#26
Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:17pm
Wow, I opened a can of worms here...this is too funny!
Bway songs that sound blantantly like other songs! — Page 2
#27
Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:25pm
Last Midnight and Is This What You Call Love have some similar music
"everywhere I go, there you are"
"and the gloom, and the doom"
"everywhere I go, there you are"
"and the gloom, and the doom"
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
#28
Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:34pm
There’s a guitar riff in “Damned For All Time” in JCS that sounds just like the theme to the old Batman series.
#29
Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:44pm
Whoa, isn't it weird how AIDA sounds like every one of Elton John's hits? Weird. . .
#30
Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:54pm
>>This could quite possibly have been intentional but...
The words "Couldn't be happier" from Wicked sound just like "Follow the yellow brick" from Wizard of OZ. <<
I'm a little freaked out I never noticed this before...
The words "Couldn't be happier" from Wicked sound just like "Follow the yellow brick" from Wizard of OZ. <<
I'm a little freaked out I never noticed this before...
#31
Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:04pm
Everything in Woman In White sounds like other ALW songs.
#32
Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:10pm
>>This could quite possibly have been intentional but...
The words "Couldn't be happier" from Wicked sound just like "Follow the yellow brick" from Wizard of OZ.
It was intentiol, as was the allusion to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the recurring "Unlimited" motif.
The words "Couldn't be happier" from Wicked sound just like "Follow the yellow brick" from Wizard of OZ.
It was intentiol, as was the allusion to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the recurring "Unlimited" motif.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#33
Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:10pm
One of the most obvious:
Thuy and Kim's first confrontation after Dju Vui Vai in Miss Saigon echoes the "Look Down" motif from Les Miserables. It's most obvious on the London recording.
Thuy and Kim's first confrontation after Dju Vui Vai in Miss Saigon echoes the "Look Down" motif from Les Miserables. It's most obvious on the London recording.
#34
Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:13pm
OMG Miss Saigon and Les Mis have similar sounds? I'm shocked, Shocked I say.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#35
Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:16pm
SWEET CHARITY's "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" is a virtual, perhaps knowing/honoring re-write of WEST SIDE STORY's "America"
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#36
Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:18pm
Lammastide from The Woman in White sounds EXACTLY like the Macarena...
trust me
trust me
#37
Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:19pm
Here's another one from Miss Saigon. My old band director pointed it out to us (as a rip-off) when we played a Miss Saigon medley, and I couldn't believe I never noticed it before:
In "The Heat is on in Saigon" (etc), the phrase "the heat is on in Saigon" and all similar melody lines sound just like the phrase "That ain't no way to have fun, son" from 3 Dog Night's "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (except for the "son" part). Now I can't think of that song without hearing the other one in my head!
-Jennifer
In "The Heat is on in Saigon" (etc), the phrase "the heat is on in Saigon" and all similar melody lines sound just like the phrase "That ain't no way to have fun, son" from 3 Dog Night's "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (except for the "son" part). Now I can't think of that song without hearing the other one in my head!
-Jennifer
#38
Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:26pm
NCGUY I noticed the BATMAN/JCS similarity. I've also thought that "The Worst Pies in London" (SWEENEY TODD) sounds very much like "Tomorrow" (ANNIE).
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#39
Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:31pm
OMG Miss Saigon and Les Mis have similar sounds? I'm shocked, Shocked I say.
Ummm...that's why I said it was obvious. I didn't say it was a discovery on par with Planck's constant.
Ummm...that's why I said it was obvious. I didn't say it was a discovery on par with Planck's constant.
#40
Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:37pm
Ulla i totally agree with you
#41
Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:41pm
every new pop/rock musical sounds like every other pop/rock musical... not that its all bad. I fall for that crap too.
There are only a few (contemporary) composers out there who have "found there own voice."
Adam Guettel
LaChuisa
Sondheim
any others you can think of?
There are only a few (contemporary) composers out there who have "found there own voice."
Adam Guettel
LaChuisa
Sondheim
any others you can think of?
#42
Posted: 12/28/05 at 3:30pm
to me, whenever i listen to Dance of the Robe (Aida) and when it comes to the part when the slaves are singing, "Aida," I always think of when the Argentinians are singing, "Evita!" hehehe
Yes, I'm pinay. And I'm proud of it!
#43
Posted: 12/28/05 at 3:36pm
There are whole sections of Evita that sound just like Jesus Christ Superstar... Oh, What A Circus and Heaven on Their Mind, for example.
"Cor! me bones is weary!" -Mrs. Lovett
#44
Posted: 12/28/05 at 3:44pm
Pilate's entrance music in Act 2 of Superstar was pulled verbatim from an earlier version of Joseph, as well.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#45
Posted: 12/28/05 at 5:01pm
JRB definitely has is own style. When I listened to Parade for the first time I actually laughed during the Funeral sequence because the piano does a riff that is EXACTLY like other piano riffs in The Last 5 Years.
And Top of the Tree from Me and My Girl is almost EXACTLY the same melody as Shy from Once Upon A Mattress.
And Top of the Tree from Me and My Girl is almost EXACTLY the same melody as Shy from Once Upon A Mattress.
#46
Posted: 12/28/05 at 6:58pm
At about 1:40 in Octet from Light in the Piazza it sounds like No Moon No Wind in Titanic. Except the very end of the phrase is a different note.
Also in Stephen Swartz's musical Company you can hear some very similar melodies to Wicked. I forget exactly what song
Also in Stephen Swartz's musical Company you can hear some very similar melodies to Wicked. I forget exactly what song
"You just have to do what your voice tells you to do." -Linda Eder
#47
Posted: 12/28/05 at 7:04pm
there's someone named Stephen Swartz? There's someone named Stephen Swartz who wrote a show called Company?
#48
Posted: 12/28/05 at 7:14pm
"There are only a few (contemporary) composers out there who have "found there own voice."
Adam Guettel
LaChuisa "
Oh, please, that is too hilarious. I've been involved with countless readings of new musicals by unknowns over the last two decades. They are all the same and Guettel and LaChiusa sound like every last one of them: churning, pretentious, and melodically bereft with nary an emotional payoff in sight.
Jerusha Bromley
Walpole, Massachusetts
Adam Guettel
LaChuisa "
Oh, please, that is too hilarious. I've been involved with countless readings of new musicals by unknowns over the last two decades. They are all the same and Guettel and LaChiusa sound like every last one of them: churning, pretentious, and melodically bereft with nary an emotional payoff in sight.
Jerusha Bromley
Walpole, Massachusetts
#49
Posted: 12/28/05 at 7:29pm
Miss Monika- That is so true! It does remind me of that too now that I think about it.
#50
Posted: 12/28/05 at 8:34pm
The beginning of "As Long As You're Mine" from Wicked reminds me of SOMETHING, but I can't think of what it is! 'Tis driving me crazy. Can anyone help?
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
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And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
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