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From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone)
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Subject: Unconscious plaigarism?
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Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 19:00:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 22 19:00:19 1984
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Opening up a brand-new can of worms here..... 

   I've noticed that a few recent (~5 years) songs sort of incorporate
commercial jingles into them.  Let me cite the examples I know of:

   "Fool In The Rain" -- Led Zepplin
      The six-note pattern (E,F,G,A,A,G) sounds like "When you say
      Bud-weiser (you've said it all)", from one of Anheuser-Busch ads.

   "Illegal Alien" -- Genesis
      Parts sound to me like "No-body demands more from a Datsun, than
      Datsun".

   "Rockin' The Paradise" -- Styx
      "What 'cha doin' tonight (have you heard that the world's gone crazy)":
      The first phrase of that (F,F,F,D,F,G) calls to mind an old McDonalds
      commercial (the one that had the chorus "You deserve a break today..").
      Don't tell Barry [Manilow] about this, though.  :-)

   "Twilight" -- E L O
      The horn notes (G,C,E,F) are similar to an old Hartford Insurance
      commercial.  

(I'm just indicating the piano notes; ASCII doesn't allow for duration.)
I guess we're not the only ones who watch too much television.  If you
know of any other examples of "unconscious plaigarism", mail to me or
post to the Net.

(I hope this doesn't blossom into another debate on stealing ideas, just
like the one started when the lyrics to "Eat It" were posted.)
-- 
From under the smogberry trees.... 
Jim Poltrone  (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters)
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