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Eddy Grant Accuses Gorillaz Of Copying After Gorillaz Manager Threatens People For Copying...
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So, the music press has been busy talking about the accusations from Eddy Grant that the band Gorillaz copied his old tune with one of their recent hits. You can compare the two songs here. There appear to be some similarities, but they're pretty different songs:
The timing on this is a bit interesting. Gorillaz is a band from Damon Albarn, and just a couple months ago, the manager of Albarn's musical acts (Blur, Gorillaz) was screaming about how he wanted to give "pirates" who leaked the Gorillaz album a "good kicking." Perhaps he ought to stay away from Eddy Grant for a bit.
Of course, it's a bit silly for Grant to be upset too. He wrote a song that was popular years ago, and now he wants free cash because some other band made a song that has some vague similarities?
Of course, it's a bit silly for Grant to be upset too. He wrote a song that was popular years ago, and now he wants free cash because some other band made a song that has some vague similarities?
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A. Massive Attack is on eof the most underappreciated musical acts of all time
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B. Maybe it's just me, but those two songs don't even sound ANYTHING alike to me. That may be because I hate house/techno music the way a fat kid hates treadmills....
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"No, it's MY crappy forgettable pop song!"
"I was writing crappy forgettable pop songs before you were born, punk!"
"So die already! YOUR kind of crappy forgettable pop song is already forgotten, whereas MY kind of crappy forgettable pop song is the wave of the soon to be forgotten future!"
And so on, and on.....
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Funky Town tops Electric avenue anyday of the week ... dont even get me started on Yoko Ono ...
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Silliness
That's what they do. Shut up already.
Gorrilaz makes some fun music, but for them to try to claim that their work is some sort of protected "intellectual property" is nonsense.
God, copyright is poison. It makes people sick and crazy.
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That isn't a "blatent rip-off", as it isn't terribly unique riff, but I can clearly see how one would remind a person of the other.
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The mistake you're making is your assumption that Yoko Ono is a musician who creates music. Comparing the quality of a song to the quality of a bloody corpse is nonsensical.
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So, you're saying it's not possible that The Gorillaz could be unaware that one of the trillion songs that have been recorded sounds roughly similar to their song? Rather than impossible, I think it's almost certain.
It's not like Gorillaz is some unknown band, they have the money to clear samples and/or give a writing credit to the guy : guilty.
But if you're the person from Gorillaz who wrote this song and you've never even heard the Eddie Grant song, you wouldn't even think to clear the sample of give writing credits because it wasn't a sample and you wrote it.
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What makes this story doubly perplexing is that 95% of the people who even know who Eddie Grant is only know him for Electric Avenue and that isn't even the song Gorillaz are being accused of copying. Doh!
Also, about the worst song in history comment. This reminds me of those VH1 "top worst songs" shows. The thing is, if they really found the worst songs, they'd be by no one anyone ever heard of. What these shows should really be called is "Let's make fun of some videos that were popular at the time, but look silly in hind sight."
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Melody
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I tried to listen
As someone pointed out there are only 12 notes, and a finite number of combinations that are tolerable to the ear, and take that times the number of instruments and you still have only a small number of combinations compared to the number of songs out there.
To me they both sound like any other song you would hear in a techno club, and to be honest they all sound alike to me so maybe he should be sueing everyone.
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Really?
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It came out in the early EIGHTIES.
It's been sampled dozens of times.
Environ/Balihu are basically built upon copying this tune over and over.
Gorillaz aren't just some noobs who reinvented the wheel. They can't NOT know this song.
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so confused.
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What? I'm in a sharing mood, okay?
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Back briefly to the subject, wow, Eddy's been hitting the spliffs pretty hard, I think... if that song is actionable, then the Satriani vs. Coldplay suit would be a guaranteed win for Satriani.
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I see..
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nope
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Time Warp ripoff
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Neither of my parents nor uncles/aunts or anything who went clubbing around this time have any clue what the song is and have never heard it before. I have no idea what Environ/Balihu are, and Derrick May?
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Gorillaz?
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