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Offline Phillip Dampier

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Soundtrack Shocker: "The Wings" vs. "Different God"
« on: April 03, 2006, 01:12:54 am »
While combing through my HUGE music library, I ran into this little hair-standing-on-end moment.

Several years before Gustavo Santaolalla's rendition of The Wings, Brian Kennedy, a popular Irish singer-songwriter, released Different God.  Be sitting down when you listen:

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« Last Edit: April 03, 2006, 01:20:16 am by Phillip »
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Re: Soundtrack Shocker: "The Wings" vs. "Different God"
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2006, 09:14:20 am »
That's pretty amazing Phillip - you've got a really good ear though - I wouldn't have picked it beyond "gee the first half sounds a little like wings".

I like the song though - I've never heard of Brian Kennedy before - and I like his style.

I wonder if this is really plagiarism - or just coincidence?
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Re: Soundtrack Shocker: "The Wings" vs. "Different God"
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2006, 02:06:20 am »
Yeah, I've been cringing and worrying about this for a couple of weeks.  Someone posted about it on IMDb.  It's might close.  Mighty close.  Too mighty close.

When I read about it, I called Nipith (starboardlight), because I knew he was going to hear Gustavo speak that night in LA somewhere.  Nipith said it didn't come up there at all.
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Re: Soundtrack Shocker: "The Wings" vs. "Different God"
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2006, 10:47:23 am »
yeah, both Kennedy and Santaolalla are quite active in the world music community. Though known to us for his scores, Gustavo is actually a performing musician first and foremost. He's actually involved with two bands. In addition he is also a music producer with his own record label. He's worked with many of the biggest groups in the world music scene. If there is a serious issue of plagiarism, this would come up by now. Santaolalla was actually touring in Europe at the same time that Kennedy performed that in Glasgow. If anyone has been to many world musician concerts, you know that they're often gathering of artist who just gather to play together, exploring mixing their music together. This could be the case. Just a theory.
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Re: Soundtrack Shocker: "The Wings" vs. "Different God"
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2006, 11:14:24 pm »
Yeah, I remember that being posted on IMDB (that damn troll thought so highly of himself in that thread, heh). I agree they are similar; they hit similar notes but it's not the exact same.

I don't know when Brian Kennedy performed "Different God" but Santaolalla orchestrated "The Wings" before the filming of Brokeback Mountain even began. He read the script and then became inspired to write the music. Anyone know the date of "Different God?"

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Re: Soundtrack Shocker: "The Wings" vs. "Different God"
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2006, 12:23:07 pm »
There's no question; the melody is the same...if anyione objected, I think we would have heard about it by now, though.
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