Originally posted by Mad for Brad
you must be Italian
Italians like this song !
Kenny Rogers
best lyrics.
Subtle
tehlord
The first cassette tape I owned was Rachmaninov piano concerto 2 when I was about 8-9 years old. I probably listened to it a million times. After that it was Smetana - Vltava, and then a mixed classics tape.
Soon after the 80s happened and I discovered Human League and Depeche Mode. It was all downhill from there as I remember listening to a lot of Whitesnake and Heart on an extended Canada/US holiday in about 1986-7.
Mad for Brad
remember Celine Dion's breakthru hit All by Myself, yup second movement hook from his 2nd concerto. Verbatim. The sad part is she copied from someone else that did it in the 70s who I can't remember. Had someone just changed a note here and there and republished it before his death in 1943, the 50 year copyright extension would of made his beneficiaries extremely rich. I suppose when you have cancer , money isn't on your mind. The worst part is that people don't even know who they are copying from anymore. Would be like ripping rappers delight thinking they wrote the tune.
tehlord
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Originally posted by Mad for Brad
remember Celine Dion's breakthru hit All by Myself, yup second movement hook from his 2nd concerto. Verbatim. The sad part is she copied from someone else that did it in the 70s who I can't remember. Had someone just changed a note here and there and republished it before his death in 1943, the 50 year copyright extension would of made his beneficiaries extremely rich. I suppose when you have cancer , money isn't on your mind. The worst part is that people don't even know who they are copying from anymore. Would be like ripping rappers delight thinking they wrote the tune.
the worst thing about this post is that i'm now going to have to listen to a Celine Dion track
Cheers:mad:
Although I did like one of hers.... can't remember what it was called now though.
Kysora
I used to listen to a lot of dark/gothic rock when I was younger, HIM was my favorite band so Ville's singing and overall emphasis on melodic songwriting kind of set the pace for my own music. Then I listened to a lot of Japanese speedcore and happy hardcore when I started playing Flash Flash Revolution, and from there I started listening to alt/indie/space rock and trance.
I also used to play first trumpet in high school and college bands so I got stuck with all of the pretty melodic sections, might have something to do with my focus on those in my own music.
Mad for Brad
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Originally posted by tehlord
Although I did like one of hers.... can't remember what it was called now though.
definitely "love can move mountains". lol I think this was still when she was still a Quebec star and had not quite made it in the rest of Canada let alone USA. Quebec has unfortunately churned out some of the worst pop music ever made. Celine Dion, Eric Lapointe, even Simple Plan. Nothing good has ever come from Quebec. As far as I know. , I'm from quebec.
I should start compiling a list of all the tracks ripped from classical hooks. THere are so many and sometimes I can't remember the exact piece they ripped. I wouldn't give a had they just included it in the liner notes as a matter of respect. It isn't like they are paying anyone for the melody anyways. Just a question of ego and not wanting people to know that they didn't come up with it.
The older composers pre 1950 where quite vocal about using older material and did not try to hide it. they in fact wanted people to know as it was used in a clever way and they saw it has paying tribute, not ripping someone off because they can't think of anything else to do. When asked about a piece, they would come out and say directly that they used this line from Bach or that line from Beethoven. I think they were just a little more secure about their craft.
rulzz
when i was little i was highly subjected to copious amounts of pink floyd and 80s europop. Started listening to EDM when i was 10 and a half , after a friend gave me a tape of a some rave sets from a radio and then i bought few jungle mixtapes. Listened to hardcore and gabber heavily from 1996-98 then my interests slightly deviated from EDM, spent few years listening to hip hop and few years without too much music. Came back to house/techno in 2004, still here.
cryophonik
OK, I'm adding one more since they're one of my favorite bands of all time and *maybe* M4B has heard of them - they're Canadian, although from the other end of the country (Vancouver-ish, BC), and possibly before your time.
Richard Butler
It has to be this one for the steel workers here;
Mad for Brad
Quebec is really a country unto itself for some good and some bad reasons. I know of the band you speak of but not well.
