ELP rip off Deep Purple?) - Progressive Rock Music Forum

It is just you. No, really, not even close in cadence, lyricism or execution.

...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...

I don't hear any similarity whatsoever (and like both bands) but despite that, just because any two musical ideas may have some common attributes, doesn't automatically mean plagiarism is afoot....

Green Shield Stamp wrote:

Not a rip off but there IS a similarity.

How so? The fact that they both happen to rhyme?

DEEP PURPLE:

Spread the word around
The rat is leaving town
The message is a song
The misery is gone

Once I had a dream
To sing before the queen
She didn't want to know
She wouldn't see the show

What a fright
I couldn't do it right
Oh what a night

ELP:

Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of vaseline
Will perform on guillotine, what a scene, what a scene
Next upon the stand will you please extend a hand
To Alexander's Ragtime Band, Dixieland, Dixieland

Roll up, roll up, roll up
See the show

Performing on a stool we've a sight to make you drool
Seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool
We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown
Were exclusively our own, all our own, all our own

Yes, they both rhyme, and they both contain words, some of which are the same (particularly prepositions and articles). Yet the rhyme scheme in Deep Purple's song is for the most part AABB, while in the ELP example (the scheme changes from 1st to 2nd to 3rd Impression) it is AAAABBBB. Additionally, no one could ever accuse Deep Purple of profundity in their lyrics, nor of ELP borrowing from Purple.

Edited by The Dark Elf - April 24 2015 at 11:42

...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...

Couldn't care less.

At least I've expressed my sentiments and I'm feeling much better now.

There is a similarity in the vocal melody.

Haiku

Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....

This thread reminds me of One Song To The Tune Of Another, except that's a game that doesn't actually work with the two songs here.

What?

Angelo wrote:

LOL

that should've been the first reply, then the thread would've stopped.

When has the use of logic ever stopped a thread?

...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...

Does that mean Floyd ripped off Cindy Lauper - I hear similarities between Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Learning To Fly, or I must be brain damaged. Whenever I hear that Lauper tune at work, I instantly start humming Learning To Fly.......

Would be some irony as the live version of Space Trucking borrows from The Nice - Rondo ( also borrowed by Genesis for The Knife). The Nice in turn borrowed from Brubeck who in turn borrowed from Mozart. Ah now I've got it , everyone rips off Mozart!

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