ALMOST THE ENTIRE SONG aside from the vocals, was stolen from "Under Pressure" by Queen feat. David Bowie.
Going by that logic, I should almost have a beef with "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails, as it makes extensive use of a reversed kick drum sample from the Iggy Pop song "Nightclubbing", except that the song itself has tons of other elements as well, all thanks to Trent Reznor's trademark demented genius.
Of course, what does annoy me is that they released it as a single, and that people flocked to it because the chorus says "I wanna f*** you like an animal" and they all thought it was just a dumb song about sex, when really it has a much deeper meaning in the context of The Downward Spiral.Should I become a music critic? I think I could be like Robert Christgau, only without his dumb bias against heavy metal.
Then I think you might not like Gounod's Ave Maria, since the accomplishment is a Bach Partita. You also might have problems with last movement of Beethoven's Third Symphony, where he quotes a theme from his Creatures of Prometheus (or, as Peter Schickele reimagined it as "The Preachers of Crimetheus."
). You might really despise Rossini, since he was continually plagiarizing himself. Of course, there was no real concept of copyright or intellectual property in those eras.
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10 Sep 2014, 1:16 am
Ironically, I've been on a huge Prodigy kick lately, and most of their songs are built around samples from other songs. "Voodoo People" for instance is based around a guitar riff from "Very Ape" by Nirvana. I guess the difference is just that I like techno better than hip hop. 
For comparison's sake:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih2gxLqR7HM[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91yrS5PUJBY[/youtube]
Play them both at the same time, it sounds trippy.
