Bob Geldof: Feed the world, just shove my song...what other songs shall we shove

Hey, don't go dissing the Rats. I Don't Like Mondays has proved prescient over and over again. And She's So Modern rawks.

 

George Harrison didn't plagiarize Phil Spector. "He's So Fine" was written by Ronnie Mack.

And I like "Got My Mind Set On You." Fuck you all.

 

No matter the writer, it was a Phil Spector song, and it was Spector's interpretation of the writer's material that Harrison plagiarized. Then again, you like Got My Mind Set on You, so what do you know?

 

I have to think that George swiped some of Paul and Linda's stash when he shot the video for "Got My Mind Set On You," and was on it hardcore when he decided a dance sequence was appropriate during the guitar/sax solo.

 

I know that Spector had nothing to do with that song. Zilch. It was produced by The Tokens of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" fame. So there!

 

re: geldof, 'i don't like mondays'with the rats and his christmas song project are two wonderful, powerful songs. i don't give a rat's ass (punny) if every other song he's done is crap, those two alone to me justify the rest of his catalogue.

those here who try to crap on anyone for appreciating a song they don't are... well, y'all get my drift. but then again i'm quite sure there are film elitist snobs who contend godfather I/II are overrated pieces of junk.

 

I love Google news archives...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tHsfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NFMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7359,2699978&dq=godfather+pacino&hl=en

Here is a bad review of the Godfather.

 

Certainly nothing wrong with the Boomtown Rats. I still dig stuff like "It's All The Rage", "Up All Night" and "Banana Republic". And Geldof's book, written not long after Live Aid, "Is That It?" is great.

 

Here's another vote of support for The Boomtown Rats. The whole "Fine Art of Surfacing" album is tremendous.

They do seem pretty dated now. Not a particularly unusual problem, though -- I remember Elvis Costello suggesting that the keyboards on "Goodbye Cruel World" (I think) dated the recording to a specific week in 1984.

 

That George Harrison song, and in fact the whole album, was the beginning of his association with Jeff Lynne of ELO and later the Traveling Wilburys. Nearly four years' worth of channel changes. Throw in hair metal's peak at about that time, and it was a bleak period.

 

I'd like to take this opportunity to say the "My Sweet Lord" plagiarism ruling was complete bullshit by a fucking idiot judge who knew nothing about music, and under the standards he set for "plagiarism," probably 95% of all "pop" songs are plagiarized to some extent.

There are only so many three- and four-chord progressions in the world.

 

I should know better than to go mano a mano on pop culture with you. But Spector did help produce All Things Must Pass. Not that I fail any less, but still