Third Eye Blind’s “Semi-Charmed” sounds like Spin Doctor’s “Two Princes”
Just skip this intro, and play the samples of the songs below for 5 second or so. Okay, did you do that? Can you believe the similarity between the first couple of seconds of each song? Even the drum fill intros match up!
Both are good songs. The chord progression in both songs is common enough. The vocals are completely different. Still, the vibe between the two songs is definitely close enough to mistake one for the other during certain parts.
Have you noticed this before?
The Spin Doctors: “Two Princes” (’93)
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Third Eye Blind: “Semi Charmed Life” (’97)
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Three Dog Night’s “One” sounds like The Cowsill’s “I Love The Flower Girl”
I’ve had my car radio stuck on Cleveland’s oldies station 105.7 for, gosh, more than a decade now. So I’ve heard I Love the Flower Girl – aka The Rain, The Park And Other Things. So when a reader emailed me about this track, I was surprised that I hadn’t noticed it already myself. My first thought upon hearing the intro of I Love the Flower Girl was “They must not play this intro on the radio! I haven’t had a chance to confirm my suspicions, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was true.
The Three Dog Night breakout hit One was recorded in 1967, the year that The Cowsill’s (also breakout) hit was released. Although not nearly as world-changing as calculus or evolutionary theory, these two opening riffs were also probably created independently, by two different groups, in a very close window of time.
So here they are – snippets of both songs to satisfy your curiosity.
The Cowsills: “I Love the Flower Girl” (’67)
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Three Dog Night: “One” (’68)
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Bonus points: The Cowsills were a family band, and the inspiration for the TV series The Partridge Family. Thanks, Wikipedia!
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