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Walker wrote: The Miracle wrote: All music sounds like something previoulsy recorded. All music is made of seven notes, therefore every new song is a ripoff of all previous ones. I just enjoy music for what it is.    7 notes?   In western music there are 12 notes, sir.   If you add eastern music, you get more because instruments like sitars are tuned to have something like 18 notes (not sure of the exact number).

Whatever, that's not the point... I thought of the Russian system, there's 7.

Dieu wrote: Glueman wrote: What do you mean by "bulbous"?    it's lyrics from captain. Got me?

I really do believe that it's possible to describe a band to an audience without saying the band sounds like another band. Descriptive writing can paint wonderful pictures, or give the reader a sense of the style or tone of an album. It doesn't always have to be, "Well, it sounds sorta like Genesis, but with a dash of King Crimson." That doesn't help very much either! I'm all for the power of words.

For me, as the thread-starter, it doesn't kick me to a new group on the prog horizon, when I readd "... sounds like YES, but the organ Solo is pretty much GENESIS ...". It stops me from wanting to listen to that music - in general.

When first listening to SPOCKS BEARD (SB) "Beware of darkness" (a cover of George Harrison) one of the tracks had a passage that sounded exactly like GENTLE GIANT. This for me is a kind of plagiat - or - only boring. Ok, SB like Gentle Giant. But they  use a typical fragment that could be an original. This kicks me out of the box. It's close to ridiculousness - in my eyes. And then a critic writes: "... sounds like GENTLE GIANT...". I do listen this SB album, but I cannot help. They are more or less eclectics, using forms that exists - pretty close.

It's weird but I don't appreciate that kind of music very much. But I can accept the argument that everybody has a predecessor. Even Beethoven had one. So Prokoffiew with his "Symphonie classique". And I can accept that a newbie does not have to know that the music he is listening to has already been made by others - earlier. He will find that out by himself.

To end my thought - and perhaps this thread - I found an example of a pretty fresh access to Pop-Music by a group called PHOENIX. Their album "Alphabetical" sounds new to me. I like that style - that sound. Perhaps someone can tell me, who had done similar before.

The new album ("It's never been like that" !!!!!!!) sounds staightly like their last album. They copy their own songs. One uses an analog Synth chord as introduction. It's like a quotation of a previous song of theirs. - Don't like that album too much. It's not inventive.

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I like to think Rush has their own style which developed around Caress of Steel. AS for something sounding like something I don't think that is possible unless it is a cover band trying to sound like the band they are covering. You might here influences but unless it is a cover band no band should sound like another band in its entirety.