tunequest

From the album Beaucoup Fish (1999) Life, kid, suck, drink from the box, the juice kicks up. yeah. bruce lee. High energy and repetitive, Bruce Lee basically sounds like it was recorded on a manufacturing line. With one verse repeated again and again, Underworld performs an exercise in rhythm and variations on a theme. Using brute force, this thing will pound its way into your head, but for a form ...

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A bit of a retroactive Separated at Birth for you today. It's something I noticed back in April, before I had the ability to easily embed audio files. Indeed, it pre-dates this wordpress site. This musical similarity concerns the melody of The Chemical Brothers' My Elastic Eye from their 2002 album Come With Us and the Castle Theme from the NES classic Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest (1986) by ...

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Songs that sound too similar to be coincidence. This one is quite surprising because I never ever would have guessed the source. A couple years ago, while sifting through the Italian Cinema dump, I stumbled upon a track by composer Mario Molino that sounded just a wee bit familiar, like a demented, psychedelic version of a song I knew all too well. It was the title track to ...

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In retrospect, I probably should have saved Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Anthology for the last album on the tunequest. It would seem fitting that my last song played should be the last song on this album: Mission Accomplished. Alas, it is not to be; I finished listening to that album just moments ago. However, there are other suitable songs for that distinction. At the moment, it's reserved for ...

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OK, I didn't mean for today to be Harry Potter day. It's purely a coincidence that I have three posts in a row that mention it. But I was listening to Fumio Hayasaka's score to The Seven Samurai all the way through for the first time this afternoon when I was struck my the similarities between a certain thematic passage and, (possibly because i had recently ...

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