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"Down Under" (1981) and "Kookaburra" (1932) is another good example of that. I can't say that I would ever have noticed the riff without someone pointing it ou
by a_e_k 5y ago
"Down Under" (1981) and "Kookaburra" (1932) is another good example of that. I can't say that I would ever have noticed the riff without someone pointing it out. And "Kookaburra" is a song that I first heard in grade school, so I'd argue that it has that institutional quality.
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- unfocussed_mike 5y agoIt's an extreme example but you might enjoy this website, which is one of the low-key-greatest things on the web: http://www.folias.nl/ http://www.folias.nl/ A lot of the lawsuits that come up will I think end up resolving in this way -- pointing out that there are borderline-ancestral components to melodies and it's possible to come up with things that sound similar despite conscious effort not to.