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Borrowed intros
Posted by Lucas Hare on 24 June 2010 - 10:37pm.
At some point in the 1980s, I heard this song for the first time in a cinema advert.
I didn't know who The Smiths were at the time; but I was convinced for a few short seconds that what I was about to hear was this:
Any other songs you can think of with near identical intros?
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The only other one I can think of right now...
...is this.
Which is better known as:
There's always these two favourites
Knowingly
being Steely Dan. Didn't David Hepworth contribute something to a Radio 4 documentary about this clever "borrow" a while ago?
This is a good one
Prosecution rests.
Ah, yes, but...
The One I Love was surely born here:
Does "on purpose" count?
Fancy a foursome?
"Love Me Two Times" by The Doors
"Coup" by 23 Skidoo
"Block Rockin' Beats" by The Chemical Brothers
and
"Let There Be More Light" by Pink Floyd
(videos omitted to avoid bandwidth bitchslap)
Bandwidth be damned...
from 50 secs in
to this
Then just the other day, I heard this
Dolly Update
She recorded 'We Used to' in 1975 but in 2002
And another biggie
(...leading nicely on from Dolly's 'We Used to'...)
Great song too. Possibly heard by these guys. Even the solo.
The Obvious one
Oasis mentions.......
Bit like shooting fish in a barrell isn't it?
Led Zep, VU, The Beatles, Bowie, The Kinks even the Stereofuckingphonics....
Can this be a sans Noel thread?
Shooting Oasis in a barrel
Yes, they are easy targets; but I mention the Gene Clark record only because many people would otherwise say that intro was nicked off Imagine.
Good point...
I hadn't thought of the Imagine angle.
The Beatles Piano ballad
They invented a particular type of song... Hey Jude, Let it Be, Imagine, Golden Slumbers.
This is one of the most copied templates since Chuck Berry.
I was under the impression
that it *was* a deliberate steal from Imagine, along the lines of "Well if every keeps saying we're nicking stuff from the Beatles, we might as well do it properly".
Maybe it is, but...
...by accident or by design, it resembles the intro to Gene Clark's song more than anything else. Doncha think?
Walter Blue Sky
The Horace Wimp Hitmakers borrowed from the Kinks.
And had themselves borrowed by Weller
Changingman
Also features bits of the Horace Wimp Hitmakers' little-known In Old England Town Part 2.
Weller has recently employed ELO's underrated concrete-booted trapsman Bev Bevan. I think that's good of him.
Can are not The Fall's only influence
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Love Is the Drug / Psycho KIller
and choonage!
and
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and choonage!
and
choonage!
From well-known magpie...
There is this..
and there is this...
Also...
...and Dexys Midnight Runners' One of Those Things - no video online unfortunately, but if you just prattle on in a Birmingham accent while watching the Warren Zevon clip, you'll get the idea (really).
EDIT: Someone's been kind enough to put the Dexys tune on YouTube :-)
Marie's the name of his Rusholme Ruffian
And on the subject of The Smiths, back to 'How Soon Is Now'
Johnny Marr has acknowledged the huge debt the riff in How Soon Is Now owes to Hamilton Bohannon's 'Disco Stomp'.
Hear it here... http://philspector.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/johnny-marrs-dansette-deligh...
Really borrowed