Prince is a big influence on Beck obviously but these two songs sound

similar.

beat wise and rapping wise this song sounds like "Now"

do y'all hear the similiarties?

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"james joyce.....michael bolton!!!" "i saw a puppet at Tang's, with a mullet and a popsicle"



que onda guero is the shit. i must have listened to that song at least 958 times since he

released it. it's hysterical. "guero" is a great album too.

beck is my second favorite artist, alongside prince, and he's got so much brilliant music

that, like with prince, the general public doesn't know. they think he did 2 songs they are

a bit farmiliar with and that's it. as far as they're concerned he never did anything else.

his music is so varied and he's so good at all the styles he does and melts them into his

very own unique sound. and like with prince, his albums are very well crafted and very

layered and i find myself returning to them time and again, constantly discovering stuff

i didn't hear before or falling in love with a song i didn't care too much about at first.

aaaaaaaanyway. i've gone off track again, haven't i ?

to answer your initial question: no, i've never thought "que onda guero" sounds the least

bit like Now or any other prince song.

this thread made me listen to "que onda guero" again, and then i had to

listen to the "call me on your video phone" verse in Now again, for about

7 times in a row. still don't think the songs sound alike at all, but they're

both cool as fck

The background beat at times reminds me of "Come On"! Such a great song/album/artist/pants.

billymeade said:

The background beat at times reminds me of "Come On"! Such a great song/album/artist/pants.

Thats what I was thinking as well.

Black Tamborine sounds like Tamborine

Listen to Beck's "Midnight Vultures" CD. Prince thru and thru...

Doesn't remind me of "Now" at all. Like it much better than I like "Now".

UncleJam said:

Listen to Beck's "Midnight Vultures" CD. Prince thru and thru...

Best "Prince album" not by Prince.

"Get Real Paid" has a keyboard part that is reminiscent of 'Con-tin-ent-al' and a bass part that sounds like 'Head'. It's in the chorus after the lyric "I want to know if I'm worth your time".

I wonder if Prince has ever seen this........bet he has....

Man we used to play the hell out those Beck albums (but I dropped off after Midnight Vultures)

Wicked tune.

C

billymeade said:

The background beat at times reminds me of "Come On"! Such a great song/album/artist/pants.

Come On rminds me of these two songs.

Cashflow - Mine All Mine (1986)

fatback - I Found Lovin' (1984)

billymeade said:

The background beat at times reminds me of "Come On"! Such a great song/album/artist/pants.

The beat more reminds me of "Forever in my Life" (from Prince's Sign O the Times)

I don't really hear the similarity to Now, but the drum track is almost identical to Face Down - not only virtually the same drum track but the same tempo too.

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When I first heard Que Onda Guero I noticed the similarity straight away and decided to make a Que Onda Guero / Face Down mashup - and the tracks are so identical that I didn't even have to chop them up into bars to do beat matching, I was able to take the entire wav's and just chop them up / overlay them for the mix.

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For those who don't believe me and those who always wondered what a Que Onda Guero / Face Down mashup might sound like, now's your chance. It's on soundcloud. "Face down guero mashup".

Yes, I agree.

the Beck song does remind me of "Now" by Prince...

Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe

That is the song that I always think of when listening to Now. Don't know that Beck song myself, but loved his Midnight Vultures album back in the day.

TrueFunkSoldier2 said:

Prince is a big influence on Beck obviously but these two songs sound

similar.

beat wise and rapping wise this song sounds like "Now"

do y'all hear the similiarties?

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Actually it does remind me of "Now" . Wow