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frank_black_
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Ireland
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Posted - 05/21/2006 :  12:21:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
If you want to hear the biggest rip off EVER in the history of music, I suggest you listen to "O yeah" by "end of fashion". Give it a go and see what you think >_<

"Who doesn't like the ******* Who?" ~ Frank Black

frank_black_
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Ireland
105 Posts

Posted - 05/21/2006 :  12:27:13  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbOmP8Cs8gM&search=end%20of%20fashion%20o%20yeah


There's a link to it's video

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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <

Poland
4698 Posts

Posted - 05/21/2006 :  12:51:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
fuck me, where is my mind much


FAST_MAN  RAIDER_MAN - June 19th
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frank_black_
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Ireland
105 Posts

Posted - 05/21/2006 :  12:53:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by PixieSteve

fuck me, where is my mind much


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lol, yup. The chorus even has a joey-esq lead part in it!

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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <

Poland
4698 Posts

Posted - 05/21/2006 :  12:54:20  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Criticisms

End of Fashion have been criticised for copying the guitar riff from Pixies' Where Is My Mind? for the song O Yeah.

In a review, Jonathon Miller wrote 'End of Fashion are having no problem appealing to the 95% of people that haven’t heard (and still remember) the Pixies’ ‘Where Is My Mind?’ and have never experienced a truly exciting live show, and if that’s what the band is aiming for, then they are a complete success.'

In some of their later live shows, Justin Burford has taken to inserting lyrics from the Pixies' song at the end of O Yeah, as a tongue-in-cheek move against their detractors and on occasion has played the entire 'Where Is My Mind' breaking straight into 'O Yeah'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_Of_Fashion


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frank_black_
- FB Fan -

Ireland
105 Posts

Posted - 05/21/2006 :  12:57:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
lol

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Don Eduardo
= Cult of Ray =

Australia
403 Posts

Posted - 05/21/2006 :  15:35:40  Show Profile  Click to see Don Eduardo's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
It was a hit here in Australia last year, seemed to be on the local music video channel every 5 minutes....I remember in an interview when the singer was asked about the songs' likeness to WIMM he just said "oh well, everyone else is ripping off other songs so why can't we" or something similar.
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Thomas
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1615 Posts

Posted - 05/21/2006 :  19:26:00  Show Profile  Click to see Thomas's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Nothing sounds more like WIMM? than the Toadies - Tyler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnMJ5KUK05Y

Obviously this is not the real video for the song, but it is clear enough to hear.


"Our Love is Rice and Beans and Horses Lard"
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1834 Posts

Posted - 05/21/2006 :  21:29:22  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Shameless, frank_black. No wonder the song made money! One might think Frank would sue had he not too much class, except that for all I know he or Ken Goes has. It's almost as bad as somebody ripping off Stairway to Heaven, except when one learns that that very LZ classic itself rips its intro from Spirit's 1967 "Taurus". From allmusic.com : "One of the most gorgeous and haunting songs of the early Spirit catalog, .... Interestingly, Led Zeppelin (who had toured with Spirit in 1968/1969) used a strikingly similar guitar melody as the basis for their now-classic "Stairway to Heaven," again proving that very little in rock & roll is wholly original."

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Dear Mr Echo
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United Kingdom
12 Posts

Posted - 05/22/2006 :  06:06:52  Show Profile  Visit Dear Mr Echo's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I'm a pretty mild mannered chap but some things make me want to kill.

Was this my first post?

<i>"Some people have a way with words... other people not have way."</i>
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 05/22/2006 :  07:56:22  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I know it's not a pisstake, but it may as well be. The sexy girls bits are so dumb. Is that oil dripping out of the nozzle suppossed to be sexually suggestive? And the bits with the ordinary racetrack folks starring into the camera...*shudder*. BTW, frank black, remember, you ripped off FB's name!! (just kiddin'!)

Here's something genuine-the Debaser video has been posted on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mCoOlUjhlc

BTW, hi, Mr. Echo. Oh yeah....was Black Francis actually involved in this video? Shocking new evidence:





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Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo
* Dog in the Sand *

1079 Posts

Posted - 05/22/2006 :  08:50:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The worst cool corporate bands of the last 10 years sound like Pixies. From Radiohead to Shiwawa and so on...

As I am growing old I wonder wether the Pixies had a good influence overall.
Yes they are good, one of the BEST THINGS ON EARTH... But look what the have bred.



Pixies is a POISON.

Same for Soft Cell...



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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 05/22/2006 :  08:53:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I think I'd like to POISON anyone who looks like Soft Cell in that picture!

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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =

United Kingdom
17125 Posts

Posted - 05/22/2006 :  11:38:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
O no!

It's hard to tell which rips it off more, O yeah or Toadies.


I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place

Edited by - Homers_pet_monkey on 05/22/2006 11:43:27
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frank_black_
- FB Fan -

Ireland
105 Posts

Posted - 05/22/2006 :  13:42:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I still think O yeah

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Jefrey
= Cult of Ray =

USA
918 Posts

Posted - 05/22/2006 :  21:50:26  Show Profile  Visit Jefrey's Homepage  Reply with Quote
And even then, Soft Cell were just ripping off Sparks. The Sparks guy had the better moustache though. Hell, he still HAS the better moustache!

Ma ma ma ma ma moustache moustache moustache moustache!
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Jefrey
= Cult of Ray =

USA
918 Posts

Posted - 05/22/2006 :  21:56:07  Show Profile  Visit Jefrey's Homepage  Reply with Quote
If you don't believe me, check out the Sparks page and go to "Idiosyncrasies" - you can play the Moustache game and see all the moustaches.

http://www.allsparks.com/home_h.php
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =

United Kingdom
17125 Posts

Posted - 05/27/2006 :  12:13:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Try this one. Blood On The Wall, 'Mary Susan'.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=FA846F2F3760AAEE




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