Fail / RE: (TV) Unbelievable!

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

 >Listen and let me know what you think!

> --but sometime around 1:30 the song changes and the resemblance becomes pretty striking, to
my ears. 
>Not just the basic riff - which is, after all, pretty simple - but the tempo and something
about the approach to 
>the guitar soloing, though the latter is not as delicate as Tom's and far from note-for-note
identical. eneral 
> subject of the song is.

At the risk of being accused of being an apologist for TV, I listened to the Swedish song 3
times, and I fail to hear the resemblence.

Leo


> 
> Today I Googled the record. It's on the Swedish label 
> Sublminal Sounds! (http://tinyurl.com/ct62v2), available in 
> the US from Anthology Recordings (http://tinyurl.com/anxdt7). 
> You can listen to the track - and the rest of the record - at 
> http://tinyurl.com/detcsz. It doesn't start out sounding much 
> like "Breakin' in My Heart," but sometime around 1:30 the 
> song changes and the resemblance becomes pretty striking, to 
> my ears. Not just the basic riff - which is, after all, 
> pretty simple - but the tempo and something about the 
> approach to the guitar soloing, though the latter is not as 
> delicate as Tom's and far from note-for-note identical. 
> Listen and let me know what you think!
> 
> So now I find myself wondering if Tom more or less stole 
> "Breakin' in My Heart" from this obscene obscurity. On the 
> one hand, it that's the case, I'm disappointed - I'd like to 
> give him full credit for a song I've loved since its release. 
> On the other hand, somehow it seems like Tom to know about an 
> album for which ads were placed, according the Subliminal 
> Sounds! site, "in both Screw magazine and Mayfair." I can't 
> remember specific quotes, but I seem to recall from 
> interviews that Tom gets a kick out of rather "outside" 
> recordings. I was talking the other week about Tom with Jay 
> Schwartz, who runs the Secret Cinema film series 
> (http://www.thesecretcinema.com/) here - this was after a 
> Secret Cinema show of Scopitone films 
> (http://www.thesecretcinema.com/recent.htm) - and he 
> mentioned having seen Tom at WFMU's Record Fairs.
> 
> - Jesse
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