Post by ZeroCorpse on May 13, 2008 19:36:20 GMT -5
So I was working a bit on my computer today, listening to my music library when I heard something that was a bit more familiar than it had been previously.
First, listen to this - www.mediafire.com/?zto5bjywdxj
And now, listen to this (the whole song, please) - www.mediafire.com/?cdfxz0t9udw
Am I crazy, or does my musically-trained ear deceive me? These sound like they could possibly be the same composer, and with some vocal tweaking, the same singer as well.
The first is, of course, IAAP performing "He Was My Brother". The second is a band called Medicine, playing "Farther Down" off of the album "Her Highness".
Here are the lyrics:
It's a farther down, something I never found.
If you let me see
I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me.
You aren't far away, but i'll break it.
Up your back besides why face it.
If it doesn't matter underside.
The earth is soft and brown,
If you let me see
I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me.
you'll always be my clown.
Something in the way it's broken.
A simple underside bespoke its mortal fear of falling out above.
It's a farther down,
something I never found.
If you let me see
I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me.
If you let me see
I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me.
Medicine is the brainchild of a fellow named Brad Laner. I propose that the part of IAAP that composes the music is at least in touch with Brad Laner, if not actually the man himself. The band hasn't been heard from since 2003... Or have they?
I'm probably way off, but I definitely hear some influence, if not the signatures that made Medicine such a unique band.
Some background: I've been a musician most of my life. I went to college for a short time as a music major (didn't graduate, though) and have been performing in front of audiences since I was about 12 years old. I published a few CDs of my own compositions, and have bummed around the scene here and there. While I have long-since forgotten how to read sheet music well, I have an excellent ear, and I can pick out chord patterns and play just about anything by ear on the keyboard or woodwinds once I've heard it a couple times (I was never as proficient at guitar, though). I have been in numerous bands, composed hundreds of songs, and was even played for a brief time in some nightclub in the U.K. when my first album was released. In the early 21st century, one of my tunes actually ranked higher than Madonna's single for a few days in the MP3.com top 50 (she eventually overtook me again).
So when I say, "I hear a similarity" I'm speaking from the experience of having been able to track artists as they went from project to project because of my own talents and training.
And while I admit I could be wrong (I'm getting older, you know!) I swear I hear some of the same style and signatures in that Medicine album as I do in IAAP's work.
If there isn't a common person involved in the production of those two pieces of music, then there's a person involved with the latter piece (IAAP's work) that is heavily influenced or coincidentally similar in their artistic values to Brad Laner.
What say you, peanut gallery?
First, listen to this - www.mediafire.com/?zto5bjywdxj
And now, listen to this (the whole song, please) - www.mediafire.com/?cdfxz0t9udw
Am I crazy, or does my musically-trained ear deceive me? These sound like they could possibly be the same composer, and with some vocal tweaking, the same singer as well.
The first is, of course, IAAP performing "He Was My Brother". The second is a band called Medicine, playing "Farther Down" off of the album "Her Highness".
Here are the lyrics:
It's a farther down, something I never found.
If you let me see
I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me.
You aren't far away, but i'll break it.
Up your back besides why face it.
If it doesn't matter underside.
The earth is soft and brown,
If you let me see
I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me.
you'll always be my clown.
Something in the way it's broken.
A simple underside bespoke its mortal fear of falling out above.
It's a farther down,
something I never found.
If you let me see
I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me.
If you let me see
I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me.
Medicine is the brainchild of a fellow named Brad Laner. I propose that the part of IAAP that composes the music is at least in touch with Brad Laner, if not actually the man himself. The band hasn't been heard from since 2003... Or have they?
I'm probably way off, but I definitely hear some influence, if not the signatures that made Medicine such a unique band.
Some background: I've been a musician most of my life. I went to college for a short time as a music major (didn't graduate, though) and have been performing in front of audiences since I was about 12 years old. I published a few CDs of my own compositions, and have bummed around the scene here and there. While I have long-since forgotten how to read sheet music well, I have an excellent ear, and I can pick out chord patterns and play just about anything by ear on the keyboard or woodwinds once I've heard it a couple times (I was never as proficient at guitar, though). I have been in numerous bands, composed hundreds of songs, and was even played for a brief time in some nightclub in the U.K. when my first album was released. In the early 21st century, one of my tunes actually ranked higher than Madonna's single for a few days in the MP3.com top 50 (she eventually overtook me again).
So when I say, "I hear a similarity" I'm speaking from the experience of having been able to track artists as they went from project to project because of my own talents and training.
And while I admit I could be wrong (I'm getting older, you know!) I swear I hear some of the same style and signatures in that Medicine album as I do in IAAP's work.
If there isn't a common person involved in the production of those two pieces of music, then there's a person involved with the latter piece (IAAP's work) that is heavily influenced or coincidentally similar in their artistic values to Brad Laner.
What say you, peanut gallery?
