Sat May 21, 2016 2:09 am
Sat May 21, 2016 2:12 am
Sat May 21, 2016 3:45 am
Bi_3 wrote:I had never read that history of smile post by Dennis from the Frogs... Wow. I knew Red Mosquito and Off He Goes were rip offs musically, but basically a whole song borrowed?
Sat May 21, 2016 4:07 am
Sat May 21, 2016 4:24 am
wease wrote:Never been a big fan. Kinda disappointed when I've gotten it live.
Sat May 21, 2016 5:25 am
Sat May 21, 2016 5:57 am
Sat May 21, 2016 6:04 am
mikejasond wrote:I like it but it feels unfinished - bad lyrics (almost no lyrics). But cool music.
Sat May 21, 2016 10:20 am
evenslow wrote:Bi_3 wrote:I had never read that history of smile post by Dennis from the Frogs... Wow. I knew Red Mosquito and Off He Goes were rip offs musically, but basically a whole song borrowed?
Wasn't it more akin to a tribute to a friend?
Dennis wrote a song.
His brother essentially paraphrased it by surreptitiously writing lyrics in Ed's notebook.
Ed eventually used those lyrics for Smile and credited them.
Unless I'm missing something, what exactly is the problem?
Sat May 21, 2016 12:23 pm
Sat May 21, 2016 1:09 pm
Bi_3 wrote:evenslow wrote:Bi_3 wrote:I had never read that history of smile post by Dennis from the Frogs... Wow. I knew Red Mosquito and Off He Goes were rip offs musically, but basically a whole song borrowed?
Wasn't it more akin to a tribute to a friend?
Dennis wrote a song.
His brother essentially paraphrased it by surreptitiously writing lyrics in Ed's notebook.
Ed eventually used those lyrics for Smile and credited them.
Unless I'm missing something, what exactly is the problem?
Maybe I misread it... But it sounded like they played Ed a complete song, "this is how I feel", wrote a few lines from that in Ed's notebook, and some time later a lyrically and musically clone was born.
Sat May 21, 2016 1:09 pm
Birds in Hell wrote:mikejasond wrote:I like it but it feels unfinished - bad lyrics (almost no lyrics). But cool music.
The lyrics are fantastic.
Sat May 21, 2016 3:26 pm
dprival78 wrote:wease wrote:Never been a big fan. Kinda disappointed when I've gotten it live.
Do you say "no" every time eddie asks "don't it make you smile?"
Sat May 21, 2016 5:13 pm
Sat May 21, 2016 5:16 pm
Sat May 21, 2016 5:38 pm
tragabigzanda wrote:Love this song, always have. It's something that sounds like a half-hearted throwaway that managed to rise far higher than its intention.
Sun May 22, 2016 4:42 pm