Does Italian Summer sound like...

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by elle

really?!?!?

she's listed as a songwriter - as in music and lyrics on Illume.

my understanding is that IYD has dave stewart listed as a co-author on many songs b/c he crafted the music to stevie's lyrics, no?

Dunno... maybe she just had the basic chord structure down on Illume. You know how she can plonk the piano a bit and have the "core" of the song? Lindsey probably took it from there.

[astro-addy]

But Robbie ripped off the Cranberries, When Your Gone, for that song!

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by sorcerer999

Let's not forget about Richard Ashcroft's "New York", which came out in 2001, two years before Stevie's "Illume". Then of course, since the music was crafted by Lindsey, maybe it was he who did the plagiarising?

Here's "New York".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aKO38bPf7g

I had an mp3 of a Lindsey radio interview from 00-03 where he NAMED Richard Ashcroft as one of the 'current' artists he listened to.
Perhaps there are specific reasons she did a U-Turn on SYW album,because I know she liked it early on.She must have got wind about Lindsey's manipulation of her songs,turning them into Ashcroft tributes LOL
While we're here may aswell add Ashcroft:smug a$$hole!

[RickRobert]

Okay everyone, try this!

1. Sing the chorus of The Winner Takes It All by ABBA over Italian Summer's chorus
2. Clean your brains off the walls

[WildHearted]

Sweet Girl sounds like One of Us by Joan Osborne in the verses...

[sorcerer999]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Don't forget about how Bombay Sapphires ripped off Sting's Shape Of My Heart, either:

Woah! Didn't know about that one! Also, didn't she say in an interview somewhere that she had originally wanted Sting to sing on "Bombay Sapphires" with her?

I guess it's all been done before. Everybody really does rip off everybody else>

[louielouie2000]

Wide Sargasso Sea obviously pulls several key guitar parts from this song as well:



Thanks to CaliforniaDream for pointing this out! I always love finding when Fleetwood Mac & Stevie "borrow" riffs.

[Fiver]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

Sweet Girl sounds like One of Us by Joan Osborne in the verses...

It also sounds like Free Fallin' to me.

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by Fiver

It also sounds like Free Fallin' to me.

Totally does, you're right.

[David]

Originally Posted by Bryan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=2GT4YV6xVrw

Robbie?

Kinda.

But it also sounds like howdy-doodoo.

[Hippocampus]

Originally Posted by Fiver

I doubt it's a coincidence. That said, it doesn't keep me from enjoying the songs, in the same way I can like both Eyes of the World and Enchanted.

To my ears, Enchanted rather seems to be a continuation of How Still My Love (which theoretically predates Eyes of The World).

[PenguinHead]

All artists are influenced by other artists, and some are quite frank about it. As the saying goes "Steal from the best."

[Dreamz19]

The Ashcroft songs are VERY similar. I heard the New York one before, but not the other songs. I actually like some of his songs more. After learning some time ago that she stole from The Police, I started loving BOTN more than EO17.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz1mEMiNPHQ

[jeffd8382]

Originally Posted by RickRobert

Okay everyone, try this!

1. Sing the chorus of The Winner Takes It All by ABBA over Italian Summer's chorus
2. Clean your brains off the walls

Thank you! That chord progression has been bugging me since I first heard it.. not annoying me (I like the song a great deal), but I couldn't place what other song it made me think of.... you solved it for me!

I'm actually disappointed in myself, now that I realize it, that I couldn't figure it out myself.. given that I've heard "The Winner Takes It All" hundreds of times.. lol!

[Musicman408]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Wide Sargasso Sea obviously pulls several key guitar parts from this song as well:



Thanks to CaliforniaDream for pointing this out! I always love finding when Fleetwood Mac & Stevie "borrow" riffs.

Totally love that song- have never heard it before! Thanks for sharing! Love the WSS guitar riff