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01-19-2003, 02:22 AM
|  | Hairpiece Adventurer | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada | |  Billy Squier Deserves Big $$$ !!
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That new Queen Of The Stone Age song is a joke. Anyone with any dim memories of Billy Squier in the 80's will immediately detect the obvious thievery here. Just track down a copy of Squier's "Rock Me Tonight" and hear for yourself.
This is nothing new, of course. QOTSA seems like a cool band, don't get me wrong. But, it's always extremely annoying when bands mine gold from not that long ago and impress a young audience.
Well, at least you can appreciate the tunesmithing abilities of someone like Mr. Squier. His riffs are still gaining favour. Do yourself a favour -- seek out the originals! You'll hear many of today's artists in a whole new light. |
01-19-2003, 07:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: London, UK | | WinMX'ing it now.
do you mean "No-one knows" by QOTSA?
I think QOTSA are very overrated, but I don't know- there's a similarity, but then there's a lot of songs that sound vaguely similar - you could even say "cold as ice" by Foreigner sounds similar 
also a vocal line at the beginning of "rock me tonight" in turn sounds very similar to "Oh well" by Fleetwood Mac.... |
01-19-2003, 05:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: PDX | | | Same rhythm, that's about it. |
01-19-2003, 10:07 PM
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01-20-2003, 11:50 AM
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01-20-2003, 11:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Phoenix, Arizona | | | I think the most blatant lifted hook in today's music is the chorus from "Do You Call My Name" by Ra - it's a note-for-note yank of Carmina O Fortuna by Karl Orff. Tune kicks butt, tho!
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01-20-2003, 12:01 PM
|  | Registered Misanthrope | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Lee County, Alabama | | Quote: Originally posted by StupidMatt
STROKE ME STROKE ME | HAHA!!
Now there's an interesting song for ya. I challenge you to download the lyrics, read them, and then try to look at that song in the way you did before! I have a theory concerning what its really about, but this is a family show! It may be general knowledge as to what its about, I don't know, but it sure does make one wonder!
"Put your right foot out
Keep it all in place
Work your way
Right into my face"
And this line:
"Say you're a winner but man you're just a sinner now." HMmmmmmmmmmmmm......... Or maybe this smiley is more appropriate: 
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01-21-2003, 02:33 PM
| | | | Emotions in Motion has a great bassline.
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01-21-2003, 02:35 PM
| | | | ....And now that I think about it, it sounds just look the bassline that David Brown plays in Santana's Taboo. (Emotions in Motion that is)
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01-22-2003, 09:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Billy Squier deserves a big kick in the tooshie.
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01-22-2003, 09:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | Quote: Originally posted by StupidMatt
STROKE ME STROKE ME | Wait, I always thought he was saying "STRONG MAN STROKE ME."
I mean, between that and the video where he prances around like a 6-year-old girl...
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01-22-2003, 10:11 AM
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01-22-2003, 10:24 AM
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Wait, I always thought he was saying "STRONG MAN STROKE ME."
I mean, between that and the video where he prances around like a 6-year-old girl... |
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