Song of the Moment: My Father's Son

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Rate My Father's Son

5 Stars
27
25%
4 Stars
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2 Stars
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harmless wrote:I can't see the similarity, except for maybe the tempo.
Really? It is only like 3 seconds but when the song was over I immediately put on dotus to figure out which song it was
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Oh, no, sorry, I thought we were talking about "Got Some". It may well be similar to "Rusty" but I can't remember... I'll have another listen.
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Listening now. I can hear the angular similarity in the riff, and the intro, but other than that, the rhythm is entirely different. It's half the tempo MFS is...
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fishbob wrote:
stip wrote:
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SaturdayNightSeizure wrote:This is basically got some with balls. So it rocks, other than the ripping off of dusty by SG.
I love that somebody else noticed this
It was in my review!
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I just found the Alanis Morrissette song that Ed's quick-fire lyric delivery reminded me of: "Front Row". Not the melody (which is closest in the intro) but the rhythms of the words against the song.

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A rip off of dusty is a pretty ridiculous statement.
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Thejambi wrote:A rip off of dusty is a pretty ridiculous statement.
It is 3 seconds, but it sounds the same. I don't care. There are millions of songs. Parts are similar. But it is there
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I'm finally getting into this one. Acquiring an uncensored FLAC version has aided that immensely.
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stip wrote:
Thejambi wrote:A rip off of dusty is a pretty ridiculous statement.
It is 3 seconds, but it sounds the same. I don't care. There are millions of songs. Parts are similar. But it is there
This makes sense and I agree the 3 seconds is similar but it leads to blanket statements like this
SaturdayNightSeizure wrote:This is basically got some with balls. So it rocks, other than the ripping off of dusty by SG.
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A shitload of songs have the same intro, even Soundgarden ripped it off.
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I think that is a playful Soundgarden reference.
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Thejambi wrote:
stip wrote:
Thejambi wrote:A rip off of dusty is a pretty ridiculous statement.
It is 3 seconds, but it sounds the same. I don't care. There are millions of songs. Parts are similar. But it is there
This makes sense and I agree the 3 seconds is similar but it leads to blanket statements like this
SaturdayNightSeizure wrote:This is basically got some with balls. So it rocks, other than the ripping off of dusty by SG.
Yeah, that's stupid, but people are entirely too eager to play that silly 'rip off' game
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I did got a Soundgarden vibe from this song too. Not a specific SG song, but the band in general. I still love this track though. One of my top 5 on the record. 5 stars.
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stip wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
stip wrote:
Thejambi wrote:A rip off of dusty is a pretty ridiculous statement.
It is 3 seconds, but it sounds the same. I don't care. There are millions of songs. Parts are similar. But it is there
This makes sense and I agree the 3 seconds is similar but it leads to blanket statements like this
SaturdayNightSeizure wrote:This is basically got some with balls. So it rocks, other than the ripping off of dusty by SG.
Yeah, that's stupid, but people are entirely too eager to play that silly 'rip off' game
I don't mind people playing the ripoff game, as long as PJ's entire catalogue is included, as well as the greatest "ripoffs" in rock history.
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zatara wrote:I think that is a playful Soundgarden reference.
Yeah this seems likely, could it even be a rip off rip off? they share a band member!
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stupidmop wrote:
zatara wrote:I think that is a playful Soundgarden reference.
Yeah this seems likely, could it even be a rip off rip off? they share a band member!
Good point, if anyone came up with this introduction it was probably Matt.
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The bridge is the worst part of this song.
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Wrong.
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No, I'm pretty sure I'm right here.
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