That piece of crap was a HUGE hit in France back in 86. When we first heard BJB in France we French fans totally tripped

lol, I like the original better!

Same with this one

Wow i had no idea.That last one isn't only similar to TLWM but it's also the same chords as Baby You're A Trip.

Then again, that's a pretty common chord structure and you'll probably find these chords in many popular songs.But still, the verse in that Makeba song sounds A LOT like Prince was inspired from it..

beatz01 said:

Wow i had no idea.That last one isn't only similar to TLWM but it's also the same chords as Baby You're A Trip.

Then again, that's a pretty common chord structure and you'll probably find these chords in many popular songs.But still, the verse in that Makeba song sounds A LOT like Prince was inspired from it..

You forgot to mention the most obvious one.....Colonized Mind.

Isn't that melody lifted off a classical piece of music? (The one used in Billy Jack Bitch)

ufoclub said:

Isn't that melody lifted off a classical piece of music? (The one used in Billy Jack Bitch)

I don't think so, we'd know, I think it's a sheer coincidence. Or maybe heard Les Bêtises on the radio one time when he was in Paris and the melody hit his subconscious

similar idea.

I'm pretty sure che bjb theme is from a popular theme, like "il coccodrillo come fa" (around 0:30)

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ufoclub said:

Isn't that melody lifted off a classical piece of music? (The one used in Billy Jack Bitch)

It's more obvious in the French hit, but this is what I was thinking.

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he probably heard this shit when he was filming Under The Cherry Moon

These are hilarious, maybe if they got together they could file a class action suit

That would be quite a cast of characters in the courtroom

Just for fun: Another tune that has a kind of similar melody to Billy Jack Bitch is "Ah-Bah-Nee-Bee". It has involuntarily stuck in my head ever since I saw it on NRK TV, as a kid in '78

I listened to a Ted Talks recently where various speakers spoke on the topic of originality. How EVERYTHING is a remix. Everything, music is inspired from something else. Today the internet just makes it easier to point out when someone does. But everyone from the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Elvis, Bob Dylan, Prince, everyone has blatantly "borrowed" from someone else.

V10LETBLUES said:

I listened to a Ted Talks recently where various speakers spoke on the topic of originality. How EVERYTHING is a remix. Everything, music is inspired from something else. Today the internet just makes it easier to point out when someone does. But everyone from the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Elvis, Bob Dylan, Prince, everyone has blatantly "borrowed" from someone else.

Obviously and it goes back to long before modern pop music, even classical music composers "borrowed" from each other and bulit on the works of those before them. This can be said about every other artform: artists by definition deliver an interpretation of reality that is unevitably influenced by the interpretations of the artists whose work they like (both contemporaries and past).