i always assumed the jb's version was first as i heard it first, until someone pointed out to me it was far more likely for JB to make an instrumental cut of a hit then for the isley's to add vocals to an instrumental... also, jb has a history of ripping off the isleys (see: it's my thing)
mr. finewine has a version of "razorblade" w/ vocals on it...
mr. finewine has a version of "razorblade" w/ vocals on it...
...so does Mike Vague. He dropped it at Miles/Egon's Saturday Night party in Hollywood three years back.
Sadly only me and Miles did the face melt... at the time the crowd didn't have nearly as many beat hedz as there are now and Egon was on some beat diggin trip.
but that vocal version is most certainly next level.
JB's Hot (I Need to be Loved) pretty much dupes Bowie's 'Fame'. Still like it, tho.
Really JB duped Bowie? I thought it was the other way around???
I thought the same thing, so I looked it up:
Young Americans - 1975 Hot - 1976
who'd a thunk?
Crazy!
from what I understand, the tune and main riff is Carlos Alomar's...he was the guitarist in both JB's and Bowie's band during the same time...each singer recognized the genius in that tune/riff and claimed it for himself...Bowie just had the upper hand as he had John Lennon writing the lyrics..
I didn't know about Alomar.
what I heard (perhaps from Brown's self-serving autobiography) was James heard Fame and said to himself "he's stealing my sound" sound he made a copy of the song to get back at Bowie for what he felt was a cop of his style.
Just speed up to 1.25 and it's very much a riff hijack. I wonder how Jimmy Page feels about these guys considering how many influences he had borrowed to create Led Zeppelin's songs.
Ok, not nearly identical at all, but perhaps a source of inspiration?
With the offbeat piano and then the bassline around 2:36 onwards, Harold McNair's Teh Hipster sounding like it's about to drop into Golden Brown by The Stranglers IMO.
Ok, not nearly identical at all, but perhaps a source of inspiration?
With the offbeat piano and then the bassline around 2:36 onwards, Harold McNair's Teh Hipster sounding like it's about to drop into Golden Brown by The Stranglers IMO.
I think it (cough) "Pays homage to" Coltrane's homage to Julie Andrews:
Maybe Golden Brown being about, y'know, Horse, was a kind of subconscious nod to 'Trane's demise... It's that 3/4 time loop.
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just kidding.
for real though:
Ray Parker Jr: Ghostbusters Theme
Huey Lewis: I Need a New Drug
Also:
Mario: Let Me Love You
Mario Winans: I Don't Wanna Know
Also, not really musically the same but pretty similar subject matter considering both were singles off of two different albums:
Ludacris: Move Bitch
Ludacris: Get Back
Really, cause I thought Bowie was biting "The Big Payback" when he did Fame.
isley bros.- keep on doin'
i always assumed the jb's version was first as i heard it first, until someone pointed out to me it was far more likely for JB to make an instrumental cut of a hit then for the isley's to add vocals to an instrumental... also, jb has a history of ripping off the isleys (see: it's my thing)
mr. finewine has a version of "razorblade" w/ vocals on it...
and anything by ub40
...so does Mike Vague. He dropped it at Miles/Egon's Saturday Night party in Hollywood three years back.
Sadly only me and Miles did the face melt... at the time the crowd didn't have nearly as many beat hedz as there are now and Egon was on some beat diggin trip.
but that vocal version is most certainly next level.
I didn't know about Alomar.
what I heard (perhaps from Brown's self-serving autobiography) was James heard Fame and said to himself "he's stealing my sound" sound he made a copy of the song to get back at Bowie for what he felt was a cop of his style.
Dan
vs
Bob Marley - African Herbsman, 1973
and
Lesley Duncan - Love Song, 1969
vs
Humble Pie - Sucking On The Sweet Vine, 1970
vs.
https://youtu.be/LztJjQjy65M
...is essentially looping Eddy Senay's version
...and oooooh'ing it.
A recent post on Who Sampled reminded me of the Family Vibes' "L.A. Vamp"
and Oliver Sain's "On The Hill"
The opening bars of that Papa Roach song and Bad Brains' "Fearless Vampire Killers"
2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone
The Immortalz - Mortal Kombat
Just speed up to 1.25 and it's very much a riff hijack. I wonder how Jimmy Page feels about these guys considering how many influences he had borrowed to create Led Zeppelin's songs.
- spidey
Yep,and they had to pay Berry Gordy for that similarity too!
Symphonic Metamorphosis - Sarabande
at 1:47
Good News - Konklusjon
at 0:15
they are not exactly the same, but they are very similar.With the offbeat piano and then the bassline around 2:36 onwards, Harold McNair's Teh Hipster sounding like it's about to drop into Golden Brown by The Stranglers IMO.
I think it (cough) "Pays homage to" Coltrane's homage to Julie Andrews:
Maybe Golden Brown being about, y'know, Horse, was a kind of subconscious nod to 'Trane's demise... It's that 3/4 time loop.