Hi Chaps,

I heard this on the way home and couldn’t believe how bonkers similar these songs are:

Anyone else heard Paul Heaton’s 2014 ‘Moulding of a Fool’? It sounds ALOT like Ocean Colour Scene’s ‘Up on the Downside’ from 1996…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buKoHmYVnew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je1NpHrlXGc

Cheers

Ricks

Apart from having a different drum score, different chord progressions, different guitars solos and a different vocal score they’re… .

I suppose they’re roughly the same type of music.

Excellent. Check out this though to make it 10 songs that sound very similar indeed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuzaaGiNjy0

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zaP8NGML_QE[/video]
And
[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xqvM9pRSr4k[/video]

Although the Cash song is a cover of someones elses song so it wasnt him

It strikes me that Santriani’s song is a closer copy of some of the earlier songs. The Coldplay one is not an obvious copy. What was the outcome of the law suit?

My son writes songs, I join in sometimes. It’s not just the succession of notes that counts, it’s the feel given when playing: strumming/picking pattern, guitar tone, rhythm. If you only consider the notes then you can often find something in classical, folk, jazz, blues etc. to show that the chord/note progression is already in the public domain.

Tears dry on their own is Marvin gaye ain’t no mountain high enough, verse chorus and middle 8 utterly blatant

You think that’s bad, Dave Grohl admitted his, and went ahead with it anyway.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwF9U9tbXN8[/video]

There is a guitar solo on “from time to time” which i have heard note for note the same on the Mondays live album, and something from the 60’s/early 70’s, of which i have embarrasingly forgotten both the title and band…

And there is the sad story of “down under” and the kookaburra song 😥

Nope, but a little part of me died when someone pointed out a similarity between Leftfield’s Release The Pressure and The Macarena.

🙁

A Paul Heaton song and a (stifles laughter) Ocean Colour Scene song? Er no, can’t say I’ve heard them…or ever will.

Leftfield’s Release The Pressure and The Macarena.

😀

DezB – Member

A Paul Heaton song and a (stifles laughter) Ocean Colour Scene song? Er no, can’t say I’ve heard them…or ever will.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs single Heads Will Roll and Public Image Limited This is Not a Love Song are basically the same riff:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auzfTPp4moA[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az_GCJnXAI0&feature=kp[/video]

Dean Grey’s American Edit mashes up Green Day’s American Idiot. Lots of interesting connections there. My favourite:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_KaHQLzGsU&sns=em[/video]

[video]http://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I[/video]