Commodore Remix

Anyone notice how similar the chords behind the chorus on Jason Mraz's "Geek In The Pink" are to the arpeggiated sid-chords in Laxity's "Alibi" ?

My wife was listening to 'geek in the pink' the other day and I thought "that chord progression sounds familiar" and today I heard 'alibi' and thought "hmm that sounds like geek" ... anyway I really doubt he stole it, as it is a standard-sounding chord sequence, I just thought the similarity was interesting.

You can hear them here:
http://sid.oth4.com/?search=alibi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb655sAoAac [wait for the part ~47 seconds in]

no mention of specific music influences.

http://www.myspace.com/jasonmraz

Yeah I know. I'm not accusing anything here I just noticed it and thought it interesting. After all, it's kind of impossible to nick a chord progression ... I mean we'd pretty much all be owing to Mr. I-IV-V ...

I hadn't noticed that, but then I'm not familiar with the Laxity tune...

Being a Jason Mraz fan, it's definitely a coincedence rather than anything suspicious... since Jason is self-taught, it's quite possible he just stumbled on a (fairly easy) chord progression he liked and wrote the song around it.

Anyone notice the similarities here?

http://www.myspace.com/shoutoutlouds
http://remix.kwed.org/?search_id=3312

Nobody? Ok, then listen here:

original (1985): GAMES/G-L/Gyroscope.sid by Mark Alphingwood
copy (1988): MUSICIANS/T/Tel_Jeroen/Eliminator.sid (switch to tune #2!)
copy of the copy (2000): Reminiscence by DRAX

omoroca wrote:Anyone notice the similarities here?

http://www.myspace.com/shoutoutlouds
http://remix.kwed.org/?search_id=3312

I can see how it may sound similar, but I dont think there is anything deliberate here.

omoroca wrote:Nobody? Ok, then listen here:

original (1985): GAMES/G-L/Gyroscope.sid by Mark Alphingwood
copy (1988): MUSICIANS/T/Tel_Jeroen/Eliminator.sid (switch to tune #2!)
copy of the copy (2000): Reminiscence by DRAX

A cover of a cover of a cover??

Another very interesting one (not C64 related):
http://www.laut.de/vorlaut/news/2007/10 ... /index.htm

(If you don't understand the German text, just scroll down and watch the 2 youTube videos! They speak for themselves.)