It's probably just an
odd coincidence ("hey, man, now hear me out on this!!") .. but
There's this progression of notes i've found cropping up abnormally more often than you'd expect, in random bits of music. Obviously there are only so many ways you can combine notes, and you're going to see people hitting the same tunes every so often, but the funny thing is that this particular sequence, when it does show up, seems to be done the exact same way every time-- same tempo, same key, same everything, even though the surrounding songs have absolutely nothing to do with each other. I've found this happening in:
- I'll be there for you / You're all I need to get by, by Mary J. Blige and Method Man, as Mary singing "You're all .. i need.. to get by.." during the chorus (1995)
- Let Love Rule, by Lenny Kravitz, as Lenny singing "Let love rule" over and over at the end of the song (1989)
- Tiny Rubber Band, by Moby and the Butthole Surfers (on the Spawn soundtrack), as a recurrant distant screaming guitar noise (or maybe i'm an idiot, and this is actually a sample of Mary J. Blige above?)
- 2 miles, by 12 Rounds (although this one kind of swerves off on the last two notes, so this does not quite count..) as the hook "I want you to be.. two miles.. from the sun.."
(1997)
- Complication, by Nine Inch Nails, as a recurrant distant screaming guitar noise (1999)
- Deepest Bluest, by LL Cool J (on the soundtrack to some horrible movie about sharks that nobody saw), as a muffled but distinctive sample of the chorus of the first song on this list (1999)
Listen to the songs,
you'll see what i mean. (I wouldn't go
hunting them down, though..
i mean, it isn't like this is interesting or anything)
caknuck says re D F F E E D# D# D: I'm pretty sure that the same notes (with the same durations as Let Love Rule) are found in the background of the Gorillaz' 19-2000