Testing 1,2,3

[Delbirt]

Everyone, please give Fluorescent Adolescent by the Arctic Monkeys a listen. You may want to give Testing 1,2,3 a listen first. Notice, if you would, FA is awesome. Notice second, they're the exact same song. The two intros, the measures before the verse, the lines in the verse, the number of lines before the rest of the band joins in... Even the choruses are sort of similar. Uncanny o_O

This has been bugging me since FA was released, please tell me someone else has noticed.

[Shardith]

Uhhhh what?? :confused:

Hardly the exact same song. The melody line, melody phrasing, chord progression, song tempo, and accompanying melody line and instruments are all different from Testing 1,2,3 - not to mention Ed's rhyming that often ends at the beginning of the next verse. I can't hear any similarity and I am specifically listening for it. I just listened to them back to back!

Many many pop songs have the same intro length, number of lines in the verse, and measures before the verse, so there's a huge number of "similar" songs out there if those are your parameters. They're both upbeat tunes, and have a lot of words in the lyrics, they just might be in the same key (not sure on this without the sheet music) but apart from those very general similarities, that's it.

[garyrulez]

Sorry, I agree with Shardith. Had you not mentioned Testing 1,2,3, I never would have thought to notice any similarities.

[mistee84]

Sorry dude, the Arctic Monkey's make me want to break my cd player and throw out my collection of cds.

[Delbirt]

For serious? The idea implicit in my post was that the verses' meters are exactly the same, which I thought should have been obvious:

Dada-dada-da-dum, (Maybe it would be fun/ Used to get it in your fishnets)
Dada-dada-da-dum, (To get a new opinion/ Now you only get it in your nightdress)

One song is just quicker tempo-wise, so they fit more syllables into the same number of beats. The rest (song structure, measures before introducing similar musical elements, etc) is just icing.

And I wasn't implying anything about BNL nicking the rhythm. If anything, it was the opposite: Testing 1,2,3 came out 4 years earlier than Fluorescent Adolescent. Calm down, weirdos o_O

Geez. You old folk... So quick to hate on anything involving new music :P

[AnotherHeartbreak]

I dont heart it at all.

[Shardith]

For serious? The idea implicit in my post was that the verses' meters are exactly the same, which I thought should have been obvious:

Dada-dada-da-dum, (Maybe it would be fun/ Used to get it in your fishnets)
Dada-dada-da-dum, (To get a new opinion/ Now you only get it in your nightdress)

One song is just quicker tempo-wise, so they fit more syllables into the same number of beats. The rest (song structure, measures before introducing similar musical elements, etc) is just icing.

I think you might be confused about terms here. In verse and poetry, meter is a recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of a set length. The two song verses definitely do not have the same meter, if more syllables are being fit into each line, with every line consisting of the same number of beats.


And I wasn't implying anything about BNL nicking the rhythm. If anything, it was the opposite: Testing 1,2,3 came out 4 years earlier than Fluorescent Adolescent. Calm down, weirdos o_O

No one accused you of implying BNL nicked the rhythm anywhere in the above thread.

Geez. You old folk... So quick to hate on anything involving new music :P

Beware of making sweeping generalizations involving "old folk"! I'm more than willing to listen to any new music, and yes, enjoy quite a bit of it, if it's good music!