Cryptomnesia? - 1 views

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  #1 Lynn MacPherson on 15 Feb 12

   

  Listen to the drumming in Brand New's "Guernica," starting 2 seconds in on this link
  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGPaPBEpw0w&ob=av2n) and to the drumming in P.O.D.'s "Youth of the Nation" starting 22 seconds in on this link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpqGeQY12M). It's a very simple example, but it's just a reminder that it's hard for anything to be truly 'original' anymore. The similarities of the sort of wispy accompanying guitar bits in each song makes it hard for me to believe that Brand New was not influenced in some way by "Youth of the Nation," which came out two years before "Guernica." I'm not sure it matters, though, if an artist borrows something without knowing, intentionally uses it, or comes up with something that's been done before without having heard the original.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Listen to the drumming in Brand New's "Guernica," starting 2 seconds in on this link <br /> (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGPaPBEpw0w&ob=av2n">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGPaPBEpw0w&ob=av2n</a>) and to the drumming in P.O.D.'s "Youth of the Nation" starting 22 seconds in on this link (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpqGeQY12M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpqGeQY12M</a>). It's a very simple example, but it's just a reminder that it's hard for anything to be truly 'original' anymore. The similarities of the sort of wispy accompanying guitar bits in each song makes it hard for me to believe that Brand New was not influenced in some way by "Youth of the Nation," which came out two years before "Guernica." I'm not sure it matters, though, if an artist borrows something without knowing, intentionally uses it, or comes up with something that's been done before without having heard the original.</div>

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