We once played the soundtrack to the Disneyworld Light Parade (electronic-sounding renditions of Disney classics) and convinced a high school friend that it was a new ELP "adaptation."
We once played the soundtrack to the Disneyworld Light Parade (electronic-sounding renditions of Disney classics) and convinced a high school friend that it was a new ELP "adaptation."
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Gotye sometimes sounds a lot like Sting. This song especially could have been done by the Police or by Sting solo:
Many thought that Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" was Peter Gabriel
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Love is like Oxygen-Sweet sounds like ELO.
Styx- Mr Roboto sounds a bit like Queen.
Guy Manning sounds like Ian Anderson/ Jethro Tull so does some of the early Eloy.
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Some of the vocal sections on that song sound a lot like Sting. In fact I thought Sting was a guest singer then when I looked it up and found out he wasn't I was rather surprised. I think it has Peter Gabriel's quirkiness but to me it doesn't sound like him that much. Vocally it does sound like Sting though.
I absolutely would have thought Gotye was Sting. Speaking of which, most people thought Your Love by the Outfield was The Police...
It is totally irrelevant when the recordings were made, as one band wouldn't have been in the studio listening to the other band record an entire album. The fact remains that the PH album was released in September and the Cream album in November.
As for them not sounding similar, they sound similar, to my ears. Similar doesn't mean "the same"
So we're to believe that Cream's Ulysseswas influenced by PH's Cerdes despite the fact that it was recorded first, based on PH managing to get their album on the shelves prior to Cream's already-in-the-can album?
Um,
OK.
And of course if you play Atlanta Rhythm Section at a higher speed you get Stevie Nicks....
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
I always thought the 1970 song "temptation eyes" was the guess who, until last month when I realized it was by the grass roots
The first time I heard The New Radicals' "You Only Get What You Give" on the radio back in the 90s I thought it was Karl Wallinger and World Party.
I really like the song and I eventually bought the album. It's the only good song on the album. The rest is beyond bad, almost like a different band.
I liked "Someday We'll Know", but I agree the rest is pretty forgettable.
I honestly thought "You Get What you Give" was a lost Beach Boys or Brian Wilson track when I first heard it.
Gregg Alexander is actually a pretty good songwriter, though he has a particular sound from which he doesn't vary much. The album "Ultimate Santana" contains two versions of "The Game Of Love", which is one of his. One has Michelle Branch on vocals, the other has Tina Turner.
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I would say, the album Carlos Santana did with a bunch of guest vocalists. I think he had a hit with Rob Thomas, which doesn't sound like Santana at all, more like Carlos Santana playing a solo on someone elses record.
I've heard people say that it sounds like Todd Rundgren and I agree. What you said about it being the only good song reminds me of the album "the final countdown" by Europe. I bought it on cassette for a dollar and the only good track was the title track. The rest was pretty unlistenable. I only listened to it once and I'm glad I only paid a dollar(in fact even that was probably too much).
Yes and no. From what I read, the reason only one album was produced was that Gregg Alexander was bored with the whole band project, being more into songwriting and production than with the mechanics of being the front-man for a band. Just looking at the album cover gives you the impression that he can't be bothered.
As well as winning awards for the song "The Game of Love" he has written for a host of other artists, including two very large hits for Ronan Keating, so it's not as if the man does not have talent.
The Hollies Long Cool Woman sounds like CCR.
Another one for the McCartney/Wings list, circa London Town - Little River Band's 'Reminiscing'.
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