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To: Hemingway's Ghost

I'm a realist. When somebody does a cover of a song they frequently change the key, it's one of the things you do to make a song "your own", doesn't mean it's a different song just a different rendition of the same song. Functionally those songs are all covers of each other, yeah the re-arranged the lyrics a little, yeah they changed the key, but the points of similarity are much higher than the points of disimilarity. They're generic cheesy sweet innocent love songs, the keystone to everything that is sick and wrong in modern pop.


222 posted on 12/22/2004 1:31:30 PM PST by discostu (mime is money)
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To: discostu

It is not about the exact notes or lyrics, it is about the formula.

The Beatles certainly perfected a love song/pop formula.

One that some of us resent.


228 posted on 12/22/2004 1:33:42 PM PST by CyberCowboy777 (I know there's good will toward men on account of that Baby born in Bethlehem)
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To: discostu
I'm a realist. When somebody does a cover of a song they frequently change the key, it's one of the things you do to make a song "your own", doesn't mean it's a different song just a different rendition of the same song.

My point was all those songs aren't the same chord progressions and constructions: they're all very different from each other. What you're suggesting is that they're all "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," but since Axyl Rose's voice is different than Dylan's, he sings it in A instead of E, or whatever. Such is very much not the case with the songs you suggested.

231 posted on 12/22/2004 1:36:10 PM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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