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PrintableNope,these songs aren't similiar at all. | |
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Not at all alike in the least. As SG stated there are more similarities to James Brown than anything else. Pull Up To My Bumper was a huge song that summer , and I wore Lady Cab Driver out the following year. Never noticed a similarity then or now. | |
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abigail05 said: I won't keep arguing the point. The car horns, the funky guitar, the basic chord structure, the synth thing that is EXACTLY THE SAME, and the timing of hers to his is just to similar for me to dismiss.
I'd say Prince took the concept and made it 100x better, and it's one of his best songs ever, but I like hers too. Heard it on some streaming disco station yesterday. You can't keep arguing it, because its not right. There are lots of songs with car horns, funky guitar (ffs!) - the "basic chord structure" is not the same. The synth sounds similar and sounds like it was probably an Oberheim - you know, back in 1981, there was nowhere near the diversity in synthesizers that there is now. Those that were forging ahead with what was a new sound back then were all using the same equipment. Countless songs from that time have the same or similar synth sounds - that's not people ripping each other off, that's just using the same tools! ...we have only scratched the surface of what the mind can do...
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Mindflux said: abigail05 said: I won't keep arguing the point. The car horns, the funky guitar, the basic chord structure, the synth thing that is EXACTLY THE SAME, and the timing of hers to his is just to similar for me to dismiss.
I'd say Prince took the concept and made it 100x better, and it's one of his best songs ever, but I like hers too. Heard it on some streaming disco station yesterday. You can't keep arguing it, because its not right. There are lots of songs with car horns, funky guitar (ffs!) - the "basic chord structure" is not the same. The synth sounds similar and sounds like it was probably an Oberheim - you know, back in 1981, there was nowhere near the diversity in synthesizers that there is now. Those that were forging ahead with what was a new sound back then were all using the same equipment. Countless songs from that time have the same or similar synth sounds - that's not people ripping each other off, that's just using the same tools! you make a good argument about the oberheim. I haven't heard that same sound before or since though, unless it was prince's doing. Maybe it was a much bigger thing in the r&b world. I didn't even know this Grace Jones song was a "huge hit" in 1981. I think I was listening to Hall & Oates/Rick Springfield at the time  | |
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squirrelgrease said: Hell, Lady Cab Driver is unmistakably straight up James Brown.
I believe it's a sly stone influence but I ain't getting into that because Lady Cab Driver is original. | |
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