http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/ 2010-08-06T03:04:37+01:00 http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/ http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-06-29T01:52:17+01:00 http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=special_areas:about&rev=1246236737&do=diff Welcome to Songs That Sound Like Other Songs This is the obviously personal website of William Meyer (me), that brings together two of my favorite subjects: music and people. (Well, not people, cause I listen to music as a way of avoiding people, but music at least!) In an earlier version it was just songs that sounded like other songs, but that was too limiting so I threw it open to the whole of the human condition! -- the way songs speak to us, what songs mean, what we want them to mean, ... text/html 2010-01-21T15:41:51+01:00 http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=special_areas:book_excerpts_music_books&rev=1264088511&do=diff “TRB's [Tom Robinson Band's] 1977 debut '2-4-6-8 Motorway' sounded like Status Quo with a middle class vocalist” (p. 99) Wm: Really?!?! Nipple Erectors (later Nips) vocalist Shane O'Hooligan, later reverted to orig name McGowan Riff Raff member Billy Bragg -- early 2nd wave UK punk text/html 2009-08-29T22:18:44+01:00 http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=special_areas:book_excerpts_non_music&rev=1251580724&do=diff text/html 2009-08-26T04:54:58+01:00 http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=special_areas:misc&rev=1251258898&do=diff Someone, in frustration, bashing the earpiece of a public phone (or other phone) against the phone base Charlie Sheen, in The Arrival Robert DeNiro, in Goodfellas My friend's idea of the movie scene where someone gives an impassioned speech before an uncomprehending or opposed audience (Footloose?), and one person stands up, starts clapping slowly, and is gradually joined by more and more audience members clapping. text/html 2009-08-30T15:57:46+01:00 http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=special_areas:playlists_mixes&rev=1251644266&do=diff [Ojos Chinos -- El Gran Combo] The origin of this mix, this is the awesome-est track from an EGC's greatest hits tape from the mid-'70s [Sopa De Caracol -- Bando Blanca] Turtle soup. I listened to “super GAGU(?),” a latin station here in NYC for a few months in 1991 or so, and this was the most memorable number I heard. I found the 12” about a year ago text/html 2010-03-29T03:17:27+01:00 http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=special_areas:rockcriticism&rev=1269829047&do=diff With the Stranglers, presence of keyboard might be an explanation. The others, I don't get Echo & the Bunnymen Teardrop Explodes Stranglers text/html 2009-08-26T04:10:11+01:00 http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=special_areas:specialprojects&rev=1251256211&do=diff This is a weak category -- I wish I could find better examples of it Somebody Loan Me a Dime -- Boz Scaggs Brother Can You Spare a Dime? -- (?) Big Yellow Taxi -- Joni Mitchell The '90s cover of “Big Yellow Taxi” should have changed the line from “they took all the trees, put em in a tree museum, then they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see em” -- they should have changed that to like $8.50 text/html 2010-04-24T20:56:10+01:00 http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=special_areas:you_listen_to_these_records&rev=1272138970&do=diff The records on this page are ones I wish were better known and/or I'm posting them for my friends (all are trimmed 2/3 in, except for John Kessel) An amazing songwriter and guitar player, John Kessel, a friend of mine, has developed a unique style and plays with a passion, fury even, that really shouldn't be missed