hatrickpatrick
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"Losing Touch" - The Killers vs. "Even Better Thsn The Real Thing" - U2
Anyone else noticed it? The layout of these songs is incredibly similar, even the lines
"Console me in my darkest hour"
and
"Even better than the real thing"
Are sung in a practically identical tune...
And the chord progression behind the "you sold your soul / like a roamin' vagabond" line sounds remarkably familiar >_>
(NOTE: I am not in any way dissing the Killers, I am a huge fan of theirs - much bigger fan of U2 but the Killers are a close second)
It makes me wonder though. Is it actually possible to write a completely new tune these days and not plagiarise, even if it's by accident? Look at the whole viva La Vida vs Joe Satriani situation, or the Dani California vs. Tom Petty, Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams vs. Wonderwall, and so on...
Then there's When You Were Young, another Killers hit, IMO one of the greatest songs ever written - but then we discover that the guitar solo was taken from Miracle Drug:
YouTube - Did The Killers Rip off U2????
As an aspiring songwriter, this depresses me very much. How can we write anthemic songs in the Day and Age (no pun intended) where there are already so many of them? There are surely a limited amount of ways to get that "massive" effect in a song - are they eventually going to run out?
Anyone else noticed it? The layout of these songs is incredibly similar, even the lines
"Console me in my darkest hour"
and
"Even better than the real thing"
Are sung in a practically identical tune...
And the chord progression behind the "you sold your soul / like a roamin' vagabond" line sounds remarkably familiar >_>
(NOTE: I am not in any way dissing the Killers, I am a huge fan of theirs - much bigger fan of U2 but the Killers are a close second)
It makes me wonder though. Is it actually possible to write a completely new tune these days and not plagiarise, even if it's by accident? Look at the whole viva La Vida vs Joe Satriani situation, or the Dani California vs. Tom Petty, Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams vs. Wonderwall, and so on...
Then there's When You Were Young, another Killers hit, IMO one of the greatest songs ever written - but then we discover that the guitar solo was taken from Miracle Drug:
YouTube - Did The Killers Rip off U2????
As an aspiring songwriter, this depresses me very much. How can we write anthemic songs in the Day and Age (no pun intended) where there are already so many of them? There are surely a limited amount of ways to get that "massive" effect in a song - are they eventually going to run out?